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Harvard University, the respected American centre of learning, was the venue of a vibrant showcase of Jamaican sound system culture at the Hip Hop Museum in the History Design Studio, Harvard Square, Boston, on March 7. During a two-day symposium...
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With a noon start time, students of tertiary institutions, along with members of the surrounding community and young people across Kingston arrived slowly on Saturday and then all at once to Ring Road at The University of the West Indies, Mona...
The Institute of Jamaica’s annual Musgrave Medals Award Ceremony takes place on March 27 at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts at The University of the West Indies, Mona. Now in its 126th year, the awards continues to recognise and...
Sabrina Morrissey was placed in charge of Williams’ affairs as she battles health conditions including primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia and in February she filed a lawsuit against the Lifetime channel’s parent company, A E...
Before making headlines in January over the part he played in breathing life into dancehall, Tarik ‘Rvssian’ Johnston was dominating the space in the 2000s during a historic run that saw him producing for some of entertainment’s biggest names. The...
With Thursday’s ruling by the Judicial Committee of the UK Privy Council that the murder conviction of Vybz Kartel be set aside and the case sent back to the Court of Appeal in Jamaica for a retrial to be considered, Isat Buchanan, lawyer...
Attorney-at-law Bert Samuels, while happy that his client Shawn Campbell is “no longer a convict”, has expressed his dissatisfaction that it took the Privy Council in England to quash the murder conviction of Campbell, dancehall star Adidja Palmer...
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) has quashed the convictions of dancehall star Adidja Palmer, more popularly known as Vybz Kartel, and his co-accused, and ruled that the Court of Appeal of Jamaica should decide on the matter of a...
Dancehall diva Gaza Kim has moved on with her life and is happy to forgive – if not totally forget – a much-publicised incident which happened to her with alleged members of Vybz Kartel’s high-profile Portmore Empire/Gaza camp. As Kartel and the...
As he prepares to grace the Reggae Sumfest stage for his second time ever, rising reggae star Ras-I is hoping members of the audience will be as ready as he is to have a good time. In a conversation with The Gleaner, the Somewhere Wonderful...