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Several committees of the Government’s Economic Recovery Task Force will this week meet for the first time as pressure grows on the Holness administration to reboot an economy stalled by a meltdown in commerce linked to COVID-19 restrictions. The…

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), for the second time in nearly three months, has been ordered to pay out millions of dollars to a worker whose employment was unjustifiably terminated. The Industrial Dispute Tribunal (IDT), in a ruling handed down last…

Jamaican parents and community groups have been urged to adopt a more activist role in protecting children from sexual predators who are increasingly lurking on the Internet. Retired Deputy Commissioner of Police Novelette Grant, who is still…

The drowning of a three-year-old boy has reignited calls in Kent Village, Bog Walk, for the erection of perimeter fencing to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy. Residents said that the Rio Cobre – that yawning graveyard of memories – presented…

Moviegoers went to the now-defunct Harbour View Drive-in Cinema for film, frolic, and, ahem, more. Now, churchgoers are turning off their engines and cosying up with their Maker at the Portmore Holiness Christian Church drive-in…

REGGAE ARTISTE Isha Blender is still coming to terms with the loss of her son, Josiah, on January 5, a mere two days after she celebrated her birthday. The daughter of legendary crooner Everton Blender said the death of a child can be one of the…

Long before the existence of the Internet and going viral was a thing, reggae singer Jacob Miller, back in the ‘70s, coined a term that went viral – under heavy manners. Ian Lewis of Inner Circle band, the Bad Boys of Reggae, recalled that his…

THE NOMENCLATURE ‘roots reggae artiste’ takes on a whole new classification when referencing singer Winston McAnuff. An elder statesman who has a fixation with an instrument which retains its genesis in the Church – the accordion – McAnuff, also…

MORE than 100 entries have been submitted for Poem For Life, a contest initiated by Ian Lewis of the Inner Circle band and his son Abebe.Submissions opened April 27 and closes May 18 when the Top 10 poems—inspired by the coronavirus pandemic—will be selected by a social media panel.The winning entry, which will be introduced […]

As the COVID-19 crisis worsens in Jamaica, many find themselves worrying about where their next meal will come from. For some residents of Central Village in St Catherine, their minds were put at ease courtesy of gospel singer Kevin Downswell, who distributed over 50 care packages on Saturday.


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