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Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers has had the biggest No. 1 Billboard debut of 2022 so far. Mr. Morale stepped over Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti peak with 295,500 album-equivalent units; Bad Bunny had previously beaten Future’s I Never Liked You which amassed 222,000 in first week sales. This marks Lamar’s fourth No. 1 album on the...

AC Milan won their 19th Serie A title but the first for 11 years by cruising to victory at Sassuolo. Olivier Giroud scored twice with Franck Kessie also on target for the visitors. The title triumph vindicates Milan's decision to appoint Stefano Pioli as manager in 2019 - a move that was initially unpopular with Pioli having led city rivals Inter...

The Government will be reintroducing mandatory mask wearing in public spaces as Jamaica experiences a fifth wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Prime Minister Andrew Holness, made the disclosure while addressing the handover of two housing units under the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) in St. James recently. He said that Jamaica is in the endemic phase of the virus, meaning...

The Golden State Warriors are one win away from the NBA finals after beating the Dallas Mavericks 109-100 to go 3-0 up in the Western Conference play-off final. Stephen Curry scored 32 points for the Warriors and Luka Doncic 40 for the Mavericks. No team in NBA history has overturned a 3-0 deficit in the play-offs. Game four of the series is...

Jamaicans are being urged to take personal responsibility in preserving the environment. Senior Public Education and Community Outreach Officer, National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Ava Tomlinson, in making the call said that this is important in ensuring “a shared future for all”. With today being National Labour Day, Ms. Tomlinson is encouraging Jamaicans to plant trees within their communities and...

  President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, Winston Smith is appealing to parents to engage children in Labour Day projects as one way to ensure their safety over the holiday period. His call follows the drowning of 17-year-old Shevenae Besley of Cousins Cove in Lucea, Hanover yesterday (Fri). Mr. Smith says by engaging with children during the holiday break, parents will reduce...

  The two most recent Olympic champions Jamaica's Hansle Parchment and Omar McLeod, dominated the men's 110m hurdles event, at the Birmingham Diamond League Meet in today. The Tokyo Olympics Champion Parchment produced a classy fight back to capture the event, clocking the fastest time in the world this year 13.09 seconds, finishing ahead of the 2016 champion McLeod, who posted...

  The Notorious B.I.G.’s mother, Voletta Wallace, said her son did not only “spread love the Brooklyn way” but could spread love worldwide. Her remarks were given at a celebration for what would have been Biggie Smalls’s 50th birthday today. Celebrities packed the Empire State building on Thursday, May 20th, the eve before the Brooklyn native’s official b-day. “First, I need to...

  A seventeen-year-old girl is believed to have drowned at a river in Kingvale, Hanover yesterday (Fri). Dead is Shevenae Besley of Cousins Cove, in Lucea. Police say about 3:00pm the teen and several other young people went to the Haughton Tower River for a picnic. Besley reportedly jumped into the water but did not resurface. The girl was later found floating on the...

Jamaica has recorded 7 more Covid-19 related deaths, pushing that tally to 3,028. The Ministry of Health is also reporting 393 new positive cases, pushing the country's total confirmed cases to 134,297. Of the new cases, 139 are males, 254 females with ages ranging from 33 days to 94 years. St. Catherine had the highest number of cases with 88, followed by...