Other summer events celebrating the island’s culture will include the Jamaica Rum Festival on July ... soca, hip hop and pop artists and DJs. On the same dates, Ocho Rios will host the ...

FOR university lecturer and expert on Jamaican popular culture Professor Donna Hope, Tuesday’s passing of deejay Merciless represents a wake-up call for artistes of a certain age group.

Reality TV star Peter Andre has expressed surprise at the negative reaction to his latest film, “Jafaican,” in which he ...

Billie is a Newsweek Pop Culture and Entertainment Reporter based ... A scene of Brad Pitt speaking Jamaican patois during Meet Joe Black has gone viral more than 25 years after the movie's ...

This sometimes polarising element of dance music culture comes directly from Jamaica. Nowadays ... the phrase “haul and pull up” came into popular use, with deejays hyping up the crowd by urging the ...

The hotelier Sally Henzell helped bring reggae to the world. More than 50 years later, history continues to echo through her houses.

Now, she’s running her own Jamaican food restaurant in Gonzales. After years of doing pop-ups across the state, Williams-Thomas has finally found a home for her passions in the Izland Jamaican ...