Italian reggae band for music festival
Western Bureau: TWO YEARS ago the organisers of Reggae Sumfest contracted the hardcore French reggae band, Kreyol Syndicate, to perform at reggae's biggest music event.

The 'Messenjah' to move MoBay
WESTERN BUREAU: IN 1997 when Luciano the 'Messenjah' made his first appearance on Reggae Sumfest, Vinette Pryce, a journalist from New York who was seeing him for the first time remarked "He is electrifying...awesome".

Negril becoming 'Green' aware

WESTERN BUREAU: A PART of Negril's mission statement describes the resort as the place "where the beach meets the cliffs at sunset".

New mento contest for Festival
AS OF next year, there will be an additional category in the area of traditional folk form in the National Festival of the Performing Arts. The Mento Band Competition was launched on Wednesday evening at the University of the West Indies.

Lord Laro hospitalised

VETERAN CALYPSONIAN Lord Laro is still recuperating in the Cornwall Regional Hospital where he was admitted last Tuesday after developing complications following the use of insecticide in his kitchen.