As the carnival season swings into gear, debates over how to craft an authentic Carnival in Jamaica experience and mas’ place within the Jamaican entertainment spaces are central. On one hand, there are those who argue Jamaica’s dancehall-heavy...
“We refuse to be What you want us to be We are what we are: That’s the way it’s going to be” – Bob Marley, Babylon System I had the good fortune of knowing Bob Marley socially. If a natural catastrophe occurred, I believe Marley...
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...
A new play, 3rd Street, opened at Johnny’s Place to rave reviews and strong word of mouth last weekend. The play, written and directed by Orlando Sinclair, is aptly described as “a laugh-a-minute fest that will have patrons rolling in the aisles...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Imaginary opens with the exact sequence one wants from a horror film focused on a vengeful spirit disguised as a teddy bear. Jessica, played by DeWanda Wise, has fled all manner of monsters throughout the halls of her childhood home. When all...
This spring, for the first time in almost a decade, comedy icon Jack Black returns to his role as Po, the world’s most unlikely Kung Fu master, with a hilarious, butt-kicking new chapter in DreamWorks Animation’s beloved action-comedy franchise:...
Jamaica’s musical talent shone brightly as the Marley family organised the second Jo Mersa Marley Birthday Celebration on March 9 at Reggaeland in Nine Mile, St Ann. The show opened with a 30-minute Nyabinghi session and closed with a solemn...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the curtain rose on the 10th-anniversary staging of Coalescence at the Iberostar Theatre in Montego Bay recently, audiences were transported on a journey across continents, experiencing a fusion of dance, music, and storytelling...
LOS ANGELES (AP): As Universal Pictures prepared for a big night at the Academy Awards with Oppenheimer, the studio also celebrated the No. 1 debut of Kung Fu Panda 4, which collected $58.3 million in domestic theatres over the weekend, according...
This year, the Queen of Reggae Island Honorary Ceremony (QORIHC), which is honouring 30 women in the entertainment industry, will pay special tribute to two outstanding women in media and communications, Alma Mock Yen and Jacqueline Knight. They...
“This award is wonderful ... marvellous,” veteran actor Oliver Samuels said as he received the Red Stripe Living Legend Award from the company’s brand manager, Nathan Nelms, on Friday night. The event took place at the Little Theatre, Tom Redcam...
Sunday was celebrated as Mothers Day in the UK, and one picture which has attracted a lot of attention is that of Kate Middleton – the wife of heir to the throne, Prince William – posing in skinny jeans and boots with her three children by her...
LONDON ( AP ): The first photo of Kate, the Princess of Wales, since her abdominal surgery nearly two months ago was issued Sunday after weeks of speculation about her whereabouts. But the photo was later removed by The Associated Press and...
Veteran actor and king of comedy, Oliver Samuels, is calling on leaders in both the public and private sectors of Jamaica to invest more in the performing arts. In a conversation with The Sunday Gleaner, Samuels explained that while there is talent...
Since his murder in 2011, the name Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams has cast dark clouds over those found responsible, and his murder trial raising some questions about the judicial system. At the eye of the storm, waiting among calmer waters, is dancehall...
Miss World Czech Republic Krystyna Pyszkova is the 71st Miss World! Pyszkova was crowned on Saturday at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, India. The 24-year-old is a student, volunteer, international model. She speaks four languages:...
“It is well with Peter’s soul. He taught us how to love, he taught us about unity, he taught us about connecting to the source, the source which was Jehovah…Jah!” were among the words used to pay tribute to Peter ‘Peetah’ Anthony Morgan at his...
