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C opeland Forbes, who has worked as a booking agent and tour manager for over 40 years, believes the reggae music industry will take a massive hit from the novel coronavirus pandemic.According to Forbes, the shutdown of the tour circuit is a body blow to artistes who earn their living from live shows, especially in […]
Within “a week or two”, the Jamaican Government will have to accept dozens of deportees from the United States (US). Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang made the disclosure on Monday, days after US President Donald Trump signed an order…
One week after a group of heartbroken Jamaican ship workers reported that they were denied landing in Kingston, the Government yesterday said that when the vessel pulled out of Jamaican waters, it could not have guaranteed permission to disembark….
Call centre Alorica has shut down its Kingston branch – its second closure in as many days – as concerns swirl about coronavirus contact tracing and the vulnerability of employees in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector. Approximately 140…
Residents of St Mary are reeling from the impact of hiked fares and back-breaking pressure carrying loads across a bridge that partially collapsed about a month ago. Heaps of dirt and stone blocking vehicular traffic stand as symbols of the…
Dorcia Dennis has been without a source of income since bars were ordered closed by the Government more than three weeks ago in a bid to contain the local spread of COVID-19. But even though the liquor business isn’t in good spirits, Dennis would…
People’s National Party (PNP) Vice-President Dr Wykeham McNeill has denied allegations that he has been canvassing support to replace Dr Peter Phillips as president of the party. Phillips, the opposition leader, is currently battling Stage Three…
A St Catherine man who was the main suspect in the brutal killing of a fisherman on the Hellshire Beach was murdered in a mob attack on Sunday morning, the police have said. Dead is Troy Sewell, otherwise called ‘Mello Man’, a 32-year-old fisherman…
RADIO HAS been a staple of international and local media for decades, reinventing itself with each new wave of technological advancement. For Gavin Whylie, co-founder of JamRockOne, radio has been a mainstay in our lives, “with most of us not…
Dexta Daps’s lead attorney, Peter Champagnie QC, will be seeking to get his client released today when he appears in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court in Half-Way-Tree.The dancehall singjay has been detained at Hunts Bay Police Station in Kingston since last Wednesday.
