Puig Beauty & Fashion Group have signed a worldwide agreement with singer Shakira to create a signature fragrance and personal care products produced with and inspired by the artist.
"I am very excited to be able to express myself through another creative medium," said Shakira. "My feeling is that personal care and beauty should be effortless and accessible for everyone."
Puig's other fragrance brands include Carolina Herrera, Paco Rabanne, Nina Ricci and Antonio Banderas.
The police in St. James have intensified the search for a teen who was kidnapped on Tuesday morning. Shakira Barker, 15, of Blue Hole in Montpelier was on her way from an agricultural show in that parish when she vanished.
Shakira is of light complexion, five feet, five inches tall and was last seen wearing a pair of plaid red shorts, long sleeved white blouse and a pair of red shoes.
Shakira and a man were reportedly walking along the Blue Hole main road just after four o'clock in the morning when they were pounced upon by armed men. The man was shot and injured while Shakira was kidnapped.
The man remains hospitalised in serious condition while Shakira has not been heard from since. The St. James Police are appealing to anyone with information to contact the nearest police station. The community has been left tense since the incident.
Are these boom times or what? The mining community in Toronto soaked in a rare bit of showbiz glamour in the lead up to the Prospectors and Developers of Canada convention in Toronto.
The Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative (CGSGI) charity rolled into town on March 1 to hold a banquet and raise money for Third World mining communities. Guests and performers included former U. S. president Bill Clinton, Elton John, Robin Williams, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Shakira, Wyclef Jean, Norah Jones, Burton Cummings and Eugene Levy.
While we applaud good works and hope this one becomes a success, it's been eight months since the CGSGI was launched and it's still not clear what the charity is actually doing to alleviate poverty, or even what the specific plans are.
Clinton's larger umbrella charity, the William J. Clinton Foundation, has come under fire south of the border for its lack of transparency for refusing to reveal its list of donors, which include the Saudi royal family and foreign governments. The foundation has raised more than US$500 million so far, including US$131 million from mining financier and former movie mogul Frank Giustra.
Political donations to Bill's wife Hillary, who is running for U. S. president, are capped at US$2,300 per person per election and limited to U. S. citizens, while donations to the Clinton Foundation can be anonymous, unlimited, and made by anyone.
Thus a concern is that major political influence with Hillary can be had by donating to the Clinton Foundation, especially with Bill insisting he would continue to raise money for his foundation if Hillary becomes president, and would then only reveal the donors on a "go-forward" basis. Hillary is also refusing to release her income tax statements unless she wins the Democratic Party's nomination as presidential candidate.
Media access was constrained at the CGSGI event, probably in response to recent, highly critical articles and editorials in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Bloomberg that looked at how Giustra flew Bill to Kazakhstan in September 2005 to meet with its strongman president, soon after which Giustra's company UrAsia Energy (since merged into Uranium One) was awarded lucrative state-owned uranium assets there. Giustra followed up months later with a US$31-million donation to the Clinton Foundation, a sum that was only acknowleged in December 2007. Giustra and Clinton say these things are unconnected. --The preceding appeared as an editorial in The Northern Miner
Are these boom times or what? The mining community in Toronto soaked in a rare bit of showbiz glamour in the lead up to the Prospectors and Developers of Canada convention in Toronto. The Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative (CGSGI) charity rolled into town on March 1 to hold a banquet and raise money for Third World mining communities. Guests and performers included former U. S. president Bill Clinton, Elton John, Robin Williams, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Shakira, Wyclef Jean, Norah Jones, Burton Cummings and Eugene Levy.
While we applaud good works and hope this one becomes a success, it's been eight months since the CGSGI was launched and it's still not clear what the charity is actually doing to alleviate poverty, or even what the specific plans are. Clinton's larger umbrella charity, the William J. Clinton Foundation, has come under fire south of the border for its lack of transparency for refusing to reveal its list of donors, which include the Saudi royal family and foreign governments. The foundation has raised more than US$500 million so far, including US$131 million from mining financier and former movie mogul Frank Giustra.
