For years, Professor Donna Hope has been the foremost authority on all things rooted in dancehall, and by extension, Jamaican culture. Born and raised in Linstead, St Catherine, Hope managed to traverse the streets of her well-known community to...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Swizz Beatz and Timbaland are bringing the Verzuz series back with a new major platform for viewers to watch musicians face off in a song-against-song battle. The legendary producers announced on Wednesday that Verzuz cemented an...
Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor whose wry, arrestingly off-kilter screen presence spanned more than half a century of films from M.A.S.H. to The Hunger Games, has died. He was 88. Son Kiefer Sutherland confirmed the death on Thursday. No...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Sutherland, the prolific film and television actor whose long career stretched from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died. He was 88. Kiefer Sutherland, the actor's son, ...
The world of fashion and entertainment is mourning the passing of founder and chairman of Pulse Investments Limited, businessman and lawyer, Kingsley Cooper. The fashion and modelling luminary died Tuesday night in Florida where he had been...
Instagrammable moments aplenty were the order of the night when Romain Virgo and his friends took total control of the stage at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre last Sunday for ‘The Gentle Man in Concert’. It was the day specially reserved...
Kingsley Cooper, attorney-at-law, fashion and entertainment trailblazer, founder and Chairman of Pulse Investments Ltd has died, a press release from his team stated. Born in Kingston on June 3, 1953, Cooper celebrated his 71st two weeks ago....
A sequel to Inside Out doesn’t fill me with instant excitement. The idea of returning to a film so creative and thoughtful feels like a set-up for disappointment. Then again, Riley, the young girl whose innermost thoughts and feelings are at the...
The special needs and disabled communities will be the focus of the newly crowned Miss Manchester Festival Queen Shonnoya Houston during her reign. The 25-year-old special educator shared the details of her community project following her...
From producer M. Night Shyamalan comes The Watchers, written for the screen and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan and based on the novel by A.M. Shine. The film follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist, who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched...
NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Justin Timberlake was arrested early Tuesday and is accused of driving while intoxicated on New York's Long Island, authorities said. Timberlake was expected to be arraigned in Sag Harbor, on the eastern end of Long...
YG Marley, who achieved stardom with his reggae hit Praise Jah in the Moonlight, a track that samples Bob Marley’s hit Crisis, will descend on Jamaica’s Second City for his Reggae Sumfest début on Friday, July 19. To determine whether YG was...
The Miss Universe Jamaica pageant is well under way with the countdown to the grand coronation currently at three weeks to showtime. The final night of the prestigious beauty, fashion and wellness competition will see 33 gorgeous contestants vying...
Grammy-nominated superstar Akon will be performing in Jamaica this summer as he will be one of the headliners at the Sybaritic Weekend event at The Aqueduct, Rose Hall in Montego Bay on July 28. Empire Media Group, the booking agents of Akon,...
AP: Hollywood’s summer movie anxieties gave way to joy this weekend with the massive debut of Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2. The animated sequel earned $155 million in ticket sales from 4,440 theatres in the US and Canada, according to studio...
The latest artiste to join Dream Weekend’s 15th anniversary line-up is dancehall deejay 450, who is set to perform at Wet ‘N Wild on August 4. With five days of sun, sand and revelry, Dream Weekend continues to grow in popularity with each passing...
Western Bureau: As the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation (StEMC) continues to seek out a venue to host hassle-free, round-the-clock entertainment, which will not be impacted by the Noise Abatement Act, one councillor is calling for the embracing...
BOSTON (AP): She made a single gospel soul record in the 1970s with her brothers, when they were all teenagers. Then Annie Brown Caldwell moved on with her life. Decades later, she was running a clothing store in a tiny Mississippi town and...
NEW YORK (AP): Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has returned his key to New York City after a request from Mayor Eric Adams, in response to the release of a video showing the music mogul attacking R...
Legendary music producer Clive Hunt has released the new single, Nyabingi Love, a track by international reggae singer Maxi Priest Nyabingi Love is a heartfelt love story of a man professing his love for his lady, his ‘lioness’, while the...
For ska singer Derrick Morgan, Father’s Day, June 16, 2024 will be bittersweet as the allegations levelled by his estranged daughter Ventrice ‘Queen Ifrica’ Morgan still hang like low thunderclouds above his head, forcing him to carry through with...
The Jamaican feature-film project, Raised by Goats, has achieved another first, this time as the first Jamaican project to receive the Sørfond Prize following the project’s and filmmakers’ selection, recent participation and pitch at the acclaimed...
After receiving his first Grammy certificate after nearly four decades earlier this year, reggae legend Ansel Collins is now looking forward to receiving four additional Grammy certificates, including a winner certificate for his work on the 1999...
Father of seven, Oneil Darby once had to put his deejaying career on hold to be both father and mother to two of his daughters, but, decades later, he has absolutely no regrets and would not think twice about making the very same decision. Darby,...
While Father’s Day can be a touchy topic for some, others consider themselves grateful to have experienced the love and care of their dads. For upcoming reggae artiste Adiel Thomas, better known as King Diel, the role his father played had a...
