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For the newly crowned Miss Jamaica World 2024, Tahje Bennett, the second time was definitely the charm. Moments after Bennett received her crown last Friday at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, all 19 contestants gathered around the teary-eyed new queen...
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Dancehall music fans in New York are salivating about the opportunity they will have in a few months to see one of dancehall’s most influential artistes, Vybz Kartel in the flesh, as he prepares for Freedom Street, his first performance on Jamaican...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jevon McKenzie is aiming to become a globally recognised musician, a goal he has been pursuing since his childhood days of practising on a keyboard drawn on a cardboard box. McKenzie, a 20-year-old first-year student at the Edna...
Miss Jamaica World has a new queen. Twenty-four-year-old aspiring attorney Tahje Bennett was crowned by Miss Jamaica World 2022 Shanique Singh, the island's second-longest reigning Miss Jamaica World, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Friday night...
Reggae singer and entrepreneur Stevie Face is passionate about giving back to the community of Albion, in Yallahs, St Thomas, and has joined forces with the Help Jamaica Medical Mission to put on a free health fair today. The easygoing singer, who...
NEW YORK (AP): Nearly two decades ago, Paris Hilton released her début album, 2006’s eponymous Paris, at one height of her powers – an album of breezy pop music that offered a soundtrack to her cheery and decadent public-facing lifestyle, anchored...
The solo journey of Delomar, formerly of the duo RDX, has led to the upcoming release of his first solo album, and while he is super excited to unveil it in November, there’s a bit of semantics involved that require some sort of explanation. First...
It started out simply enough. Two women, down on their luck with bills to pay and barely scraping by, find themselves in the presence of billionaires and others in high society. With a pair of cocktail dresses and a dream, they managed to snag an...
ROTA is Reggae on the Avenue, and it is arguably the best representative of an authentic dancehall party in Brooklyn, New York City. It mimics Jamaica as a sort of outdoor/indoor street location and due to its summertime set-up, the ROTA party...
Rich Homie Quan, the Atlanta rapper who gained mainstream fame through the trap singles Type of Way and Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh), has died. He was 33-years-old. Quan, whose legal name is Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died at an Atlanta hospital, the...
Remone Watson, the 2023 Digicel Rising Star, took on a new challenge this year by entering the Mr World Jamaica 2024 competition, where he made it to the top five and secured the Talent Fast Track winner and ‘Most Poised’ sectional prizes. The...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Taraji P. Henson will receive an honorary AARP Award for eradicating the stigma around mental health within marginalised communities through her foundation that was created in honour of her father. The organisation announced...
Veteran deejay, Cleveland ‘Lt Stitchie’ Laing, is reportedly ill and “unresponsive” and Sophia Laing is requesting financial assistance from the public for his medical care. Sophia has taken to the crowdfunding platform, GoFundMe, to seek...
Kandi King, who, as the ‘Karnival Kween’, has a proven track record in the carnival space, has been appointed head of marketing at Xodus Carnival. “King is poised to elevate Xodus’ brand presence and engagement in new and exciting ways, as she...
Beetlejuice is back! Oscar-nominated, singular creative visionary Tim Burton and Oscar nominee and star Michael Keaton reunite for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Burton’s award-winning Beetlejuice. After an unexpected family...
Jamaica is set to make a triumphant return to the Mr World competition after a more than 25-year hiatus with the crowning of Tarique Barrett as Mr. World Jamaica 2024. The highly anticipated event took place on Sunday night, where Barrett was...