WITH his two-year court case behind him, George Nooks says he will be able to pay greater attention to music. The singer was found not guilty on drug-related charges yesterday when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court in Half-Way-Tree. Nooks, who appeared before Judge Jacqueline Wilcott, was represented by Queen’s Counsel […]

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 […]

The Duchess of Sussex on Thursday won the latest stage in her long-running privacy lawsuit against a newspaper publisher over its publication of parts of a letter she wrote to her estranged father. The Court of Appeal in London upheld a High Court ruling in February that publication of the letter that the former Meghan […]

Music legend Nile Rodgers will reportedly sit in for X Factor UK judge Robbie Williams as this season’s live shows hit the airwaves this weekend. According to reports, Williams was unable to get out of contractual obligations and will be performing in South America when the results show airs on Sunday. He will however be […]

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,” […]

Lindo died at a London hospital on September 4 at age 64, from acute cardiac failure and arrhythmia. A press release from The Wailers said the service will be held at Ruach City Curch in Brixton Hill. Interment follows at Lambeth Cemetery in Brixton. Lindo started as a session musician while still a student at […]

The promoters of the popular Dream Weekend event has announced that this year’s staging will be postponed, and instead will now take place August 5 to 9, 2021.  In a statement on their Instagram page, the promoters announced that after numerous meetings and continuous dialogue with the various Ministries of Government that govern entertainment in Jamaica, they […]