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 […]

A real estate company in The Gambia has given deejay Mavado land in an upscale area of the West African country.The self-acclaimed “Gully God” performed in The Gambia for the first time on May 13 at a sold-out concert at Independence Stadium in the city of Bakau. The show reportedly drew 50,000 fans. According to […]

“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 […]

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 […]

Super Ape Returns to Conquer was released on September 22 and features 15 tracks. Perry, 81, is a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music and has worked with acts including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, the Congos, and Max Romeo. There’s another new entry, RAW by Alison Hunte enters at 9. The […]

  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 […]

Popular entertainer George Nooks had his bail extended until June 28, when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court in Half-Way-Tree yesterday.The singer’s attorney, Tom Tavares-Finson, raised concerns in regards to conflicting reports about where his client was arrested. Tavares- Finson told Jamaica Observer that a release from the Superintendent in charge […]