LONDON (AP): A British judge ordered Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown released on five million-pound (US$6.7 million) bail on Wednesday while facing allegations he beat and seriously injured a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub...
NEW YORK (AP): Rapper and actor, Kid Cudi, is expected to testify at the Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial this week, taking the witness stand to tell the jury about his brief relationship 14 years ago with Combs' ex-girlfriend, the R...
Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING. Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie Starring: Oscar® nominee Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom...
Fusion roots reggae ensemble, Groundation, returns with what is described as their “most soul-stirring work to date”. Candle Burning, scheduled to be released on May 23, is the band’s 11th studio album, and it features collaborations with legends...
VP Records is ready to launch a 2025 reissue series honouring the Skengdon label and its founder, Jamaican producer Kenneth ‘Skengdon’ Black, through its 17 North Parade imprint. A key figure in the digital dancehall era and founder of Stereo Mars...
Acclaimed playwright, director and actress Dahlia Harris returns to the stage with her latest theatrical production, Bloodlies, a gripping family drama that promises to leave audiences breathless. The much-anticipated play will open on Friday, June...
NEW YORK (AP) — An angry Sean "Diddy" Combs demanded $20,000 from Casandra "Cassie" Ventura's mother and threatened to release explicit sex tapes of his longtime girlfriend after learning she was dating someone else, the mother testified Tuesday...
In the year 2000, Shaggy excited the world with a song titled It Wasn’t Me and 25 years later, when he pulled the track out of his arsenal of hit tunes at the Issa Foundation, For the Children charity concert, it was like living in 2000 all over...
CANNES, France (AP): “Is this what the end of the world feels like?” So asks a character in one of the most-talked about films of the 78th Cannes Film Festival: Oliver Laxe’s Sirât, a Moroccan desert road trip through a World War III purgatory. It’...
NEW YORK (AP): The Sean 'Diddy' Combs sex trafficking trial resumed Monday when singer Dawn Richard testified that the hip-hop mogul threatened to kill her if she told anyone that she saw him beat his longtime girlfriend. Richard told a jury in...
LONDON (AP): A fellow musician and friend of Chris Brown has been charged alongside the Grammy-winning singer on allegations they beat and seriously injured a music producer at a London nightclub in 2023, police said Saturday. Omololu Akinlolu, 38...
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of world-renowned Pan-African black nationalist Malcolm X. To mark this occasion the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Division in Jamaica, in association with the Department of Sociology at...
Ocho Rios-based dancehall veteran Mikeylous has joined a growing list of artistes to record songs in support of Burkina Faso’ president, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. Since Traoré became president after a coup in 2022, he has done countless positive...
Former Miss Jamaica World and trailblazing beauty queen Dr. Sanneta Myrie is sending heartfelt encouragement to Tahje Bennett, Miss Jamaica World 2024 who is currently representing the island on the global stage in India. In an exclusive interview...
Building on success of its inaugural staging, the Black River Film Festival (BRFF) received 48 film entries this year, which is 29 more than last year, with submissions coming from as far as the Persian region. The organisers stated in a press...
Gospel singer and former dancehall artiste, Cleve Laing, better known as Lt Stitchie, or simply Stitchie, is “showing signs improvement” and his family is cheering him along every milestone, no matter how minor. His wife, Sophia Laing, who is a...
CANNES, France (AP): You can get nostalgic about almost anything at the Cannes Film Festival, even Jerry Seinfeld on a zipline in a bumblebee costume. For many years, Cannes has played host not just to an endless stream of artistically ambitious...
When it comes to creating buzzworthy events and unforgettable student experiences, Sandre Malcolm isn’t just playing the game, he’s rewriting the rules. From winning a regional marketing showdown to building his own event empire, Sandre’s journey...
With Governor General Sir Patrick Allen as the patron, the East Lawns of King’s House as the venue, the date announced as Emancipation Day, Friday August 1, and all net proceeds going to charity, the concert headlined by gospel powerhouse Cece...
WESTERN BUREAU: Christopher Martin lit up the stage with a fiery late-night set that proved to be worth the wait and the ticket price. Closing the inaugural Bonafide Fest at Montego Bay’s Catherine Hall Sports Complex with swagger and soul, the...
LONDON (AP): Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was ordered held in custody after appearing Friday in a British courtroom to face a charge that he seriously beat a music producer in a London nightclub in 2023. Brown, 36, was charged in Manchester...
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange has said that the music of Junior Byles, one of Jamaica’s great roots reggae artistes, stood out because of his powerful voice and thought-provoking lyrics and that his death...
There’s nothing like a good action movie. Who doesn’t love to sit back as paper-thin characters spit bad dialogue at one another while delivering pain and mayhem on a scale hitherto unknown. Gareth Evans understands this more than most and is quite...
Dancehall star Konshens returns with what his team is calling “an electrifying new single”. Titled BDAUP, the track is built on the legendary beat made famous by Juvenile’s classic hit, with hip hop mogul Birdman personally sending the instrumental...
As one of dancehall’s most lyrically sharp and stylistically consistent voices, Aidonia has carved out a legacy that’s both distinctive and enduring. With a career spanning 20 years, the deejay, born Sheldon Lawrence, has not only dropped hit after...
