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BZR WKND promoters Ryan Burke (left) and Gramps Morgan (right) flank Kelvin Santiago, Cardi B's manager, during the August BZR WKND launch.
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BZR WKND marquee concert postponed to December 20

BZR WKND Jamaica’s marquee concert, which was to feature Cardi B as its headline act, has been postponed from October 18 to December 20. In a statement posted on Tuesday, the organisers cited…
This combination of images show filmmaker Alex Gibney, left, and Elon Musk.
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‘Musk’ has already gotten under Elon Musk’s skin

VENICE, Italy (AP): Elon Musk has called filmmaker Alex Gibney a lot of names leading up to the theatrical release of the documentary Musk, which is playing in select theatres in New York and Los…
Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles on August 15, 1996, left, and Duane 'Keffe D' Davis appears in District Court for his involvement in the 1996 killing of Shakur in Las Vegas on February 18, 2025. (AP Photo
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Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis gets 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur who was gunned down off the Las Vegas Strip over 30…
Dancehall star Masicka released ‘Forever Reign’ via Def Jam Recordings on August 14.
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Voting for Grammy nominees starts today

Grammy season is officially on. First-round voting for the 69th Annual Grammy Awards opens today (October 12) and runs through to Thursday, October 22. This round determines all the Grammy nominees…
Businessmann and music producer Kenneth ‘Skengdon’ Black.
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Skengdon’s dancehall legacy gets digital rewind

In the 1980s, the giant speaker dancehall setting was the barometer by which noted producer-businessman Kenneth ‘Skengdon’ Black could judge whether a song was a bona fide hit or not. The dance was…
RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor and disability rights advocate
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RJ Mitte, 'Breaking Bad' actor and disability rights champion, dies at 34

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) – ‘Breaking Bad’ actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte died on Monday at age 34, authorities and his representatives said. Cameron County Justice of the Peace Cyndi…
Chair of the Little Theatre Foundation, Marisa Benain (left) and Executive Director of the Scotiabank Jamaica Foundation, Deleen Powell, discuss plans for the Scotiabank-funded sound and technical production programme during a recent tour of the facility.
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Big donation for Little Theatre from Scotiabank

The sounds of Jamaican theatre are set to get an upgrade as Scotiabank provides J$5 million to support the acquisition of state-of-the-art sound equipment for the Little Theatre. The contribution will…
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Regional theatrical release for ‘Stew Peas’

Fresh off its blockbuster success in local theatres, the Jamaican film Stew Peas is set to titillate regional taste buds with a good cinematic story as it rolls out in seven Caribbean territories…
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Calypso star, Slinger Francisco (right), otherwise known as ‘The Mighty Sparrow’, celebrates his 70th birthday dancing calypso with Caribbean community leader Jean Alexander at a reception in his honour in the Brooklyn borough of New York, in this
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The Mighty Sparrow was a ‘voice in which the Caribbean recognised itself’

There are voices so deeply woven into the life of a people that their passing unsettles our sense of ourselves. We have heard them through the open windows of our childhood, across the crowded streets…