Entertainment

The Asante Adonai Literary Lyme took its final pre-lyme step at Bookophilia on Sunday afternoon, open-mic host Fabian Thomas, on occasion, taking incremental sideways steps towards the current reader to gently call...

It's a concert that only Alpha Boys' School could bring together: an entire segment of music featuring the Jamaica Military Band, the Alpha Boys' Big Band, the Omega Element band and the Dubtonic Kru, winners of the 2011 Global Battle of the Bands...

Port Antonio, Portland:Twenty-one-year-old University of Technology student, Nicole Hopkins, sporting the sash Miss Hotel Timbamboo, walked away with the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) - sponsored Portland...

On Sunday evening in front of a large audience at the Versalles Hotel in May Pen, Sadra Sutherland was crowned Miss Clarendon Festival Queen 2011.Sutherland, who demonstrated poise and confidence from the beginning...

Smirnoff Dream Weekend held its New York launch last Thursday; Pulse's Sanya Hughes debuts in Pirates of the Caribbean...

It was a show of colours, vibrancy and, for the most part, clinical executions by the young talents, representing Vaz Preparatory School, situated on Dunoon Road, Kingston. However, to have shared in the 60th anniversary land mark event...

The Annotto Bay Hospital recently received more than US$100,000 worth of incubators and other equipment from the non-profit Issa Trust Foundation.

While mixing comedy and poetry, dub poet Yasus Afari will be raising funds for his alma mater St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) through his Pomedy show.Under the theme, 'Tek Kin Teet Kibba Hart Bun', Afari will be...

Internationally acclaimed Jamaican actor and artist, Paul Campbell, who released his new movie, Out the Gate, last Thursday in New York City, has been joined by Minister of Transport and Works Mike Henry and Television Jamaica's Kay Osborne on the inaugural Kingston...

Virtuoso Skatalites drummer Lloyd Knibb died on May 12 at his home in Harbour View, St Andrew. Knibb was simply the most important and influential modern drummer this country has produced. A master percussionist, he contributed to every style of this nation's popular...

Upon recognising a niche in the food, sports and entertainment markets, the members of Kingston Live Entertainment (K.L.E.) knocked heads and came up with the brand Tracks and Records. All that was left for them to do was to successfully pitch the idea to their ideal partner Usain Bolt, and his team. They did, and as the saying goes, the rest is history.

Many a concert promoter can relate to the situation of having a large crowd at an event, yet not seeing that reflected in a healthy profit. In much the same way, Andrea Davis says brand Jamaica, with reggae at its core, "is worldwide in terms of recognition. What we are not worldwide in is value added. What we have not realised is the wealth from a brand whose value is inestimable".