(Jamaica Observer) Operations at bauxite outfit Jamalco in Hayes, Clarendon, will today “be at a standstill” following a “major fire” last evening that took a cross-parish effort, which lasted well over six hours, of seven units from the Jamaica Fire Brigade and 61 fire personnel to contain the blaze.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has been jolted back into lockdown mode owing to a suffocating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Andrew Holness administration continues to fend off deciding whether mandatory vaccination will have to be implemented.
(Jamaica Observer) – A four-year-old child fled her house in the early hours of Wednesday morning to get help after her mother’s throat was slashed in the deep-rural community of Clarendon.
(Jamaica Observer) -Verona White was hoping that by now, eight months after her son was shot dead, someone would have been held responsible.
(Jamaican Observer) – More than half of the 143 doctors who were last month left jobless after their contracts with State-run facilities were not renewed have moved on to brighter prospects, even as the Government — now faced with caseloads which outmatch manpower — says it is heading to Cabinet to get approval to create more posts.
(Jamaican Gleaner) – Maroon Chief Richard Currie yesterday declared that he does not need permission to use any modern weapon to defend his people and their property.
(Jamaican Observer) – The Jamaican father of one of the men shot dead at a party in Brooklyn, New York, early Sunday morning believes that the killers targeted his son after seeing him in a photo with Donald “Likkle Danny” Nash, the alleged leader of the Darksyde gang who was also slain in the attack.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – They were just about seven minutes from home on their way back from a drive to Ocho Rios in St Ann, but they never made it.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – The St James police have arrested and charged a Granville man for the murder of a mother and her son in the community of Top Hill in Retirement.
(Jamaican Observer) At nights, four children — ages two, three, seven, and 12 — are sent to stay with relatives and sometimes neighbours while their parents, Marlon Buckley and his sister Nicole Panton, make do with donated mattresses on the floor in a room stained by burn marks.
(Jamaica Gleaner) An early morning football game ended in tragedy in Howells Content near York Town, Clarendon yesterday when gunmen opened fire on a group of youngsters, killing an eight-year-old boy.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has ordered an immediate probe into claims that a 19-year-old Rastafarian woman, Nzinga King was trimmed by a policewoman at a lock-up in Clarendon.
(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the novel coronavirus vaccine provides a “ray of hope” for faster recovery and a return to normality as soon as possible, and appealed to all eligible Jamaicans to take the jab.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain will start delivering 9 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine this week to countries including Indonesia, Jamaica and Kenya to help tackle the pandemic, the government said today.
(Jamaica Observer) Barely a month after announcing relaxed COVID-19 measures the Jamaican Government was on Monday forced to back-pedal, pushed by rising infections numbering an average 135 new cases per day with a staggering 1,318 new cases already recorded for the month of July alone.
(Jamaica Gleaner) President of the Jamaican Bar Association, Emile Leiba has responded to comments from the Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, who said that the Government may have go the route of France as it seeks to inoculate the population against COVID-19.
(Jamaica Observer) As Jamaica’s tourism sector continues to rebound, Montego Bay will this evening welcome the first of once weekly flights from one of the world’s richest countries, Switzerland.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) is reporting an increased demand for Jamaican ganja on the global market.
(Jamaica Observer) Father’s Day turned unexpectedly bloody on Sunday when a man allegedly killed his pregnant girlfriend during a dispute in the community of Rhoden Hall in Clarendon.
(Jamaica Star) Kimoy Rose, the wife of pastor Jason Rose who was charged with the rape of a 15-year old girl on Wednesday, has been charged with taking steps to pervert the course of justice.
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