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United States oil prices crashed into negative territory for the first time in history as the evaporation of demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic left the world awash with the commodity and not enough storage capacity. “There is really nowhere…
The plan was always to make Saturday, April 18, 2020, special. Family and friends had secured vacation leave and made travel plans. The wedding party was settled. Everyone was set and ready. As the date for Adrian Frater and Sharon Williams to tie…
AN EYE-WATERING $2.5 billion is the figure representing the loss in the entertainment and sporting industries in the last two months. In breaking down this number, Entertainment Advisory Board (EAB) Chairman Howard McIntosh listed events such as…
Numerous dancehall entertainers have experimented with Afrobeats, the launch pad for a new generation of artistes from Nigeria, Ghana, and other English-speaking countries in West Africa. Popcaan, Demarco, Busy Signal, Beenie Man and Tarrus Riley…
ON Sunday, the Corporate Area streets should have been lined with colourful, costumed revellers from all over the globe. Instead, Jamaica’s three major bands — Bacchanal Jamaica, Xodus, and Xaymaca International — were forced to host virtual fetes, given the restrictions due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Bacchanal’s co-director, Michael Ammar III is […]
DJ Powa, who first came to national prominence in 2011 when his hilarious Canna Cross It video went viral, is at it again. This time, his subject is Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his plea for persons to stay indoors to stem the rate of infection due to the coronavirus pandemic.
DEXTA Daps’s quest for freedom hit another hurdle inside the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court in Half-Way-Tree yesterday morning.The singjay’s attorney, Peter Champagnie QC, said his client will have to remain in police lock-up pending an application to the tribunal to have him released.
No Me Ame , a song by the late American rapper Juice WRLD and Puerto Rican singer/rapper Anuel AA is all the rage in the United States. It is produced by Jamaican Rvssian.Song and video were released on Friday by Head Concussion Records/Sony Latin.
Actor/playwright David Heron says it is “a crying shame” there is little, if any, footage of theatre stalwarts like actress Lois Kelly Miller who died in St Andrew on April 8.Kelly Miller, who was 102 years old, was a giant of the pantomime and contemporary of legendary actress/folklorist Louise “Miss Lou” Bennett-Coverley.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Jaquiline Bisasor McKenzie has confirmed Jamaica’s sixth COVID-related death. Tara Dasgupta, lectured at the University of the West Indies, Mona and was Professor Emeritus of Inorganic Chemistry. He had been…
