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Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady. Reggae is based on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, known as the skank. The tempo is generally slower than that found in ska. Reggae usually has accents on the 3rd beat in each bar, there being four beats in a bar; many people think it's accentuated on the 2nd and 4th, because of the rhythm guitar.
Reggae is often associated with the Rastafari movement, an influence on many prominent reggae musicians from its inception. Reggae song lyrics deal with many subjects, including faith, love, relationships, poverty, injustice and other broad social issues
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| Softer and smoother, as the great Bob Marley said "when music hits you, you feel no pain". |
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Deep Culture music is on the rise in Jamaica, more young artist are pushing their talent in that direction. |
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Sports News (May 14,2008)
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - World-record holder Asafa Powell resumed training yesterday after missing time with a chest injury, and should be in good health in time for the Olympics, his manager said.
Powell, who ran the 100 metres in 9.74 seconds last year to break the record, pulled a pectoral muscle last month and halted training for about two weeks.
"He's doing fine," Powell's agent, Paul Doyle, told The Associated Press. "We expect him to be 100 per cent in two weeks. It's just a matter of making up time. It shouldn't affect his Olympic preparation."
Last week, Powell's countryman Usain Bolt ran the second-fastest 100 metres ever, finishing in 9.76 seconds at the Jamaica International Invitational.
The two are expected to meet at Jamaica's national championships at the end of June. Powell will not run in the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon early next month.
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NEWLY-APPOINTED security minister, Colonel Trevor MacMillan pledged to bolster the country's defence against a tidal wave of crime, hours after being sworn in yesterday. "I am going to seek additional resources and look at serious social intervention," MacMillan told the Observer minutes after being introduced to senior cops by Prime Minister Bruce
Golding at the Police Officer's Club in St Andrew.
MacMillan takes up the reins of the security ministry at a time when at least a dozen gang wars in the Corporate Area have stretched the security forces close to their limit. Almost 550 persons have been killed since the start of the year and according to MacMillan, there was little room for adjustment.
"Even though it's the first day I know there will be no time to relax," MacMillan said.
MacMillan's appointment will see two former soldiers holding the posts of national security minister and police commissioner simultaneously, giving rise to mounting speculation among the public about closer operational relations between the police and the army.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Golding urged the new leadership of national security to maximise their abilities to beat back the criminals.
"It is very important for the new leadership to create a synergy that will assure that everybody has the same focus and understands what is needed," Golding said.
The prime minister also confirmed that social intervention would play a major role in the government's bid to restore order and reduce the high rate of murder.
"We are going to make sure that the communities that are crime-infested...will be brought into the mainstream," Golding pledged.
MacMillan will now occupy the office which previously belonged to Derrick Smith, who will take over as boss of the newly created mining and telecommunications ministry when he recovers from surgery.
MacMillan will make his first public appearance as national security minister today when he addresses the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police Conference at the Jamaica Grande Hotel in Ocho Rios, St Ann..
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