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MARCH - IN LIKE A LION OUT LIKE A LAMB

While on the cruise, I received an email informing me that my father who moved from New York two years ago to live in Toledo, Ohio was ailing.

TWO MOTHERS PASS IN THE NIGHT

It was a late-evening phone call Tuesday, April 8, 2008 that alerted me to the passing of Cedella Booker, a woman known internationally as the mother of Bob Marley and to an inner circle of friends as Mother B.

 

NO LONGER A (RE) FUGEE WYCLEF GETS A PASSPORT

Haitian Grammy winning producer, singer, arranger, musician Wyclef Jean will now carry privileged access when walking through airports.

 

REGGAE FRATERNITY SHOCKED BY MURDER OF LUCKY DUBE

Reggae fans are still reeling over the news that on Oct. 18, South African singer Lucky Dube was gunned down in his homeland city of Johannesburg.

 

FROM BEIRUT TO BROOKLYN JAMAICANS REPRESENTED IN ETHIOPIA

Nationals of Jamaica are probably the best ambassadors from the Caribbean and definitely the most spontaneous public relations advocates for their country.

 

Labor Day in Brooklyn was Day for Labour in JA

Island’s 1st female PM says: “too close to call”… court battle brewing

 

After Hurricane Dean

“Jamaica open for business”; Tourism minister assures visitors

 

Jamaicans dazzle St. Kitts with eclectic reggae

Jamaicans delivered reggae in all varieties during the 11th annual St. Kitts Music Festival held at Warner Park Stadium in the capital city of Basseterre.

 

YOUNG, GIFTED, BLACK AMERICANS MEET JA STUDENTS

Thirty-four students of Falmouth’s National Training Vocational School interfaced with recent graduates of historically Black universities throughout the United States.

 

All that glitters is not Golding

Jamaica’s opposition leader Bruce Golding related an abysmally, dark portrait of conditions in Jamaica under the current administration while offering proposals he would implement if elected prime minister of the nation.

 

IRAWMA COMBINED CMA & NEW YORK REGGAE AWARDS

Although the first Apollo outing of the International Reggae & World Music Awards may have attracted a larger audience last year, it seems the annual is now finally moving forward.

 

MORE THAN 30 HEADS OF STATE RALLY ‘ROUND THE RED,
GOLD & GREEN

Despite the fact Western media continues to ignore Africa

 
 
Formerly and simultaneously arts
& entertainment editor of the New York Amsterdam News and the internet portal The Black World Today (where she hosted a daily entertainment radio show on the world wide web) she now contributes to New York Beacon, Everybody's Magazine, Sunday Herald Jamaica, X-News Jamaica and serves as entertainment
co-respondent to the Global Beat Experience, Fridays at 7:30 p.m.
on WBAI-FM (WBAI.org)
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