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Jamaican Dancehall Star Vybz Kartel Sentenced to Life in Prison
Above: Vybz Kartel By the Caribbean Journal staff Dancehall star Vybz Kartel was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Jamaican court on Thursday. Kartel and his three co-defendants all received a life sentence. Kartel was sentenced following a murder conviction last […]
Jamaican Dancehall Artist Vybz Kartel Found Guilty of Murder
Above: Vybz Kartel By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel and three other men have been convicted of murder following a long trial. Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, was found guilty of murder by a […]
Op-Ed: Why Do Legal Cases in Jamaica Take So Long?
By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor THERE ARE a number of big legal cases which have attracted the attention of Jamaicans both locally and overseas in recent months, most notably the recently-concluded Vybz Kartel case. What’s noteworthy about almost all of […]
Marcia Forbes: Disrespecting Women (And Men) in Jamaica
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor The following is the second excerpt in Caribbean Journal from Marcia Forbes’ book, Music, Media & Adolescent Sexuality in Jamaica . The research-based book examines relationships between teens and TV, in particular through the […]
Forbes: Media Freedom in Jamaica
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Media Freedom in Jamaica can be examined from the point of view of the consumers — that is — the reader, the listener, the viewer, or, from the point of view of the content […]
Op-Ed: Marcia Forbes: Social Media – Much More Than a Joke
By Marcia Forbes, PhD It’s important to make the deadline for my book but I’m constantly being distracted. This time it’s by the very subject on which I’m writing, social media. Very early in the morning of Nov. 30, I […]
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