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WESTERN BUREAU: Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison says that unless normality is restored to the education sector and the local economy in short order, COVID-19 could cause an increase in the neglect and abuse of children as a result of…

Scotiabank says it will be closing eight branches amid the coronavirus outbreak in Jamaica. The bank says the closures will run from April 15 to April 30. Affected branches: 1. Christiana, Manchester 2. Cross Roads, Kingston 3. Ironshore, St James…

JAMAICA’S CULTURAL and creative industries has been thrown a lifeline in the form of a stimulus package for COVID-19 relief. This is available for individuals and businesses which are registered with the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment…

Big Deal singer Chris Martin was the first famous face to hit home screens in support of the Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment, and Sport Olivia Grange’s fundraising initiative, Telethon Jamaica: Together We Stand. Named after Richie…

New york: ON SUNDAY, June 29, 2014, Reggae Queen Marcia Griffiths was celebrating 50 years in the music business and she had brought along a powerful army of veterans from Jamaica to help her mark this musical milestone at Groovin In The Park 2014…

ENTERTAINMENT and Culture Minister Olivia “Babsy” Grange is confident that the US$10 million target she has set to be raised from the Together We Stand telethon will be met.She unveiled the details of the telethon during an online performance featuring singer Christopher Martin on Sunday.

Stylo G is imploring fellow entertainers to give to families who are finding it increasingly difficult to find food during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A RNOLD’S Caribbean Pizza, an American sitcom with Jamaican flavour, premieres on Flow TV today.American executive producer Trenten Gumbs of 3G Film Inc said, for this project, he “wanted to do something unique”.

WESTERN BUREAU: Linford Graham* feels like he is living in a cage while being in solitary confinement for Samantha Willis* means refuge from the novel coronavirus on the outside. The two Jamaicans working on separate cruise ships, Harmony of the Seas…

The family of a man who returned to the island recently from New York and passed away at his home in Jericho, Linstead, St Catherine, on Saturday, is wracked with concern over whether he might have died from complications associated with the novel…