BUNJI Garlin earns his highest-charting album on this week’s Billboard Reggae album chart. Turn Up, a 17-track set released on September 1 via VP Music Group, enters the chart at three. He previously peaked at six with Differentology in August 2014. Turn Up is Garlin’s 12th studio album and it features Dance In Paint (featuring 1st Klase), The Marriage (featuring Damian Marley), and Take Over Town (featuring R City).   Also new on the chart is Calypso: The Unsung Legacy by GBM Nutron. The 15-track opus bows in at number 11. It … Read entire article »

Selah Marley, 18, is a newly minted fashion world darling. But her father Rohan Marley doesn’t think fame will go to her head. “Her mother [Lauryn Hill] has been in the industry for a long time, and seeing her go through it and having that education keeps her grounded,” Rohan tells The Post before the Brewer Group’s Fashion Week party at Beautique on Wednesday. “None of us [have to work] to keep her grounded. She’s a young … Read entire article »

By Curtis Campbell— Reggae music, in its purest form, has not been climbing the Billboard Hot 100 chart in recent times. This is unlike dancehall, which has seen artists like Popcaan, Vybz Kartel, Charly Black, Gyptian, Sean Paul and Shaggy competing with top international acts on the coveted chart. While reggae is known to pull bigger audiences at venues globally, as well as dominate the Reggae Billboard chart, it appears that the genre has stalled commercially, with the … Read entire article »

The 26-year-old resident of Trench Town says he has been left with mixed emotions after playing an integral role in the rescue effort of a little boy from raging flood waters last Friday in the community – an event which has turned another resident, Tremayn Brown, into a celebrated hero. The story has attracted national attention. Reports are that Renaldo Reynolds, a student of Jones Town Primary, was playing with friends on his way home from school … Read entire article »

Luciano sang his wish for a One Away Ticket and Dennis Brown sang about the glories of the promised land Damian Marley adding details of the vision for Africa in Land of Promise, his remake of the reggae track with Nas featuring Brown’s voice. Close to the end of the first verse, Marley deejays, “Ethiopia de capital fe de congression/A desso I belong a deh de King come from”. And as the Twelve Tribes of Israel Rastafari organization started … Read entire article »

It’s back-to-school time again and the Marley for Education 2017 program is helping to ‘ease the pressure’ for 164 families from Kingston and St Andrew, and St. Ann. The annual program largely fulfills the Bob Marley Foundation’s education mandate and gives educational support to students ages three to 17 years, from basic to high schools, by awarding scholarships of school books, school fees or school uniform support. Now in its eighth year, the social intervention program continues a tradition started … Read entire article »

By Shereita Grizzle— Spragga Benz— Ever since news emerged earlier this year that Foxy Brown gave birth to a baby girl, speculation has been rife about who the father might be. When popular television host Wendy Williams first broke the news, she said the father was a ‘reggae star’, and immediately persons began pointing to Spragga Benz as the most likely daddy. Although neither party has officially confirmed who the baby’s father is, several posts made by Foxy Brown … Read entire article »

FROM THE LOOP NEWS— Allan Cole Jr, aka Ali—     Jamaican former footballer Allan “Skill” Cole is mourning the death of his son, Allan Cole Jr who died suddenly on Monday morning. “I can’t talk about it now, it is too painful to deal with, maybe another time,” the senior Allan Cole told Loop Jamaica reporter Claude Mills on Monday evening. Music insider Bridget Anderson said Cole Jr’s son found him lying on the ground, unresponsive. He was taken to hospital where he … Read entire article »

It has been revealed that more than 100 prisoners escaped when Hurricane Irma hit the British Virgin Islands. This was confirmed by Britain’s Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan. Addressing the House of Commons, Sir Alan said there were 997 troops in the region and 47 police officers had been sent to the British Virgin Islands. Sir Alan said five people are now known to have died in the British Virgin Islands and four in Anguilla. French islands Meanwhile, French … Read entire article »

By Akeem Masters—   Tremayne Brown, who is being hailed as a hero after he rescued 12-year-old Renaldo Reynolds from flood waters last Friday, told THE STAR that before his amazing act, his intention was to gain permanent employment. Brown, 24, who was part of a massive group of persons who were deported from the United Kingdom in March, says he has been doing a bit of construction since he arrived in the country six months ago. “To be … Read entire article »