Entertainment

After finishing studies at the University of the West Indies, expect to see Tara Wright flitting between social work and the runway.

Pulse supermodel Jeneil Williams hit yet another high note in her illustrious career when she copped the cover of the current issue of French, one of the most important magazines in fashion....

One of this year's Musgrave Award recipients, Jean Small, while appreciating her Bronze Musgrave, still questions the process.She said that, reflecting on the people who have received Musgrave awards previously, including Lorna...

During a 1997 interview, Buju Banton credited 'Til Shiloh's fair showing in the United States (US) market to a "very strong dawta" named Lisa Cortes.Of the persons involved with that album, Cortes has gone on to the most success.She...

Though he has been a bass player for over 30 years, Glen Browne is best known for his distinctive acoustic guitar work on Untold Stories, one of the hit songs from Buju Banton's classic 1995 album 'Til Shiloh.

Big Youth's I Pray Thee, on the horns-rich rhythm to The Abyssinians Satta Massagana (recorded in 1969, included on their debut album in 1976 and covered notably by Third World on their self-named full-length debut, also in 1976), is an extended chant from the songbook of David, beginning with Psalms 2.

Drum and bass form the throbbing pulse of Jamaican popular music and, continuing their lockstep as studio musicians since the early 1960s, before The Skatalites was officially formed in June 1964, drummer Lloyd Knibb and bassist...

Taking his blowhard act to Congress, comedian Stephen Colbert has told United States lawmakers he does not want Mexicans picking his tomatoes. And he expressed befuddlement that more Americans were not clamouring to "begin an exciting career" in farm work.

Gwen Stefani has been immortalised in wax. The Hollaback Girl singer is the latest celebrity to be honoured with her own waxwork figure after legendary museum Madame Tussauds was inundated with requests for a model of Gwen to be made.

Dub visionary Augustus Pablo and lovers rock singer Gregory Isaacs are the subject of feature stories in Wax Poetics magazine's reggae issue, which was released September 21 in the United States.

Saxophonist Wilton Gaynair, a key figure in the golden age of Jamaican jazz, will be honoured during the Miami Jazz Film Festival at the Tower Theatre on October 2.

Shereen Sterling, 23-year-old student of the University of the West Indies, topped a field of 26 contestants to be crowned Miss Global Jamaica at the Grand Palladium resort in Point, Hanover.Sterling, who...