Ricardo Lowe & Teflon—-RICARDO Lowe, road manager for singjay Teflon, died last Friday in an attack by gunmen in Denham Town, west Kingston. Police say Lowe, known as Blackman, was among 11 persons shot during the assault that took place at 8:30 pm. A 12-year-old boy was also killed. Raymond Small, Teflon’s publicist, told the Observer that the entertainer and Lowe knew each other for 10 years. He had been Teflon’s road manager for the last 18 months. Small says … Read entire article »

By Avia Collinder— Ken Williams, a businessman with ties in Jamaica and the United States, has acquired majority shares in Hot 102 FM radio from the CVM Group. Williams was CEO of Hot 102 for one year before the deal, which closed on December 31, 2013. He is now the principal shareholder. The radio station has struggled financially over several years, but Williams says that with his connections to Caribbean communities abroad he plans to monetise Jamaican music in ways never tried before. “We are … Read entire article »

  By Erica Virtue— Faced with one of the highest rates of visa fraud in the world, the United States Embassy in Kingston is trying another tack to shut down the operations of con artists scamming millions of dollars from thousands of desperate Jamaicans. Five years after a secret cable from the embassy in Kingston revealed that American officials in Jamaica had seen a spike in the number of sham visa applications detected after it introduced a new facial recognition … Read entire article »