There was Drama at Dlamini High School in Tsholotsho when the deputy headmaster caught his members of staff having sex in his office!

The incident that has turned to be the talk of the village is reported to have occurred at Dlamini school in Chief Dlamini’s area.

A B-metro source said Mabutho Tshuma (the deputy head) got a shock of his life when he caught Zanele Tshuma and Zibusiso Tshuma having sex in his school office. Deputy Head Tshuma reportedly caught the couple in the act during the school working hours.

“The deputy head was summoned for an urgent meeting at our educational offices at Tsholotsho Centre so he was away for three days. While the deputy was away, one of the senior teachers was left in charge of the day-to-day running of the school business,” said the source.

It is reported that Zibusiso Tshuma, young brother to Deputy Head Tshuma, took advantage of his absence and started using the office as his bedroom with Zanele.

“While the deputy head was away on a three-day meeting, Zibusiso started using his office as a bedroom with Zanele who is one of the school’s temporary teachers,” added the source.

It is alleged that Zibusiso and Zanele were sneaking away from their lessons and would meet at the deputy head’s office. Reports say Mr Tshuma returned to school on a Thursday afternoon and her did not meet any school teacher as it was during lessons time. When he tried to unlock the door of his office, he discovered that the door was unlocked. He was reportedly left speechless after he gained entry, only to catch the two Tshumas in the act.

“The couple is said to have been caught having sex on the floor and they had left the main door unlocked. When they discovered that the deputy head had arrived, they quickly dressed up and began apologising for what had happened,” narrated the source.

Mr Tshuma is reported to have summoned all the members of staff for an urgent meeting to find out what was really going on at the school.

“The deputy head fumed for more than an hour and he told us that he had caught a couple having sex in his office. He promised to fire the two but the Senior Master who had been left in charge of everything managed to cool him down,” said the source.

When reached for comment, Zanele refused to comment.

“Who told you about this issue in the first place? Please just leave me alone. I am not allowed to talk to to the Press,” she said.

Her ‘partner in crime’, Zibusiso, claimed that the issue had already been resolved by the school authorities.

“We were given a warning over the matter so I believe it was solved at school level. So please let sleeping dogs lie,” he said.

On the other had, Mr Tshuma referred all questions to their educational offices in Tsholotsho, as he is not allowed to comment.

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How To Be A Witness of Jesus, By Jesus

Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Verse 9 then says:

After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

Please take a moment to let this settle in. The very last thing Jesus said before he ascended into heaven to sit at God’s right hand is that we would receive power through the gift of holy spirit and that we are to be his witnesses. These were his parting words to us all! I’d say that’s pretty significant. A witness is one who can confirm a truth because he has direct knowledge of it. Jesus is telling us that we are to confirm, testify to the world the truth of who he is.

I can honestly say that my deepest hearts desire is to do this. Very often, though, I have found myself imparting this knowledge to blank stares (or other signs of disinterest). I’ve begun to realize that some of the blame for these signs of disinterest falls on me. I wasn’t taking the time to help them become interested. Also, a major point, I wasn’t drawing on the power available through the gift of holy spirit. These plus other faults actually hit me as I read how Jesus bore witness of himself. The Four Gospels are full of accounts of Jesus witnessing but for practicality sake I chose one event with a Samaritan woman Jesus met at Jacob’s well. This encounter is found in the gospel of John, Chapter 4.

The first thing I noticed was that this encounter took place while Jesus was resting in a place where people would gather.

John 4:6
“…and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.”

I realized that I very rarely just sit and rest in public places. I use to when my child was younger (playgrounds, fishing ponds, and park benches). Also, when I was single and living in New York City and Italy sitting in public places was the only way to enjoy the outdoors. There were countless times I remember striking up conversations with strangers and many of those conversations were about Jesus Christ.

Now some of you who live in cities or have nice parks near by might be spending time on park benches but some of us who live in houses with the backyard being our “hangout” need to get out to meet people. Sounds simple but it’s not always convenient.

The next thing I realized was that he was resting. He wasn’t waiting. It doesn’t say that he sat by the well to witness. It does say, “…tired as he was from the journey, sat down….” Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing, a witnessing opportunity could possibly become available.

