Reggae Studies Unit News Today

Several inmates at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre have been equipped with a marketable skill in entertainment business to enable them to become productive citizens when they return to society, and reduce the chances of them going back...

A week ago, The Sunday Times broke the news: “Degree course to open for online influencers.” Not even a respectable media house like The Times could resist the hype. That provocative headline does not tell the whole story. I heard about the...

Jamaica plans on holding a nationwide referendum on cutting ties with the monarchy. Lawmakers are also calling for an apology and reparations over the painful legacy of slavery on the island under centuries of British rule.

Preye Crooks, an A&R executive at Sony Music UK, says Jamaican artists are not confined to a set of rules about lyrical content that determines

On the eve of the Christmas holidays the Government of Jamaica found itself before a United Nations (UN) body, fending off allegations of racial discrimination against the Rastafarian and Maro...

A cumulative 82 percent of all Jamaicans “believe that there is a connection between Dancehall music and the incidence of crime”, a recent Don Anderson

THERES no stopping a woman whos intent on shaping history, and the women weve featured...

THERES no stopping a woman whos intent on shaping history, and the women weve featured...

Vybz Kartel has weighed in – lyrically that is – on the Pathway International Kingdom Ministries alleged human sacrifice ritual, which took place in

Director of the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Dr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah and her academic compatriot, Dr Dennis Howard will be