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 […]

shot dead LAURA DOWRICH-PHILLIPS CREATED : 6 JULY 2020CARIBBEAN NEWS Pictured: Kyle ‘Rebel Sixx’ George A popular Trinidadian dancehall entertainer and member of the Jamaica-based ‘6ix’ dancehall crew, Kyle ‘Rebel Sixx’ George was gunned down at his home in the eastern Caribbean country on Sunday night. According to reports, around 11.45 pm, a woman was at the back […]

  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 […]

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,” […]

Don Was has been tapped as musical director for the event which will take place on November 1 at Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The initial line-up also features Ziggy Marley, Stephen Marley, Tom Morello, Gary Clark Jr, Jim James, Citizen Cope, Aloe Blacc, Cyril Neville and Terence Higgins. The organisers note that additional artistes […]

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 […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Drake wants no part in competing for a Grammy. The four-time Grammy winner and his management asked the Recording Academy to withdraw his two nominations from the final-round ballot, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. They said Drake’s request was honoured by the academy. The people spoke […]