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Yard man no play wid people. That was the reaction of most Jamaicans to a news clip making the rounds of social media that reported that a 60-Year-old Miami man with a heavy Jamaican accent — was forced to shoot and kill a gunman who had broken in to his van early Monday morning. The […]
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Emerging dancehall artiste Teff U Deff is heating up the wintry dancehall scene in New York with his latest single, ‘Skaaachy’. The scorching club-banger was released on his own label, U Deff Records Inc, on November 9th on major digital download platforms. The single is an immediate hit in the ethnic dancehall community and it […]
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Minister with responsibility for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Karl Samuda has ordered an investigation into an incident in which a teacher at the Pembroke Hall High School allegedly threatened a student with physical harm. “The behaviour displayed is unnacceptable. It has no place in our schools,” Minister Samuda said in a release. The incident […]
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UK-based label Wontstop Record is banking on the release of conscious reggae singer Emanuel Anebsa’s new album ‘St. Paul’s Ghetto’ on November 17th on all digital download platforms. For his part, Anebsa hopes that fans will get the message of perseverance in the face of rising financial and social oppression encoded in the music of […]
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Reggae singer Leba Hibbert is excited about the overseas success of her single, ‘Jamaica’, which features fellow singer Hawkeye. The track has been getting regular rotation on the show, ‘The Joint’ on Sirius XM radio.The song is a roots-reggae remake of Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello’s highly successful single Havana. “I recorded it last year when […]
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Claude Mills
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UK-based label Wontstop Record is banking on the release of conscious reggae singer Emanuel Anebsa’s new album ‘St. Paul’s Ghetto’ on November 17th on all digital download platforms. . For his part, Anebsa hopes that fans will get the message of perseverance in the face of rising financial and social oppression encoded in the music […]
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Sixteen-year-old Justin Foster, a student of Bayshore Park, Harbour View, St Andrew, was shot dead by unknown assailant/s at his gate this morning, the police have reported. The Elleston Road police said that residents heard explosions about 7:45 am and alerted them. The police said that upon their arrival Foster was seen lying on his […]
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The streets have been responding to dancehall deejay Iyara’s new image, lyrical content and branding since his departure from the Alliance several months ago. The artiste’s latest music video, ‘Rich and Wealthy’, released on the Peterkey Music Production has had tongues wagging and sparked speculation that the artiste’s new label shelled out a staggering amount […]
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Robert Murphy
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Mountain View-based artiste Chaps has emerged as one of the new exciting acts in dancehall as his latest single, ‘Oh Gosh’ has been bombing radio into submission over the past month. “The whole ah Mountain View love and see what a gwaan, Jarrett Lane, Jacques Road, Backbush, the whole place love the party vibes and […]
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Twenty-four-year-old Dushane Henry, otherwise called ‘Crocodile’, of Thompson Town district, Clarendon was shot on Shepherd main road in the parish on Saturday, November 9. Reports from the Four Paths Police are that about 9:30 p.m., Henry was driving his motorcycle along the roadway when a motorcar drove alongside him and opened gunfire hitting him several […]
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