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Scenes from the full day carnival experience at the Campari Boulevard Street Festival on Sunday.
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Campari Boulevard delivers inclusive carnival experience

As part of the Carnival Sunday celebrations, Campari Boulevard came alive on Trafalgar Road in New Kingston, drawing hundreds of patrons and passersby who stopped to enjoy the atmosphere without joining a band. Running from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., it delivered a vibrant mix of music, culture, and vibes. Positioned alongside AFresh Marketplace (formerly S Foods Supermarket), its home for the past three years, the space transformed into a lively hub where music played, drinks flowed, and energy remained high throughout the day.

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This image released by Disney shows Chase Infiniti (left), and Lucy Halliday in a scene from ‘The Testaments’.
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Hulu’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ spinoff ‘The Testaments’ is about girlhood in Gilead

Throughout the six-season run of The Handmaid’s Tale, dread hung over the series like a perpetual rain cloud. It made sense because the US had turned into a totalitarian society called Gilead, where…
Soca performer Voice performs ‘Cyah Behave’ at WiFete
April 14, 2026

WiFete delivers high-energy

Carnival Saturday found its rhythm in New Kingston as WiFete returned with a staging that leaned fully into performance, energy, and scale. Powered by title sponsors Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker, the…
Sherando Ferril (right) and Christopher ‘Johnny’ Daley.
April 14, 2026 by Nicola Cunningham

Unscripted Sundays celebrates first anniversary

They initially gathered simply to read scripts and breathe life into characters born from their imagination. What began as a simple exercise soon evolved into an exciting creative incubator. A project…
The movie poster for Machel Montano’s ‘Like Ah Boss: Journey of a Soca King’.
April 14, 2026

Machel Montano documentary premieres in Jamaica today

After an eventful carnival week, culminating in Sunday’s Carnival in Jamaica Road March, soca icon Machel Montano is once again commanding attention – this time not from the stage, but through the…
Gen XS masquerades pause their revelery as they make their way down Hope Road in St Andrew pass the Andrews Memorial Hospital on Carnival Sunday. Kibwe McGann, a director of the band, said foreigners returned in their numbers, and the local participation m
April 13, 2026 by Rollesha Laing

Gen XS delivers for revellers

At 12:10 p.m., as the eight sections of the Smirnoff Gen XS Infinity band began crossing the stage at the intersection of Trafalgar Road and Knutsford Boulevard, the band’s growth was clear. Now in…
Zhane Padmore cuts a fine figure in Yard Mas’ Starry Night.
April 13, 2026 by Nicola CunninghamEntertainment Coordinator

Real ‘yaad’ vibes at Yard Mas

For 22-year-old University of the West Indies student Lonette Samuels, affording a carnival costume was out of her reach until a friend loaned her part of her partner money to achieve her dream.…
Pierre Goubault, CEO of Xodus, says every year the Xodus band is ‘getting bigger and better’.
April 13, 2026 by Ruth

Veterans, newbies converge on Xodus

Carol Samuels, an Xodus reveller, is as veteran as they come. Jumping in carnival since its inception in the early ‘90s, the Texas-based Samuels has rarely missed a beat. Samuels, who visits home…
Members of the Kayah Junkunno band mix and mingle with Yard Mas revellers during Sunday’s road march.
April 13, 2026 by Nicola Cunningham

Jonkunnu band revels in the carnival spirit

They were almost as colourful as the revellers and definitely as energetic. The members of the Kayah Jonkunnu Band were in the thick of the merriment as they played mas with Yard Mas. The group from…
FILE - Britney Spears arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," on July 22, 2019. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
April 13, 2026

Britney Spears enters substance abuse treatment facility weeks after her arrest on suspicion of DUI

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears has entered a substance abuse treatment facility just over a month after she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. A…