J’ouvert has always assumed an important role in the carnival season in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada and here in Jamaica.

Special permission was granted for Buju Banton to perform here because his criminal conviction automatically disqualified him from gaining entry into Barbados. The 45-year-old Jamaican, whose real...

The 2019 Holetown Festival is officially open. Though a bit more low key than in previous years, the event opened today at the Holetown Police Station grounds, a move from the customary location at...

LESS THAN 24 hours after Attorney General Dale Marshall announced measures to fight rising gun crime, police seized three guns and an undisclosed amount of ammunition from an illegal fete in Montrose,...

The red carpet glowed with the glitz and glamour of patrons strutting their stuff on opening night of the third edition of the Barbados Independent Film Festival (BIFF) last weekend. Hollywood actress...

Unlike the Cayman Islands, Barbados, St Lucia, and the twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica never had a carnival tradition before the '90s - first introduced on the University of the West Indies, Mona campus by...

LOS ANGELES (AP):Rihanna is suing her father over his use of their last name for a business. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, says that her...

With Rihanna, it would be good for the country's music.Jamaican producer Don Corleone produced Break It Off for Rihanna and Sean Paul in 2005."Whole heap a doors a go open if that happen because other people will see that...

In a time where Jamaican music is being sampled at an all-time high by international artistes like Drake, Rihanna, Jay-Z and Kanye West, veteran sound system operator Maurice 'Jack Scorpio' Johnson is recommending one way...

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Barbados Gays, Lesbians Against Discrimination (B-GLAD), Donnya Piggott, says the group has no issue with Jamaican dancehall recording artist Buju Banton performing in Barbados this...

The number of dates on Buju Banton's Long Walk to Freedom tour is steadily growing.Concerts in the sister Caribbean islands of The Bahamas, Barbados and St Kitts join Jamaica and Trinidad which were previoiusly announced.

It was the Boxing Day blues for some cruise ship visitors who expressed disappointment and frustration at seeing a near-deserted Bridgetown on Wednesday. Four cruise ships – Caribbean Princess, Carnival...

CONTRARY to media reports, Barbados Gays and Lesbians Against Discrimination (B-GLAD) said it has no issue with Buju Banton performing in that Caribbean island.“No one is denouncing Buju. I, like many other Caribbean...

On Sunday, December 16 around 2:45a.m., police carried out an operation at Cheapside Road, St Michael. The operation targeted a fete being held at a location occupied by A&A Wholesale, where over 300...

Grenada’s Jab Jab music, St Lucia’s Dennery Segment and Barbados’ Bashment Soca have all succeeded at some point or the other in finding a place in Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival. Now, Bouyon stars...

Miss Universe Barbados 2018 Meghan Theobalds is off to Bangkok, Thailand. The beauty, who turned 27 recently, became the third Miss Universe Barbados under the Crown Events Franchise, and 16th for...

Miss Barbados World has made it into the top 30.  The announcement was made on the official Miss World page on Wednesday.  In a short post on her Facebook page, Miss Barbados World Ashley Lashley...

Christ Church Foundation created their own carnival on Tuesday when netball supremacy remained in deserving hands after the final of the Barbados Secondary Schools Under-19 League Competition. With...

This weekend, the city of Sanya, China hosted a colourful costume parade to launch the 68th staging of the Miss World pageant. Here, contestants from Barbados, United States, Cook Islands, Sri Lanka, Gibraltar, Ukraine...

Emerging and established fashion designers across the Caribbean are being urged to dig deeper into the region's cultures in creating styles that appeal to the global market. Last month, fashion influencers, bloggers,...

Foodies were out in their numbers for the 2018 Barbados Food And Rum Festival’s spectacular Taste Of The Exotic Signature Rum Event at Limegrove Lifestyle Centre. Patrons from Barbados, across the...

Grammy Award-winning Jamaican act Sean Paul has disclosed that R&B artiste Alicia Keys is the person he would most like to collaborate with on a song.Sean Paul, who has recorded duets with a number of female acts...

ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, MONDAY 29th, OCTOBER 2018 –GIS: Trinity recruitment services Inc headquartered in Barbados, agents for Carnival Cruise Lines, Apollo ship Chandlers Inc, Fleet PRO, and Emirates...

Barbadian talent in song, dance and poetry were on full display last Friday night when the 2018 National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) semi-finals got underway. The first of six semi-final...

Miss Universe Barbados Meghan Theobalds is heading to Thailand on a mission – to bring home that Miss Universe Crown. It’s been just past a week since her coronation and the “queen” is already in...

Bridgetown, Barbados (Sonique Solutions) – The recent Labor Day Weekend in New York City was undoubtedly a memorable one. Adding to this mix of unforgettable events was the 2018 edition of the famed ‘Roast...