Red carpet for Randy Crawford
Tobago will once again roll out the red carpet for a legend, as Randy Crawford has been confirmed as the headline act for its third annual...
Ode to Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
People always ask me, Why you love Jamaica so? Is de music, nuh? De fellas? De beaches? I tell them, yes and no. It’s partly the...
Duane Stephenson: reggae’s poet of the people
Some artistes make one song and it’s enough to make them a star. If they never sing another song, it doesn’t matter. That one tune, if...
Jamaican dance: riding the riddim
It began with the Butterfly. One minute we Trinis were wining along, as we had done for decades, to soca, reggae and anything with a jumpy...
Ras Kassa: rastaman vibrations on video
“I’m a political person,” says Ras Kassa, and that explains a lot. The mastermind behind the video for Damian Marley’s Welcome to...
Great Fete: the longest weekend in the world
The idea came to Kevan Gibbs in the wee hours of the morning as he and Chenier Belgrave were walking home after a Great Race party. It was...
Free space: Emancipation Park in New Kingston
When you walk into Emancipation Park in New Kingston, you get a vibe. It’s not just the feeling of calm that green spaces evoke, or the...
Rammer jammers | Last word
Reports and rumours about crime in Jamaica have never fazed me. I lived in Kingston in the late 1990s and had a fabulous time, blissfully...
