Author: lightning

Reggae artiste Jesse Royal is enthused about his first Grammy nomination for the album, ‘Royal’. “This nomination means a lot to me. It has been a lot of hard work, for a lot of years, and who knows me knows I have really given my all to this thing called music in a ‘livicated’ fashion, […]

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 […]

Dancehall Queen Spice has been revelling in the success of her latest track, Go Down Deh, which features Grammy-winning colleagues Shaggy and Sean Paul.  In less than 24 hours after its premiere on YouTube on the weekend, it was the number one streamed song and has held firm in that position for four straight days. Spice […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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” – […]

Citing “security concerns”, the management team of dancehall artiste Rygin King has transferred the deejay from Falmouth Hospital to another medical facility in another parish to ensure his safety, and facilitate his continued recovery after he was critically injured by gunmen earlier this week.  The deejay was airlifted yesterday from the Falmouth Hospital and moved to another […]

Prince Charles and Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to Britain’s Caribbean community Monday on Windrush Day, the 72nd anniversary of the arrival of a ship bringing hundreds of West Indian migrants to the UK. Johnson said those immigrants and their descendants had made a “fantastic contribution to Britain,” and the heir to the throne […]