Sprint king Usain Bolt made a major top ten debut in the Billboard Reggae charts this week when his collaborative album Country Yutes, co-produced by his long-time friend Nugent “NJ” Walker, debuted at number six. The set sold 1,651 in pure album sales in its first week. The 14-track set released September 3 via the […]
Read MoreSt. James man sought for murder of Jamaican woman and toddler
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, United States has listed a man, reportedly from Jamaica, as a person of interest in the murder of a Jamaicanwoman and the attempted murder of her boyfriend. Doujon Dwayne Griffiths, 21, who is said to be from Gulf in St James, is listed as a person of interest […]
Read MoreMackerel pregnant
Popular social media influencer Ladaisha ‘Mackerel’ Francis is reportedly pregnant. This tidbit of news emerged when a video displaying her pregnant belly was posted to her Instagram account earlier this week. Even though it seems that the pregnancy is in the second trimester, Mackerel did not address any questions regarding her growing foetus. Mackerel became […]
Read MoreKaren Smith loses battle to colon cancer
Jamaican songbird Karen Smith has died, ending her one-year battle with colon cancer. She passed away approximately 3:30 a.m today at the Baywest Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, where she was admitted on Tuesday. Smith was a former president of the Jamaica Federation of Musicians and Affiliates Union. “Fly high amazing songbird Karen Smith…you […]
Read MoreDouble murder in Clarendon
Detectives assigned to the Area 3 Major Investigation Division are probing the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of a man and a woman and the injuring of another by unknown assailants on Thursday, September 9. Dead are 47-year-old Cleverton Brown otherwise called ‘Budda’, and Beverley Pinnock, both of the Gayle Housing Scheme, in Lionel Town, […]
Read MoreFOUR KILLED AS DOWNTOWN KINGSTON TENSE
Four persons were killed in three separate attacks as marauding gunmen from Tivoli Gardens and the Matthews Lane enclave turned the major shopping district of downtown Kingston into killing fields. The attacks all occured in the space of only a few hours, as there were shootings in the Coronation Market, another in Matthews Lane and […]
Read More‘Bun Down’, Livity Coke associate, gunned down in downtown kingston
A man who is a known associate of Leighton ‘Livity’ Coke, was gunned down by armed thugs on Darling Street in downtown Kingston this morning. A woman reportedly suffered a heart attack and died in the aftermath of a shooting incident. Reports are that the woman, who had been travelling in a car to the […]
Read MoreNicki Minaj eyes Intence collab?
Queen of Rap Nicki Minaj has revealed that she appreciates Dancehall star Intence as an artist and would be open to a collaboration with him. Minaj, who has previously collaborated with Dancehall artists Mavado, Stylo G, Vybz Kartel, and most recently Skillibeng on the Crocodile Teeth (remix), was speaking to 30,000 of her fans during […]
Read MoreSpice and Chug It face off over non-appearance
There is a major brouhaha brewing between Andrew ‘French’ Wright, founder of the CHUG IT party series and Grace ‘Spice’ Hamilton, Queen Of Dancehall over her non-appearance at a Miami show over the Labor Day weekend. The organisers have threatened legal action and issued a strongly worded statement placing the blame squarely for the no-show […]
Read MoreDonda breaking records
Kanye West’s 10th studio album Donda, is the second biggest debut of all time on the global Spotify chart, having earned almost 100 million streams. In addition, the Jay-Z assisted single Jail opened at number one on the US Spotify chart with 4.277 million streams to hold the biggest debut of a song in 2021. Donda also broke several […]
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