An Ethiopian Orthodox monk whose family says he is 114 years old has survived the coronavirus. Tilahun Woldemichael was discharged from a hospital on Thursday after almost three weeks. He received oxygen and dexamethasone, a cheap and widely available steroid that researchers in England have said reduced deaths by up to one third in severely […]

Italian reggae artiste Alborosie debuts at 13 on the sales-driven US Current Reggae Albums chart with his latest effort Back a Yard Dub . Released April 23 via VP Records, Back a Yard Dub has eight songs. It is the first charting title for Alborosie since 2018’s Unbreakable: Alborosie Meets the Wailers United peaked at six. To date, Alborosie has charted eight […]

VETERAN singer Leroy Gibbons said he is counting his blessings after surviving a shooting incident on Monday morning. The entertainer was shot in the buttocks as he walked with a friend along the Port Henderson main road in Portmore, St Catherine. “I ran off but realised something was wrong when I couldn’t move the way […]

“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 […]

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 […]

  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. […]

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Karl Samuda says the Government will be accelerating its zinc fence removal programme and regularisation of more communities. “I see this effort as a crime-fighting one. Once you improve the environment in which people have to live, they adopt an entirely different approach,” […]