Sir Gary Sobers, widely regarded as cricket?s finest all-rounder, has been named technical consultant to the West Indies team, while Australian Bennett King will become the team?s head coach.

A top reggae star on tour in the UK this week, who has exhorted his audience to 'burn white people' and 'kill queers', is being investigated by police on the ground that his lyrics incite murder.

Long derided as "chi-chi men," gays furious about Jamaican artists' homophobic lyrics have launched a tactical counter-offensive that could impact the entire dancehall music industry -- and possibly Jamaica's notoriously gay-bashing culture itself.

"The voice of Reggae," DJ David Rodigan is promising to keep the temperature high at The Cluny, in Byker on Friday night as part of the Jumpin' Hot Club's Union Roots Festival.

Janet Jackson has apologised to her huge following of gay fans for performing a duet with reggae star Beenie Man.

Bikini-clad dancers in festive head gear gyrate across the TV screen while T-shirt-and-jeans-wearing revelers couple-up in a tight embrace, waving Caribbean flags.

Elephant Man and Spragga Benz now have one more trophy each to add to their collection.

Reggae, the music associated with replace feelings, dreadlocks and sunsplash, was dried up and gone, replaced by dancehall techno-drivel that had no place on home stereo equipment.

As widely predicted in the aftermath of victory in the Champions Trophy, Gus Logie's tenure as coach of the West Indies is over. The official announcement said that his contract was terminated early by mutual consent.

Unreported research by the Toronto District School Board shows that English-speaking Caribbean immigrants are those most at risk of failing to complete high school.