OPPOSITION Senator Floyd Morris said he will be tabling a motion in the Upper House for Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Miss Lou and Usain Bolt to be named national heroes ahead of the Jamaica’s diamond Independence celebrations next year. He made the announcement at yesterday’s sitting of the Senate at Gordon House in Kingston. […]

prison. An officer at the McRae Correctional institution, where Buju spent the last eight years, said the entertainer was let out on Friday. The United States embassy in Kingston is tight-lipped about when reggae superstar Buju Banton will be returned to the country. Buju, 45,was arrested in December 2009, months after he was met by […]

Prince Charles and Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to Britain’s Caribbean community Monday on Windrush Day, the 72nd anniversary of the arrival of a ship bringing hundreds of West Indian migrants to the UK. Johnson said those immigrants and their descendants had made a “fantastic contribution to Britain,” and the heir to the throne […]

MICHAEL Prophet, one of the many roots singers who emerged from the Jamaican dancehall during the 1980s, died in London last Saturday at age 60. Best known in Jamaica for the 1980 hit song Gunman, Prophet (real name Michael George Haynes) succumbed to cancer. Typical of artistes who worked the dancehall circuit, Prophet recorded for a […]

Grammy winner, multiple Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping artiste and international reggae icon, Buju Banton, on Friday releases “Blessed” off his much-anticipated album, “Upside Down 2020,” his first full-length studio album in a decade. The Dave Kelly-produced “Blessed” is coming along with the long-awaited album release date announcement. “Upside Down 2020” will be available everywhere on June 26. The album […]

Capleton hit the headlines in 2018 and, for the most part, it was not about his music. The St Mary-born, 51-year-old artiste, whose given name is Clifton Bailey, was arrested and charged with rape in May. According to the Corporate Communications Unit, the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s information arm, Capleton hired a hairdresser to groom his […]

“There’s no sentencing date set for him at this time,” Kari Knudson, chief deputy clerk at the federal district court, told the Jamaica Observer yesterday. “He will not be sentenced until all the parties involved either enter guilty pleas or have gone to trial.” ZJ Wah Wa — given name Deon-ville O’Hara — is one of 26 […]