KINGSTON, Jamaica – Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has announced the establishment of a special task force aimed at strengthening safety measures at large-scale entertainment events.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A High Court judge has ordered Soca artiste Patrice Roberts to pay her former Canadian-based management company more than US$30,000 for services it provided while briefly managing her career.

It will be a bittersweet occasion for Willie Stewart at the Rhythms Of Africa shows, which takes place April 18-19 at Miramar Cultural Center in South Florida. He will use the events to salute good friends he has lost along the way, but celebrate the resilience of his homeland as well.

Friends for almost 40 years, singers Anthony Red Rose and Hopeton Lindo first shared the microphone three years ago when they recorded the seasonal A Different Christmas, a song from Lindo’s EP, Feel It Christmas.

Living in faraway Luxembourg does not stop Don G from keeping tabs with the latest developments in his native Jamaica. In late 2025, he got wind of a hot new ‘riddim’ called the WYFL and was determined to record a song on it.

Today, nine-time GRAMMY Award-winning icon Ziggy Marley released a powerful musical short film for his newest song “Racism Is A Killa,” off his recently announced upcoming album Brightside (via Tuff Gong Worldwide). A timely call to action, “Racism Is A Killa” likens the injustice of inequality to a deadly disease in need of eradication. Responding with hope and resiliency, Marley offers the antidote of love in his lyrical messaging. “Racism we gon beat ya/Racism we’ll defeat ya,” he affirms. Watch the video for “Racism Is A Killa”

New York, New York - The GraceKennedy Foundation has again done Jamaica proud with the news that the two episodes of the television series The Visioneers With Zay Harding on CBS- which featured the foundation’s Kingston Harbour Cleanup Project- attracted a total of over 2.6 million viewers across the USA.

NEW YORK/NEW ORLEANS - April 2026 belongs to Dr. Monty Alexander. The Grammy-nominated Jamaican-born pianist, widely regarded as one of the greatest jazz musicians alive, is set to deliver two landmark performances this month - first at New York City’s legendary Blue Note Jazz Club for a sold-out Easter weekend run, and then as the headliner of the Jazz Tent at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, where Jazz Fest will honor Jamaica in an historic celebration under his banner.

 Gearing up for a scorching summer, internationally acclaimed dancehall superstar Masicka unleashes a simmering new single and music video entitled “Boasty” out now via Def Jam Recordings. 

In the 30 years since Michael Eaton began teaching yoga, the Jamaican has never charged his ‘students’. Based in Staten Island, he believes the holistic benefits of the ancient Indian exercise should not be commercial.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A 19-year-old Grenadian national has emerged as the winner in the multi-media category of the inaugural “Echoes of Us – Our Voice. Our Vibe” creative competition among young people that took place at the 15th edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA XV) held here last August.

Kingston, Jamaica — “The Outlaw” Terry Ganzie is gaining significant traction on U.S. radio as his single “Same Africans” charges up the Spin Counts Top 150 chart, rising to #97 this week with a 38-position jump from #135.