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On March 29, at about 9:45 p.m. in Kingston, Jamaica, the lead singer of the reggae music trio Mighty Diamonds, Donald “Tabby Diamond” Shaw, 67, was shot dead near his home on McKinsey Crescent, Olympic Gardens. Also shot dead was another man, Owen Beckford, and three others were shot and injured in the attack, which took place at a popular community social spot. Formed in 1969 in the Trenchtown area of Kingston, the group consisted of Shaw, and harmony vocalists Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson and Lloyd "Judge" Ferguson. They had become friends at school in the mid-1960s, and were originally called The Limelight, adopting 'Mighty Diamonds' after Shaw's mother started referring to them as "the diamonds."

Jah Cure has been sentenced to six years in prison for attempted manslaughter. Siccature "Jah Cure" Alcock was sentenced in a Dutch court today after the Court of Amsterdam rejected his claim of self-defence. Jah Cure was detained in The Netherlands for his involvement in a stabbing incident, where promoter Nicardo ‘Papa’ Blake was injured in October 2021 in Amsterdam. The prosecutor stated that Jah Cure’s actions prior to the stabbing showed it was premeditated, and he intended to cause wounding and harm to Blake. although the claim of self-defence was rejected, the court found Jah Cure, 43, not guilty of attempted murder. The alleged stabbing was started by an argument over money owed to the artiste by the promoter, totaling $5000...

Shenseea hit up Super Bowl LVI with her rumored boyfriend London On Da Track

A joint police/military team arrested eight men during a targeted operation on Old Harbour Road in St. Catherine on Monday, February 7. Reports are that between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., a team of police and military personnel entered a premises where they uncovered an illegal bottling operation with counterfeit liquor. The team discovered hundreds of bottles, labels of popular local liquor brands, a bottling machine and several cases of raw material. Eight men who were found at the premises were taken into custody. The team also seized approximately JMD $280,000 in cash. As the investigations continue, citizens are being warned to take precautions and examine the labels of packages when making purchases.

Robert Warren Dale Shakespeare was a Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer, best known as the one half of the reggae riddim section and production duo Sly and Robbie, with drummer Sly Dunbar has died. Robbie recently undergone kidney surgery at a hospital in Florida. He died at the age of 68. Sly and Robbie has two Grammy wins and 11 nominations among other music achievements.

Bounty Killer's new album King of Kingston is slated for a release in December 2021 and the list of songs he recently shared on Instagram promise it to be a massive release: 34 songs with 35 feature guests! TENTATIVE ALBUM TRACKLIST - KING OF KINGSTON King Of Kingston feat. Chronixx Kingston's King feat. DJ Khaled Swag Change Victory feat. Dexta Daps Genuine Feather Gaadzilla feat. Vybz Kartel x Busy Signal Gangster Galifesto feat. Aisha Davis Murda Plan feat. Snoop Dogg Dem Dead Bang Bung (Remix) feat. Mad Cobra We Need The Peace feat. Jah Vinci Up Deh feat. Skinny Fabulous & Mr Killer This Weed feat. Wayne Marshall We Gonna Make it feat. Bugle Kill At Any Cost feat. Stassi Pryce & Busta Ryhmes Moonlight Lover feat. Barrington Levy...

Shenseea won the award for Best Reggae Act at this year's MOBO Awards for 2021. For the first time in the history of the MOBO Awards a woman won the Best Reggae Act category. The other nominees were Lila Iké, Spice, Popcaan, Sean Paul & Skillibeng.

Etana – Pamoja This is Etana’s second nomination for Best Reggae Album. Etana’s previous album, Reggae Forever received a nomination in 2019. Sean Paul – Live N Livin This is Sean Paul’s 9th Grammy nomination. He won the Best Reggae Album category in 2004 for his album, Dutty Rock. Past nominations include Best Reggae Album (2004, 2010, 2013, 2015), Best New artist (2004), Best Male Rap Solo (2004), and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (with Sia in 2017). Jesse Royal – Royal This is Jesse Royal’s first nomination. Gramps Morgan – Positive Vibration This is Gramps Morgan’s first solo nomination. As part of Morgan Heritage, he won the Best Reggae Album category in 2016 for Strictly Roots and received a nomination for Avrakedabra in...

