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Some of the music business' legendary names, such as Sam Phillips of Sun Records and Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records, got their break in the 1950s when rock and roll and jazz were hot.

Two years ago, 19-year-old Everal Daley had an epiphany.

Regional publishing rights to Usain Bolt's new autobiography, My Story 9.58, which is already a big hit in Europe, has been snared by Kingston-based Ian Randle Publishers.The company's managing director, Christine Randle, confirmed that her company...

NEW YORK (AP):There was a time when Hollywood turned to Broadway for movie ideas, transforming shows like Chicago and The Sound of Music into box-office gold and Oscar winners.These days, theatre producers look to the film community for juicy stage...

Yvonne Page, 30, smiled broadly as she contemplated her success in the recent Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams. Page was the eldest of nine residents of Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine, to be successful at the exams this year.

Hear ye! Hear ye, Christian young women! Here's your chance to get a foretaste of glory divine. The Miss Jamaica Gospel Ambassador contest is here. After years of watching Jamaican beauties from the sideline, the spotlight is now on you. But, please, leave your bathing suits at home. Only long frocks are allowed.

There isn't much about the hillside farming community of Giblatore in St Catherine that normally attracts national attention. But one of the community's young residents, Delano Mighty, is changing all of that with his superhuman achievement of 18 distinctions at the CSEC and CAPE exams.

The inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference, held from August 17-20 at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, was timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Rastafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica. Done by Roy Augier, who gave the opening keynote address, M.G. Smith and Rex Nettleford, it marked the beginning of a continuing relationship between the UWI and the Rastafari movement.

Willow trees As I look through the mirror at the trees outside - I feel the pain risingThe outrage - That I cannot put my chair among these fine trees - Chopped down - Nor experience their strength and survivor instincts...

The 10th staging of the Under-40 Artist of the Year competition started last Thursday at the Mutual Gallery in St Andrew.