Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) As of 2019, beverages containing more than six grams of sugar per 100 milli-litres will no longer be allowed at public educational institutions.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are reporting that a man is now in custody in relation to the murder of a British-Jamaican woman, whose body was found in a shallow grave yesterday after investigations revealed inconsistencies in a missing person’s report he filed for her.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday expressed disappointment with what he described as “uneven” implementation of decisions made at Caricom’s 39th Heads of Government meeting in Montego Bay last July.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Fifty-eight-year-old Barbara Findley, a photographer of Beadles Drive, Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth and Lupino Count, Lambeth Walk, Kensington in London has been missing since Thursday, November 29.

(Jamaica Observer) The entire community of Perth Town was contorted with grief yesterday in the wake of the tragic passing of a well-loved, 11-year-old autistic boy who shot himself while playing with his father’s licenced firearm late Saturday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “Ohhh!!!” he shouted. Then he was out of breath.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The latest advances in medicinal cannabis research in Jamaica and its potential use in cancer management will come under the microscope today, when a group of international scientists present at the seminar ‘Cutting Edge Advances in Cancer Therapy’ at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona campus.

The problematic issue of sexual attacks against visitors to the island, inside the walls of local hotels, again came to the fore recently when Asif Ahmad, the British high commissioner to Jamaica, said that British nationals, including children, have also been victims.

(Jamaica Observer) A fight over money charged to swim in the popular Caymanas River in St Catherine is said to be at the heart of the killing of six men in the Caymanas Bay community within 72 hours.

(Jamaica Observer) There is a strong possibility that motorists shopping downtown Kingston this Christmas will have to pay to park on certain streets.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has embarked on an exercise to remove from the voters’ list the names of persons who have died since 1998.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Barack Obama’s historic presidency was a “disappointment” for black people, a retired Jamaican businessman now living in the United States (US) has asserted.

(Jamaica Observer) The police yesterday exhumed the partially decomposed body of a female Caucasian suspected to be that of 72-year-old US national Nancy Hardy, who has been missing since Saturday.

(Jamaica Observer) The boy’s father, 41-year-old Andrew McLean, otherwise known as Killa or Peter, was found dead outside their home in Bell Rock, off Olympic Way in Kingston.

(Jamaica Observer) Forty-two-year-old Nicole Vassell of Roehampton Drive, Kingston 19, and Toronto, Canada has been missing since Monday, November 27, the police have reported.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A taxi operator today detailed how three policemen took Clarendon resi-dent Andrew Bisson into a board house, where he was shot and killed. 

(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) trainee pilot flying a helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in an open field in St Catherine yesterday morning and, miraculously, survived the frightening ordeal.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) says it is carrying out the necessary investigations and recovery procedures in relation to this morning’s helicopter crash.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A female driver walked away unhurt after her car ran off the road near the Portmore Toll Plaza this morning and ended up in the sea.

(Jamaica Observer) Come Saturday, December 1, Jamaican singer Dalton Harris will contest the finals of the British-televised talent show X Factor .