ReggaeMe

Stone Love celebrated its 38th anniversary Sat. December 18, 2010 with an event in Portmore St Catherine. The Stone Love family did not let the event pass without honoring some of the entertainment industry's finest. Stone Love also honoured fellow sound system, Renaissance, for its 21 years of existence.

Below is the full list of awardees.

King of Dancing 2010 (local and international)
Ding Dong

Best Male Dancer 2010 (international)
Sample Six

Best Female Dancers (international)
Dance Xpressionz

Best Male Dancers...

Due to overwhelming public demand, Usher has been forced to add an extra date to the UK leg of his OMG Tour. Following four sold out shows, Usher has added his fifth and final London O2 Arena show. See him perform hits from his latest album as well as some of his biggest hits to date on Monday 21 February 2011.

Usher’s 2011 OMG Tour dates are:
26th Jan – Manchester MEN *SOLD OUT*
27th Jan – Birmingham NIA *SOLD OUT*
29th Jan – Glasgow SECC *SOLD OUT*
30th Jan – Liverpool Echo Arena *SOLD OUT*
3rd Feb – London O2 *SOLD OUT*
2nd...

Harry was in big trouble when he forgot his wedding anniversary.

His wife told him "Tomorrow there better be something in the driveway for me that goes from zero to 200 in 2 seconds flat".

The next morning his wife found a small package in the driveway. She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale.

Wayne Wonder have finally secured his release from VP Records. Wayne has been battling challenges which have resulted in his career being put temporarily on pause for close to two years.

Wayne Wonder stated:

It was quite unfortunate that the dispute with the record company (VP) escalated, but all that is water under the bridge now. I am ready to work. As a matter of fact, it’s more appropriate to say that the work is continuing and I know that all Wayne Wonder fans are going to love it.

Click to expand...

The Government of Jamaica has put into effect amendments to the island’s duty-free law allowing the sale of arrivals duty-free products. The cabinet approved an amendment to the Jamaican Duty Free Shopping Act in April 2010.

Jamaican tourism minister Edmund Bartlett said:

All incoming visitors will now be able to purchase duty-free items at licensed in-bound shops. This new move will open up the island to a new dimension in shopping. It will open up a new area for increased revenue and will put Jamaica in a position to do a number of other things. As...

Click to expand...

Jamaicans travelling to the Cayman Islands who have validated US, UK or Canadian visas will no longer require a separate visa to enter the country. The changes would be implemented in January 2011.

Premier McKeeva Bush Said;

We are trying to build a stronger country and we need more people, In recent years these islands have not been so welcoming and we lost some 6000 permit holders but double that in people. So we are trying to build back the population.

Click to expand...

Reggae/Dancehall Sound Selector, Supa Twitch, celebrates 22 years in the entertainment business on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24, 2010) inside Pembroke Pines, FL’s premier venue Jubilee Banquet Hall.

In honor of this monumental event Sound Systems from then and now will be in attendance to pay homage, such as BODY GAURD, INNER CITY, AFRIQUE, WAGGY-T, BLACK CHINEY, SUPA SOUND, SWEETNESS SOUND, PRODIGY MOVEMENT, CHAMPION SQUAD

Blackwell (right) with, from left, reggae singers Junior Murvin, Bob Marley and Jacob Miller

Island Records turns 51 this year. It's the label that brought reggae from Jamaica to the world, while also showcasing British folk rockers from the '60s and '70s and a lot of influential pop artists.

Chris Blackwell founded the Island label in Kingston, Jamaica in 1959 with capital of just £1000. Relocating to London in the early 60s Blackwell built the most diverse and enviable back catalogue of any independent record label in history. From Island's early Jamaican...

It appears that the Internal Revenue Service is after Rapper Doug E. Fresh for unpaid taxes. According to a lien filed by the IRS in New York City, Doug E. Fresh failed to pay $2,276,848 dollars in federal taxes.

However, this is not the first time Fresh has had to deal with delinquent taxes owed to the IRS. Back in 2008, he owed $367,000 dollars in unpaid federal and state taxes.

Despite his problem with the IRS, Fresh seems to be doing okay financially business-wise. He has opened a new restaurant named Doug E’s Chicken and Waffles in Harlem, New York...

(AP) Prime Minister Bruce Golding said Thursday his government shook up an anti-drug police unit after Cuba complained that the force had been uncooperative in preventing Jamaican drug smugglers using speedboats and small planes to move narcotics.

Golding's announcement followed the publication of a leaked U.S. diplomatic memo that portrayed Jamaican anti-drug officers as being so unresponsive that more than a dozen Cuban officials privately vented their frustrations to a U.S. drug enforcer in 2009.

The August 2009 communique released by WikiLeaks said Cuban...

Four-time Grammy nominee, Keyshia Cole, and Yahoo! just premiered the video for her new single, “Long Way Down.” The track will be on Keyshia’s hotly anticipated fourth studio album, Calling All Hearts. The album, dropping on 12/21, also features the hit single “I Ain’t Thru” feat. Nicki Minaj and collaborations with Faith Evans, Tank, and Timbaland, among others. Calling All Hearts follows the birth of Keyshia’s first child earlier this year and her engagement to Cleveland Cavalier, Daniel “Booby” Gibson. The entire album can be previewed right now on Amazon...

The 8th Annual International Soca Awards took place at the National Academy for the Performing Arts in Port of Spain, Trinidad on November 27, 2010. From the curtains going up on the memorable tribute to Alphonsus 'Arrow' Cassell to the fantastic finale of Terry Lyons, the 8th International Soca Awards was an absolute hit. CG and Big Daddy George and Militant commanded the Red Carpet, and the Codrington Pan Family Steel Orchestra greeted the guests in to the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) on Saturday November 27. Nikki Crosby did her thing as the...

The Organization of American States (OAS) will train, on December 15 and 16 in Kingston, Jamaica, 40 police and immigration officials, prosecutors and judges with the goal of increasing their awareness of the crime of trafficking in persons and strengthening their efforts to prevent and fight it.

Trafficking in persons is a modern form of slavery and a violation of basic human rights involving coercive sexual exploitation, forced labor and involuntary servitude. The OAS program, “Strengthening the Capacity of Law Enforcement Officials, Judges and Prosecutors...

Rapper Lil Wayne cannot do any drugs or liquor as part of the terms of his three-year probation for drug and gun possession in Arizona, but that has not deterred drug dealers from naming deadly narcotics after him.

The superstar rapper’s name was associated with a $250 million drug bust that yielded 500 bricks of heroin.

Newark Police offers found the bricks of the drug hidden in a side panel of an SUV with the bricks and the packets of the drug packaged for sale under the name “Lil Wayne.”

A police dog was called in to search the SUV and the dog helped...

NEW YORK (AP) — The game show "Jeopardy" will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence.

Two of the venerable game show's most successful champions — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — will play two games against "Watson," a computer program developed by IBM's artificial intelligence team. The matches will be spread over three days that will air Feb. 14-16, the game show said on Tuesday.

The competition is reminiscent of when IBM developed a...