OPINION: Foolish Games. . .How Timothy Harris is tearing St. Kitts & Nevis apart
By Joel Liburd Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool To deny me for simplicity. Yes, you have gone for so long With your love for vanity now. Yes, you have got the wrong interpretation Mixed up with vain imagination….
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QUOTABLE CARIBBEAN – JULY 30, 2022
From Bevan Springer Bob Marley “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.” – Robert Nesta Marley OM, Jamaican singer, musician and songwriter “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” –…
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Martin: Celebrate National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
By Melissa Martin Start planning a party for the 2019 National Caribbean-American Heritage Month. Listen to the sounds of reggae, meringue, calypso, rumba and zouk music during the merrymaking. And dance. Sip a tropical concoction and feast on seafood. Caribbean…
Bob Marley: Reps Greenlight Zimbabwe Statue of Reggae Icon
From teleSUR Chemhere proposes the statue be erected at Rufaro Stadium in Harare, where Bob Marley and The Wailers performed to usher Zimbabwe’s independence. As Jamaica prepares to celebrate the birth of world-renowned Reggae icon, Bob Marley, Zimbabwean arts consultant…
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The Caribbean: Through a lens brightly
BY MATTHEW J. SMITH From Public Books James Anthony Froude is a name now lost to time. In the Victorian era the British historian, writer, and traveler held great prominence, much of which was due to his unabashed celebrations of…
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What next for Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe: Division and hatred? Or ‘One Love?’
By: Earl Bousquet From telesurtv Bob Marley, if alive today, would probably have hesitated to write another song to replace “Zimbabwe.” The Caribbean has long had a close association with the Southern African liberation struggle and movements, especially the role…
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France hosts major exhibition on Jamaican music
By A. D. McKenzie From Caribbean News Service PARIS, Mar 30 2017 (IPS) – It’s one of those movie-like spring days in Paris, where blue skies and brilliant sunshine lift spirits after a long, wet, grey winter. Many people are…
Bob Marley copyrights: decision of the Court of Appeal: What do words mean? Back to basics
From Eversheds In the case of BSI Enterprises Limited v Blue Mountain Music Limited [2015] EWCA Civ 1151, a music publisher was unable to overturn a 2014 High Court decision regarding the copyright ownership of some Bob Marley songs, including…
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‘Catch A Fire’/MIST Harlem hosts Caribbean film fest
‘Catch A Fire’ By Toni Dubois From Caribbean Life Thousands of reggae music lovers congregated for the summer’s biggest Reggae Tour “Catch a Fire” (named after Bob Marley and Wailers 1973 album) in Central Park Summerstage, N.Y. on Aug. 30….
British court battle begins for Bob Marley music rights
From Caribbean360 LONDON, England, Tuesday May 13, 2014, CMC – The trial over the ownership of a number of songs by the late Jamaican Reggae icon, Bob Marley, began on Tuesday in the Chancery Division of the High Court. The…
