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Published:Monday | July 11, 2022 | 12:08 AMStephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writer

Thousands of people revelled for the summer edition of the annual Carnival in Jamaica celebrations on Sunday, marking a slow return to normality after the pandemic put playing mas on pause for three years. The 2020 carnival festivities, which...

Published:Monday | July 11, 2022 | 12:07 AMSade Gardner/Staff Reporter

Chunky, variegated feathers climbed a fence on Trafalgar Road to dance atop a Guardian Group bus stop as trucks on the Xodus route blasted soca favourites during Sunday’s road march. The spirited and daring revellers were among several who found...

Published:Monday | July 11, 2022 | 12:06 AM

The curtains came down in fine style at GATFFEST 2022 which saw 14 filmmakers walking away winners at the recent awards ceremony which was staged at the Palace Cineplex Sovereign. The re-branded Greater August Town Film Festival, hosted by the...

Published:Sunday | July 10, 2022 | 3:12 PMKrysta Anderson/Staff Reporter -

Chantelle Fagan, who was seen parading the streets of Bacchanal in Storm, took a break from chipping down the road. While catching her breath, she told The Gleaner that this is her 12th time jumping in carnival. "I first jumped when I was 18 years...

Published:Sunday | July 10, 2022 | 1:37 PM

The top 10 finalists of this year’s Jamaica Gospel Star Competition will make their debut this evening during a live televised performance that will be aired on PBCJ Jamaica and on the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s (JCDC) YouTube...

Published:Sunday | July 10, 2022 | 12:45 PMSade Gardner/Staff Reporter -

Though scheduled to depart its Devon House, Kingston, base at 11 a.m. today, Xodus revellers continue to roll in and stop for breakfast at the long-awaited, COVID-delayed road march. Georgia resident Amber Wynter is making her debut at Carnival...

Published:Sunday | July 10, 2022 | 12:09 AMSade Gardner - Staff Reporter

Chief Marketing Officer at Miami Broward Carnival Committee John Beckford is encouraging those who never fancied carnival to look beyond the glitz and ‘palancing’ and consider its economic benefits. The team is currently in the island to support...

Published:Sunday | July 10, 2022 | 12:08 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Even though Nipsey Hussle was gunned down outside a Los Angeles clothing store three years ago, the sting of his death remains fresh for those who revered the widely beloved rapper and community activist. Several paid homage to...

Published:Sunday | July 10, 2022 | 12:06 AMStephanie Lyew - Sunday Gleaner Writer

A kaleidoscope of colours, the pageantry of costumes, craft and designs and clean-cut fun. Byron Lee envisioned the streets of Jamaica painted with people of all ages, adorned in all the colours of the earth, the revelry, and at the centre of it...

Published:Sunday | July 10, 2022 | 12:06 AMKerese Oakley-Williams - Gleaner Intern

Trinidadian soca artiste Voice says he feels excited about the return of the carnival season after almost two years of inactivity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “A lot of people need carnival,” the three-time soca monarch stated, describing the...

Published:Saturday | July 9, 2022 | 12:06 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

On Friday morning, two attorneys-at-law representing dancehall superstar Andre ‘Popcaan’ Sutherland held a press conference to update the media on the legal steps they have taken to clear the name of their client, whose reputation they say has been...

Published:Saturday | July 9, 2022 | 12:05 AMSade Gardner/Staff Reporter

Recording artiste One1 believes that the cash prize for the winner of the 2022 Jamaica Festival Song Competition should have been higher. Three million dollars is up for grabs for the winning song’s producer, writer and singer, in which case One1...

Published:Friday | July 8, 2022 | 12:09 AMSade Gardner and Stephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writers

Carnival bands are focusing on wider roads for Sunday’s road march, including Hope Road, Lady Musgrave Road, Trafalgar Road, Oxford Road and Knutsford Boulevard. “Our starting and ending point is at The Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre. The...

Published:Friday | July 8, 2022 | 12:08 AM

Rita Marley will celebrate her 76th birthday in true iconic fashion this year. To commemorate the occasion, dubbed ‘One Rita: Royal and Rootsy’, the Marley family has planned a series of events culminating in a concert fit for the reggae queen....

Published:Friday | July 8, 2022 | 12:07 AMDamian Levy/Gleaner Writer

It’s been five years since the Minions were on the big screen, though their absence has not been felt. In terms of sheer merchandise the yellow menaces and in blue denim are inescapable, something that’s noted by their young employer Gru in this ‘...

Published:Friday | July 8, 2022 | 12:07 AM

Andrew Bellamy has tendered his resignation as chief executive officer, band leader and board member of the Xaymaca International carnival band. In a letter to the chairman of the Xaymaca International board, dated July 6, Bellamy cited a non-...

Published:Friday | July 8, 2022 | 12:07 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer

It will go down in history as the Festival Song Competition that nearly wasn’t, but that was almost totally forgotten when the 10 songs were unveiled with a flourish to the media at a Zoom press conference on Thursday. With 20 days to go until the...

Published:Friday | July 8, 2022 | 12:07 AMKerese Oakley-Williams/Gleaner Intern

As Carnival Sunday fast approaches, Matt Camps provided us with a list of 10 songs that every reveller should know ahead of the road march. A soca lover, the disc jock has been playing professionally since 2018; however, his journey of creating...

Published:Thursday | July 7, 2022 | 5:17 PM

Andrew Bellamy has tendered his resignation as chief executive officer, band leader and board member of the Xaymaca International Carnival Band. In a letter to the chairman of the Xaymaca International board, dated July 6, Bellamy cited a non-...

Published:Thursday | July 7, 2022 | 1:54 PM

James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hotheaded Sonny Corleone of The Godfather and to television audiences as both the dying football player in the classic weeper Brian’s Song and the casino boss in Las Vegas, has died...

Published:Thursday | July 7, 2022 | 12:11 AMStephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writer -

Popcaan’s legal team is working overtime to draft a claim against the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). The JCF stated in a release on Wednesday that an International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) green notice alerting authorities to a...

Published:Thursday | July 7, 2022 | 12:09 AMStephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writer

Attorney Bert Samuels is calling the Jamaican Constabulary Force’s (JCF) most recent statement about his client Popcaan “slanderous”. A statement from the JCF, released on Wednesday, stated that Popcaan, whose given name is Andre Sutherland, was...

Published:Thursday | July 7, 2022 | 12:09 AMSade Gardner and Stephanie Lyew/Gleaner Writers

Costume distribution is well under way for Carnival in Jamaica 2022. Bacchanal Jamaica, whose home is at Mas Camp, started issuing costumes to revellers in the Arcadia, Yayoi, and Camelot sections on Wednesday. Xodus got a headstart, having started...

Published:Thursday | July 7, 2022 | 12:09 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Eric R. Holder Jr, wearing a blue suit and face mask, stood up in the small Los Angeles County courtroom next to his lawyer as the verdict was read. He had no visible reaction as jurors him guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday...

Published:Wednesday | July 6, 2022 | 4:05 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Jurors found a 32-year-old man guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday for the 2019 fatal shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle. The Los Angeles County jury also found Eric R. Holder Jr guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary...

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