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Western Bureau: After an 11-year hiatus, cultural reggae showcase Western Consciousness will be back on the local entertainment calendar in December 2025 and will be staged over two days. The event was held for 24 consecutive years between...
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Singer George Nooks is confident that a strong musical message is timeless, and he also believes that the success and longevity of a song is determined by the “right ingredients”, one of which is a live recording session with talented musicians....
Reggae music enthusiasts are in for a treat as Kazayah and Lutan Fyah release their latest collaboration, Coming in Hot. Produced by Brizion, this new reggae track showcases the versatile vocal range of Kazayah and the vibrant lyrics of veteran...
AP: After 36 years of waiting, the juice is finally loose again in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, this time racking up a record-breaking $110 million in its première weekend. The long-awaited Tim Burton sequel is the third-best opening weekend of the...
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange has expressed her sorrow at the passing of the musicologist and author Garth White. Grange said White was “like an encyclopaedia that I could always consult on matters related to...
For the newly crowned Miss Jamaica World 2024, Tahje Bennett, the second time was definitely the charm. Moments after Bennett received her crown last Friday at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, all 19 contestants gathered around the teary-eyed new queen...
Dancehall music fans in New York are salivating about the opportunity they will have in a few months to see one of dancehall’s most influential artistes, Vybz Kartel in the flesh, as he prepares for Freedom Street, his first performance on Jamaican...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jevon McKenzie is aiming to become a globally recognised musician, a goal he has been pursuing since his childhood days of practising on a keyboard drawn on a cardboard box. McKenzie, a 20-year-old first-year student at the Edna...
Miss Jamaica World has a new queen. Twenty-four-year-old aspiring attorney Tahje Bennett was crowned by Miss Jamaica World 2022 Shanique Singh, the island's second-longest reigning Miss Jamaica World, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Friday night...
Reggae singer and entrepreneur Stevie Face is passionate about giving back to the community of Albion, in Yallahs, St Thomas, and has joined forces with the Help Jamaica Medical Mission to put on a free health fair today. The easygoing singer, who...
NEW YORK (AP): Nearly two decades ago, Paris Hilton released her début album, 2006’s eponymous Paris, at one height of her powers – an album of breezy pop music that offered a soundtrack to her cheery and decadent public-facing lifestyle, anchored...
The solo journey of Delomar, formerly of the duo RDX, has led to the upcoming release of his first solo album, and while he is super excited to unveil it in November, there’s a bit of semantics involved that require some sort of explanation. First...
It started out simply enough. Two women, down on their luck with bills to pay and barely scraping by, find themselves in the presence of billionaires and others in high society. With a pair of cocktail dresses and a dream, they managed to snag an...
ROTA is Reggae on the Avenue, and it is arguably the best representative of an authentic dancehall party in Brooklyn, New York City. It mimics Jamaica as a sort of outdoor/indoor street location and due to its summertime set-up, the ROTA party...
Rich Homie Quan, the Atlanta rapper who gained mainstream fame through the trap singles Type of Way and Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh), has died. He was 33-years-old. Quan, whose legal name is Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died at an Atlanta hospital, the...
Remone Watson, the 2023 Digicel Rising Star, took on a new challenge this year by entering the Mr World Jamaica 2024 competition, where he made it to the top five and secured the Talent Fast Track winner and ‘Most Poised’ sectional prizes. The...
