Music and film expo to stir up exciting possibilities for Ja
Jamaica is poised to take its place on the world stage next year when it hosts the first international film and music expo in the region called Stir It Up.

Reggae album sales plummett
IT has not been a good year for Jamaican pop music. Sales tracker, SoundScan, reports that music buyers in the United States showed little interest in what Jamaican artistes had to offer in 2009.

KEEPERS OF THE HERITAGE: E-cards with a 'yaad' flavour
Before the Internet, buying and sending greeting cards was a popular pastime across the world. Sending cards is still popular, but more and more people are not buying printed mass-produced copies, choosing instead to send them electronically.

Echo Minott asks 'What the Hell the Police Can Do?'
With a consistently high murder rate, guns coming in from Haiti on fast boats and a surprise police commissioner resignation, many a law-abiding Jamaican citizen may jut be asking, 'What the hell the police can do?'

Police figure in Jamaican music
The police feature heavily in Jamaican music, mostly for the worse with lyrics about marijuana interceptions, dance shutdowns and general injustice.Still, they continue to have a presence in music videos and provide security for...

Max Romeo honours Neville Willoughby
Reggae singer Max Romeo has launched an award in memory of broadcaster Neville Willoughby who died three years ago in an auto accident.

Warhol painting a hot ticket at NYC auction
NEW YORK (AP):A painting by Andy Warhol, '200 One Dollar Bills', brought the equivalent of 43.8 million dollar bills at auction, more than three times its highest presale estimate of US$12 million.The piece, one of Warhol's first silk-screen paintings,...

One Love concert series to benefit Negril
WESTERN BUREAU:Five non-governmental organisations, an early-childhood institution and several businesses in the resort town of Negril, Westmoreland are slated to benefit from the inaugural $15 million One Love Reggae Concert...

The end is near as Hollywood does the apocalypse
LOS ANGELES (AP):It's the end of the world as we know it, and Hollywood feels fine. Global warming, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing terrorist threats and the economic meltdown have people in a gloomy, even end-of-days frame of mind. Filmmakers are tapping into worries about humanity's...

'2012' evokes mixed feelings
Apparently, if the apocalypse arrives, Amanda Peet will survive. While this is good news for any warm-blooded male who also survives, it does seem a bit improbable. However, 2012 establishes early that it isn't overly concerned with probabilities, including as it does the melting of the Earth's crust...

Palin tells all in book
NEW YORK (AP):The rumours are true, according to Sarah Palin. The McCain-Palin campaign was not a happy family.