Jimmy Cliff showed his serious side at his first London headline show in four years. His anti-war anthem, Vietnam, had its title changed to Afghanistan... more
Feature: Culture, environment and genes are all cited as reasons for sporting success. But it is practice that really makes perfect, reports Oliver Poole... more
Christine Ohuruogu 2012 diary: My annual tradition of warm-weather training in California is regrettably drawing to a close in a couple of weeks... more
Jamaican gang leader Christopher “Dudus” Coke arrives in New York to face charges of flooding the east coast of the US with cocaine and marijuana... more
For all their status as Hollywood stars in the old vein, the interest in Richard Burton's love letters to Elizabeth Taylor has less to do with them or their relationship than our own... more
More than 1,000 police and soldiers attack a slum in Jamaica’s capital occupied by heavily armed gangsters defending a drug baron wanted by the US... more
A strict upbringing at the hands of a Pentecostal bishop has led Grace Jones to adopt her own strange rituals. Harry Mount braves an encounter with a sixty-something siren... more
Exclusive: Usain Bolt has announced his first 100m run of the year will be in South Korea on 19 May. Here he tells Matt Majendie why his mind’s also on the World Cup... more
While Germaine Mason aims for gold in London in 2012 having won a silver medal in the high jump at Beijing, his teenage brother Andre is beginning a life sentence for the murder of an innocent student... more
Athletics: Triple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt has apologised to the people of Jamaica for comments made at the weekend about marijuana use in his homeland ... more
Police investigating the murder of 14-year-old Shaquille Smith have made their first arrest and his mother issued an emotional statement about her son... more
Veronica Campbell-Brown followed the Usain Bolt path to glory in the Bird's Nest Stadium as she continued Jamaica's glorious track Games by successfully defending her Olympic 200m crown... more
Pixie Geldof evidently doesn’t share her father’s dislike for Mondays, as she was out having a ball last night with fellow famous person’s daughter Coco Sumner.... more
Lee Jasper faces further questions after a BBC investigation found that he had failed to declare extensive foreign travel during a trip to the United States and Jamaica... more
The Ashe Ensemble's musical Curfew confronts the crime, violence and temptation of easy money endemic in downtown Jamaica, and does so with the right balance of humour and seriousness.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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