Jamaica News

(Jamaica Observer) FITZROY Coore, branded as one of Clarendon’s most wanted criminals and who was shot dead by law enforcers in Manchester on Sunday, used two women as human shields in an attempt to escape after he was cornered in a house, the police have reported.

(Jamaica Gleaner) From a homeless shelter in Kingston, 60-year-old Devon ‘Frank’ Wade has launched a business which allows him to employ other homeless persons to design, build and furnish the homes of prospective and current homeowners.

(Jamaica Star) Twenty-seven years ago, Debbie Eaton lost her right leg to gunshot wounds, but that did not prevent her from living a full life.

(Jamaica Star) Roderick Queensborough and his son, Romeo Queensborough, were like peas in a pod.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Attorney-at-law Bert Samuels is seeking immediate answers into whether four Jamaicans arrested at sea by the United States Coast Guard were “kidnapped” under the veil of the Shiprider Agreement two months ago.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Before Jamaica gets its shipment of COVID-19 vaccines next year, Cuba could well inoculate half of its 11 million citizens against the virus which has crippled global economies, trade and travel for much of 2020, leaving behind a staggering death toll.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Kirtland Gill had no idea that his flight out of Jamaica 20 years ago would have taken him to the Buckingham Palace and landed him into the history books as the first black soldier to head the oldest regiment in the British Army.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Twenty-nine-year-old Citerina Atkins did not dream that she would become a farmer.

(Jamaica Observer) Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett yesterday slammed those behind a social media post that claimed taxpayers’ money had been used to pay for an ad in Times Square, New York, wishing him happy birthday.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican health authorities have stepped up monitoring of people who arrived in the island from the United Kingdom (UK), prior to those who landed on Monday, amidst the announcement of a ban on incoming flights from that country.

(Jamaica Star) A St Elizabeth fisherman, Jim* and his little brother, Joe*, are being hailed as community heroes after they disarmed a gunman in their community last week.

(Jamaica Observer) THE local public health system has again been thrown into high alert as hundreds of individuals, mostly Jamaicans, arrive in the island from Britain where a new strain of the novel coronavirus — described as “out of control” by officials there — has forced London and other areas into strict lockdown.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica has put a two-week ban on flights from the United Kingdom, joining several countries in restricting travel from Britain over a new strain of the novel coronavirus.

(Jamaica Gleaner) For Portmore mother of seven Natasha Jones, there is only one thing that would make her happy this Christmas: to have all her children under her roof.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica is to make a decision within the next 72 hours on whether it will introduce travel restrictions on United Kingdom flights coming into the island as an aggressive new COVID-19 strain that is 70 per cent more contagious has emerged, with at least six European countries imposing barriers to entry.

(Jamaica Observer) Business tycoon Ian Levy is convinced Andrew Holness will go down in history as one of the best, if not the best prime ministers Jamaica has ever had.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Oral Nelson, a 32-year-old Jamaican who faced a double murder charge shortly after he was deported from the United States of America in August 2019, was freed last week of the charges but says the ordeal has left him traumatised and depressed.

(Jamaica Star) Dewayne and Feleca Jonas were like peas in a pod when they were growing up in Belmont district, Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew.

(Jamaica Star) For a third consecutive time a Jamaican has won the Superl Lotto.

(Jamaica Star) A central Jamaica man is demanding a $200-million settlement from a bakery after he got sick from eating one of its products that contained rat faeces in August.