Jamaica News

(Jamaica Star) G. Samuels, the Jamaican who recently won the $301.5-million Super Lotto jackpot, says he has been playing Lotto for 19 years.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s honorary consul to Barbados is trying to locate a Jamaican prostitute who was reportedly caught with two British tourists in a hotel in Barbados on December 30.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government is now facing another massive bill following heavy rainfall that resulted in severe flooding in sections of St James on Friday and yesterday, which left many businesses and motorists with extensive damage.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hundreds of vacationers hoping to return to Canada are now stranded in Jamaica after new rules requiring them to show proof of a negative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test in order to enter the country came into effect on January 7.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With a single Caribbean country yet to receive any vial of the COVID-19 vaccine released a month ago, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says big countries are hoarding the precious medicine.

(Jamaica Star) Elder Wayne Palmer of the Berry Hill Seventh-day Adventist church in Manchester is expressing his disappointment after the church building was stoned on Wednesday.

(Jamaica Star) The Port Maria police have arrested and charged a mother and daughter in the December 25 killing of 26-year-old Jerome Forrester, otherwise called ‘Mop Head’, of Tank Lane, Oracabessa.

(Jamaica Star) Romeo Reid, who was deported from the United Kingdom in 2004, says he hates Jamaica, citing the island as an “oppressive state… [which] suppress and depress the people.”

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Chinese Embassy has rejected remarks made by outgoing United States Ambassador Donald Tapia, accusing China of eavesdropping on his telephone conversations via a Jamaican domestic network.

(Jamaica Observer) Founder and chairman of the ATL Group of Companies, Gordon “Butch” Stewart passed away on Monday night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It took more than four years, but Jamaica has finally signed off on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United States (US) that seeks to stamp out corruption at the ports, which has, for decades, facilitated the inflows of guns, drugs and other illicit items.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hotelier Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart has died. Stewart was founder of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and The Jamaica Observer.

(Jamaica Star) Family members of 14-year-old Yuhembi Brydson, who was allegedly shot and killed by members of a joint police/military patrol in Dexter Street, Westmoreland, on New Year’s Day, are demanding justice.

They have been living under a bridge longer than even they can remember.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican government is not ruling out looking to China for supplies of the coronavirus vaccine.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In what has been tagged an unduly harsh sentencing, a Jamaican man has been imprisoned for six months in Barbados for breaking quarantine; while influential tourists flouting the COVID-19 protocols, when caught are reportedly given time to pay fines instead of imprisonment.

(Jamaica Observer) BEENIE Man is scheduled to appear in the St Elizabeth Parish Court on February 10 for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) and the Noise Abatement Act.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Health Minister  Dr Christopher Tufton is reporting that Jamaica has confirmed four cases of the new strain of COVID-19.

(Jamaica Star ) What was intended to be a romantic holiday getaway for an American couple, Izzy and Muawea Rawshdeh, quickly turned sour after Izzy was allegedly attacked and injured by another female visitor at a resort on Jamaica’s south coast.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It was during her last prayer Sun-day morning that Andrea Lowe Garwood, a 56-year-old credit card officer was shot dead at the Agape Christian Fellowship in Falmouth, Trelawny.