Political donations to Bill's wife Hillary, who is running for U. S. president, are capped at US$2,300 per person per election and limited to U. S. citizens, while donations to the Clinton Foundation can be anonymous, unlimited, and made by anyone. Thus a concern is that major political influence with Hillary can be had by donating to the Clinton Foundation, especially with Bill insisting he would continue to raise money for his foundation if Hillary becomes president, and would then only reveal the donors on a "go-forward" basis. Hillary is also refusing to release her income tax statements unless she wins the Democratic Party's nomination as presidential candidate.
Media access was constrained at the CGSGI event, probably in response to recent, highly critical articles and editorials in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Bloomberg that looked at how Giustra flew Bill to Kazakhstan in September 2005 to meet with its strongman president, soon after which Giustra's company UrAsia Energy (since merged into Uranium One) was awarded lucrative state-owned uranium assets there. Giustra followed up months later with a US$31-million donation to the Clinton Foundation, a sum that was only acknowleged in December 2007. Giustra and Clinton say these things are unconnected. --The preceding appeared as an editorial in The Northern Miner.
Washington (ANI): After years of anxiety over the size of her breasts, Shakira is now happy with her body. The Latina superstar has revealed that she was never comfortable with her small boobs.
In fact, the Columbian singer had even joked about her twin assets saying they could be 'confused with mountains' in her breakthrough single "Whenever, Wherever". But now the "Hips Don't Lie" singer has said that a big butt rather than big boobs is more important in Latin culture.
"I used to worry about my breast size, but I've finally accepted myself for who I am. Besides, a big butt is more important in Latin culture," Contactmusic quoted Shakira, as saying.
HOUSTON, TX -- In the span of 12 hours, he was hobnobbing with Shakira, being blessed by a celebrity pastor, and being hailed by a Hallejulah-crying choir for his days as the "first black president." Welcome to Bill Clinton's day. A visibly tired former president, fresh off of a high-profile fundraiser in Toronto last night, still managed to muster a few "Amens" during three church appearances in the Houston area this morning.
Clinton first appeared at the massive Lakewood Church in Houston, one of the nation's largest mega-churches and the home to famed preacher and charisma machine Joel Osteen. The ex-president, accompanied by daughter Chelsea and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, looked impressed at the colossal congregation, which is housed in a former NBA basketball arena. Clinton did not speak, but bobbed his head in time to the soaring chords of the church's 100-person choir. When acknowledged by the superstar pastor, Clinton was received warmly by the eye-popping crowd, over eight thousand strong. "Love ya, Bill!" cried one audience member, moved by a different kind of spirit.
The size of the crowd was much smaller later in the morning, but their enthusiasm may have been even stronger. At Christian Hope Baptist Church, Clinton was cheered by an audience of African-American churchgoers whose gospel tunes were so rousing that more than one singer joyfully collapsed during the warm-up before Clinton entered the room.
During Clinton's remarks at Christian Hope, he acknowledged the difficult choice faced by Democrats who have long hoped for the chance to vote for either a woman or an African American president. "I don’t know why God asked us to make this decision," he chuckled. "It's funny sometimes, there is an old saying, that you gotta be careful what you ask for or somebody might give it to you."
Clinton seemed a bit sluggish this morning after touching down well after 2:00 am last night in Texas. The former president spent his evening in Toronto, Canada, at a glitzy launch of a new philanthropy effort. Tom Cruise, Elton John, and pop star Shakira reportedly attended the top-dollar fundraising event, which Clinton co-hosted with business partner and controversial mining tycoon Frank Giustra. (Giustra was a key character in the New York Times expose of Clinton's latest trip to Kazakhstan.)
The late night seemed to wear on the hard-charging Clinton, whose church appearances were among a total of a whopping eight public appearances scheduled for today. "You have to decide," he told the crowd at Christian Hope, rubbing his eyes with a weary smile. "I've made the best case I can."
Puig Beauty & Fashion Group have signed a worldwide agreement with singer Shakira to create a signature fragrance and personal care products produced with and inspired by the artist.
