Entertainment

‘King of Fyah’, Capleton arrived at the Newport Commercial Centre in the early hours of Sunday morning blazing with an unquenchable energy to “bun out dutty wickedness and wicked man”, while sending out an equally impassioned plea for respect, as...

On Friday night stretching into late Saturday morning, Kingston City was embroiled in a battle of the bands to be crowned 2024 j'ouvert champion. Contending for the title this year was carnival veterans Bacchanal and Xodus with Bacchanal J'ouvert...

The I Love Soca Jamaica and Tipsy Music Festival collaboration, RYTZ Music Festival, went down on Carnival Thursday at the Ritz Savannah at The University of the West Indies. The event, the brainchild of managing directors of the collaborating...

At the heart of the second annual Jamaica Poetry Music Symposium (JPMS) held at The Mico University College on Sunday is a multi-faceted document called the Kingston Accord, which seeks to assist Jamaica to thrive. Created at the first JPMS last...

Historically speaking, dragons are renowned for their beauty and mystical qualities that have made them not only feared, but admired by cultures across the world. With that in mind, it is no wonder that GenXS Carnival has chosen these legendary...

Across the Caribbean, there are breakout artistes and entertainers who have surpassed expectations and waved their country’s flags proudly for audiences around the world. And, it is among this elite class that KES ranks. First formed as a...

Straight off the jumbo jet, MC and entrepreneur Aaron ‘Local’ Fingal has touched down in Jamaica and is ready and rearing for Carnival in Jamaica. Hailing from the birthplace of calypso, soca and carnival itself, Fingal grew up with a love for...

Following what many are calling a transcendent experience at I Love Soca, Yard Mas Carnival is looking to keep the fire blazing with more signature events aimed at catering to the different “segments” of Jamaica’s multifaceted carnival audience....

As the curtains draw to a close on the National Dance Theatre Company’s (NDTC) concert at the Little Theatre on Sunday, I, like the rest of the audience filling nearly every seat, reluctantly stopped applauding the now-hidden dancers and singers,...

Carnival season is in full swing, and revellers all across Jamaica and the diaspora are either in a jubilant mood, or about to be, as the big three carnival bands – Xodus and Bacchanal, Yard Mas and GenXs – continue to roll out their events leading...