The task to select the 13 Festival Queens at the parish level started last Saturday with the staging of the Miss Hanover Festival Queen Coronation at Rusea’s High School in Lucea. It proved to be the perfect platform for educator, Sornia Samuels,...
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange said that news of the passing of Lois Grant, who made her mark in the fields of communications and public relations and entertainment, has left her feeling "very sad as yet another...
With 20 years of history bubbling to a boil, last Sunday night Deiwght Peters and his band of merry models took the AC Hotel Kingston by storm for the Saint Fashion Face of the Caribbean Competition. With 43 female and 38 male contestants, the...
If there’s ever a date that Chalice’s Wayne Armond is giving the ‘boombastic side-eye’, it’s May 11. In this social media driven era, it’s only too easy to picture a laughter-inducing meme depicting this reality. But there’s nothing funny “ha-ha”...
For about two hours, and to the delight of the audience, poems of all shapes, sizes and themes poured into the amphitheatre of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA), along Arthur Wint Drive, last Tuesday evening. The...
This Summer, the world’s favourite Bad Boys are back with their iconic mix of edge-of-your-seat action and outrageous comedy, but this time with a twist: Miami’s finest are now on the run. BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE will play at all Palace Amusement...
For the first time in the nearly 60-year history of the Jamaica Festival Song Competition, an unprecedented number of females have been chosen as finalists. Of the 10 finalists, six are women. Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport...
In celebration of the life of Desi Jones, those whose lives the master drummer touched filled inside the church as well as the grounds of the Holy Trinity Cathedral on North Street in Kingston on Monday to say their final farewell. The soulful...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston is back in South Florida, where he and his mother are charged with committing more than a million dollars' worth of fraud. Kingston, 34, was booked into the Broward County...
NEW YORK (AP): Last Saturday, media magnate Rupert Murdoch, 93, married for the fifth time. His corporation, News Corp, confirmed Sunday that Murdoch and Elena Zhukova, a 67-year-old Russian-born retired molecular biologist, wed in a ceremony at...
AP: It was a quiet weekend at North American movie theatres, dominated once again by Sony’s The Garfield Movie and Warner Bros. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Flipping the script from their Memorial weekend openings, the animated orange cat crept ahead...
J Balvin wants to help change the world’s perceptions of Latinos. The 39-year-old star, who was born in Medellin, Colombia, is determined to portray Latinos in a positive light and to make the world more aware of Latino culture. Balvin told The...
Legendary rock musician Lenny Kravitz headlined the UEFA Champions League Final Kick Off Show presented by Pepsi on June 1 at Wembley Stadium in London. This is the eighth year that Pepsi and UEFA marked the final with its eagerly anticipated...
Capleton, the fiery Rastafarian singer who eschews high-end designers and brands — such as Louis Vuitton, Prada and Dior, beloved by entertainers and celebrities — in favour of his own custom-made raiment, had the majestic look totally locked in...
France-based reggae artiste, Norrac, is generating a lot of attention with his latest single, Wings, an easy-going gem of a reggae song exploring spirituality. The single appears on his latest album, New Born. A music video for Wings was filmed in...
Spragga Benz “came, saw and conquered” definitely sounds clichéd , but that’s exactly what the veteran dancehall entertainer and actor did when he performed at the Guinness Sounds of Greatness event on Thursday at Usain Bolt’s Tracks and Records....
Western Bureau: While seemingly disappointed that the plan to honour legendary dancehall star Bounty Killer, which was supposed to be an integral part of this year’s staging of Reggae Sumfest, has fallen through, Cordel ‘Skatta’ Burrell, a...
Western Bureau: The official countdown to Reggae Sumfest 2024, Jamaica’s premier music festival, started on Thursday night at the Iberostar Resort, in Montego Bay, with a colourful launch, which was staged against a backdrop of pulsating music and...
A photo of two sporting legends, Chris Gayle and Kylian Mbappe, at the Monaco Grand Prix, has gone viral on X (formerly Twitter) for all the right reasons. The superstar batsman, who is also a recording artiste known as the Universe Boss, made...
Buju Banton sent the reggae music loving world into a frenzy when it was revealled early in May that he had got back his visa to travel to the United States. All questions as to whether or not the visa was just a regular visitor's visa or a work...
The dancehall community is mourning the death of Walford ‘Father Wally’ Jibberson, the owner of Inner City Sound system, one of the most iconic megawattage sound systems which ruled the roost in the late 1980s and 1990s blasting the electronically...
Lovers of film found common ground this past Sunday at the third staging of The Shot List. The transatlantic collaboration between JAFTA and We Are Parable continues, giving patrons a day to appreciate the short film offerings from across the...
Carnival season is officially over and Xodus Carnival retains the title of the biggest carnival band. As the summer approaches, party-goers are anxiously anticipating the 15th anniversary of the best summer series, Dream WKND. With only two months...
Ribbiz Ultra Lounge, a popular hotspot for both the young and the young-at-heart, in collaboration with the college marketing agency and lifestyle brand Campus Elite, calls all make-up artists (MUAs) across Jamaica to participate in their first...