On Monday, November 16, 2021 Jada made the revelation that she recently mustered up the courage to come out to her mother as a lesbian. To her surprise, Kingdom says that her mother was not shocked but instead told her that she had known all along.

Bounty Killer plans on expanding his career achievements by getting into acting as he prepares to star in a crime drama film produced by 9Z, a company led by Nigel Dixon. The film, which has not been named, is set in Jamaica and highlights several of the country’s social and political issues. In addition to being a Grammy Award-winning artist, Bounty Killer is an advocate and philanthropist whose music reflects his commitment to social and political causes.

Country Yutes debuted in Billboard's top ten reggae album charts with co-signs from Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Audiomack. The album has since soared to the top of the Amazon Music charts since its September 3 release. Usain Bolt stated his true ambition is to become the Dancehall equivalent of Dj Khaled. Bolt co-produced three dancehall mixtapes in 2019: Olympe Rose Riddim, Immortal Riddim, and Clockwork Riddim.

Renowned music pioneer, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has died. He died on Sunday morning 08/29/21 at the Noel Holmes Hospital in western Jamaica. He had been battling illness. Perry was 85 years old. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks. He has worked with and produced for a wide variety of artistes, including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, the Congos, Max Romeo, the Beastie Boys and the Orb. He has produced more than 1 thousand recordings during his over 60-year career, including some of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ most famous early recordings.

A massive 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday morning, killing hundreds of people and shaking buildings from the neighboring Dominican Republic to Jamaica and Cuba. Saturday's quake was stronger, though centered farther from the capital, than the devastating 2010 temblor that killed more than 220,000, prompting foreign governments and aid agencies to prepare for large numbers of dead, wounded and homeless. Officials and witnesses reported heavy damage and fatalities dozens of miles from the epicenter, 7.4 miles northeast of Saint-Louis du Sud, where the quake struck at 8:29 a.m. The disaster struck about a month after the assassination of the president, leaving a hobbled interim government in charge of a country so...

When Robyn Fenty, known to the world as Rihanna, launched Fenty Beauty in 2017, I doubt she knew the beauty line would help her enter one of the world’s most exclusive ranks: Billionaire. Rihanna is now worth $1.7 billion, Forbes estimates—making her the wealthiest female musician in the world and second only to Oprah Winfrey as the richest female entertainer. But it’s not her music that’s made her so wealthy. The bulk of her fortune (an estimated $1.4 billion) comes from the value of Fenty Beauty, of which Forbes can now confirm she owns 50%. Much of the rest lies in her stake in her lingerie company, Savage x Fenty, worth an estimated $270 million, and her earnings from her career as a chart-topping musician and actress.

Jamaica has put a price tag on slavery and has sent the British government the bill. State officials of the Caribbean nation said they’re asking Great Britain to pay $10.6 billion (USD) in reparations. The former British colony served as the center of the slave trade with Africans kidnapped, enslaved and forced to work on plantations which produced sugar cane, bananas and other products. That free and inhumane labor greatly enriched the slave owners. According to the National Library of Jamaica, about 600,000 Africans landed in Jamaica during the slave trade. Britain prohibited trade in slaves in its empire in 1807 but did not formally abolish the practice of slavery until 1834. To compensate slave owners, the British government took...

Elaine Thompson-Herah defended her 2016 gold medal with an Olympic record and personal best of 10.61 seconds, and assumed the title of world's fastest woman alive. Thompson-Herah's teammates joined her on the podium, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce taking silver with her time of 10.74 seconds and Shericka Jackson the bronze with 10.76 seconds.

On Wednesday, Jada Kingdom’s boyfriend Verse Simmonds shared the news on his Instagram, which showed Jada Kingdom inking the deal to rounds of applause and surrounded by friends and label executives at Republic Records. Simmonds, 40, has been dating the 22-year-old Kingdom for the past two years. Simmonds himself is a producer and rapper with Puerto Rican heritage.

Usain Bolt and partner Kasi Bennett have announced the birth of their twins on fathers day via twitter, Saint Leo Bolt and Thunder Bolt

Ziona Chana lived with his family in a vast, four-story pink structure with around 100 rooms in a remote village that became a tourist attraction. The sect named Chana was founded by Chana's grandfather in 1942 and counts hundreds of families as members. Chana married his first wife when he was 17 and claimed he once married 10 wives in a single year.