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Reggae Month needs a major overhaul to ensure that we celebrate the rich tapestry of Jamaican music history.

Over the next four years, several students at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts will have the opportunity to benefit from a generous bursary established to honour Canada-based Jamaican Grace Lyons, founder of the Heritage...

It was a flair ...flashing … at age nine – the literary skills that began to shine for Malachi Smith, at White Marl All-Age School, when the notice was sent out that poems were needed to be published in the school’s magazine, The Beacon. Even now...

It was a flair ...flashing … at age nine – the literary skills that began to shine for Malachi Smith, at White Marl All-Age School, when the notice was sent out that poems were needed to be published in the school’s magazine, The Beacon. Even now...

WASHINGTON DC: Jamaica’s rich tapestry of culture, ranging from its flavourful cuisine to the rhythmic beats of its music, is set to enthral attendees at the second annual Jamaica Fest. The event, staged by the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington, DC...

NY: “This has to be the best backyard party ever!” exclaimed New York radio host David ‘Fat Forward’ Warren during soca star Crazy’s exhilarating performance. Seventy-eight-year-old Crazy, widely regarded as one of the kings of soca music, was in...

JAMAICANS who flocked the National Stadium on Sunday night for the annual Grand Gala enjoyed what must have been the most crowded and entertaining staging since Independence 61 years ago. A huge ...

Proud and Strong ... Jamaica 61 was the theme for this year’s Independence celebrations, and the annual Grand Gala held at the National Stadium on August 6 epitomised this ideal. A capacity crowd of men, women and children, full of vim, vigour and...

Not so long ago, the Jamaica Festival Song Competition was one of the most highly anticipated events of the calendar year. The songs were widely known and could be heard pouring into streets from radi...

It was billed as five days of academic discourse, rituals, ancestral veneration, cultural explosion and entertainment, and the 15th International Charles Town Maroon Conference and Festival, held from Wednesday, June 21 to Sunday, June 25, inside...