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The overwhelming turnout to Jamaica’s first ever Drive-Thru Farmers’ Market at the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) complex on Spanish Town Road yesterday tested the endurance of staff who were kept on their feet filling orders at a…

COVID-19 has unravelled the thread of worship and social cohesion that bind Jamaica’s 6,000 Muslims, but adherents have, like other people of faith, adapted rituals to cope with the new norm of distancing. This reality has become more apparent in…

FOR HER milestone 40 years in the music business, it’s only right that Nadine Sutherland should celebrate with a new album. However, while that is in the making, the sultry songbird has dropped a new single, along with an accompanying music video….

PRODUCER T’Jean Bennett is currently recouping at his St Andrew home after receiving a life-saving transfusion at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) in St Andrew on Tuesday.Bennett — who is in his 30s — suffers from aplastic anaemia, an autoimmune disease which causes the body to fail to produce blood cells in […]

While he is recognised by ‘elders’ in Waterhouse as one of that community’s early dancehall artistes, Lacksley Castell’s name does not ring a bell with most youth in his hometown.For many years, the location of his gravesite at May Pen Cemetery in West Kingston has been a mystery. But his family recently got good news […]

Just over four months after going number one on the South Florida Reggae Chart, singers Hopeton Lindo and Fiona have repeated the feat with Guilty , their cover of Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibbs’ 1980 monster hit.The reggae version registered its third-straight week atop that table this week. Their previous chart-topper was the Lindo-penned In […]

FLEDGLING dancehall deejay Don Simar sees himself as critical in the battle against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. He has been using Instagram encouraging Jamaicans to adhere to social distancing and other protocols.

ORGANISERS of the Jamaica Ocho Rios Jazz Festival are currently engaged in meetings to decide the fate of this year’s event.

Attorney-at-law Clyde Williams has announced his resignation as a member of the People’s National Party (PNP). Williams, in a post on Twitter, said, he wrote to PNP general secretary Julian Robinson announcing his resignation and his email has…

The Health Ministry is reporting that five healthcare workers are among the 396 confirmed coronavirus cases in Jamaica. At a virtual press conference on Wednesday, Permanent Secretary in the Health Ministry Dunstan Bryan reported that all five are…