By Neville Graham—t GVinay Walia, managing director of Guardsman Group.— Guardsman Group and eMedia Interactive, in which the security company has a 35 per cent stake, are to take another run at reviving a long-dead music festival that was the calendar event of its day. Reggae Sunsplash, which fizzled in the mid-1990’s, will come to life again within two years. Guardsman and other interests last attempted a revival of the music festival in 2006, but it flopped. Since then, … Read entire article »

Buju Banton on arrival at Norman Manley International Airport on December 7 — Sharp on the heels of the announcement of the opening concert for Buju Banton’s Road to Freedom Tour in Jamaica, comes word of the second concert of that series. On April 21, Queen’s Park Savannah located in Trinidad & Tobago’s capital Port Of Spain, as been announced as the location for the follow-up show to Jamaica’s March 16 kick off. Tickets for the Trinidad show, which has … Read entire article »

FOUNDATION RADIO NETWORK TOP 30 MUSIC CHART          (NY)    12/21/18 TW      LW WOC TITLE                                      ARTIST                                 LABEL                                  HPR Second week @ No.1 1          1       8          LOVING YOU IS EASY (2) THIRD WORLD                  GHETTO YOUTHS INT’L #1 2          2       13        Spread Love                            Etana                                       Tad’s Records                          #2 3          3       12        Guess Who (3)                        Tarrus Riley Ft. Mykal Rose  JukeBoxx Records                  #1 4          5       11        Never, Never, Never               Richie Stephens                      Digital B Records                   #4 5          7       9          Land Of Sunshine                   Beres Hammond                     VP Records                             #5 6          6       12        Reggae Dance                         Scaramooch                             JunkYard/VPAL                      #6 7          … Read entire article »

PP Sharon Burke The organizers of the Buju and Friends concert say the tickets will be affordably priced so that a wide cross-section of fans will be able to enjoy the deejay’s first homecoming performance. On March 16, 2019, Gargamel Music and Boom Energy Drink, in collaboration with Solid Agency and Rockers Island Entertainment, will stage the first leg of the deejay’s Long Walk To Freedom tour at the National Stadium in St Andrew. According to the organizers, when … Read entire article »

o   Share   (Jamaica Gleaner) Fly Jamaica Limited has been awarded US$4.2 million in damages for breach of contract against ADS Global Limited, the company that operated the airline’s call center from 2012 to 2014. Judgment was handed down yesterday by Justice Carol Edwards in the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court. The airline, which began operations in 2012, claimed that ADS Global acted unlawfully by closing its call center on May 18, 2014, without proper notice. The airline contended that less … Read entire article »

Anthony Scotland, 30, who has been wiping windscreens for approximately 10 years speaking to the Jamaica Observer in his community of Majesty Gradens, St Andrew, last week Sunday. (Photo: Joseph Wellington)  AFTER years of wiping windscreens in Portia Simpson Miller Square, formerly Three Miles, in St Andrew, Anthony Scotland saved enough money to start a small business. Scotland, who was up to September selling ‘bag juice’, air fresheners, and other small items in the vicinity of Portia … Read entire article »

ByAMY X. WANG As streaming services make recorded music accessible and cheap, concerts, tours and live events have become the new money-minting part of the music business. Artists are getting creative with what forms those live events can take and, in turn, fans flock to them for new kinds of experiences with their favorite artists. The latest evidence of this new tactic: A reggae music cruise that’s sold out almost a whole year before it sets sail. The Welcome to Jamrock … Read entire article »

Kingston’s Mayor, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams.  KINGSTON, Jamaica — Renovation of the 106-year-old Ward Theatre in downtown Kingston, now under way, is slated for completion in 2019. Chairman of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), which is jointly spearheading the project with the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Mayor Delroy Williams made the announcement during the recent launch of the Alpha Mercy Historical Centre project, located on the Alpha Campus at 26 South … Read entire article »

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A second Kingston branch of American coffee chain Starbucks was opened on Knutsford Boulevard this morning. The newest location brings to three the total number of Starbucks outlets across the island. Starbucks Coffee in Montego Bay The first branch was opened on the Montego Bay Hip Strip in St James last November, while the second branch was established in the Liguanea Plaza in Kingston in June of this year. Starbucks Corporation was founded in 1971 in … Read entire article »

< A July 2018 file photo of entertainer Tommy Lee Sparta performing on Reggae Sumfest’s Dancehall Night at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex in St James. The entertainer was yesterday freed of lottery scamming charges in the Supreme Court.  Popular dancehall entertainer, Tommy Lee Sparta, was yesterday freed of lottery scamming related charges in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston. O’Brian Smith, who was also on trial with the entertainer on breaches of the Law Reform … Read entire article »