Jamaica News

Jamaica-born reggae/pop singer Nyla premiered her debut single Stand Up recently on LargeUp.com. This is Nyla's first release under Konfrontation Muzik, the new record label founded by reggae star Ky-Mani Marley.

Where the conservative crooner made early rock and roll "safe" in the '50s by taking all the edge of out of songs like "Tutti Frutti," Sanchez has made a career of refashioning the schmaltziest pop and R&B songs into dangerous, seductive dancehall and reggae.

AS the Jamaica National Building Society kicked off celebrations in the UK to mark 25 years of operations there, General Manager Earl Jarrett has affirmed that the organisation has remained true to its original mission of building a financial bridge between Jamaicans in England and Jamaica, and creating channels to address the need, both locally ... (more)

On Wednesday, however, the three - all wards of the State - each received cheques from a New York-based charity in the value of US$4,000, enough to pay the year's. "I wasn't planning on applying to Students' Loan Bureau or anything, but I didn't know where was going to come from," Haynes told the Jamaica Observer after the presentation which took ... (more)

Prominent Montego Bay-based attorney-at-law Nathan Robb became the new president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday and immediately warned the police that the chamber would be quite vocal when matters of concern arose.

Tomorrow, downtown Kingston will get more than it's fair share of international glamour when celebrity designer Cesar Galindo showcases his two main lines for the first time in the Caribbean at CITYSTYLE.

Stony Brook University sweethearts Tara and Frank settled into an 11th floor apartment with views of the ocean after graduation.

By Derrick A Scott ATLANTA, USA -- Mayor of Atlanta, Kasim Reid, is to lead a trade delegation to Montego Bay, Jamaica, comprising 12 of Atlanta top business executives, in an effort to deepen the trading relationship between the two sister cities.

Looks like some gigs from the Lights Out tour have already been called off before it even started.

Business partners Alvin McBean and Ruedal Johnson of Wi Deh Ya Productions. The duo is responsible for the Sax Appeal jazz show in Montego Bay, St James.

The late Honourable Joyce Lilieth Robinson , who died on Sunday, May 12, aged 87, was essentially two persons - the dedicated public servant who stamped her brand on empowerment through education, and the devoted family member and friend for whom no favour was too difficult or inconvenient to grant.

Administrator at the home, Jacinth Bonner, said a number of roofs to the cottages need repair as very often they would leak.

Locally owned businesses continue to operate at a significant disadvantage, as a direct result of misguided government policies which allow for tax incentives and waivers to multinationals while taxing the local operations mercilessly.

Prime Minister Michael Manley announcing plans for a workers resort development to a press conference at Jamaica House on May 22, 1974.

COMING British female rap artiste Amplify Dot created a stir in sections of the resort city of Montego Bay last week, during a video shoot to promote her latest single, I'm Good, a collab with Busta Rhymes, which features Buju Banton's Walk Like a Champion.

A group of investors, including chief executive officer of Progressive Motors, Jeffrey Panton, has acquired Kingston Industrial Garage , Jamaica's oldest car dealership and one of the remaining assets Lascelles deMercado has sought to divest.

University of Delaware women's outdoor track & field standouts Latoya James and Amira Idris have extended their seasons for at least one more week as both will compete at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field East Regional Championship this week at North Carolina A&T University.

A: Plan ahead and take responsibility for your own safety before an emergency arises.

Nickeisha McDonald, common-law wife of Constable Richardo 'Shawn' McKay and mother of two of his four children, is not ready to accept the theory that he had accidentally shot himself.

AFTER SITTING in the well of the Senate for more than two hours on Friday, watching as the members showered accolades on new president Floyd Morris, Sophia Frazer-Binns took the oath of office pledging to do all she can to advance the cause of Jamaica's development.