Then, what was really big was that he crossed a major cultural barrier by asking this Samaritan woman for a drink. Her response was:

John 4:9
“…You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?…”

Back in my early twenties before I became more aware of differences in beliefs and cultures, I invited everyone to our Bible study. I specifically remember three young men from Iran who were studying in the U.S. They came regularly to our fellowship. They were very pleasant and expressed how they were thankful to have people who cared for their well-being. They also listened intently to the Word of God that we shared with them. I have since become hesitant to share the Gospel with people of different religions. I know this has a lot to do with what I hear on the news but, I also know, that they cannot hear unless we speak and they cannot believe unless they hear (Rom. 10:14).

Jesus also used a common necessity, quenching ones thirst, to help her to understand a profound truth regarding the holy spirit (John 4:14). In fact, Jesus used many analogies to help people understand the truth. It’s important for us to realize that to help someone become interested we need to use terms they understand. You might be surprised how even things in our advanced technology can help someone understand the truth. (Of course, there are some of us who are still wondering how to respond to a text message so if you’re getting a blank stare you might want to switch to a simpler analogy!)

Now all that I’ve mentioned so far I believe is useful but what is of utmost importance is what Jesus said in Acts 1:8; that we would receive power when the holy spirit comes on us and we will be his witnesses. That means we now have power to be his witnesses. We need to draw on this power. Like Jesus we can receive revelation regarding the people we are talking with (John 4:18). God can give us a special word just for that person. I know, for me, I need to tune in to what God would want me to say or … not say. This is probably the biggest key to being Jesus’ witness. By the power of the holy spirit we can speak words that can cause people to believe just like Jesus did. “And because of his words many more became believers” (John 4:41).

Another very wonderful truth is who Jesus chose to pour out the astounding truths regarding himself, holy spirit, God, and true worship. This woman was someone that was looked down upon. Even in our day and time we’d question her credibility. She’d been married five times and is now living with her sixth man. You’ve got to wonder if she had some real relationship issues! But still she got the whole town to come to Jesus. So first point, Jesus picked you! Maybe you feel less than worthy to be a witness for him but just like this Samaritan woman you can bring people to him. Second point, don’t be too choosy on who you speak to. It’s sad to think some people might not hear about Christ because some Christians felt too embarrassed or worse yet too disgusted to be around them. I’d say that attitude is the opposite of being a witness of Jesus!

So, set some time aside to go out and find a spot to relax. When you see someone coming your way it could just be a person who needs to know Jesus. Don’t rush into a dialogue on how to get saved instead find out what they are interested in. Most importantly, follow Jesus’ example and draw on the power available through the gift of holy spirit. Don’t let cultural issues or prejudgments stop you from speaking what God would have you say.

Our heavenly Father desires everyone to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4). Salvation comes through a knowledge of Jesus Christ. It’s up to us to spread that knowledge, to be his witness. I think we can all continue to take his advice in John 4:35b “…I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for the harvest.”

In Medical First, a Baby With H.I.V. Is Called Cured
By ANDREW POLLACK and DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: March 3, 2013 28 Comments

Doctors announced on Sunday that a baby had been cured of an H.I.V. infection for the first time, a startling development that could change how infected newborns are treated and sharply reduce the number of children living with the virus that causes AIDS.
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The baby, born in rural Mississippi, was treated aggressively with antiretroviral drugs starting around 30 hours after birth, something that is not usually done. If further study shows this works in other babies, it will almost certainly change the way newborns of infected mothers are treated all over the world. The United Nations estimates that 330,000 babies were newly infected in 2011, the most recent year for which there is data, and that more than 3 million children globally are living with H.I.V.

If the report is confirmed, the child born in Mississippi would be only the second well-documented case of a cure in the world, giving a boost to research aimed at a cure, something that only a few years ago was thought to be virtually impossible.

The first person cured was Timothy Brown, known as the “Berlin patient,’’ a middle-aged man with leukemia who received a bone-marrow transplant from a donor genetically resistant to H.I.V. infection.

“For pediatrics, this is our Timothy Brown,’’ said Dr. Deborah Persaud, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and lead author of the report on the baby. “It’s proof of principle that we can cure H.I.V. infection if we can replicate this case.’’

Dr. Persaud and other researchers spoke in advance of a presentation of the findings on Monday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta.

Some outside experts, who have not yet heard all the details, said they needed convincing that the baby had truly been infected. If not, this would be a case of prevention, something already done for babies born to infected mothers.

