Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest's Dancehall Night, the first of the festival's three main shows at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex, was a picture of professionalism, resulting in patrons enjoying a night's worth of top-class performances in what was probably one of the best-run stage shows so far this year.

Reggae's most famous divas, the I-Three, and poet Linton Kwesi Johnson will be appearing on South Africa's Urban Voices International Arts Festival 2004. The event which began two days ago (Wednesday, July 21) and runs until August 11, is in celebration of the 10th anniversary of democracy in the former apartheid country.

Dance Class II of Reggae Sumfest 2004 lived up to expectations but the selectors - deejays clash which was highly anticipated by the large audience turned out to be a waste of time.

Tonight the Catherine Hall venue for the sixth staging of Reggae Sumfest will come alive after hectic final preparations earlier in the week. Dancehall night kicks off the three days of stage shows with International nights one and two tomorrow and Saturday. All roads and even the airway lead to Sumfest for these three days.

A 14-year-old girl of Long Bridge in Airy Castle, St. Andrew was charged by the police on Monday with infanticide after she reportedly burnt her newborn baby to death and dumped the body into a riverbed close to where she lived.

A Spanish Duke who traces his ancestry to Christopher Columbus began a week-long visit to Jamaica yesterday to commemorate the explorer's arrival on the Caribbean island 500 years ago.

Lady Saw and Tanya Stephens are not friends, and with a set of songs recorded by both artistes recently, it should soon become obvious to the public.

This year's staging of Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest was kicked off with an evening of live entertainment and musical 'juggling' at Cornwall Beach in Montego Bay on Sunday.

Beenie Man was only 5 when he took the stage for his first performance, and at 10 he ran away from home and released his first album, "The Invisible Beenie Man, Ten Year Old Boy Wonder."

I went to the Improv show at Weekenz on Constant Spring Road on Wednesday night and was once more treated to a gem by U Roy.