The music community in Negril, Westmoreland, has rallied together to support the Jamaica Federation of Musicians and Affiliates Union (JFMAU) in their ongoing labour dispute for the resident band at a popular Spanish hotel in the area. In a show...
Dinthill Technical High School, which returned as the judges' choice for season 18 of Television Jamaica's All Together Sing, has emerged the winner of the competition. The announcement was made on Sunday evening inside the studios of...
Wherever theatre people converge, the atmosphere is usually quite festive, and that was definitely the case at the launch of Sounds From Yaad, a celebration of Jamaican and Caribbean culture and live theatre, powered by the creative force that is...
Don’t call it a comeback. Keisha Patterson was always here. Just selective with her performance appearances, and with good reason. It has been an emotionally taxing seven-year stretch for Patterson, a multihyphenate creative who has been a well-...
A woman who accused rappers Jay-Z and Sean 'Diddy' Combs of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 at an awards show after-party has acknowledged certain inconsistencies in her story, while her lawyer said he will continue to vet her...
LOS ANGELES (AP): GloRilla has gone from choir girl to husky-voiced rap queen, climbing the hip-hop ranks so high that she’s earned a trip to the White House. The Memphis-born performer has become one of industry’s most promising voices with her...
WESTERN BUREAU: When the Young Jamaica Ensemble of the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC) stages its annual ‘Sounds of the Season’ concert on Sunday, December 15, in the Black River Theatre at the Iberostar Suites, Rose Hall, one of the SSTC’s...
Three stalwart Jamaican gospel pioneers– Dr Lester Lewis, Shirley Willis, and Minister Sandra Brooks– are expected to receive lifetime achievement awards at the inaugural Reset The Nation concert set for January 4 at Manchester High School....
LOS ANGELES (AP): When it comes to music, there’s one person in particular Snoop Dogg trusts enough to steer the ship without question: hit-making producer Dr Dre. Their bond, built over 30 years of brotherhood, began when Dr Dre shaped Snoop’s...
Members of the entertainment fraternity are absorbing the shock of the passing of Robert Russell, the co-founder of Reggae Sumfest and organiser/co-producer of the now defunct Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival. Russell, who was 76, died at the...
Jean-Andre Lowell Lawrence, better known as J.L.L, is part of a new class of producers from Jamaica. Born and raised in Kingston, J.L.L attended Ardenne High School, where he was first introduced to music. Since then, he has been toiling away in...
Genesis, the flagship event for the Jamaica Youth for Christ (JYFC), had its media launch at the Hyundai Jamaica Showroom in New Kingston on Tuesday, and the organisers are promising another fun-filled, uplifting and God-centred staging of the...
UNIVERSAL CITY, CalifORNIA (AP): Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey – bridging Motown’s old and new school – are lending their voices during a holiday special to honour the groundbreaking record label that changed music forever. Robinson and Bailey...
For more than 30 years, the theatre and acting have been the truest passions of comedian Stede Flash, more commonly known as ‘Jooky Jam’. However, with the changing entertainment industry, Flash has had to find creative ways to keep doing what he...
Published:Wednesday | December 11, 2024 | 12:09 AM
OPENING TODAY KRAVEN THE HUNTER is the action-packed, standalone story of how one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai...
Published:Wednesday | December 11, 2024 | 12:06 AM
The inaugural Jamaica Book Festival culminated in a vibrant celebration of creativity and literacy with the highly anticipated launch of Here Comes the Morning, a children’s book co-authored by Grammy-nominated reggae artist Protoje and The...
Published:Wednesday | December 11, 2024 | 12:06 AM
NEW YORK (AP): Jay-Z says a rape allegation made against him is part of an extortion attempt. A woman who previously sued Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, alleging she was raped at an awards show after-party in 2000 when she was 13, amended the lawsuit Sunday...
Jamaican/Canadian actress Jazmin Headley makes her silver screen début in the biographical sports film, The Fire Inside, which hits US theatres on Christmas Day. The Fire Inside is the true story of Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields, a boxer from Flint,...
The four young musicians from New York City who form the Renaissance String Quartet made a huge impact when they came to Jamaica last year May for a charity concert called Beyond Boundaries. They’re back, with the intention of giving even more....
NEW YORK (AP): Rapper Jay-Z says a rape allegation made against him is part of an extortion attempt. A woman who previously sued Sean 'Diddy' Combs, alleging she was raped at an awards show after-party in 2000 when she was 13, amended the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Jay-Z says a rape allegation made against him is part of an extortion attempt. A woman who previously sued Sean 'Diddy' Combs, alleging she was raped at an awards show after-party in 2000 when she...
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer fears he will die in jail. Attorney Imran H. Ansari has claimed that his client, the disgraced movie mogul who was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in October, is being “completely mistreated” while incarcerated at...
Emerging reggae artiste Jah Lil dropped his new single Warn Yuh, produced by Kareem ‘Remus’ Burrell for XTM.Nation. The single was made available on all major streaming platforms starting on November 22. Warn Yuh promises to deliver the signature...
AP: The Walt Disney Co.’s animated film, Moana 2, remained at the top of the box office in its second weekend in theatres as it brought in another record haul. The film added $52 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. That brings its...
Jamaica had much reason to celebrate on December 4, when, at a meeting in Paraguay, a unanimous decision was taken to inscribe the Revival Pilgrimage To Watt Town on the Representative List Global List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Marked...
