(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican who expressed concern last week that his deportation from the United Kingdom could be a “death sentence” as he had no known relatives here has tested positive for COVID-19 after landing last Wednesday.
Manhattan’s usually busy Flatiron district will come alive with a different energy this holiday, as visitors and residents alike interact with its latest exhibition designed by Jamaica-born architect, Nina Cooke John.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Tears streamed down the face of Delcita Anderson as she stomped and yelled inside her Kingston home, cursing the misfortune that had left her daughter, Kerry Ann Collins, clinging to life with third-degree burns after a freak explosion in her kitchen.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The sound of bullets ripping through their loved one and the wails following their impact will forever scar the memory of relatives and residents of Brockery, Christiana, who recalled Wednesday’s shooting death of 14-year-old Deshawn Ashley.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A Britain-born woman who went on a high-speed joyride through two parishes, ending in a spectacular crash that killed two persons, has been sentenced to a fine of just under $1 million.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The love story of a blind St Catherine couple living under a leaky roof tugged at the heart-strings of a Jamaican expatriate who has given them an early Christmas present.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican mother of a three-year-old boy has been ordered to return the child to his father in United States amid a simmering year-long dispute that drew on international law governing child abduction.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The mothers of two men whose bodies were found in a macabre heap on a Portmore roadway on the weekend have denied that their killing was in revenge for the triple murder of an 81-year-old woman and her granddaughters.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A 23-year-old man who is to be deported from the United Kingdom (UK) on Wednesday, December 2, having served time in prison for peddling ‘class A’ drugs, is accusing the Home Office of being “callous, wicked and uncaring” for arresting him in full view of his two infant sons.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The family of Oral Nunis Sr, a Jamaican man who died in the custody of the Chula Vista police, has sued the San Diego city government and the police department for what they are alleging is his wrongful death at the hands of officers.
(Jamaica Observer) How does a shy, little, ‘lisp-tongue’ girl from Kingston end up as a Supreme Court judge in New York, beating back cancer and COVID-19 along the way?
(Jamaica Gleaner) With no indication as to when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will give the green light for cruise activity to return to US waters and an expectation that COVID-19 protocols will reduce the number of guests on each voyage, Jamaican cruise line workers whose tour of duty ended prematurely at the start of the outbreak are worried that their jobs could be under threat.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Black university and college graduates who struggle to find internship opportunities, mentors, or employment in major corporate companies across Canada will now receive support through an initiative launched last month by two entrepreneurs – Wayne and Nigela Purboo, who boast Jamaican heritage.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s chief anti-corruption agency, the Integrity Commission, is to receive a massive cash injection from the United Kingdom as it moves to further strengthen its operations.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The $1-trillion bill to efficiently upgrade Jamaica’s roads requires a paradigm shift in construction and maintenance policy and provision of a credible budget, National Works Agency (NWA) Chief Executive E.
(Jamaica Star) Sackeno ‘Nico’ Ross, 30, mysteriously fell ill last Monday at his home in Rae Town, Kingston, with swellings all over his body and bruises all over his chest.