Tessanne Chin scored her first Billboard entry since 2014, with the ballad Love Suicide which debuts at No. 30 on the Adult R&B Airplay chart. Love Suicide, released on Chin’s Chinita Entertainment label, is the first song by a Jamaican artist to make that Billboard list. It was written by Blu Jane, whose credits include […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Appliance Traders Ltd. (ATL) Group Chairman Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart said he was “constrained to initiate legal action against The Gleaner Company” in the sum of $17.5 billion after the publication of a story on the newspaper’s website last Friday which he insisted was false and defamatory. Following is a statement on the […]
A sold-out performance brought the audience to its feet with loud applause and cheers at the end of each segment at the opening night of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at Sony Centre for the Performing Arts last Friday night. The audience was obviously thrilled with the different segments which showcased a mixture of choreography […]
As Canada was celebrating International Women’s Day, Canadians were asked to nominate a woman to appear in the 2018 bank note issue. And already there is interest in the Caribbean Diaspora to have one of their own in this historic and iconic move. “A Canadian woman will be featured on the very first of the […]
Former honourary consul general C.J. Agustine-Kanu has been appointed ambassador to Belgium where she will open a new Grenada embassy in Brussels. Recently, she officially welcomed new Consul General Derrick James who was formally introduced by Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell when he was in Toronto. “It’s been the most amazing experience working for […]
Guyanese Canadians in the GTA are awaiting answers as a commission of inquiry begins probing two days of prison rioting and fires that left 17 dead and numerous inmates injured at Georgetown’s Camp Street Prisons. The commission is to report by March 15. A recently completed commission of inquiry dealt with the assassination of renowned […]
HAVANA, Cuba – On March 25, within days of the historic visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, Havana will host a free open-air concert by the iconic British rock band the Rolling Stones at Ciudad Deportiva, the city’s sports complex. The show, billed as the Stones’ Concert for Amity, will make Sir Mick Jagger, Keith […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former government minister Jack Warner’s extradition proceedings took another turn when the U.S. government attempted to intervene in his judicial review lawsuit challenging Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s decision to sign off on its request to have him extradited to face charges in the ongoing FIFA bribery scandal. During a status […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – In his inaugural address, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said his vision is to make Jamaica the centre of the Caribbean. Speaking after being appointed last Thursday by Governor-general Sir Patrick Allen on the lawns of King’s House in St. Andrew and taking the title ‘The Most Honourable’ after being conferred with the […]
After 14 months of covering the best and most unique ska and reggae – classics and lesser known soul songs – the Rhythm Express introduce their first original side built from the bottom up, Soul Nation. Funk and soul music originated in the clubs, the places where people hibernate away from the madding crowd and […]
