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It has been more than two months since Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica. While Plantation Cove, which hugs the north coast of St Ann, was impacted by the hurricane, it luckily did not sustain major destruction from the Category Five storm...
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NEW YORK (AP): Trevor Noah will be hosting the Grammy Awards for the sixth consecutive year, but this time, it’s being billed as a farewell gig. The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that the South African comedian is returning “one final time”...
NEW YORK (AP): Grammy award-winning music producer Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid reached a settlement Monday with a former record company executive who alleged in a lawsuit that he sexually assaulted her and ruined her career. The terms of Reid’s settlement...
Today, with input from our panellist, Sean ‘Contractor’ Edwards and Claude Mills, we conclude our Entertainment Year in Review with awards in various categories for those who made a lasting impression throughout 2025. 1. Best New Artiste - Male...
Today, we pause to remember those who made a solid contribution to the music industry and bowed out in the year 2025. This list includes a lot of veterans, some of whom were still active in the business, entertainers who were ailing and those whose...
This year, as we sat with our panellists, Sean ‘Contractor Edwards and Claude Mills, to reflect on and select the top artistes for 2025, they were asked to ‘speak the truth and shame the devil’. And they tried their best. This is the conclusion of...
The year 2025 was a mixed bag musically. It appeared that dancehall was the predominant genre and reggae was lagging behind. It was much easier to have dialogue with selectors who could easily list out the top 15, or 20 or even 25 songs that ruled...
1. Farewell to a legend 2. Veteran reggae singer Cocoa Tea has died 3. Mexican reggae singer Jah Fabio wished to take last breath in Jamaica 4. Six-foot standout Dreanna Williams wins Miss Universe Jamaica Northeast 5. Cocoa Tea’s thanksgiving an...
Renaissance disc jock, Delano ‘DJ3D’ Thomas put his spin on compiling this exclusive list of dancehall songs for the year 2025. Sitting pretty at the top is Armanii, who also gets honourable mention with the single BB on the Snapchat riddim....
We took to the streets for this top-15 and who better than DJ Tom, one of the organisers of the popular Leggo Di Streets Wednesdays, a weekly party that is held in Kencot, St Andrew. 1. Mute – Masicka 2. NY Girl - Chronic Law 3. Passenger...
WESTERN BUREAU: As Montego Bay recovers from Hurricane Melissa, recording artiste Mitsy ‘Shuga’ Campbell is using music to help reposition the tourism capital, unveiling her remake of Bobby Bloom’s classic, Montego Bay. While the song was recorded...
The Oliver Samuels Foundation is set to host the official handover ceremony for its inaugural Oliver Samuels Foundation Scholarship on Wednesday, January 14, at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Edward Seaga Resource Centre...
NEW YORK (AP): Rapper Fetty Wap has been released from a federal prison to home confinement after serving just over half a six-year sentence for his role in a New York-based drug trafficking scheme. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said the Trap Queen...
Undoubtedly, one of the top dancehall disc jockeys on the international scene, this DJ rose to stardom after joining the family business. And although he was born in the United States, his background is deeply rooted in local history and culture....
Dancehall star Cutty Ranks has retained a new female lawyer in his ongoing battle against Panamanian artiste El Chombo and Juston Records for unpaid compensation and recognition on the viral monster hit, Dame tu Cosita, to secure his rightful...
NEW YORK (AP): Taylor Swift once again leads the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Award nominees with nine. She is followed by Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Alex Warren, who are tied with eight each. The iHeartRadio Music Awards honour the most-played...
