Jamaica

The first ever biopic of Bob Marley will finally hit cinema screens later next month.

In the Caribbean, several countries still have the British monarch as their head of state. 

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived in Jamaica on the second leg of a three-country tour of the Caribbean.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Trojan records – the label which brought reggae and ska to the mainstream, along with artists like Bob Marley and Desmond Dekker. We look at the huge influence they’ve had over British music and culture.

Hundreds of Jamaicans were among those to arrive on the Empire Windrush 70 years ago. But while the political controversy over the Windrush generation has raged, the Caribbean island is at the heart of another storm about the way cultural exports are treated by Britain and the rest of the world. From music to food,…

We’re joined by the photographer Fiona Compton and Don Letts, DJ, film-maker and organiser of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Trojan Records.

The new Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, says he’s rejecting the “hostile environment” policy on immigration, but that isn’t much comfort to those who are already caught up in its net. We’ve been following the case of one 64-year-old grandmother who came here from Jamaica – from her nine-month detention in Yarl’s Wood, to her reunion with her family after her release. And she’s still being told she can’t stay.

At the same time as the Windrush generation’s disenfranchisement, Britain is undertaking a nursing recruitment drive in the Caribbean to help alleviate the one in 10 nurses who left the NHS in England and Wales – but at what cost?

Channel 4 News correspondent Symeon Brown reports from Jamaica.

Theresa May is being urged to intervene over the Home Office’s treatment of former child migrants who came here from the West Indies during the 60s. Caribbean high commissioners say they want their immigration status treated as a special category. It follows the case of Anthony Bryan, who faced removal to Jamaica even though he’d…

Marlon James, whose first novel was rejected 70 times, fled Jamaica fearing persecution for being gay. Now he has become the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize.

World number 102 Dustin Brown causes the first major upset of this year’s Wimbledon by beating Rafael Nadal. Could his winning form take him to the quarter finals and a clash with Andy Murray?

Jamaica is coming under pressure to improve its anti-doping regime after a series of positive drugs tests by its athletes highlighted a catalogue of failures.

It’s a potential treat for people missing the Olympic thrill. Two of the world’s top runners, sprinter Usain Bolt and long-distance champion Mo Farah, hint they would be up for a race over 600 metres.

Adidas suspends its contract with Tyson Gay following reports he has failed a drugs test, as the debate around athletics and doping reopens.