Entertainment
15 Jan, 2026
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Music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
NEW YORK (AP): The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It’s a new single-year record, up 9.6 per cent from 2024, which held the previous record. The 2025 Year-End Report from…
15 Jan, 2026
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Probe into Julio Iglesias’ alleged sexual assault in Caribbean
BARCELONA, Spain (AP): Spanish prosecutors are studying allegations that Grammy-winning singer Julio Iglesias sexually assaulted two former employees at his residences in the Dominican Republic and…
14 Jan, 2026
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Plantation Cove pressing on
It has been more than two months since Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica. While Plantation Cove, which hugs the north coast of St Ann, was impacted by the hurricane, it luckily did not…
14 Jan, 2026
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Trevor Noah to host Grammys for the sixth and final time
NEW YORK (AP): Trevor Noah will be hosting the Grammy Awards for the sixth consecutive year, but this time, it’s being billed as a farewell gig. The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that the South…
14 Jan, 2026
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L.A. Reid settles sexual assault lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP): Grammy award-winning music producer Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid reached a settlement Monday with a former record company executive who alleged in a lawsuit that he sexually assaulted her and…
13 Jan, 2026
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Celebrating the best of 2025
Today, with input from our panellist, Sean ‘Contractor’ Edwards and Claude Mills, we conclude our Entertainment Year in Review with awards in various categories for those who made a lasting impression…
13 Jan, 2026
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‘Father of the Year’ Niney Holness has more in store
One would think that at the grand age of 77, Winston ‘Niney’ Holness, the charismatic producer who was a central figure in the creation of several reggae classics during the eras of the ‘70s and ‘80s…
12 Jan, 2026
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Remembering those who died in 2025
Today, we pause to remember those who made a solid contribution to the music industry and bowed out in the year 2025. This list includes a lot of veterans, some of whom were still active in the…
11 Jan, 2026
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Top reggae and dancehall artistes for 2025
This year, as we sat with our panellists, Sean ‘Contractor Edwards and Claude Mills, to reflect on and select the top artistes for 2025, they were asked to ‘speak the truth and shame the devil’. And…