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Bruce Dern takes a bow at the Cannes Film Festival with a new documentary on his life 

CANNES, France (AP):  When Bruce Dern was leaving the Actors Studio to try to make it in Los Angeles, Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg warned him that he wasn’t going to be landing leading man parts. He…
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A Taste of Reggae Sumfest 2026 launches in Miami

For Josef Bogdanovich, Wednesday night’s international launch of A Taste of Reggae Sumfest in Miami was about far more than unveiling another staging of the festival. It marked 10 years since…
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Craigy T readies debut solo album

After two decades of creating hits with dancehall quartet T.O.K., Craigy T is stepping into a new creative chapter as he prepares to release his first full solo studio album in August 2026. While…
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Popular psychiatrist Dr Aggrey Irons has died

Dr Aggrey Irons has passed away. The renowned psychiatrist, educator and public health advocate died this evening.
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Runkus aiming to break reggae’s limit barrier 

Runkus has been a promising player in Jamaica’s music conversation since his debut trilogy album MOVE:IN, IN:SIDE and OUT:SIDE. But with his new album, SUPERNOVA, the artiste shows no interest in…
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Byron Blake | People of western Jamaica at the risk of abandonment

April 28, was six months since the deadly Category 5 Hurricane Melissa flattened Western Jamaica. The response with emergency aid was remarkable. Ordinary Jamaicans and NGOs (local and abroad), the…
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Garth Rattray | Child’s Month and the age of consent

As a physician who has been seeing families for over four decades, many things impact me emotionally. However, one of the most striking events was witnessing a woman in her nineties recall and relate…
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Orville Taylor | Do it right always

Lest we forget.  Our entire political framework; two political parties entrenched in Parliament are labour parties, established on the back or workers’ organisations. Since 1944, governments elected…
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Editorial | Opportunity to revisit Patterson report

No one is about to split hairs.  Nonetheless, it was peculiar, especially for the timing, that it was the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) and its chair, Trisha Williams-Singh, rather than the…