Organisers of the 2022 staging of the Jamaica Rum Festival (JRF) which is slated to take place on Saturday, June 25, and will be presented by Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum, in partnership with the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) and the Tourism...
Kingston, May 17 — Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange has announced a series of activities from May 16 to 20, that will be held to develop a comprehensive policy and legal framework for the Entertainment, Cultural...
Having discovered an emerald that is the source of ultimate power, the villain Dr Robotnik (Jim Carrey) is back on Earth with a vicious partner, Knuckles (Idris Elba). Humanity is at risk and Sonic (Ben Schwartz) must prove that he has what it...
Brilliant but reclusive author Loretta Sage (Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock) has spent her career writing about exotic places in her popular romance-adventure novels featuring handsome cover model Alan (Channing Tatum), who has dedicated his...
Alex Lewis (Liam Neeson) is an expert assassin with a reputation for discreet precision. Caught in a moral quagmire, Alex refuses to complete a job that violates his ethics and must quickly hunt down and eliminate the people who hired him before...
Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a thrilling ride through the Multiverse with Doctor Strange, his trusted friend Wong and Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch. Dr Stephen Strange casts a forbidden spell that opens the...
Lloyd ‘Judge Diamond’ Ferguson has selected a special song from the Mighty Diamonds’ extensive catalogue to pay tribute to his lifelong friend and group member, Tabby Diamond, at Friday’s thanksgiving service for the life of the much-loved lead...
In a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. For...
From award-winning creator Julian Fellowes comes the motion picture event DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA. The much-anticipated cinematic return of the global phenomenon reunites the beloved cast as they go on a grand journey to the South of France to...
As the St Catherine Festival Queen contest heats up, 10 young ladies from the parish will be vying for the coveted parish Festival Queen title. The ladies, except for one who currently works as an administrative staff member at the Eltham High...
Amber Heard has denied leaving faeces in her marital bed. The Aquaman actress is being sued for defamation by her ex-husband over an op-ed she wrote in 2018 about being a victim of domestic abuse. And as their ongoing trial resumed on Monday, the...
Maurice Lee’s personal philosophy is to never change the vision, but instead, the method. Ten years ago, he envisioned orchestrating a musical event, and it will manifest on Saturday with the inaugural staging of Kromanti Fest in Moore Town,...
Three outstanding Jamaicans who have made significant contributions to the development of the National Chorale of Jamaica (NCOJ) and who have also distinguished themselves in the field of classical music at the international level, will receive the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Rum Festival will kick-start one great party that commences in June and closes out in August, with the island marking its 60th anniversary of Independence, says Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett. The other big event,...
Theatre is back. Hurrah! You lovers of the live stage now have a chance to see the first commercial play produced in the island during the COVID-19 era. On any evening, except Mondays, you can go to Kingston’s Little Little Theatre for Hide Your...
Highlights are abundant when Winston ‘Sparrow’ Martin reflects on his 60-year career in music, but, overall, he says “God has shown me the purpose I was made for and I give thanks for the strength that I get to do what I must to help people, and to...
The people of the Caribbean became creative in preserving African traditions over the years, fashioning new words, and recombining and recreating the sounds of the percussions, essentially defying colonial bans on the traditional cylindrical drums...
Bodies saunter through a room bearing The Roots 77 art exhibition on Tuesday evening at The Bob Marley Museum in Kingston. Some eyes are hypnotised by the artworks, while other eyes make four with the respective artists who were selected from an...
Author, journalist, filmmaker and cultural consultant, Barbara Blake Hannah, reflects on the life and work of veteran broadcaster and theatre giant, Barbara Gloudon, who was an inspiration to her throughout the years. “Barbara Gloudon was one of...
SAINT International is crisscrossing the island to find faces to make their mark on the global fashion markets. The community-focused search to discover Jamaica’s next generation of supermodels continues this weekend and will culminate on Labour...
As superhero names go, Doctor Strange is perhaps the most apt, if only to describe the trajectory of his cinema appearances. Debuting in his 2016 original with a formulaic plot saved by captivating visuals and a clever ending, the odd doctor has...
Members of the entertainment fraternity showed up at the Boulevard Baptist Church on Thursday as they joined family members in showing their love and appreciation for one of their own, Fitzroy ‘Bunny Diamond’ Simpson, who passed away on April 1....
The Jamaican theatre industry, in the first half of May, is mourning the loss of two legendary figures, Trevor Nairne and Barbara Gloudon, whose contributions, like their shoes, are immeasurable. Last Friday, the news of Nairne’s passing hit the...
Even on tracks which offers toasts to a lavish lifestyle, Likkle Vybz injects messages of money management and investments. His entrepreneurial gene is attributed to his parents Vybz Kartel (who recently shared that the 19-year-old has invested in...
