Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship - Caribbean was launched on Monday at the Jack's Hill, St Andrew, residence of Chris and Michelle Bovell on Monday.
NEW YORK (AP): Oprah Winfrey is joining with Alan Ball to produce an HBO film based on the non-fiction best-seller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.The network said yesterday that Ball, creator and executive producer of HBO's drama series True Blood...
Athletics poster boy Usain Bolt is set to try his hand at entrepreneurship as he launched Usain Bolt's Tracks and Records sports lounge on Tuesday night. His foray into the entertainment business is being backed by Kingston Live Entertainment (KLE)...
LOS ANGELES (AP): A prosecution spokesman says Sean Penn has reached a plea deal in a case in which he was videotaped kicking a photographer.Penn entered a no contest plea to vandalism through his attorney yesterday morning.
If ever 'A Change is Gonna Come' in the society, the expectation is that it will have to start with the young people. Fittingly, then, the Sam Cooke classic was Bunny Brown's choice for a Teachers' Day visit to St Richard's Primary School...
Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare, going second in a poetry double header with Francis Coke at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, UWI, Mona, on Sunday morning, started his reading before the word. For while in the Christian tradition the word...
NEW YORK (AP): Smokey Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald and James Brown were among the music legends being honoured on the Apollo Theater's new Walk of Fame in New York City.Workers on Monday began installing sidewalk plaques in front of the storied Harlem...
CHICAGO (AP): Playboy readers who can only imagine what it would look like if a nude centrefold jumped right off the page are getting new specs to help them see into Hef's world.
Maroghini has always combined music and farming. He laughs as he remembers taking over the back of the tour bus to grow sprouts in bottles when Saraba, the Afro-rock band he was then in, was touring heavily in the early 1980s...
Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress known for her plaintive, signature song Stormy Weather and for her triumph over the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not to socialise with them, has died.
CANNES, France (AP): Hard times for the economy. Hard times for the Cannes Film Festival, at least in terms of splashy Hollywood films for which the world's most prestigious cinema showcase is known.
LOS ANGELES (AP): THE LEGEND of Robin Hood, king of the rogues, is best summed up by Roger Miller, the guy who sang King of the Road. "There's been a heap of legends and tall tales about Robin Hood. All different too," Miller says...
THE SOOTHING sounds of veteran reggae icon John Holt mesmerised mothers at the Cariblue Hotel in Montego Bay on Sunday at To Mom With Love, culminating a beautiful evening of appreciation to mothers. From I'd Love You...
NEW YORK (AP): Barbara Walters said she will have surgery to replace a faulty heart valve later this week and take the summer off from The View to recuperate.The television legend made the announcement on the air yesterday.
LOS ANGELES (AP): The babies you see in the movies and on TV are total divas. California law requires it: Infants need a doctor's note and legal permits before they can be stars.
LOS ANGELES (AP): Tony Stark piloted to the top of the box office but not the record books. Iron Man 2, the sequel starring Robert Downey Jr as the gadget-happy billionaire superhero, earned US$133.6 million domestically on its opening weekend...
Unlike people, art is best loved conditionally. That's because the average person is confusing but ultimately redeemable; the average play, not so much. Brian Heap, who loves theatre...
The rise to a successful singing career can be propelled through many channels, such as talent contests. Digicel Rising Stars is one such. It gives wannabe singers a chance to expose themselves to the public and a platform on which to showcase their talent.
Veteran roots singer Sugar Minott has been ordered to rest by doctors after a stress-related illness forced him to cancel a show in Toronto, Canada, last Thursday. ...
Lots of things get blown up and torn apart in Iron Man 2, as you would expect from any self-respecting blockbuster kicking off the summer movie season.
