With dancehall being a big part of local culture, corporate companies have been using the fashion to help promote their brand.Whether it is a telecommunications or drink company, many of them have been using dancehall fashion. Magnum's brand manager Kaysia Johnson said the outfits the promotional girls wear are highly dependent on what is popular in the dancehall."Magnum tries to keep up with fashion. We look at what the trends are. The best place to see fashion is in the dancehall," she told THE STAR.

Some time ago, I had decided to refrain from immediately acknowledging the passing of fraternity members, because suddenly, it seemed to be occurring with such rapidity that my articles could become morbid, as I would be caught in a perpetual focus on this subject. Also, I tend to subscribe to elements of the Buddhist/Hindu principle of karma, and irrationally hoped that by publicly ignoring them, I could somehow slow down the rate of industry persons' demise.

Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton's attorney says his client "vigorously denies" charges that he tried to buy a large amount of cocaine from an undercover police officer. In an e-mail to The Associated Press today, Herbert E Walker III said he looks forward to representing Banton in court, but he would not discuss the case further.

Leading the way was Sean Paul's Imperial Blaze album with sales of 70,917. That is a massive drop from sales of The Trinity, his previous album, which sold over three million copies. The Trinity spawned the hit singles Temperature and We Be Burnin'. It was a strong follow-up to 2002's Dutty Rock which sold more than five million units.

Truly unique, Wycliffe "Steely" Johnson was not only one of the pioneers of Reggae, but also a gentleman in every sense of the word, and he has departed from us today after three decades of his groundbreaking music talents with Jamaican and international artists. He will be sadly missed by all those who knew him, either personally or through his music.

According to All-Athletics.com, a world renowned athletics database, Bolt and Walker collected the most points each for their victories in their respective events.

Bolt's two performances, running 9.58 and 19.19 seconds for victory in the 100 and 200 metres, as expected headed the list of the top 20 men. He got 1669 points for the 100m run and gathered 1657 for the 200m to finish in first position.

Jamaica's men's 4x100m quartet of Steve Mullings, Michael Frater, Bolt and Asafa Powell finished third with 1584 points. The team clocked a championship record 37.31.

Samantha's favourite hobbies and sports are swimming, dancing, reading, listening to music, playing netball, softball and participating in track and field.

The event was 'Jazzin' on the Rock', and it was clear that the lovers of jazz music who showed up at Redbones the Blues Café on Braemar Avenue, last Saturday were jazzin'. Transfixed, they listened to each note and moved as the beat dictated, their hypnosis broken only when the musical instruments of the three-member band, Young Lions 2k9, paused between selections and at the end of each segment.

They got that and much, much, much more, as Buju was an extremely engaging storyteller in detailing, at length, his entry into music business, early career and subsequent harsh spiritual experiences in Europe in 1993 which led to the landmark Til Shiloh. His observations on himself were sharp and uncompromising ("I am talented in your estimation, but if I did brown I would be more talented. I know who I am in this society."). So was his assessment of appreciation for Jamaican music, saying that he didn't want it to be assessed on the basis of someone who died many years ago, but on "living human beings like me who are working …".

The list of 'First Ladies' includes D' Angel as 'First Lady of the Dancehall', Raine Seville as the 'first lady of DASECA', Shema McGregor at the helm of the Big Ship as a female, Lisa Hype runs as lady of the Portmore Empire, newcomer Bambi as the first lady of Spragga Benz's Red Square group and countless others who are also using the name.

It certainly was a participatory evening, significantly critical of the list itself, but also congratulatory of the overall effort in the audience response section. Not that it wasn't welcome, as before the list was distributed by the chairman of the committee that organised the selection process, opposition spokesman on finance Dr Omar Davies said, "This is going to stir up controversy and we want it to."

It proved to be an introduction for many to the museum, although the idea has been around for almost a decade. Miller emphasised that he called it "revitalised" because "it's not new. It was established eight years ago but was underdeveloped and underpromoted because of one reason or another. It just never got off the ground".

The serpentine one was part of the new charge of deejays, including Capleton and Buju Banton, who were taking dancehall from the steady, rolling basslines of the 1980s into the broken up patterns on more uptempo rhythms that captured a new generation of dancehall fans. Flex issued the invitation "time to have sex, look how long yu have the rude bway a sweat".

Jah Cure works with neo-soul singer Keisha Cole and rapper Florida on The Universal Cure to help get him in the US mainstream. He keeps the dancehall flavour by hooking up with hard-core deejay Mavado on one track.

When it did resurface in the 1990s on the digital beats popularised by the Sleng Teng rhythm of 1985, the fiery proclamations of Capleton, Anthony B and Sizzla grabbed attention, with total rejection of Christianity peaking in a 'bun Bible' stance by some popular Rastafarian entertainers.