Last Tuesday, over at the Price Rite area off Red Hills Road, the Meadowvale Seventh-day Adventist Church was conducting its Drama of the Ages Countdown crusade, complete with a Hummer parked outside with its sound system blaring lots of really...
The National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ), in collaboration with the International Reggae Poster Contest (IRPC), recently hosted the Art of Reggae Exhibition Auction, marking the official close of the exhibition. The auction raised approximately $852,...
Social worker and author, Marie Dunn, describes herself as deeply influenced by motivational speaker and ultra marathon runner David Goggins, a retired United States Navy SEAL, and a New York Times bestselling author who was inducted into the...
Reggae star Glen Washington was hospitalised for two days at the Piedmont Fayette Hospital in Fayetteville, Georgia, after experiencing exhaustion and dehydration. The Kindness for Weakness singer had just completed back-to-back shows in Boston and...
AP: Rapper GloRilla was arrested this week on felony drug charges after “a significant amount of marijuana” was found by police while they investigated a burglary at her home in Atlanta. GloRilla, whose real name is Gloria Woods, voluntarily turned...
Ten finalists will compete for the winning title of the Jamaica Festival Song Competition and more than $3 million in cash and prizes at the grand finale on Saturday at Emancipation Park in Kingston, starting at 8:30 p.m. The competition, organised...
On Festival Night Two of Reggae Sumfest, Jamaican singer-songwriter Annáe made an impressive début, captivating the audience with a seamless blend of soulful originals and classic dancehall flair. From the opening chords of Don’t Let Me Down to the...
Fresh from his performance at Reggae Sumfest Blitz All Black at Catherine Hall in Montego Bay last week, Valiant is ready to thrill Kingston fans on Saturday when he headlines Coca-Cola’s Bites...
The trappings of the sports movies are the whole reason they’re enjoyable. We love to see an underdog beating the odds, inspiring each of us to be better than anyone thought we could be, even ourselves. These stories are admittedly touching, and I’...
Six years ago, Lila Iké made her first appearance on the Reggae Sumfest stage as a guest of Protoje during his set. Now in 2025, the soulful songstress has claimed her own spotlight at Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex in Montego Bay, delivering...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A total of 88 films from 20 countries have been accepted into the 2025 Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival (TTFF), reflecting a rich and diverse tapestry of Caribbean and diasporic storytelling. This year saw a record-breaking...
“What do you think of the new NDTC?” The question came from another patron on Friday night during the opening concert of the National Dance Theatre Company’s 2025 Season of Dance at The Little Theatre on Tom Redcam Drive. My answer was noncommittal...
The entertainment industry is mourning the loss of heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne, who died on Tuesday at the age of 76. Best known as the frontman of Black Sabbath, Osbourne was hailed as a pioneer of rock and metal, as tributes poured in from...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the UN cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the US further retreating from international organisations. The decision to pull US...
Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76. "...
The Associated Press The death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner at just 54 was mourned by fans and admirers of the actor, who played the only son of Bill Cosby’s Cliff Huxtable on the landmark series The Cosby Show from 1984 to 1992 and also starred on the...
Owen Gray, the pioneering singer who is often hailed as “Jamaica’s first home-grown star”, passed away on Sunday morning at his home in England. Gray’s lifelong friend, Anthony ‘Chips’ Richards, confirmed to The Gleaner that the 86-year-old...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP): Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said. Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Malcolm-Jamal Warner the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said. Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation...
PARIS (AP): Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist, Josephine Baker, with a new mural. Fifty years after her death, Baker now gazes out over a diverse neighbourhood of northeast Paris, thanks to urban...
International dancehall superstar Sean Paul continues to champion the power of music education by donating more than $1.5 million to Food For the Poor (FFP) Jamaica’s Band Camp initiative – a programme that offers musical training and life skills...
The local entertainment practitioners and aspirants are about to gain insight on the music industry’s evolution with the launch of ‘Music Mastery: Empowering the Sound Industry’, a one-day workshop designed to provide practical knowledge, creative...
Veteran entertainment journalist and television host Winford Williams is in stable condition in hospital after he was involved in a motor vehicle crash on Sunday morning. Williams is currently being treated at Cornwall Regional Hospital in...
OnStage host and veteran entertainment journalist Winford Williams is currently receiving medical care following a vehicular accident involving members of his team. In a statement posted to the official @onstagetv Instagram account, Williams...
