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Michael Jackson was pronounced dead this afternoon.The pop star arrived at a hospital in a deep coma.Jackson was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles after he suffered a heart attack. Paramedics administered CPR in the ambulance.

The call to 9-1-1 came in about 12:21 p.m. P.S.T. (3:21 p.m. Eastern) from Jackson's home in Los Angeles.Capt. Steve Ruda of the Los Angeles Fire Department said Jackson was not breathing when paramedics arrived. The singer was taken to UCLA Medical Center.

At the medical center, every entrance to the emergency...

Paul and Patrick Gaynor, more popularly known as the dancehall duo, Twin of Twins, were yesterday taken into custody by the Half-Way Tree police on reasonable suspicion of fraud.

The brothers are accused of taking $50,000 from an upcoming artiste, under

the guise that they were able to give him the opportunity to travel to the United States of America to perform.

It is alleged, however, that they failed to deliver on their promise and subsequently refused to return the complainant's money. The act is alleged to have taken place...

Jay Z Shenelle Scott

Now can reveal that the fiercely private rapper – who’s worth an estimated $400 million – reportedly has a secret 7-year-old son who he’s amazingly managed to hide from the limelight all this time. The boy apparently bears a striking resemblance to his father and is the result of Jay-Z’s romance with Trinidadian model Shenelle Scott which ended in 2001, before he met Beyoncé.

Jay-Z has gone to great lengths to distance himself from the claims, despite reports that he’s privately admitted paternity. Beyoncé, whom he...

Organisers of North America's premier reggae festival announced yesterday that international DJ Sean Paul will be making his first major outdoor festival appearance in New York for 2009 at Irie Jamboree which takes place on Labour Day Sunday, September 6, in Queens, New York. Other acts confirmed for the festival include the high-riding Fyah Muma, Queen Ifrica, Freddy McGregor, Mr Vegas, Assassin, Laden, Spice and Chino.

Cultural deejay Queen Ifrica, who was in New York recently to promote her new disc Montego Bay is also confirmed for Irie...

Any man can be a Father,
but it takes a special person
to be called Dad.

History

The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.

Having been raised by her father, William Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his...

New Edition's Johnny Gill, Bobby Brown and Ralph Tresvant will reunite on CCGI's Culture night at the Rosehall Aqueduct on Wednesday, June 24. According to a release from the organisers, the three former members of the group New Edition will perform together as a group as well as solo.

An American R&B/Pop Group New Edition was formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1978 and became extremely popular during the 1980s. The first song they recorded, Candy Girl, topped the charts in the UK and Canada, therefore they had to record a whole album...

William Walker, known to all as Sugar Belly, developed on his own the instrument he called the bamboo saxophone, and played it with facility, style, passion and joy. At the height of his popularity in the late 1950s Sugar Belly was one of the important figures in the Jamaican music scene, turning his homemade saxophone into a natural vehicle for a distinctively Caribbean musical style.

Sugar Belly was raised in Kingston. In music he was entirely self-taught. Just
where he got the idea to create a bamboo saxophone is a bit of a mystery...

Jamaica has again been ranked as a tier two country for human trafficking by the US State Department which has cited inadequate efforts to prosecute trafficking offenses and protect victims.

In its ninth annual Trafficking in Persons Report released Wednesday, the US described the island as a source, transit, and destination for women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation.

The report says the majority of victims are poor Jamaican women and girls, and increasingly boys, who are trafficked from rural to urban and...

The deejay, who is known for his graffiti across the Corporate Area, was evicted from the building from which he operated his business, LA Lewis Enterprise Limited.

Scores of onlookers gathered outside the establishment located at 24 Burlington Avenue in St Andrew, while the deejay's furniture and equipment were being removed. While the rain fell, his belongings were being placed on either the sidewalk or in a truck parked a few metres away.

All this took place just hours after the deejay was released from custody after he was remanded...

The new single So Fine by Sean Paul is the most downloaded reggae/dancehall song in France, Canada, Belgium, Norway and Sweden but it still has not been released in the US the biggest music market.

iTunes, among the internet's most popular online music stores has So Fine charting in those five nations but it is void on the US online charts. Currently Bob Marley's Three Little Birds at number one and Serani's No Games at number two are the top downloads on US iTunes.

So Fine has also landed on Billboard's R&B Hip Hop Singles & Tracks...

Singers Toni Braxton and Neyo are among the top performers added to `the world’s greatest showcase of reggae music,` Reggae Sumfest promoters revealed at a packed New York launch last night.

Executive Director, Johnny Gourzong, made the disclosure to the media and VIP guests gathered at a New York night club Thursday night for the annual Big Apple kick-off.

Braxton has won six Grammy Awards and has sold over forty million records worldwide. Her number-one single, `Un-break My Heart,` is the second biggest selling single by a female singer...

R&B singer Usher filed for divorce Friday from Tameka Foster Raymond, less than two years after their glitzy wedding at a Georgia resort.

The 30-year-old Grammy-winning artiste, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, filed the petition in Superior Court in Atlanta. Records posted to the court's website did not give any details about the split between the R&B star and his wife, who were married in August 2007.

About 200 people attended the wedding between the two at resort built in the style of a 16th-century style French chateau on 3,500...

Dancehall artiste KipRich says the rumours surrounding a feud between himself and fellow artiste, Flippa Mafia, are false.

According to KipRich: "I did a song at Shocking Vibes studio the other day and some likkle man who love carry news gone and carry it the wrong way and said I did a song that was directed at Flippa. If one next KipRich out deh recording songs, mi ah go ask him fi stop."

Flippa Mafia was recently at odds with dancehall's cross and angry 'Warlord', Bounty Killer, because of the song, Unfinished House, a song that Flippa...

Angel's Boutique, which is owned by dancehall artiste Michelle 'D'Angel' Downer, was robbed yesterday morning.

The store is located at Princeville Plaza, St Andrew. It was robbed approximately 10:30 a.m. by three armed men. She said one female employee
was in the store at the time. She was gagged, tied up and left in the building.

The matter was reported to the Constant Spring Police Station. DSP Altermoth Campbell confirmed the incident, saying: "We have some information that we are working on."

Carribbean Governments are rethinking the practice of imprisoning regional immigrant criminals because of the cost involved.

National Security Ministers are said to be seriously considering deporting convicted criminals so that they can serve their sentences in their home countries.

According to Martin Joseph, the National Security Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, CARICOM Governments are reviewing reciprocal arrangements for deporting non-national criminals.

He says it costs too much to maintain foreign prisoners in jails in the twin island...