(Jamaica Gleaner) The leadership of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is insisting that there will be no increase in tuition fees to reflect the regional institution’s recent placing among the top five per cent of the world’s best institutions as published by the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The usually cheerful Kingston College (KC) family has been mourning heavily following the deaths of at least six students and the hospitalisation and incarceration of two others in recent months.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson is urging Jamaicans to invest in reinforcing structures to withstand a high-magnitude earthquake.
(Jamaica Gleaner) President of The Mico University College Dr Asburn Pinnock estimates that nearly 30 per cent of the country’s children have a special need and is, therefore, hoping that a diagnostic centre in each parish will soon become a reality.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says governments over the years have ended up holding onto assets that drain the public purse because of the sentiments attached to the State retaining ownership.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A man was Monday night shot dead and his teenage son shot and injured when a gunman attacked them in Patrick City, a middle-income community in Kingston.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) WHEN 26-year-old Jermaine Clarke learnt that he was a match for his son Zaiden, who desperately needed a liver transplant, he was beside himself with joy, but more importantly, he was relieved.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) A “high priority” probe is now under way into the disappearance of a Portland man whose female companion has reportedly told investigators that he was last seen two weeks ago in the company of a police constable.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness said that the country is living on past glory and that it was important to invest in the country’s infrastructure – including a new Parliament building – to show that as a people, we are serious about development.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The trial of O’Brian and O’Neil Walters, the brothers charged with the murder of 22-year-old Kahni Erskine who was fatally shot at a gas station on September 22, 2016, started its second day in the St James Circuit Court on Wednesday.
The trial began on Tuesday before presiding judge Justice Sharon George with a civilian witness testifying that he saw a man identified as O’Brian Walters exiting a motor vehicle at the gas station on the day in question, following which shots were fired.
In response to cross-examination from defence attorney Christopher Townsend, the witness said that when he attended the identification parade he was only able to identify O’Brian Walters by his body type and not by his facial features.
When lead prosecutor Maxine Jackson redirected questions to the witness and asked if he could see the accused man’s face, he said that he was able to see the front view of the person who appeared at the gas station during the shooting and that nothing obstructed his view at that time.
On the day in question, Erskine was surprised at the gas station when three men exited a motor vehicle and opened fire, hitting him.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government has divested the operation of the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) to Mexican entity, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico S.A.B.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A family dispute in Manchester on the weekend that left one brother dead and one in police custody has also left their mother and four of their siblings homeless after her house was burnt down.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Several criminal charges have been laid against an entertainment coordinator who is accused of raping two female guests at Riu Reggae Hotel in St James.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) THE police say the caretaker of the Church Of God of Prophecy on Old Harbour Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine, has been held in connection with last month’s murder of pastor James Johnson.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Comedienne and media personality Elva Ruddock died at the Kingston Public Hospital yesterday morning following what is being described as a brief illness.