Extended jazz fest aimed to increase tourist arrivals
Walter Elmore, CEO of TurnKey Productions, producers of the annual Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, says next year's show may be the most challenging since it was first held in 1996. The 2010 event runs from January 24-30, three days longer than previous years...

Music connects Temple Hall with Wareika Hills - Tribute concert to Count Ossie, Mystic Revelation of Rastafari superb
Trombonist Nambo Robinson took an obvious, unfettered and near child-like delight in the music he played and the musicians he marshalled at Temple Hall Great House, St Andrew, on Sunday night. The era that the night honoured did take him back to his childhood...

'Dollars and Sense' joins local game show line-up
Encouraged by support from an earlier film venture, Joan Edwards and Junior Powell of Signature Films Limited, have embarked on another form of entertainment - the game show, Dollars and Sense. The launch of the game show took place last Wednesday ...

Boothe holds on with 'Never Let Me Go'
A music critic once called Ken Boothe the 'Wilson Pickett of reggae', a nod to his soulful delivery. On his latest project, the rocksteady legend gets a chance to show he has the chops to live up to that title. Boothe is putting the finishing touches...

'Me and Mi Chapsie' for charity
Established last year as a charity organisation, Elitte Club Limited ministers to the spiritually renewed and the impoverished. It gives support to the less-fortunate and vulnerable people throughout Jamaica, as its goal is to improve the health...

MOVIE REVIEW - Lost in 'Land of the Lost'
LAND OF the Lost used to be an American television series for children, airing for three seasons between 1974 and 1976. The show featured a park ranger and his two children as they explored a parallel world filled with anachronistic dinosaurs, cavemen, obelisks and time...

Something extra
The movers and shakers of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica held their annual Hall of Fame induction on Monday.

Flava Unit beats Danga Zone, Black Katwhips Rockaway ... in Guinness Sounds of Greatness competition
There was a point at which the opening clash in last Saturday's second set of match-ups in the Guinness Sounds of Greatness competition could have been closer than it turned out to be. Flava Unit, with Flava Hype up front, had totally outplayed Danga Zone, led by Jigsy...