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Mavado had to cancel this year's staging of his annual birthday bash of the LIME Real McKoy event that was scheduled for last night. Mavado has also postponed his weekly show Stulla Wednesdays which was normally held at the Quad nightclub. The following is a statement that was issued by Mavado’s management team regarding the cancellation.

Due to circumstances beyond our control, Mavado has taken the decision to cancel this year’s staging of the LIME Real McKoy event. We know there will be thousands of disappointed fans who had planned to attend, Mavado...

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Stephen Marley along-side his brothers Damian Marley and Julian Marley are proud to announce the signing of reggae music singing sensation Christopher Ellis to the growing roster of musical talent featured on the Marley brothers record label imprint , Ghetto Youths International, Inc.

Christopher Lamour Ellis was born the youngest male progeny to “The Godfather of Jamaican Rocksteady”, the late Alton Ellis. Talented in his own right, the soulful 28 year-old roots reggae, r&b crooner has been astounding audiences with his incredibly natural, smooth vocal...

Authorities say rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was arrested on an outstanding traffic warrant as he left a restaurant near Universal Studios outside Los Angeles. Knight was released about an hour after his arrest early Saturday.

Knight was stopped by deputies, who ran his name through computers and discovered he was wanted on a minor traffic warrant issued recently in Beverly Hills. Knight was brought to West Hollywood, where he was cited and released, after agreeing to appear in court within two months.

Source: AP

Paul "Frankie Dancehall Paul" Blake was born in 1965 in Jamaica. Frankie Paul was born almost totally blind. When Frankie Paul was four years old, he went on the Hope Ship where they worked with him for four years enabling him to see through his right eye; he later went to New York to obtain a pair of high-powered glasses that helped even further.

He attended a Salvation Army school for the blind, where he first began singing. When Stevie Wonder visited the school, Paul sang for him, and an impressed Wonder encouraged him to go into music. Paul learned the...

Windel "Gyptian "Edwards has recently completed a hectic 60 day tour of Europe and Africa. On Friday December 3, 2010 after been taken to the hospital he was diagnosed as being severely dehydrated.

Jus1 production issued a Press Release about Gyptian health with a statement from Gyptian himself.

Gyptian manager Ivor Ruddock said;

Gyptian completed his last show in Tanzania, Africa and returned to NYC earlier this week to do 2 shows for which he was scheduled. Gyptian indicated that he was feeling faint and he was taken to a NYC hospital where he was...

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Nominees were announced Wednesday for the 53 Annual Grammy Awards, which will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 13 2011, on CBS. Take a look at who was nominated for the best Best Reggae Album and top categories.


Best Reggae Album:
- Buju Banton - Before The Dawn
- Gregory Isaacs & King Isaac - Isaacs Meets Isaac
- Lee "Scratch" Perry - Revelation
- Bob Sinclair And Sly & Robbie - Made In Jamaica
- Sly & Robbie And The Family Taxi - One Pop Reggae
- Andrew Tosh - Legacy An Acoustic Tribute To Peter Tosh

Record Of The Year:
- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars -...

First-year students at Med School were receiving their first anatomy
class with a real dead human body. They all gathered around the surgery
table with the body covered with a white sheet.

The professor started the class by telling them,
"In medicine, it is necessary to have 2 important
qualities as a doctor. The first is that you not be disgusted by
anything involving the human body."

For an example, the Professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger
in the butt of the corpse, withdrew it and stuck his finger in his
mouth. "Go ahead and do the...

Reggae singer/songwriter sensation Etana returns with her highly anticipated sophomore album Free Expressions in February 2011 from VP Records. Before her new studio effort hits the shelves, VP Records is releasing a digital EP entitled Free, which features three of her current hits that are also included on the album. The digital EP drops on December 7, 2010, to satisfy fans during the wait for the full-length album.

Etana deems this second album Free Expressions because she adamantly refuses to be constrained by approach or lyrical content. “This album was...

Busy Signal, is to perform live with his band at the Independence Stadium in Bakau on December 11 2010. Supporting acts will constitute artistes from Jamaica, England and The Gambia including The Gambia's most celebrated reggae-dancehall star, Singateh aka Freaky Joe and Manding Morry and Jalex, another well established afromanding star.

The event brought by Planet World and supported by Africell, one of the country's leading GSM provider, is highly anticipated by the enormous amount of Busy Signal fans and lovers of great music in general. A representative of...

Coca-Cola has planned to deepen the relationship with its Jamaican franchisee Wisynco Group Limited. This operation will result in the Jamaican operation becoming the supply point for markets in the Southern Caribbean for Coca-Cola.

Wisynco Group Limited will be investing some J$500 million to raise its production capacity to approximately 15 million cases per year. Meanwhile, it currently produces 10 million cases, up from six million, after a similar investment last year to ramp up its production lines.

Eat Jamaican Day was launched in 2003 by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), to actively promote locally produced foods and help in providing farmers with a stable local market for their produce.

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton, has reiterated that the campaign for consumers to support locally produced foods, is about keeping afloat a number of other economic activities in the local economy.

The Minister who was addressing the 7th staging of the Eat Jamaican Campaign, held Thursday...

Tri-Star Promotions, collaborating with other promoters are producing the concert featuring American rapper Nas and reggae artistes Damien “Junior Gong” Marley and Jah Cure. Marley and Nas have been on tour across the world promoting their album, Distant Relatives, a collaborative effort released in May this year.

The concert will be held next Saturday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port-of-Spain. Trinidad.

Singer Willie Nelson has been charged with possessing weed after the drug was allegedly found on his tour bus. The bus pulled into a Texas checkpoint on Friday and an officer smelled the drug when a door was opened.

Nelson was among three people arrested for the six ounces of weed that was found on the bus. Willie Nelson, 77, was held briefly until he paid a $2,500 bond before being released.

Actor Leslie Nielsen has died at the age of 84. The Canadian-born actor started his career in serious roles, but in later years he was best known for his comic roles in the The Naked Gun and Airplane film franchises.

Born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, raised in Queens, then relocating to the infamous Flatbush in Brooklyn, Feyvva Punkette is persistent at representing her cities and homeland by bringing a fierce and energetic sound to the core of the music world. She is a writer whose musical content captures the hearts of listeners with her soulful, yet hardcore, delivery.

Music is Feyvva's life force. She paints a musical canvas by creating concepts and lyrical dynamics side by side with producers who provide the backdrop with their instrumentals.

Feyvva Punkette pursues...