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On Sunday, September 26, 2010, Nakisaki Restaurant and Night Club will be hosting "The Mighty Diamonds 41st Anniversary Dinner Show and Fashion Show." Guaranteed to be an eventful evening, the dinner starts at 6pm, while the fashion show is slated for 9pm and a highly anticipated performance by The Mighty Diamonds is set for 10pm. The club will open at 8pm. Fans can be a part of this historical moment, as The Mighty Diamonds will be awarded with Citations from "The Nassau County" for their outstanding careers in the field of music.

Presenting the Awards will...

(Reuters) – Bob Marley's family lost a lawsuit seeking the copyrights to several of the late Jamaican reggae singer's best-known recordings.

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan said the UMG Recordings unit of Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group is the rightful owner of copyrights to five albums that Marley had recorded between 1973 and 1977 for Island Records.

The albums "Catch a Fire," "Burnin'," "Natty Dread," "Rastaman Vibrations" and "Exodus" were recorded with Marley's band The Wailers. They include some of Marley's best-known songs, including...

Shaggy a di richest artist in Dancehall today. According to Urban Islandz, his net worth is over 20 million dollars. Him really Boom Bastic and Fantastic. Check out the top ten list below:

1. Shaggy US$22M
Shaggy 2001 album “Hot Shot” sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, making him one of music’s top selling artist. The mega sales propelled Shaggy to arguably become Reggae’s Richest artist of the current generation. “Hot Shot” peaked at number one on the Billboard charts in the US and UK, and was certified X6 platinum in the US alone. Despite the...

The release date for Buju Banton’s ninth studio album Before The Dawn, set to hit stores September 13 has been pushed back.According to Gargamel Music Inc., Buju's new album will drop in North America and Japan on Tuesday, September 28.

While the release date for the UK and France has been set for Monday, October 4, and will be available in the rest of Europe a few days earlier on Friday, October 1.

Gargamel Music Inc., stated

Despite his current incarceration, Buju was heavily involved in choosing the final track listing and laboring over the phone...

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Eleven Jamaican students will be going to China this academic year to pursue various higher degrees, having been awarded full scholarships under the Chinese Government Scholarship Program.

The awardees will be studying at various universities in the areas of economics, electronics, financial engineering, biology, pedagogy tourism management and environment management.

Courses run for three to four years with the first year dedicated to the study of the Chinese language. Under the full scholarship, tuition, accommodation, meals, clothing allowance, study...

The year long extradition dispute over Jamaican businessman Christopher "Dudus" Coke, accused by federal prosecutors of smuggling illegal firearms and narcotics, has caused more than a few problems for the lawyers at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

Coke is adding to his U.S. legal team while he sits in a federal detention center in Manhattan. On Wednesday, Coke filed court documents terminating court-appointed solo practitioner Russell Neufeld from representing him. Coke, who already has retained New York solos Elizabeth Macedonio and the uniquely named Steve...

A Rasta and his Empress are in court getting a divorce. The problem was, who should get custody of the child?

The Empress jumped up and said, "Your Honor. I brought the child into this world with pain and labor. She should be in my custody"

The judge turns to the rasta and says, "What do you have to say in the matter?"

The Rasta sat for a while contemplating ... then slowly rose and said, "Yow ... your Honour, If I and I put a dollar in a vending machine and a Pepsi come out, a who fa Pepsi ... 'I and I' or the machine?

Makeda Jahnesta Marley, 29, the youngest child of the late singer Bob Marley, admitted to having nearly a dozen large marijuana plants insider home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She was arrested in 2008 after police say they found her removing plants used to make the illegal drug from the basement when officers arrived on a domestic dispute call.

Prosecutors in the case agreed to drop a mandatory year prison sentence in return for Makeda's guilty plea.

In one of the court hearing Makeda said she had exhausted a trust fund she received from her...

Will and Jada Pinkett's daughter Willow Smith, 9, is causing big music buzz with the leak of her new song, Whip My Hair.

With a crazy beat that works on the schoolyard and the dance floor, Willow tells the ladies to snap their heads "back and forth" and whip that hair like a helicopter.

Encouraged by her talented parents, Willow is embarking on a music career when many of her peers are simply worrying about third-grade homework. She made her acting debut at the age of 6, starring alongside her father in 2007's "I Am Legend." Her credits also include a role...

Rockstar Entertainment & Music is pleased to announce the release of the “Diamond Socks” mixtape. It is being distributed via the internet and a 10,000 CD giveaway throughout the New York and New Jersey area. Diamond socks, a soon to be classic mixtape is a true blend of cultures from the underground reggae scene to underground roots of hip hop which includes hard hitting tracks performed over vibrant throwback riddims such as the Kutchie, Cuss Cuss and many more.

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Anything You Want is produced by Jerry Wonder the Haitian-born whiz behind the Fugees, Shakira and others, the track lets Mary float over a reggae beat with a little spice provided by Busta Rhymes and Gyptian.

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Two gunmen are now holed up inside a fast-food restaurant at the intersection of West and Beckford streets in Downtown Kingston.

reporter on the scene said the incident started about 6:00 pm. Police say that two armed robbers ˜ barged though a side door of the restaurant moments before closing time and robbed three female staff members in the restaurant, the robbers then proceeded to asked for the supervisor.

The three staff members ran to a bathroom in the restaurant where they locked themselves in.

The three female hostages then somehow managed to...

VP Records is set to release singer/songwriter, Duane Stephenson’s sophomore release, BLACK GOLD, on September 28, 2010. The 14-track CD sees Stephenson working with legendary reggae sax player Dean Fraser, who provided the majority of production on BLACK GOLD.

Originally the lead singer and songwriter in To-Isis, one of the most recognized vocal groups in Jamaica, Stephenson branched out on his own in 2007 with the his debut CD, AUGUST TOWN. As a songwriter, Stephenson has written for such major reggae artists as Luciano, Morgan Heritage, and Jah Cure’s reggae...

A "dread" was living in rural Jamaica in a community that had no electricity supply.

One evening he was reading his Bible (Macabee version) and meditating, assisted by lighting from a bedside lamp (Home Sweet Home), but was bothered by the constant nuisance of some mosquitoes.

He could bear it no longer so he decided to cover up under his sheet in bed, but it was useless as the mosquitoes kept biting him on his ears through the sheet.

He got up and blew out the lamp and went back under the sheets, hoping that the mosquitoes would not be able to bother him...

Andrew "Flippa Maffia" Davis, was arrested earlier this year after he was allegedly caught trying to enter the United States illegally from the Bahamas in March. The deejay was arrested on March 16, 2010 at the time knew he had no current legal immigration status in the U.S.

After being arrested, Flippa was being held as a prosecution witness against Julio Santiesteban and Armando Amat, who were charged with encouraging and inducing an alien to enter or reside in the United States. Since then, Flippa has been held in Federal custody, US Immigration and Customs...