“The one uncertainty is really definitive evidence that the child was indeed infected,” said Dr. Daniel R. Kuritzkes, chief of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Persaud and some other outside scientists said they were certain the baby – whose name and gender were not disclosed – had been infected. There were five positive tests in the baby’s first month of life – four for viral RNA and one for DNA. And once the treatment started, the virus levels in the baby’s blood declined in the pattern characteristic of infected patients.

Dr. Persaud said there was also little doubt that the child experienced what she called a “functional cure.” Now 2½ , the child has been off drugs for a year with no sign of functioning virus.

The mother arrived at a rural hospital in the fall of 2010 already in labor and gave birth prematurely. She had not seen a doctor during the pregnancy and did not know she had H.I.V. When a test showed the mother might be infected, the hospital transferred the baby to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where it arrived at about 30 hours old.

Dr. Hannah B. Gay, an associate professor of pediatrics, ordered two blood draws an hour apart to test for the presence of H.I.V. RNA and DNA.

The tests found a level of virus at about 20,000 copies per milliliter, fairly low for a baby. But since tests so early in life were positive, it suggests the infection occurred in the womb rather than during delivery, Dr. Gay said.

Typically a newborn with an infected mother would be given one or two drugs as a prophylactic measure. But Dr. Gay said that based on her own experience, she almost immediately used a three-drug regimen aimed at treatment, not prophylaxis, not even waiting for the test results confirming infection.

Virus levels rapidly declined with treatment and were undetectable by the time the baby was a month old. That remained the case until the baby was 18 months old, after which the mother stopped coming to the hospital.

When the mother and child returned five months later, Dr. Gay expected to see high viral loads in the baby. But the tests were negative.

Suspecting a laboratory error, she ordered more tests. “To my greater surprise, all of these came back negative,” Dr. Gay said.

Dr. Gay contacted Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga, an immunologist at the University of Massachusetts, who was working with Dr. Persaud and others on a project to document possible pediatric cures. The researchers, sponsored by amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, put the baby through a battery of sophisticated tests. They found tiny amounts of some viral genetic material but no virus able to replicate, even lying dormant in so-called reservoirs in the body.

There have been scattered cases reported in the past, including one in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1995, of babies clearing the virus, even without treatment.

Those reports were greeted skeptically, particularly since testing methods were not very sophisticated back then. But those reports and this new one could suggest there is something different about babies’ immune systems, said Dr. Joseph McCune of the University of California, San Francisco.

One hypothesis is that the drugs killed off the virus before it could establish a hidden reservoir in the baby. One reason people cannot be cured now is that the virus hides in a dormant state, out of reach of existing drugs. When drug therapy is stopped, the virus can emerge from hiding.

“That goes along with the concept that, if you treat before the virus has had an opportunity to establish a large reservoir and before it can destroy the immune system, there’s a chance you can withdraw therapy and have no virus,’’ said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Adults, however, typically do not know they are infected right as it happens, he said.

Dr. Steven Deeks, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said if the reservoir never established itself, then he would not call it a true cure, though this was somewhat a matter of semantics. “Was there enough time for a latent reservoir, the true barrier to cure, to establish itself?’’ he said.

Still, he and others said, the results could lead to a new protocol for quickly testing and treating infants.

In the United States, transmission from mother to child is rare – several experts said there are only about 200 cases a year or even fewer, because infected mothers are generally treated during their pregnancies.

If the mother has been treated during pregnancy, babies are typically given six weeks of prophylactic treatment with one drug, AZT, while being tested for infection. In cases like the Mississippi one, where the mother was not treated during pregnancy, standards have been changing, but typically two drugs are used.

But women in many developing countries are less likely to be treated during pregnancy. And in South Africa and other African countries that lack sophisticated testing, babies born to infected mothers are often not tested until after six weeks, said Dr. Yvonne Bryson, chief of global pediatric infectious disease at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Bryson, who was not involved in the Mississippi work, said she was certain the baby had been infected and called the finding “one of the most exciting things I’ve heard in a long time.’’

Studies are being planned to see if early testing and aggressive treatment can work for other babies. While the bone marrow transplant that cured Timothy Brown is an arduous and life-threatening procedure, the Mississippi treatment is not and could become a new standard of care.

While it might be difficult for some poorer countries to implement, treating for only a year or two would be cost effective, “sparing the kid a lifetime of antiretroviral therapy,’’ said Rowena Johnston, director of research at amfAR.

