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Best of CaribbeanTales makes regional debut

The Best of CaribbeanTales Film Festival closed last Tuesday in Barbados, ending two weeks of film screenings, workshops and the Caribbean Film Marketplace, a forum for film-makers to pitch their products to distributors.

Keepers of the Heritage - Autobiography traces Jamaica's music evolution

Errol Samuels was born in 1948 at Victoria Jubilee Hospital and grew up at various addresses in Kingston, except for the two years he spent in England from 1954 to 1956. It was a childhood of fun and adventures.

Regional awareness makes film-making difference

Ras Kassa and Franklyn 'Chappie' St Juste were among the Jamaicans involved in the inaugural The Best of CaribbeanTales Film Festival, and though the output has been sporadic at best, with Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come (1972) through to the late...

'Inglourious Basterds' carries on proud Oscar history for World War II

LOS ANGELES (AP):Quentin Tarantino rewrote the ending of World War II with Inglourious Basterds, his Dirty Dozen-style commando adventure that is nominated for best picture at today's Academy Awards.

Empowering women, saving our children

International Women's Day will be celebrated today with Womanbition, an all-female showcase for charity.Under the theme 'Word, Sound and Power is a Mission', the show will be staged at Starapples Restaurant, Hope Road,...

Roger Meltzer's Capsicum Records introducing the Hartford Reggae Sound

Jewish-American songwriter-producer Roger Meltzer is the chief executive officer of Capsicum Records.

STORY OF THE SONG - Freddie McGregor sees 'Big Ship' through morning mist

One morning in 1982, Freddie McGregor went up to Stony Hill, St Andrew, to the home of fellow singer Lynval Thompson.

Studio dream comes into port

Big Ship has grown from an idea, to a song, to a record label and now a studio, the base of Freddie McGregor's son and ace producer Stephen, as well as the Big Ship family, which includes Chino, Shema McGregor, Bramma and Laden.

'Brooklyn's Finest' is not so fine

Irony underlies the title of Brooklyn's Finest, a drama about cops who are anything but fine at their jobs.

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