Melville CookeGleaner WriterFrom Toots Hibbert's 54-46 (1968) through to Lutan Fyah's Jail (2010), Jamaican music is distressingly rife with true-to-life songs about incarceration and facing the justice system.

When he sang the words 'Mr Wacky is gone but his dancing lives on', Oneil Edwards could never have known that his end would be equally tragic.

Bunny Wailer was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but there is another 18 that figures in Fighting Against Convictions.

Fresh from a 48-city, three-month North American tour, Jamaican dancehall-soul songstress Cherine Anderson captured a whole new audience with her unique sound and style.

After visiting a bookstore and being displeased with what he saw, Altano Morgan decided to start his own I Can! brand of notebooks, which, he hopes, will help to empower people with the messages that they bear.

PROVO, Utah (AP):Gary Coleman, the child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom Different Strokes, whose later career was marred by medical and legal problems, died Friday after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

Sex and the City 2 is so over-the-top ridiculous, it plays like a parody of what a sequel to the 2008 hit movie would be.

NEW YORK (AP):Alicia Keys is in a motherhood state of mind: She's pregnant with her first child.