KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) has extended the submission deadline for the Jamaica Festival Song Competition to Monday, March 31, 2025. With less than two ...

The top 10 finalists in the 2025 Jamaica Festival Song Competition will vie for the coveted title during the final results show on Saturday, July 26, at Emancipation Park in New Kingston, beginning ...

TREASURE BEACH, Jamaica — Caribbean-Canadian friends had raved about the Calabash International Literary Festival, which every two years draws thousands of authors and readers from around the world to ...

In the 60 years since Jamaica achieved its independence from England, on Aug. 6, 1962, the tiny Caribbean nation has created some of the world’s most influential musical styles, including ska, rock ...

Passengers on a music festival at sea had the blues when severe weather caused their Carnival cruise ship to hit a pier in Jamaica, damaging it so badly that cruisegoers were stuck on the island a lot ...

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. — A celebration of culture, music, and community is coming to Lake Worth Beach this weekend as the Palm Beach Jamaica Independence Festival takes over John Prince Park on ...

Late one night after his wife and kids were asleep, Scott Aiges started strumming Tom Petty’s “Refugee” on guitar, but with a reggae lilt. A light bulb went off: Wouldn’t it be great for a band to ...

Jamaica’s ground-breaking Reggae Sunsplash festival returns this weekend for the first-ever virtual staging of the event featuring a special tribute honouring the late reggae icon, Dennis Emmanuel ...

World’s largest reggae festival rocks Jamaica Genre / Jul 14, 2025 / 10:28 AM EDT Jamaica is turning up the volume this week as it hosts the world's largest reggae festival—an epic celebration of ...

Among the host of literary gatherings that have sprung up in the last 20 years, Calabash in Jamaica brings the party off the page. Promoting books and encouraging writers is the mission of the ...