Censorship or prevention of violence? The movement to curb violence in media by the Jamaican government has sparked controversy in the country. As BBC reported this week, the Caribbean country’s ...

Jamaica’s broadcasting regulator has banned music and television broadcasting deemed to glorify or promote criminal activity, violence, drug use, scamming, and weapons. The directive says that ...

Reggae music would be nothing without its bass line—and on December 8, one of the genre’s most admired bass players, Robbie Shakespeare, died in Florida at age 68 from kidney-related complications.