On a night when Mark ‘Buju Banton’ Myrie made his first appearance at a major Jamaican entertainment event since his release from prison in the USA, Stone Love’s 46th anniversary event at Sabina Park, Kingston,  served up excitement and surprise. Capleton came inside the venue some minutes after 2 a.m. and it didn’t took him […]

Last month, veteran dancehall artiste Mr Lexx criticised DJ Khaled for using ‘di same set a artiste dem’ on his reggae and dancehall tracks and opined that the songs were not hits.  But some persons feel Mr Lexx spoke too early as DJ Khaled’s recent project, Where You Come From, featuring four of Jamaica’s biggest musical […]

DURING the 1970s a wind of social change swept Jamaica and film-maker Lennie Little-White wanted to capture that transformation for a global audience with his movie Children of Babylon. “In the 70s Jamaica went through a social revolution when uptown ‘brownings’ were attracted to the downtown dreadlocks inner-city yuteman. This reached its pinnacle when Miss […]

Carlene Davis, whose 40-year career has covered various genres, ventures into new territory with her upcoming EP, The Assignment Remixes. Scheduled for release in June, it contains five songs. Three of those are remixes of songs from The Assignment, her previous album which was released last November by VP Records. The Queens, New York independent company […]

Popular entertainer George Nooks had his bail extended until June 28, when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court in Half-Way-Tree yesterday.The singer’s attorney, Tom Tavares-Finson, raised concerns in regards to conflicting reports about where his client was arrested. Tavares- Finson told Jamaica Observer that a release from the Superintendent in charge […]

  Jamaica and the United States have established a joint task force to go after lottery scammers who are bilking millions of dollars from Americans, mainly senior citizens, each year. There has been no official announcement yet from either government about the new task force which will be designed to jolt the scammers and, in […]

TOP-SELLING reggae band SOJA is the winner of the Best Reggae Album in the 64th Grammy Awards held on Sunday. The Virginia-based outfit won for its Billboard-charting 15-track album Beauty in the Silence. The award was handed out during the pre-Grammy telecast at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.   During his […]