As the ship prepared to sail, Hurricane Melissa swept across the Caribbean, forcing a last-minute reroute to Cozumel, Mexico.

I n the late spring of 1980, when Bob Marley embarked on a tour to promote his Uprising album with the Wailers, the stage was set for the reggae trailblazer to reach a new level in the culture. The ...

On Oct. 28, nearly 40 years after Hurricane Gilbert, Hurricane Melissa marked the strongest storm to strike Jamaica in the ...

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff is being remembered by his peers and admirers following his death at the age of 81. In a post on Instagram, the family of Bob Marley, including his son Ziggy, expressed their ...

One thing about Jimmy Cliff, he understood the assignment. “My role was and is inspiring people,” he told me in 1999, backstage in Oracabessa, Jamaica during the filming of a television special ...

Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come: he was given the lead role after entrancing the film’s director Perry Henzell with his mixture of arrogance, optimism and defiance - Everett Collection Inc/Alamy ...

Alongside Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff is perhaps the artist who did the most to bring reggae music to the world. Both through international hits such as You Can Get It If You Really Want, I Can See ...

Lir emerged in the late eighties from Dublin’s thriving rock scene and were renowned for their shamelessly proggy sound and a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jimmy Cliff, who has died aged 81, led reggae from a small island to worldwide renown. The Jamaican singer’s ...

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican songwriter and film star behind hit songs such as “You Can Get It if You Really Want” and “Many Rivers to Cross”, has died aged 81. The news was announced by his wife, Latifa ...

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae star whose lead role in the 1972 cult-movie sensation “The Harder They Come” helped introduce the pulsating island dance beat to a global audience, has died. He was 81 ...

Comedian Judi Love and Leicester's own Showaddywaddy are among the stars confirmed to perform at Loughborough Town Hall in ...