Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) A mother is now regretting sending her son outside to get fresh air, only for him to be murdered by gunmen a day after receiving his status letter from The University of the West Indies (UWI).

Jamaica Gleaner Editorial | Transcendental Ramphal Often, eulogies inflate the virtues and achievements of their subjects, even of great men.

(Jamaica Gleaner) After 14 years, King of Dancehall Vybz Kartel is set to make his triumphant return to the stage in a historic concert aptly titled Freedom Street.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The financial performance of telecoms Digicel Group has stabilised, with its operations generating over US$14 million in cash for the year, leading to a rating upgrade by Moody’s.

(Jamaica Gleaner) One of the men suspected of being a shooter in Sunday’s mass killing in Cherry Tree Lane, Clarendon, was shot and killed during an operation by the security forces in the parish yesterday afternoon.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness today declared a state of emergency in the Caribbean nation’s southern Clarendon parish after eight people were killed in separate gun attacks on Sunday night, including a seven-year-old boy.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A historic convention has been agreed on by United Nations (UN) member states, including Jamaica, to help tackle the global rise in cybercrime.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It is no secret that broadcaster, writer and historian, Roger Steffens, is the owner of a massive reggae archive, which houses the largest collection of Bob Marley artefacts in the world.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday boldly stated that the Government, through his leadership, is resolute in taking back Spanish Town, St Catherine from thugs who have, over the years, taken control of the nation’s former capital.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Preliminary assessments conducted by the Banana Board show an 80 to 100 per cent loss for bananas and plantains, consequent on the passage of Hurricane Beryl.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hurricane Beryl has left a trail of devastation across the southern parishes of Manchester and St Elizabeth where infrastructure was severely impacted by the system’s strong winds and driving rain.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Four months after a mystery shipwreck caused a disastrous oil spill from the Caribbean island of Tobago to neighbouring Bonaire, Bertrand Smith, director general of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica, wants more support for the country’s marine planning and the prevention of ghost fishing.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Supreme Court has ruled that dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel and his co-accused are to remain behind bars pending a decision in the Court of Appeal on whether they should be retried for murder.

(Jamaica Gleaner) More trouble is brewing involving the will of late business mogul Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, after the Sandals hotel group delayed a final cash payment of more than J$6 billion to a group of mostly elderly beneficiaries.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Indian High Commissioner to Jamaica Masakui Rungsung says a medical camp held earlier this month at the Mustard Seed Communities’ Jacob’s Ladder in Haddon, St Ann, was the least his office could do to help the plight of Haitian children with disabilities who arrived in Jamaica in March.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Gang violence within the community of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, has left a grade 10 schoolboy, 16-year-old Carson Bennett, dead and his female schoolmate of Grange Hill High School hospitalised.

(Jamaica Gleaner) High Court Justice Bertram Morrison did not mince words on Friday as he ordered Gregory Roberts, the man convicted of the murder of schoolgirl Shineka Gray, to serve a minimum of 50 years for the crime.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Principal Director of National Integrity Action (NIA) Danielle Archer is calling for the urgent repeal of the Official Secrets Act, arguing that the more current Protected Disclosures Act, or whistleblower legislation, cannot succeed alongside the archaic, colonial law.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Weighing in on the raging debate surrounding the recent Privy Council quashing of Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer’s murder conviction, former Prime Minister Patterson and his colleague King’s Counsel Hugh Small said the decision taken to proceed with the trial after the jury-tampering incident “was not merely a risk but a fatal error”.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Acting House Leader and the minister responsible for gender, Olivia Grange, says Opposition Leader Mark Golding has brought the House of Representatives into disrepute by questioning the election of Juliet Holness as House Speaker.