Entertainment

Carnival in Jamaica is not the only thing that keeps Kees (or Kes) Dieffenthaller of Kes The Band crossing the Caribbean Sea each year – sometimes more than three times – for more than 20 years. The Trinidadian singer-songwriter, musician and...

The Romans were out in the wee hours of Saturday morning getting on ‘bad’ in neon green fashion. Once the colours of the rainbow fell from the sky in splashes of yellow, green, blue and red, masqueraders were energised. This was the revelry of...

Earlier this month Beaches Resort premiered a new 30-second television commercial, using the song Calm Down by Nigerian Afrobeats rapper Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema. The television spot with actor Carlos Everette first aired nationally...

Reggae pioneer Jah Shaka has died days after revealing his new tour date. Known as ‘Zulu Warrior’, the dub icon had announced that he was going back on the road on August 19 before his passing was announced last Wednesday by his close friends and...

NASHVILLE, Tenn (AP): Previously unreleased songs recorded by the late country superstar Kenny Rogers will be on a new record coming out in June. After a career spanning jazz, rock, country and pop, the Grammy-winning balladeer nicknamed “The...

Trinidadian ragga-soca artiste, Bunji Garlin, knows that he is an expert when it comes to a “hard fete” and it is arguably impossible to have missed out on gyrating to any of his tracks if you have been avoiding ‘small fetes’ this carnival season....

Countless tours, several brand endorsements and eight World Sound Clash Championship titles later, internationally acclaimed sound system pioneers, Mighty Crown, has announced their retirement. Established in Yokohama, in 1991, the group has been...

The preliminary rounds for the 10th season of Jamaica’s Best School Band competition is now a wrap. The round, divided into two events, was held at Pembroke Hall and St Catherine high schools, with first-time entrants St Mary High, St Thomas...

It’s Easter morning. Part of an audience of hundreds, you are sitting in the Little Theatre, Tom Redcam Avenue. At 6 o’clock sharp, the lights go down in the auditorium and up on the stage in front of the red curtains. The aprons at the sides of...

Marking the Third World band’s golden anniversary, Ronnie Tomlinson, public relations and communications manager of the Love and Harmony Cruise, presented the musicians with an honorary award to express gratitude for their contribution to the...

The 2023 Love and Harmony Cruise has many stories to tell. The atmosphere, entertainment, along with live performances by guest artistes, including ‘the captain’ of the five-day cruise, reggae veteran Beres Hammond, created the high-flying...