(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican man is challenging the Cayman Government’s decision to deny his bid for permanent residency, arguing that the Immigration Appeals Tribunal discriminated against his nationality when it considered his application.
(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican man was reportedly killed in Grenada last Thursday following a dispute over the cost of his jerk chicken.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican Dalton Harris has successfully made it to next week’s round of the televised talent competition X Factor UK.
(Jamaica Observer) One of the suspected “hitmen” was shot dead, while his crony was shot and injured by a licensed firearm holder who challenged them.
(Jamaica Observer) The lives of a young, common law couple ended tragically after the motor car in which they were travelling collided with a tour bus along the section of the North Coast Highway which passes through Spring Hill, Trelawny, yesterday morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) An eight-year-old boy was chopped to death in St Catherine a short time ago in the latest incident of domestic violence in Jamaica.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The St James Parish Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of a Bermudan national who should have appeared in court on cocaine charges on Thursday but who had somehow managed to leave Jamaica despite a stop-order forbidding his departure.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A man who pleaded guilty to the 2016 murder of a three-year-old in Brown’s Town, St Ann, was yesterday sentenced to 20 years at hard labour in the St Ann Circuit Court.
(Jamaica Observer) The Clarendon woman who was left nursing severe burns after her jealous ex-lover set her home ablaze in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, killing her 16-year-old brother, has died.
(Jamaica Observer) THERE was mourning yesterday at Central High School in Clarendon for 16-year-old Leroy Hamilton, who fell victim to the rage of his sister’s jealous ex-lover, when he torched their dwelling, killing the boy and leaving his 24-year-old sister nursing severe burns.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Jamaica’s tourism sector has been left with the difficult task of trying to cauterise serious damage being done to its reputation, following an investigative story published in the international media, which outlined terrifying incidents of sexual assault on several United States tourists at some of the country’s leading resorts.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) MINISTER without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Daryl Vaz says several additional State assets have been identified and shortlisted for privatisation by the Government.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A man was shot dead and another left nursing injuries after they were pounced on by armed men while playing dominoes at a shop in Three Miles River district, Westmoreland last night.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) The police are reporting that a man was arrested and charged on Monday after he turned up at a medical facility in Falmouth, Trelawny where a pound of cocaine was extracted from his stomach in an emergency operation.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Jamaica’s second-highest court has tossed out the appeal filed by a Manchester man against the 18-year prison sentence handed to him for throwing his female companion off a second-floor balcony, leaving her paralysed from the waist down.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) The findings of the latest U-Report poll have indicated that most young Jamaicans have never been cyber-bullied.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Approximately 800 new students of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, have been deregistered for failing to pay their tuition fee or arranging a payment scheme, and there are claims that more than twice that number of returning students have met the same fate.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Last week’s social media frenzy over Dancehall star Spice’s new “bleached look” spilled over into the opening of the Senate’s annual “State of the Nation Debate” on Friday, as government member, Senator Kerensia Morrison, made no bones about her support for the controversial DJ.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) A new liquid candy being marketed to the children at primary schools across the island, with a symbol that appears to be rainbow-coloured male genitalia, has sparked outrage from some parents and children advocates.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) The vicious murder cycle, which has become the unfortunate new norm in Westmoreland, has churned out yet another double murder, with the killing of a common-law couple in the Bethel Town community on Wednesday night.
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