The Chaka Chaka dance has been blazing a scorching trail inside the local dancehalls with its shoulder-twisting back-breaking movements. It has also inspired at least two music videos. Similarly, in the streets the dance is brewing some heat as to its origins.

The word is out that the Sting Reggae show is on, but with at least one of last year's sponsors gone, organisers Supreme Promotions are in a cautious mood as they try to stage the embattled event.

A 27-year-old bartender employed with Club Coconuts in Cascade, becamethe latest road fatality in this country yesterday.

Call them the ghetto messengers. They are Red Out, a local three-man reggae group that was brought together to enter the Revo-dub-a-lution competition, the semifinals of which will be held tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Ring Bang City, St Lawrence, Christ Church.

Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died 23 years ago, is to be the subject of a London West End musical.

Approximately a decade ago when Joseph Bogdonavich started his career as a producer of dancehall music in Kingston, he was convinced that the rhythm was the thing.

At about 8:20pm last night, after having his dinner the DJ known to the world as Simpleton collapsed and was gasping for air.

It is a no-brainer to say that the price of music has gone up significantly over the years. In the long-ago days of the mid-1980s, I can remember going into a record store and getting some Dennis Brown and Bob Marley songs taped off for the whopping price of $40.

Home Secretary David Blunkett has banned Sizzla from entering Britain.

Two concerts by anti-gay reggae star Sizzla Kalonji have been called off at the last minute amid threats of protests over so-called "murder music".