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The Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta has released its programme, with an impressive line-up of established and new Jamaican writers reading their own work.The 13 Jamaican writers cover the areas of short stories, novels, plays, poetry and...

WESTERN BUREAU: IF YOU were somewhere in the distance, but within the periphery of the Pier One complex Saturday night, you could have been easily fooled that reggae icon Maxi Priest was onstage. But, fooled you would have...

IT WILL be an evening of absolute nostalgia, accentuated by good music and good friends when the legendary soul/R&B performing artistes, the incomparable Chi-Lites, travel to Montego Bay for an exclusive post-Mother's Day performance on Saturday, May 14. ...

MORE THAN 180 youth gospel ambassadors demonstrated the true meaning of 'Walking in Authority, Living in Prosperity' as they took centre stage at the ninth annual National Children's Gospel...

Something about the event, on Good Friday, felt idyllic. The setting was the Saint James Cathedral Church, the seat or throne of the Jamaican Anglican Bishop, located in the cradle of Jamaica's historical site, Spanish Town.

Golfers from near and far converged on the Cinnamon Hill Golf Course on Sunday, April 10, to raise funds for the Spanish-Jamaican Foundation's (SFJ) Real Madrid Foundation Football School.

Just a few days left for one of the biggest, wettest, soca event of the year - 'WATA's Official and Original Water Party'. With main sponsors on board, WATA, Digicel Jamaica and Appleton Jamaica Rum, Island Mas Jamaica is raging and ready to go on Saturday, April 30, with their theme 'the return of water'.

In the tradition of The Dragon - the legendary musician and band leader Byron Lee, who carved out a reputation for always doing things bigger and better - the Byron Lee Foundation will on Saturday April 30, pull together four of Jamaica's top bands to perform on a show billed 'Tribute to The Dragon'.

Red Stripe, Digicel and The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) are back on board for the 19th staging of Reggae Sumfest.Last year, performances by Reggae and dancehall's brightest stars, along with international superstars Usher and Chris Brown, were nothing short of spectacular; and this year's event which runs from July 16 to July 23 is anticipated to be even better.

Today is Easter Sunday 2011 and the airwaves will naturally be filled with songs about the man seen as the ultimate Christian hero, Jesus. However, Jamaican popular music is noticeably bereft of songs lauding Jamaica's National Heroes Paul Bogle, George William Gordon, Nanny, Samuel Sharpe, Sir Alexander Bustamante, Norman Manley and Marcus Garvey.

On April 2, 2011, Garnet Silk's 45th birthday passed with little fanfare, much as the 16th anniversary of his death on December 10, 2010, slipped by bereft of the accolades and regurgitated eulogies which are the standard soundtrack to a major music figure's death knell.