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Earthy empress Etana got it right when she dubbed her newly released debut album The Strong One. For, while the title aptly speaks to the twenty-something's moniker which means 'strong' in Swahili, it also says loads about her musical prowess. Born Shauna McKenzie, the singer was introduced to the local stage as a background vocalist for Richie Spice before taking her 5th Element affiliation a step further in 2005 when she recorded the breakout single Wrong Address (track 15). But […]

The police have refused to grant the promoters of Finish Line a permit because violent clashes they say may develop between headliners Mavado and Vybz Kartel or their supporters. Finish Line: The Summer Edition, was scheduled for today at the Palisadoes Go-Kart Track. However, Superintendent Assan Thompson of the Kingston Eastern Police Division said he had not granted permission for the event to be held in the division. "I have received intelligence that persons appearing on the event are likely […]

Singer Bar-Bee, who was yesterday (Thursday) released from hospital, says as soon as she gets some rest, she will be returning to Jamaica. The singer spoke with THE STAR in a telephone interview shortly after her release from a private hospital in New York. "I got out of the hospital this morning (Friday), but they (doctors) were really concerned about the hit to my head on the windshield - but I'm okay now and happy to be out. The hardest […]

Singer Bar-bee is now in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a New York hospital after being involved in a motor vehicle accident on Friday. Bar-Bee was in a coma for two hours after the accident. Her Mercedes-Benz car was totalled. Reports are that the singer was in the passenger seat of the vehicle, being driven by a female friend, travelling along the Taconi Parkway en route to the Jamrock Reggae Fest at the Hammerstein Ballroom, NY, where she was […]

A MEMBER of Mavado's almost 30-strong entourage who travelled with the popular dancehall artiste to Saturday's Digicel Jamaica Derby at Caymanas Park is now behind bars after assaulting a policeman in the racetrack's official car park. Fans were ecstatic throughout the artiste's performance, some lighting newspapers in the stand on a day of record turnout at the racetrack in Portmore, St Catherine. However, it was while Mavado and his entourage were leaving the track that things got really heated. Reports […]

A cross and angry Rodney 'Bounty Killer' Price spoke out for the first time about his recent European tour that saw three shows being cancelled ,allegedly because of gay activist groups. It was reported that gay human rights groups had coordinated a European-wide campaign to halt Bounty's Deadly Alliance tour of the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy, England and Switzerland, and were successful in stopping concerts in Bradford and Birmingham, England, and another in Essen, Germany. Successful tour However, Bounty Killer […]