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Popcaan openly mocked the ridiculous amount of his fine, detailing the $1,500 penalty for each guilty offense. He said: “Dem charge mi $6000 fi all a dem ting yah. Mi need help fi pay dem. Unuh start wah fund fi me right now fi pay dem sumn yah, please.” The Family deejay was fined J$6000 […]
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Harry Toddler is now claiming that no one harmed General B or attempted to harm him, and that General B was the aggressor in the fracas that brought Boombox Freestyle Fridays to an unceremonious closure last week. “True me know seh him waa stab me, him a wrestle with the man dem enuh and cut […]
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Spice seems to be on her way to making a full recovery as she dropped a statement on Instagram this afternoon to allay the fears of her ‘besties’. She told her ‘besties’ in the post that she is still recovering and apologised for cancelling her upcoming show which was slated for the Cayman Islands on […]
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St. Ann-based reggae singer Black Queen delivered a powerful performance at the IRIE FM Marcus Garvey Celebration held last week in Ocho Rios that surprised and impressed the large gathering With flag-waving dancers in tow and dressed in a flowing yellow African print dress, she used every square inch of the stage as she pranced […]
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Representatives of the US Embassy have stepped in to assist Howard Johnson, a US citizen whose 15 year-old son was shot by a member of the security forces, during a joint military operation in Seaview Gardens on Thursday. “I made a report to the US Embassy and a representative of the US Embassy visited the […]
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It is a well-documented fact that men have sometimes opted to use sex as aweapon, with sometimes terrible consequences. One, men do this through the commission of rape which is a violent crimethat uses sex as a weapon of power and control. Rape is a weapon of war. Afew years ago, in Africa, Ugandan soldiers […]
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Claude Mills is a news journalist for DancehallMag based in Jamaica. In 1998, Claude Mills won his first Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) award for an article he wrote about his experience flying into the eye of Hurricane George in a military plane, alongside scientists measuring the force of the storm as it hit the […]
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Montego Bay-based artiste Unknown Gringo recently shot the visuals for his latest single, ‘Struggles’. The song is a departure from the artiste’s usual fare of trap-dancehall songs which revolve around themes of trigger-pulling, hustling and girls. “The song is getting a lot of airplay on IRIE FM, Zip and other radio stations. The audio is […]
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The ‘informer culture’ in Jamaica may be dying a quick death as there was a marked increase in the number of calls to share intel on gangsters on Crime Stop over the past year. The calls jumped from 679 in 2020, to 685 in 2021, however the ratio of success remained the same, a lethargic […]
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So Bounty Killer got hopping mad this week when Ishawna sat down on his face, oops, a cardboard cutout of his face while onstage at Reggae Sumfest this weekend. Bounty Killer, and others, when it was first released in 2017. Killer had threatened to ‘rush’ (interrupt) Ishawna if she performed the song at a concert […]
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