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Firefighters are on the scene of a fire at a plaza on Young Street in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The fashion store Trip Fashion caught fire. Over 8 times water truck forced to come. Fire blazing under the basement from early afternoon. Eyewitnesses on the scene have reported that the fire broke out at the […]
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Most Jamaicans recognise Swatch International as the sound system that fuelled the ‘Passa Passa’ era of dancehall where the famous street dance took the world by storm, generated new street slangs, entertained thousands of tourists and spawned copycat events all over the world. Despite all that success, Swatch International is not done. “We intend to […]
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Gospel dancehall star Lieutenant Stitchie has reportedly suffered a severe brain haemorrhage and has been hospitalized in a coma that has left him unresponsive in a long-term care facility. The singer’s wife, Sophia Laing has set up a gofundme page labelled ‘Support Stitchie’s rehabilitate journey’ which has already raised US$780 of a US$100,000 goal. “We […]
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There was tragedy on the nation’s streets on the first day of the school year as a nine- year-old boy died as a result of injuries he sustained in a two-vehicle crash in Christiana, Manchester on Monday morning. The boy, who is the son of a policewoman, was being transported by her to school when […]
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Tier 1 tickets for Vybz Kartel’s ‘Freedom Street’ concert to be held on December 31, 2024 are now sold out. This is according to the organisers of the concert, Downsound Entertainment. The update comes hours after the website crashed just moments after it went live at 3:00 am on Saturday. Apologising for the technical difficulties […]
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Ticket prices for Vybz Kartel’s highly anticipated ‘Freedom Street’ concert set to take place December 31, 2024 at the National Stadium in Kingston were announced Friday afternoon. Fans of the dancehall icon can purchase their tickets when sales go live on August 31 at 3:00 am. “There are a variety of options to suit every […]
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The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) awarded Spice with her first Silver certification in the United Kingdom with her 2014 track So Mi Like It. The BPI awarded the Queen of Dancehall for the track with its Brit Certified Silver Award on Friday, recognizing over 200,000 units sold in the United Kingdom. The So Mi Like […]
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This year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exam saw a disappointing performance in Mathematics by secondary school students, which has become a concern for the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC). CXC released the results for both CSEC and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam (CAPE). Based on the results, CSEC students had an overall acceptable performance of […]
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S ome 11,000 pupils across the region who wrote the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Exam (formerly O’ levels) last May/June got no passes. So said Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Registrar Glenroy Cumberbatch at a function for the official release of results in Grenada on Saturday. The shocking figures came on the weekend when otherwise […]
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Almost 5,000 Jamaica public secondary-school students who sat the 2010 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations ended up without a single pass. However, this represents a continuing reduction in the number of students failing to pass even one subject. For the 2010 examinations, 14.2 per cent of the 33,888 students who faced the examiners for […]
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