The Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS) is encouraging young local music producers to consider making radio edits of their productions to ensure airplay and wide distribution that will maximise revenue. JAMMS General Manager, Evon Mullings, told.
A call is being made for the Government to reevaluate how it provides funding to certain economic groups, amid revelations that just over $1 million of a near two-year-old $700-million loan programme for COVID-hit transport and entertainment.
Almost two years after the Government offered $700 million in loans to players in the transportation and entertainment sectors hit by the COVID-19 crunch, only just over $1 million of the funds has been disbursed. The low take-up of the offer has.
Chairman of the Entertainment Advisory Board, Howard McIntosh, says that the issue regarding event permits, which is a major source of revenue for municipalities, is an important one to be placed on the table during Monday’s local government.
The music world is mourning the loss of highly regarded international entertainment and intellectual property rights attorney, Kendall Minter, who died on December 6 in Atlanta. He was 71. Reports are that Minter, a member of Greenspoon Marder LLP’.