NEW YORK (AP): A woman who was dating Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at the time of his arrest last year broke down Friday describing their many drug-fuelled sex marathons, saying the music mogul ignored her signals to stop and scolded her for crying after...
It was the mother of all recent New York City reggae parties. Last week was Caribbean Week in New York, a time of the year when the spotlight is placed on Caribbean travel. Scores of regional executives were in town to promote their respective...
The story of reggae music is a big part of the stories of Chris Blackwell, the Jamaican-British founder of Island Records and Englishman Richard Branson, co-founder of the Virgin Group, now described as “one of the world’s most irresistible groups...
Veteran super-producer Clive Hunt is pleased his collaboration with French remix guru Snight B and reggae icon Marcia Griffiths and Tarrus Riley, to produce Make we Dance (Remix), has blasted into the Club40 Yacast official Charts in France. The...
Bobby Chin, co-founder of internationally acclaimed sound system Black Chiney, may have lost his sight, but certainly not his sense of humour or his vision. The personable Chin, however, will be the first one to tell you that the journey to...
The University Singers return to the stage for their 2025 Concert Season, running from June 6 to June 29 at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, University of the West Indies, Mona. Performances will take place every weekend, Fridays...
From drawing portraits in rural Jamaica to releasing a Billboard-charting single, Caribbean artiste FyaVerse is gaining recognition in the dancehall fusion scene. On April 19, he dropped his debut album Rak Di Wrld, a 10-track mix of dancehall and...
Amid rising production costs and limited platforms, Absolut Ventures Limited launched the inaugural Creators Circle to address challenges in Jamaica’s media landscape. Held at Johnny’s Place, the roundtable brought together media professionals,...
Reggae icon Sizza Kalonji has responded to comments made by JACHO Entertainment, organisers of the One Caribbean Music Festival (OCMF) in Trinidad, as details concerning the event’s major breakdowns continue to unravel. In a recent interview...
From his first event, Art of Life – Tatts & Booze, to co-founding the now-popular Sandz party series, Jermaule Adair – better known as Nino – has turned his love for entertainment into a thriving business...
NEW YORK (AP): Michelle Obama has a new book out this fall that offers a fresh take on her public life, a story not of politics but of fashion. Obama announced on social media Thursday that The Look will be released November 4 by the Crown...
Ironically, the Final Destination film series refuses to die. The franchise has returned in full force with yet another legacy sequel. Once again audiences can expect tedious references to the original films, with obnoxious new characters that don’...
A former graphic designer for Sean 'Diddy' Combs testified Wednesday that he dangled her from a 17th-floor balcony while screaming profanities, leaving her so traumatised she still has night terrors nearly a decade later and would wake up...
NEW YORK (AP): The English pop singer Jessie J says she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo surgery after her performance at the London music festival Capital’s Summertime Ball next weekend. Jessie J shared the news in an...
In the days following his Mother’s Day concert, Romain Virgo + Friends Live, held on May 11 at Hope Botanical Gardens in St Andrew, reggae artiste Romain Virgo has been reflecting not just on the power of music but on the painful realities many...
The annual Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence honoured the nation’s most exceptional young achievers on Saturday on the lawns of Jamaica House. Among them were The Foster Triplets, honoured for Excellence in Music, and Evert ‘Evy...
Grammy-nominated singer Etana and producer Kemar ‘Flava’ McGregor’s Billboard King Records have joined forces on a new release and a charitable undertaking that is intended to touch lives across August Town, St Andrew. Etana’s latest single, Kiss...
Threads of Us, an independent feature film, powered by an all-Caribbean cast and crew, has wrapped principal photography. Directed by Caribbean filmmaker Mykal Cushnie and written by Donisha Prendergast – granddaughter of reggae legends Bob and...
NEW YORK (AP) — Soon after viciously attacking his longtime girlfriend Cassie in a hotel hallway, Sean "Diddy" Combs sought out a security guard and predicted accurately that his iconic career would be ruined — his image as the affable, successful...
For Fiona DaCosta, authenticity is not just a personal value – it is her superpower. The 27-year-old contract analyst from Farm in Spring Garden was crowned Miss St Thomas Festival Queen 2025 during a glittering showcase at Colonel Cove in Morant...
NEW YORK (AP) — A former personal assistant to Sean "Diddy" Combs who says he raped her testified Monday that she continued sending him loving text messages for years after her job ended in 2017 because she was "brainwashed." The woman,...
Family members of late reggae star Sugar Minott have edged ever closer to a solution to a prolonged intestacy battle. His widow Maxine Stowe confirmed that a hearing with the Administrator General to finalise his estate affairs is set for December...
French-Caribbean reggae artiste Yaniss Odua is ecstatic that his latest single, Lighta, is blowing up in the Jamaican market, with the video for the project racking up over 672,000 views on YouTube since its release. “I am feeling great because...
BERLIN (AP): A performance inside a Catholic cathedral in Germany earlier this month that featured raw, plucked chickens wrapped in diapers onstage – and the country’s president and the local archbishop in the audience – has prompted the church and...
