The number of children gathered in the Information Centre of the Urban Development Corporation's (UDC) downtown Kingston office last week Saturday morning would have been unusual for an art exhibition run by the National Gallery of Jamaica.
79-year-old St Mary native takes a trip homeChristopher SerjuGleaner WriterPORT MARIA, St Mary:WHEN HE left for America some 30 years ago, Ivan McCook had already done a lifetime of active duty, having earned the name 'Barber' for his decades of cutting...
Anyone who knows Copeland Forbes well will tell you he is rarely at a loss for words. On Monday, during a ceremony honouring him and singer Freddie McGregor at the Courtleigh Hotel in Kingston, reggae's best-known manager lived up to his reputation.
John Holt and Romain Virgo are among the reggae elites who will ignite the Cinnamon Hill grounds in Rose Hall, Montego Bay, at the first annual International Reggae Wine Festival on August 13.
Feonia Williams got the nickname 'Fuel' from emerging performer Roshida Rose about three years ago. "She said everywhere she goes she hears about me. She said, 'you are the fuel. I am going to call you Fuel'," Williams told The Gleaner....
Water is defined by many as essential for living and, by extension, a source of life. Fittingly, Jamaica's premier water themed event, The Water Party, has over the years done well to epitomise this at each staging, as it...
Beauty queen and former Digicel Rising Stars host Yendi Phillipps will launch her foundation on Sunday the Fiction Nightclub, starting at 6 p.m.In keeping with the mandate 'Beauty With a Purpose', throughout the night 15 of Phillipps' gowns, worn...
In a release to media yesterday, The Uprising Roots Band announced that its headquarters had burnt to the ground. "Today, The Uprising Roots Band suffered a tragic and dramatic loss as our headquarters crumbled to ashes after a fire," a release...
Singers Beres Hammond, Gregory Isaacs and Erroll 'ET' Webster are to be honoured at this year's Reggae Sumfest.Hammond returns to Sumfest after a three-year hiatus and will be given an award from Summerfest Productions, organisers of Reggae Sumfest.
Take a break from weeping into your beer after the disappointing week of cricket and football and enjoy the beautiful people and places who were all winners last week.
Internationally acclaimed Jamaican producer Donovan 'Don Corleon' Bennett unleashed his highly anticipated dub album, Dub In HD, on his very own label, Don Corleon Records.
Tru-Juice has not only maintained a winning combination of products and services, but also with their recent alignment with the upcoming premier party series - Dream Weekend....
Jamaicans will have an opportunity on Sunday to acknowledge and celebrate Jamaica's high-ranking netball team, the Sunshine Girls, as a massive road-show is being planned for them....
The genius of the University Singers' musical and artistic director, Noel Dexter, in getting the absolutely correct sound from the group is universally acknowledged. This is not to suggest that there is one uniformly 'correct sound' for a choir...
As two women awaited the start of the Lime Freedom Fest concert last Saturday, they used the time to display and speak about their pairs of glasses. The younger proudly announced that her "glasses were for distance"...
In spite of the mediocre performance of the West Indies in an almost vacant Sabina Park, corporate companies continued to treat their guests in fine style...
The latest viral sensation Nobody Canna Cross It remix from Dj Powa kicked Twisted Spiritz into gear at the Caymanas Polo Club. After an extended wait because of an early June postponement, patrons got twisted last Saturday night...
Imagine this - a band with members originating from Cuba, the United States, India and Sweden, playing Vietnamese reggae at a jazz festival in Jamaica! Well, the Mynta band, based in Sweden, brought that situation to reality ...
The Gleaner has sourced another cable between The Dream Embassy in Negril and The Dream Team in St Andrew! It appears The Dream Team has visited Mavis Bank to find the star of Nobody Canna Cross It, the YouTube Video which went viral and found its way...
The line-up for the 2011 Garance Reggae Festival, which takes place in Bagnols-sur-Ceze in the south of France from July 27 to 30, reads like a roots reggae...
For the seventh year, the Soroptimist Club of Jamaica has organised a concert of mainly classical music, called Classics in June.On Sunday, the latest in the series was held in the University Chapel, Mona.
America's number one morning television programme, NBC's 'Today Show', will broadcast a special Television Jamaica (TVJ) 'Smile Jamaica' feature on Thursday....
Ashley Martin is crying foul after Sunday night's restaging of Saint International's Fashionblock.The event was held on Knutsford Boulevard in New Kingston on Sunday after...
