Entertainment

This album cover image released by Warner Records shows ‘Confessions ll’ by Madonna, set for release on July 3.
April 16, 2026

Madonna announces new album, a sequel two decades later

NEW YORK (AP): As Madonna sang in her 2005 hit, Hung Up, time goes by so slowly. But it continues to move. On Wednesday, the pop superstar announced she’ll release a new album, Confessions on a Dance…
Scenes from the full day carnival experience at the Campari Boulevard Street Festival on Sunday.
April 15, 2026

Campari Boulevard delivers inclusive carnival experience

As part of the Carnival Sunday celebrations, Campari Boulevard came alive on Trafalgar Road in New Kingston, drawing hundreds of patrons and passersby who stopped to enjoy the atmosphere without…
This image released by Disney shows Chase Infiniti (left), and Lucy Halliday in a scene from ‘The Testaments’.
April 15, 2026

Hulu’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ spinoff ‘The Testaments’ is about girlhood in Gilead

Throughout the six-season run of The Handmaid’s Tale, dread hung over the series like a perpetual rain cloud. It made sense because the US had turned into a totalitarian society called Gilead, where…
Soca performer Voice performs ‘Cyah Behave’ at WiFete
April 14, 2026

WiFete delivers high-energy

Carnival Saturday found its rhythm in New Kingston as WiFete returned with a staging that leaned fully into performance, energy, and scale. Powered by title sponsors Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker, the…
Sherando Ferril (right) and Christopher ‘Johnny’ Daley.
April 14, 2026 by Nicola Cunningham

Unscripted Sundays celebrates first anniversary

They initially gathered simply to read scripts and breathe life into characters born from their imagination. What began as a simple exercise soon evolved into an exciting creative incubator. A project…
The movie poster for Machel Montano’s ‘Like Ah Boss: Journey of a Soca King’.
April 14, 2026

Machel Montano documentary premieres in Jamaica today

After an eventful carnival week, culminating in Sunday’s Carnival in Jamaica Road March, soca icon Machel Montano is once again commanding attention – this time not from the stage, but through the…
Gen XS masquerades pause their revelery as they make their way down Hope Road in St Andrew pass the Andrews Memorial Hospital on Carnival Sunday. Kibwe McGann, a director of the band, said foreigners returned in their numbers, and the local participation m
April 13, 2026 by Rollesha Laing

Gen XS delivers for revellers

At 12:10 p.m., as the eight sections of the Smirnoff Gen XS Infinity band began crossing the stage at the intersection of Trafalgar Road and Knutsford Boulevard, the band’s growth was clear. Now in…
Zhane Padmore cuts a fine figure in Yard Mas’ Starry Night.
April 13, 2026 by Nicola CunninghamEntertainment Coordinator

Real ‘yaad’ vibes at Yard Mas

For 22-year-old University of the West Indies student Lonette Samuels, affording a carnival costume was out of her reach until a friend loaned her part of her partner money to achieve her dream.…
Pierre Goubault, CEO of Xodus, says every year the Xodus band is ‘getting bigger and better’.
April 13, 2026 by Ruth

Veterans, newbies converge on Xodus

Carol Samuels, an Xodus reveller, is as veteran as they come. Jumping in carnival since its inception in the early ‘90s, the Texas-based Samuels has rarely missed a beat. Samuels, who visits home…