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1.People are not quite sure whether the back-up status belongs to the wife or the matey.

A celebratory atmosphere brought an end to a night where Jamaica's 50 years of independence was highlighted at Powerful Women and Men Perform For Charity at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Sunday evening.

Music is a universal language. That language spoke loudly on Saturday night.Beautifully composed music from as far as Israel and Japan performed by representatives and non-representatives of these countries filled the chapel of the University of the West Indies, Mona.

It seemed as if the twisted experience over the years had only been building up to the 10th anniversary celebrations of Twisted Spirits on Saturday night at the Caymanas Polo Club.

The Institute of Jamaica has collaborated with the Culture Health Arts Sports and Education Fund (CHASE) to launch Jamaica's first virtual museum.

As part of the Calabash tradition, notable writers are often interviewed. This is usually done in an open setting in full view and hearing of the audience. At the festival this year, Kwame Dawes did an interview with Orlando Patterson. Patterson, who is currently a professor of sociology at Harvard, is Jamaican.

The United Kingdom-based legendary Jamaican soul singer Jimmy James who ruled the airwaves with his hit single Come To Me Softly in the 1960s, will raise the curtain on the Jamaica International Ocho Rios Jazz Festival.

A 50th anniversary celebration of Jamaica's Independence would be incomplete without the inclusion of the contribution of Jamaica's legendary folklorist, actress, singer, comedienne and social commentator, The Honourable Louise Bennett-Coverley,...

Talk of apartheid, guns and a struggle for freedom aren't what you would expect from a weekend at Calabash, but that was a big part of what patrons got at...

Jamaica is internationally recognised as the birthplace of reggae and dancehall music, the latter delivering the more flashy uptempo sound, while the former targets the spiritual and Afrocentric followers with slower, sometimes sultry beats.

Anyone who has harboured aspirations or ambitions of working in fashion in the region for the past 12 years is likely to have had an encounter with Romae Gordon, fashion director of Pulse and Caribbean Fashionweek (CFW).

There is no grouping of persons that isn't deserving of love. A child with Down's syndrome requires even more love and patience than the average child. And if you ask those who relate to them on a day-to-day basis, they would say that before long, one can't see a difference between a child with Down's syndrome and any other child.