Jamaica News

(Jamaica Observer) Vere Technical High School physical education teacher Sashauna Wellington was arrested and charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An Ananda Alert has been activated for 16-year-old Jessica Burrell of Mobberly Avenue, Duhaney Park, St Andrew and her four-month-old daughter Jaeunique Collins.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The killing of a parent in front of Lannaman’s Preparatory School in St Andrew yesterday has left a school community in shock.

(Jamaica Observer) Promising Class Three athlete Moesha James has been transferred from Vere Technical to Hydel High, after it was alleged that she was beaten with a “PVC” pipe by a female coach on November 1.

(Jamaica Observer) One of the suspects in last week’s bloodbath that left three brothers and one of their spouses dead was killed during a gunfight with the police in Westmoreland yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) A St James man has been fined $100,000 after pleading guilty to attempting to bribe a police officer.

(Jamaica Observer) The police have activated a High Alert for 12-year-old Mario Dayes of Tavern Drive, Kingston 7 who has been reported missing since Wednesday, November 7.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Following the murders of 43-year-old Dionne Smith and her 16-year-old daughter, Jay-Shenel Gordon, committed by Smith’s common-law husband in September, two pastors are urging women to leave abusive relationships and to be careful in choosing their life partners.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Sugar marketer Jamaica Cane Products Sales Limited (JCPS) is laying off its entire staff as it contemplates winding down the business, Chairman Karl James confirmed on Friday, even as it looks to the Government for help.

(Jamiaca Gleaner) Outstanding Jamaican educator Keisha Hayle has been selected among the three recipients of this year’s Jamaica Education Task Force UK Meritorious Award for education.

(Jamaica Observer) He uttered certain comments yesterday after Harris delivered another of the thrilling performances he has become known for.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of Masemure Meadows in Little London, Westmoreland, woke up to, possibly, their worst fears on Thursday  morning when they were greeted with the horrifying news that four members of the community – three men and a woman – had been slaughtered gangland-style by invading gunmen who entered the community shortly after midnight.

(Jamaica Observer) Three brothers and one of their spouses were killed after they were pinned inside three houses and peppered with bullets by a group of marauding gunmen during a pre-dawn attack yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Regional  Heads of Government who have not yet given the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the green light will be in deep contemplation, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding is suggesting, after both Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda, by way of a referendum, voted to retain the London-based Privy Council as their final court.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Canadian man was sentenced to two years imprisonment and fined $3 million after he was convicted on drug related charges in the St James Parish Court on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 45-year-old female taxi driver was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon along the Tollgate main road in Clarendon.

(Jamaica Observer) The Road Safety Unit (RSU) in the transport ministry is reporting that 299 people have been killed in 264 crashes since the start of the year.

(Jamaica Observer) THE National Identification System (NIDS) will be providing birth certificates, free of cost, to Jamaicans who are not or partially registered ahead of the roll-out of the national identification programme next year.

(Jamaica Observer) For a third time, a decision on accepting Digicel’s offer to defer US$3 billion in payments to bondholders has been postponed.

(Jamaica Observer) After living in the United States of America for 52 years, Jamaican born 84-year-old nurse, Murlin Hampton, was determined to independently use her stroller to get to Clark County in Nevada, to cast her vote during the 2018 Midterm Elections on November 6.