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Published:Wednesday | June 28, 2023 | 12:51 AM

Nineteen-year-old St Elizabeth Technical High School upper sixth form student Zwena Gayle scored another ace by taking the crown at the Miss St Elizabeth Festival Queen Competition on Saturday. It was a long, but sweet journey for Gayle, who...

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2023 | 3:39 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The category? “Proper Name.” The answer? Ryan Seacrest, who will become the new “Wheel of Fortune” host after Pat Sajak's retirement next year. Seacrest and Sony Pictures Television announced...

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2023 | 1:00 AMKeisha Hill/Gleaner Writer

It was unforgettable evening of glamour, beauty, and inspiration as 30 extraordinary contestants were sashed at the AC Hotel Kingston to compete in the 2023 Miss Universe Jamaica pageant. With the local coronation just a few weeks away, and these...

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2023 | 12:41 AM

Busta Rhymes took home the night’s biggest honour at the 2023 BET Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award, handed to him by Swizz Beatz. The 12-time Grammy Award nominated rapper, producer, and pioneering hip-hop figure is widely regarded as one of...

Published:Tuesday | June 27, 2023 | 12:38 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Vocal cheers and vuvuzelas resounded throughout the Montego Bay Cultural Centre on Sunday evening as 18-year-old Karena Gayle overcame five competitors to be crowned Miss St James Festival Queen 2023. Gayle, a resident of Bogue...

Published:Monday | June 26, 2023 | 12:48 AM

Keyshia Cole will relive her mother’s addiction and death in her new biopic. The 41-year-old singer makes her acting debut in the Lifetime movie, Keyshia Cole: This Is My Story, which will also share the story of her late mother’s death from an...

Published:Monday | June 26, 2023 | 12:44 AM

Twenty-two-year-old school teacher, Sashanique Beckford, was crowned Miss Portland Festival Queen at the grand coronation show held on Saturday at the Port Antonio High School auditorium. Wearing the sash Miss Blue Lagoon, Beckford, who faced stiff...

Published:Monday | June 26, 2023 | 12:39 AM

Blair Underwood has married Josie Hart. The 58-year-old star and his long-time friend tied the knot at the Casa de Campo Resort and Villas in the Dominican Republic on Saturday. Reflecting on their wedding day, Underwood told PEOPLE: “The first...

Published:Monday | June 26, 2023 | 12:37 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): An Israeli producer of Hollywood blockbuster films took the stand in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial on Sunday, describing how he routinely delivered tens of thousands of dollars of Champagne, cigars and other...

Published:Monday | June 26, 2023 | 12:34 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

Considered by many to be a leading light in the gospel arena, Stronger singer Kevin Downswell has been working assiduously behind the scenes and is ready to unveil his album Grace, plus a bonus album, The Shift, on July 1. Last Wednesday, he...

Published:Monday | June 26, 2023 | 12:19 AMDamian Levy/Gleaner Writer

Oftentimes, the big screen doesn’t seem to have room for the smaller stories. No Hard Feelings dares to stand out, with its introvert/extrovert love story. Jennifer Lawrence’s Maddie is an Uber driver who’s just lost possession of her car, and...

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 1:02 AM

Dukes of Roots, the new movement that celebrates roots reggae music, has teamed up with multi-award-winning country music star Darius Rucker for their new single John Punch. The song explores the story of the first slave in the United States and...

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 12:58 AM

Twenty-five years ago, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Love...

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 12:53 AMYasmine Peru - Senior Gleaner Writer

A rigorous getting-ready-for-the-Olympics type of training session is now an integral part of daily life for Freddie McGregor. But the veteran reggae singer is not complaining; in fact, his heart is full of gratitude to the Most High that he is in...

Published:Saturday | June 24, 2023 | 1:18 AM

Cardi B says seeing her daughter Kulture graduate from pre-kindergarten made her a “proud mommy”. The rapper, 30, took to social media to gush over her little girl’s big day on Thursday and said she vowed to give her “the world” if she got good...

Published:Saturday | June 24, 2023 | 12:49 AM

On Sunday, June 25, starting at 2 p.m., the Jamaica Music Museum will host a programme honouring the memory of the late Rastafari elder, leader and visionary Douglas ‘Dougie’ Mack at the Institute of Jamaica’s Lecture Hall, on East Street in...

Published:Saturday | June 24, 2023 | 12:17 AM

NEW YORK (AP): The 15-year-old granddaughter of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr is collaborating on a picture book tribute to the late civil rights leader and his wife, Coretta Scott King. Yolanda Renee King’s We Dream a World, with...

Published:Saturday | June 24, 2023 | 12:15 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Rapper-singer Doja Cat — the Grammy Award winner, fashion muse, and creator of many TikTok hits — is set to embark on a 2023 North American tour this fall. Doja Cat will be joined by song of the summer contender Ice Spice and up...

Published:Sunday | June 25, 2023 | 8:39 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

With July 1, International Reggae Day (IRD), just around the corner, co-producer Lisa Ann O’Gilvie took the time to complete our Five Questions feature. IRD is an annual 24-hour hybrid global media festival, with events staged locally,...

Published:Friday | June 23, 2023 | 1:11 AM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP): Rapper Kodak Black is facing another arrest in South Florida after a warrant claims he missed a drug test that was a condition of bail in a drug case. According to a warrant issued last week by the Broward Sheriff’s...

Published:Friday | June 23, 2023 | 1:09 AM

In a saner world, we would have already had a dozen Jennifer Lawrence comedies. When aliens arrive they will surely go directly to IMDB to survey her filmography and wonder why one of Hollywood’s funniest and most naturally charismatic stars spent...

Published:Friday | June 23, 2023 | 1:02 AM

A former reggae music manager, Linda Smith Isaacs, who once managed reggae singer, Gregory Isaacs died at home in the United Kingdom last Wednesday, her business partner confirmed. She was 74 years old. “Linda passed away on June 21 at midday,”...

Published:Friday | June 23, 2023 | 12:56 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Pop star Kesha and producer Dr Luke have settled nearly a decade of suits and countersuits over her accusation that he drugged and raped her and his claim that she made it up and defamed him, they announced Thursday, with the singer...

Published:Friday | June 23, 2023 | 12:54 AM

Veteran music promoter, Wayne ‘Lonesome’ Brown, is gearing up to organise his first ever two-day festival dubbed the Run Tings Festival, which will be held this weekend in Toronto, Canada. “We are trying to keep the music and the culture alive, it’...

Published:Thursday | June 22, 2023 | 12:40 AMCarl Gilchrist/Gleaner Writer

On Emancipation Day, Tuesday, August 1, Ayoka Davis, the Miss St Ann Festival Queen for 2023, is hoping to get the best birthday gift ever – the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen crown. For supporters, it would be a fitting tribute for the 25th birthday...

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