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 […]

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 […]

In the late 1990s and 2000s, dancehall entertainer Merciless engaged in several high-profile lyrical battles with fellow deejays Beenie Man, Ninjaman and Bounty Killer that made him an instant legend in the world of dancehall. Clad in full military gear and using his legendary catchphrase, ‘bad man no tek bad up’ at Sting 2000, he […]

Incarcerated reggae superstar Buju Banton says he only  wants to be associated with music after he is released from prison. Buju, who is scheduled to be released from US federal prison by December 8, yesterday released a statement saying: “I only want to be associated with my craft.” Buju, real name Mark Myrie, was convicted […]

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 […]

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have gone with a different surrogate to deliver their new baby — but it ain’t because they didn’t like the last one … she was simply unavailable. Sources close to the couple tell TMZ … Kim and Kanye hired a new woman to carry their fourth child, a boy … not the 20-something-year-old […]

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,” […]