Aspiring artistes are expected at 8Rivas Ultra Lounge in Ocho Rios on September 16 for the opening round of the Reggae Trail Talent Search, organised by music industry veteran Paula “Suzie Q” Rose.  The 11-week event showcases budding acts from across Jamaica who have been auditioned by Suzie Q and her team. There will be weekly contests leading into semi-finals on December 2, with the final scheduled for December 9....

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Fi We Children Foundation (FWCF) says it is concerned by recent comments from Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison calling for stricter dress code standards in public spaces, including schools, on the basis that established rules should simply be respected and upheld. In a statement on Saturday, the group described as deeply misguided “the level of effort invested in policing children’s hair, appearance and...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, visited one of the children injured in Friday’s incident in St Elizabeth, who is currently receiving treatment at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). Three children were injured after reportedly being struck by a boulder while walking along a railway track on their way to Merry Wood Primary School on Friday morning. Reports...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People’s National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) is dismissing what it says is Generation 2000's (G2K) attempt to use the prolonged disruption of Jamaica's schools since Hurricane Melissa to justify the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA). Describing it as an insult to the intelligence of the Jamaican people, the PNPYO said Government failure does not prove that a new authority was needed but that existing institutions were...

ST ANDREW, Jamaica — A person of interest who was being sought for the shooting of a recording artiste was arrested by the police in St Andrew on Friday. The suspect, Daveian Lewis, otherwise called ‘Rasta’, a chef from Central Avenue in Greenwich Town, St Andrew, had been on the run for the past three years. He was reportedly held after an intelligence-led, coordinated operation between the Area 2 and...

Iconic dancehall trailblazer and deejay, Shabba Ranks, has filed a lawsuit against the publishing arm of Greensleeves Records, in a move to reclaim the rights to several of his crossover hits as well as the 1990 song Dem Bow.  According to a report in Billboard magazine, Shabba Ranks (born Rexton Gordon) filed the suit on Friday (Sept. 11), and it aims to reclaim compositions including the Billboard Hot 100 hits Slow and...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Oblique Seville just failed to add the World Athletics Ultimate Championships title to his World Championships and Diamond League titles after placing second in the men’s 100m final on Saturday’s second day at the National Athletics Center in Budapest, Hungary. American Kenny Bednarek spoiled the party after he ran a season’s best 9.85 seconds (-0.6m/s) to beat the Jamaican who repeated the 9.90 seconds he ran to lead...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Xabi Alonso admitted he would love Chelsea to give him a "boring game" after their defensive woes allowed Hull to escape Stamford Bridge with a 2-2 draw on Saturday. Alonso's side were cruising after Morgan Rogers drilled home in the seventh minute, but once again they paid the price for some sloppy defending. Hull's Algerian winger Mohamed Belloumi blasted the equaliser after Chelsea failed to...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica will be well represented in the men’s and women’s 100m finals on Saturday’s second day of the inaugural Ultimate Championships at the National Athletics Center in Budapest, Hungary. World Champion Oblique Seville leads the men’s 100m qualifying while three Jamaicans will line up in the women’s final, including Diamond League champion Tina Clayton. Despite a slow start, Seville showed his class as he caught the field and...