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Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlet says the island’s tourism industry is poised to benefit from the inaugural One Love Festival (OLF) 2025, which will be held on Saturday, March 15, 2025 at Woodstock, Negril, Jamaica. Event conceptualizer and founder Yasus Afari told Caribbean Life on Tuesday: “We are looking

Billboard, an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation, on Jan. 9 listed 10 Caribbean artists who it says fans must “watch out for” in 2025. The list comprises: Joé Dwèt Filé (Haiti); Likkle Addi (Jamaica); AnnaleaX (Jamaica); Bamby (French Guiana); Umpa (St. Lucia); 1SkiMask (Jamaica);

Get ready to experience a Valentine’s Day like no other! Three of reggae’s most iconic superstars — Beres Hammond, Shaggy, and Sean Paul—are set to share the stage for the first time in what promises to be the biggest Valentine’s Day concert in the Tri-State area. New York’s Jammins Events,

Jamaican-born, New Jersey-based dancehall recorders Ras Emmanuel and Lushy Banton are counting their lucky stars as a dubplate of their single “Dancehall Forever” was used to introduce Vybz Kartel at his historic Freedom Street Concert on New Year’s Eve at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. Jamaican-born entertainment publicist Anthony

Jamaican reggae singer Richie Stephens rang in the New Year as the headliner at the 3rd annual New Year’s Eve Celebration, billed “Under The Stars Block Party,” on Tuesday, Dec. 31, at the Miramar Regional Park Amphitheater in Miramar, Fl. The award-winning Stephens was backed by the Visions Band at

The Brooklyn-based Dynamite Cultural Organization, home of the Dynamite Calypso Tent of New York, the lone Vincentian calypso tent in North America, has unveiled what it considers to be its most ambitious initiative to date, the seminal St. Vincent & the Grenadines Cultural Hall of Fame. “We’ve been having discussions