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AFTER eight successful stagings, the Jamaica Family Fest (JFF) returns this Heroes' Weekend to Kingston and Montego Bay. The event, which is free to enter, is scheduled from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm ...

Voice Out, a popular live event promoted by Jamaican brothers Damion and Andre Hawthorne, returns to The Bronx on October 13. First held in 2018, it has featured a number of ‘name’ acts including Dre ...

ORGANISERS of the inaugural Soca + Festival is hailing the two-day event as a phenomenal success. Though threatened by a tropical storm, music lovers, university students, and partygoers descende...

IT'S hard to believe, but there was a time when smoking a ganja spliff in Jamaica could land someone in jail. Since February 2015 legislation has been passed in the House of Representatives to dec...

The Bible produced the first strong women — Mary, Ruth, Naomi and Miriam are just some of those ancient heroines. The latter inspired Miriam, a song by Royal Khaos, a band of Jamaicans based in Ne...

Sweden-based Jamaican dancehall artist Short Ghad is relishing his new-found role as a trailblazer on the dancehall scene in the European country. "The

THE dancehall was somewhere people went to dance back in the day. Since the emergence of virtuosos like Bogle in the 1990s, couples have become almost obsolete at Jamaican dances. Deejay Chad Hyp...

REGGAE singers Protoje, Jesse Royal, and Lila Iké received a grand send-off on Monday night at 33 Constant Spring Road in St Andrew prior to embarking on a month-long 'Lost In Time' North American...

SUNDAY'S inaugural staging of the Western Grand Gala was well received by the hundreds of patriotic Jamaicans who sang and danced the evening away under the stars at Harmony Beach Park in Montego ...

Beyond fairs and galleries, Hong Kongs burgeoning art scene is influencing its bars, restaurants and hotels.