Published:Wednesday | September 21, 2022 | 12:09 AM
Time and location are on Miss Universe Jamaica Toshami Calvin’s side as she prepares for the 71st Miss Universe contest. New Orleans will be the site of the international beauty pageant, bringing together nearly 90 contestants from around the world...
Published:Wednesday | September 21, 2022 | 12:09 AM
David Harper has big shoes to fill, following in the footsteps of his father Noel, who was made famous by a sound system that has captivated dancehall lovers for decades. ‘Papa Jaro’, the moniker by which the elder Harper is known, built the world-...
Published:Wednesday | September 21, 2022 | 12:09 AM
NEW ORLEANS (AP): Grammy-nominated rapper Mystikal pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges accusing him of raping and choking a woman at his home in Louisiana and of possessing several drugs. The 51-year-old performer whose given name is Michael...
Published:Wednesday | September 21, 2022 | 12:09 AM
With resilience we’re making it through and today (September 21, 2022), we celebrate our 101st anniversary. We are grateful to our directors, staff, prayer warriors and patrons who remained with us through thick and thin; also our suppliers, who...
King of Reggae Bob Marley is no longer number one on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart. After holding on to pole position for a staggering, unbroken two years and seven months, the album Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers has...
Ramon Johnston is the fifth-place winner of the 18th season of the Digicel Rising Stars competition. The Ocho Rios resident who sung his way to the top five, was eliminated in a nerve-wracking show last Sunday. Things boiled down between him and...
Acclaimed musician Noel Browne, one of the five musical Browne brothers, which also includes Glen, Danny and Clevie, as well as the late Dalton, passed away in Wolverhampton, England, on the weekend. His death comes close to the two-year...
On entering the compound of the St Gabriel’s Anglican Church, where the service for Leonard ‘Merciless’ Bartley was held last Saturday, it was obvious that it was going to be a funeral service with a difference. The gate was manned by security...
TORONTO (AP): When Viola Davis, sculpted and hardened from months of training, first stood in the full garb of the Agojie warrior women, with her bare feet in the African sand, it was the culmination of not just the years-long push to make The...
Comedy King Oliver Samuels has had a storied career, and he has a lot of stories to tell of his 50-plus years in the business of making people laugh, but many of the stories that shape him are those that lay bare his softer, less carefree side. A...
Published:Saturday | September 17, 2022 | 12:06 AM
NEW YORK (AP): Rapper and actor Common will make his Broadway debut this fall in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Between Riverside and Crazy. The Oscar-, Emmy-, and Grammy Award-winner will join actors Stephen McKinley...
The funeral service for Horace ‘Culture Dan’ Clarke, the Rastafarian entertainer and Twelve Tribes of Israel soldier, who was gunned at Sizzla Kalonji’s Judgement Yard in August Town on June 19, will be held on Sunday. Culture Dan’s sister, Colleen...
Former ‘Digicel Rising Stars’ contestant Rosh Reign, who recently changed her name from Rosh Rebel, has places to be. The Montego Bay native wants to create a royal musical empire. Last week, the singer and songwriter returned to the ‘Rising Stars...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Abbott Elementar y creator-star Quinta Brunson took revenge on Jimmy Kimmel’s Emmy prank with one of her own, then collected an apology from the late-night host whose bit was criticised as rude and worse. Kimmel, who had...
NEW YORK (AP): Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B resolved a years-long criminal case stemming from a pair of brawls at New York City strip clubs by pleading guilty on Thursday, in a deal that requires her to perform 15 days of community service. The 29...
Music has historically been a celebrated mode of expression and storytelling. Oftentimes artistes use their craft to tell of their own experiences and delve into usually taboo or controversial topics. For dancer-turned-recording artiste Amanyea,...
During intermission for Barbarian, I whipped out my phone to find out who was behind the visual monstrosity I was enduring. What sick and twisted mind would envision this grotesque and unsettling film? Who is so demented as to put this story on...
Pitchy Patchy, the revue which audiences can enjoy at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts (PSCCA), Mona, for the next three weekends, elevates form over substance. That would be a criticism with most theatrical pieces; not so with...
Published:Thursday | September 15, 2022 | 12:11 AM
CHICAGO (AP): Two sexual misconduct trials still await R Kelly – one in Minnesota and one in state court in Chicago. A federal jury in Chicago on Wednesday convicted Kelly of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a...
Arguably having the best acceptance speech of the night, Jamaican-American actress Sheryl Lee Ralph took home the highest honour in television on Monday night when she was awarded the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for...
Published:Wednesday | September 14, 2022 | 4:51 PM
CHICAGO (AP): A federal jury on Wednesday convicted R Kelly of several child pornography charges in his hometown of Chicago, delivering another legal blow to a singer who used to be one of the biggest R...
Published:Wednesday | September 14, 2022 | 12:08 AM
Betty White, Anne Heche and Sidney Poitier were among those remembered during the Emmy Awards’ ‘In Memoriam’ segment last Monday. The segment, which honours the entertainers and TV creators who have passed away over the last year, was introduced...
Published:Wednesday | September 14, 2022 | 12:08 AM
Clumsy archaeologist Tadeo (‘Tad’) is ambitious and dreams of being accepted by his colleagues, but his accident-prone nature gets in his way. When he accidentally destroys a rare sarcophagus, a spell is cast, putting the lives of his friends in...
