In our last article, the Music Diaries focussed on Byron Lee's early years as an unpretentious musician who, along with his St George's College teammates, started playing music with makeshift instruments as a form of celebration after football games.
As the anticipation builds towards this year's StyleWeek Jamaica (May 23-27), Saint International has announced that the Jamaica 50 secretariat has officially endorsed the event with the 'Proudly Celebrating' designation.
The Big Ship family is 100 per cent behind Daniel 'Chino' McGregor and Yendi Phillipps following the bombshell announcement of the beauty queen's pregnancy.
With a mission to heal the world through music, Soul Train Award nominee, Gramps Morgan unleashed his second solo album, Reggae Music Lives, which is now available on iTunes, independently, on his Dada Son Entertainment label.
Hennessy Cognac lovers will be delighted to learn that Maurice Richard Hennessy, an eighth-generation descendent of company founder Richard Hennessy and the Hennessy Cognac ambassador, will be visiting Jamaica on Sunday.
Fans of international icon Whitney Houston will get a chance to savour the music that made her famous on Friday when Montego Bay's Twisted Kilt debuts its new entertainment series, Gimmie di Bass, with a special package entitled Tribute to Whitney Houston.
Members of the Kreative Concepts group, host of the biannual event Sweet Escape, racked their brains trying to come up with a way to celebrate their three-year anniversary while joining in the islandwide celebrations of Jamaica's 50th year of Independence.
On Sunday, the Dream Team will officially launch its campaign for this year's summer 2012 party season. The Smirnoff Dream Weekend, which is set to take place between August 1 and 6 in Negril Jamaica, pulls travellers from the wider Caribbean, North America, and as far as Europe....
The Uncle D Twin Stars are gearing up to host the third staging of their beach event, Rum Bar Double Shots, on Sunday. According to twin sisters Janet and Jenice Cunningham who form the promotional team, this is the first staging of the party...
Close to the end of his presentation at the Drama School Amphitheatre, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, on Tuesday night, poet Mutabaruka literally...
The Jamaica Association of Vintage Artistes and Affiliates has penned a missive speaking about the passing of Tyrone Blake, of Merritone Disco. Blake passed in the company of family on Sunday.According to the release, Blake was part of Jamaica's musical...
1. Some are saying the press conference called by the Opposition leader to question the performance of the Government's first 100 days in office has ...
England-based disc jockey and promoter Gordon Wedderburn will be jazzing up the dance floor at Studio 38 this Friday as organisers of Kingston Pon Di River serve up a tasty appetiser ahead of this weekend's literature, music and art festival....
The category winners for the Heineken Inspire competition were selected yesterday at a secret location and will be announced during a major entertainment event set for the Jamaica Railway...
April 21 marked approximately 46 years since Haile Selassie I's 1966 visit to Jamaica.On that day this year Michael Barnett launched his book, Rastafari in the New Millennium, at the University of the West Indies' (UWI)...
With career ambitions of one day emulating the iconic Oprah Winfrey, Kerie-Ann 'Kiki' Lewis - whose story of triumph over tribulation may one day see her sitting on Oprah's couch - has over the past decade developed into one of the more enduring figures...
Saturday night was special in the lives of members of the Jamaican Institute of Architects, and two of Jamaica's important citizens were laid to rest....
The grand finals of the Heineken Inspire competition, designed to unearth talent, will be held on Saturday. Among those vying for the million-dollar prize money is Joshua Douglas, a student of the performing arts at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMC)....
The album was scheduled to be released last year but, as a perfectionist, gospel artiste Jason Mighty said he postponed the release album to do more fine-tuning.Mighty had planned to release Temple...
Student directors from the Northern Caribbean University's (NCU) Lignum Vitae Film Festival had the opportunity to rap with Dan Glendenning and Geraldine Hawkins, the editor and line producer, respectively, of the recently released documentary Marley...
Money grumble - 1.There are grumblings about the lack of accounting for the many donations received by the organisation late last year. It is expected that these grumblings...