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Zeeks’ Money Muddle – Did The PNP Bail Out Its Former Strongman?
Published: Sunday | February 24, 2013 30 Comments

Attorney General Patrick Atkinson
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Livern Barrett, Gleaner Writer

Under a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration, convicted killer Donald ‘Zeeks’ Phipps dropped his attempt to get back approximately $24 million which the police had seized at his house after the State challenged his claim.

Under a People’s National Party (PNP) administration, Zeeks renewed his application for the refund of the money and the State dropped its challenge.

Within six weeks after the application was renewed, the State agreed to refund the money, and the former strongman of one of the few PNP enclaves in the JLP garrison of West Kingston was on his way back to being a multimillionaire even as he serves life in prison.

Attorney General Patrick Atkinson says there was no legal basis for the State to hang on to the money. Persons in legal and security circles say even if the money were returned, lawyers representing Zeeks should have been asked to prove how he came by it.

Five years ago when prosecutors balked at returning approximately $24 million seized at the upper St Andrew home of convicted murderer Donald ‘Zeeks’ Phipps and asked him to prove how he earned the money, the former Matthews Lane strongman discontinued his claim to the cash, revealed court documents reviewed by The Sunday Gleaner.
The documents show that Phipps renewed his claim to the money last June, six months after the political party he supported, the People’s National Party (PNP), was voted back into power.

Lawyers representing Phipps filed a civil suit in the Supreme Court against the Attorney General’s Department (AGD) seeking the return of the money, and in six weeks, a consent order was made for the cash to be returned to him.

The monies – J$8.35m; US$152,185; £19,020; and CDN$3,980 – which were taken from his Highland Close home in May 2005, was returned to Phipps in three payments last year.

Having withdrawn his claim in 2008, Phipps claimed, in his 2012 affidavit, that he believed the retention of the money by the State was unlawful.

“I do verily believe that the continued retention of the property which was found in my house, to which I have proprietorial and possessory entitlement, is in breach of my right to property under Section 13 of the Constitution,” he argued in paragraph seven of the affidavit.

LITTLE RESISTANCE FROM STATE

However, the court documents showed that unlike prosecutors in 2008, who demanded that Phipps prove how he earned the cash, the AGD raised minimal challenge to Phipps’ claim.

“It is admitted that the retention of the money is unlawful,” the AGD wrote in paragraph six of its defence limited to damages.

Attorney General Patrick Atkinson defended the AGD’s action, saying based on the instructions the department received, there was no legal basis that prevented Phipps from getting his money back.

“We checked around … with the FID (Financial Investigation Division), everybody, and there was no reason for it being held,” argued Atkinson.

“We don’t just take people’s money without a legal basis,” he insisted.

The cash was seized during a police-military operation in 2005.

Phipps and his girlfriend, Yvonne Salisman, were jointly charged with unlawful possession of property, but the charges were dropped in October 2006 when the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) entered a nolle prosequi.

A senior law-enforcement official with knowledge of the case said this led Phipps, through his attorneys, to file an application in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court seeking to have the money returned to him immediately.

However, the official said prosecutors, armed with a criminal profile of Phipps that was developed by the FID, opposed the move and sought to have the money forfeited to the State “on the basis that there was no evidence it was the lawful property of Mr Phipps”.

“The resident magistrate … even adjourned the matter several times to give them (Phipps and his legal team) time to put evidence before her showing how he earned the money,” the official recounted.

Head of the FID, Justin Felice, would not comment on the case. However, he confirmed that as part of its mandate, the agency does create “financial profiles of specific targets and individuals” who are under suspicion.

“We want to see if money laundering or any other financial crimes are being committed because my job is to take the profit out of crime,” Felice asserted.

CHANGE OF HEART

The law-enforcement official said in October 2008, one of Phipps’ attorney informed the magistrate that they were withdrawing their application to have the cash returned.

According to the official, all this information was contained in a file turned over to the AGD by the ODPP when Phipps filed his suit last year.

Court records show that the AGD agreed to a consent judgement in Phipps’ suit, even while it acknowledged that the ODPP had opposed his first application in 2008.

“The prosecution (in the unlawful possession case that was filed against Phipps) applied to detain the monies under Section 44 of the Constabulary Force Act,” read a section of the affidavit filed by the AGD in its defence that was limited to the award of damages.

But while acknowledging prosecutors’ concerns, Atkinson pointed out that the money was not the subject of a criminal case, forfeiture proceedings or any other case that is pending.

As a result, Atkinson insisted that “there was no legal basis for it to remain in the custody of the State”.