He has been dead for nearly four decades, but the music of reggae icon Bob Marley shows no sign of dying. The musical legacy of the man born Robert Nesta Marley of modest means in Nine Miles, St Ann continues to be a force on global music charts. Marley, who died in 1981, continues to […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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. […]

Hot new visuals surfaced from the Koffee house which shows the Grammy-winner decked out in Thom Browne threads. Koffee starred in a short for the Highsnobiety special performance for a Not In Paris series – a week-long virtual exhibition that was created to “shine a light on the brands and designers who are making a difference” – […]

VYBZ Kartel is back at the Tower Street Adult Correction Centre (formerly General Penitentary) in Kingston after being discharged from The University Hospital of the West Indies in St Andrew on the weekend. The deejay’s attorney, Tom Tavares-Finson, confirmed the development to the Jamaica Observer yesterday. “He went back to the institution over the weekend […]

UP to press time last night, dancehall artiste Ninjaman was still behind bars at Central Police Station in Kingston. The embattled entertainer was remanded after High Court judge, Justice Martin Gayle, ordered that the murder trial involving the popular entertainer commence. The order was made yesterday following an application by the entertainer’s attorney Valerie Neita-Robertson […]