The general public has reacted with a mixture of dismay and horror at the death of an 81 year-old inmate, who had severed 40 years in prison without being tried or convicted for an offence. Photos emerged on Twitter that showed the emaciated, insect-bitten body of the 81 year-old man who seemed to have been […]
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WOMAN DOUSES TAXI OPERATOR WITH HOT OIL
A 32-year-old St Andrew woman is now on a murder charge after allegedly dousing a taxi operator with hot oil during a domestic dispute. The police are yet to finalise a date for the first court appearance of the accused, Melissa Sinclair of East King’s House Road. The police say on May 14, Sinclair and […]
Read MoreDIVINE RITES – POPULAR MUSIC PULLING THE YOUNG
Claude Mills LOUD MUSIC. Dance. Dramatic interpretations. All of this battened onto a religious superstructure means Sunday service has never been this loud, this dramatic — this hip. While anguished shouts of praise the Lord, tambourine, organ and piano music have always filled Jamaican Sunday mornings, church leaders today are enticing the young with more […]
Read MoreOswald Spence lost 17 years of life without being charged with a crime
Claude Mills, THE COLD, rotten floor-boards are his bed each night, and his pillow, a rolled up suit of dirty clothes. In his tiny room, which is bare of furniture, there is only a truck engine that has been converted into a coal stove, an axe, two lumps of wood, a pair of old sneakers […]
Read MoreMother Goose is a violent old bat
Who knew that Mother Goose was such a violent old bat? As my daughter gets older, I have been dusting off my childhood favourites to read to her, so you can imagine my consternation when I discovered through the unfiltered light of adulthood that Old Mother Goose nursery rhymes are actually ghastly tales of random […]
Read MoreTEN BOUNTY KILLER AND BEENIE MAN SINGLES ON REGGAE ITUNES 100
After their historic performance on the first reggae and in-person Verzuz battle on Instagram Live, both Beenie Man and Bounty Killer have seen a fillip in terms of the sales of their individual singles as ten of their songs now occupy positions on the iTunes 100 reggae charts. Since the climax of the the clash […]
Read MoreChikie Grainz is ‘Hypnotized’
Talented dancehall artiste Chikie Grainz is ecstatic about the enthusiastic social media response to her latest single, ‘Hypnotized’ which was produced by Badbad Citizens and released on the Grainz Records label a month ago. “A lot a promotion been done around ‘Hypnotized’, people are saying it is hot on social media, the track itself has […]
Read MorePALACE AMUSEMENT POSTS $49.2 million loss in second quarter
Palace Amusement registered a major loss in the second quarter as shuttered cinemas caused a nosedive in its stock price and the company’s market value. The cinema operator posted a loss of $49.2 million against a profit $43.7 million for the similar quarter of 2019, while core sales declined by 10 per cent to $229 […]
Read MoreNEW MUSIC REVIEW
It’s easier than ever for artistes to make their own music, and that means a lot of aspiring artists are making and sharing music right now. A lot of it is half-baked and unoriginal, but every now and then we come across something really cool, and there’s still nothing as satisfying as hearing something early, […]
Read MoreRIP Bobby Digital
Robert “Bobby Digital” Dixon, one of dancehall/reggae’s most successful music producers, died on Thursday at age 59. He reportedly succumbed to a kidney-related illness after he had gone to do his weekly dialysis treatment at the hospital. Reports are that Dixon began to feel ill and was eventually admitted and later died. Reggae music has […]
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