Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The medical fraternity in St Mary has been plunged into mourning following the sudden death of Yakeev Morris, an intern at the Annotto Bay Hospital, on Wednesday.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica— Controversial Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal has been extradited to the United States to face terrorism-related charges.

When Mary* started having no sense of taste or smell, she felt that she had contracted the novel coronavirus.

(Jamaica Star) A family of three, including a toddler, died as a result of injuries they received in a crash on the Rose Hall main road in St James on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Observer) Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says in the absence of any incriminating evidence against individuals who are detained under the current states of emergency (SOEs), they will be released when the security measure ends on Monday, August 17.

(Jamaica Star) A Church Minister is among five people who have been charged with having sexual intercourse with a person under sixteen in separate incidents in Clarendon, St.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A brave motorist foiled a brazen attempt by gunmen travelling on a motorcycle to rob him in Negril, Westmoreland, on Wednesday afternoon when he forced them off the road, resulting in them crashing into a wall at a popular hotel.

(Jamaica Observer) A St Mary woman has been charged with arson after she set a three-bedroom dwelling ablaze on Tuesday, August 4.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “Ecstatic!” “The best choice!” “Very proud!” That was the effusive praise from expatriates to news that Joe Biden, former United States vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee for president, had selected Jamaica-descended California Senator Kamala Harris to be his running mate in the November 3 election.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Maya Robinson was forced on Sunday to send away her traumatised seven-year-old son from their Margaret Street home in east Kingston after he walked in to find his grandfather, 64-year-old Keith Robinson, dead in bed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans are to go to the polls on Thursday, September 3, 2020.

(Jamaica Star) Two women, who persons said had been friends for eight years, were both shot dead by gunmen last Friday along a section of Windward Road.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A St Ann man is now in police custody facing murder charges after he allegedly set his wife ablaze on Emancipation Day.

(Jamaica Star) Jane Brown*, 21, contracted HIV last year. She says that she has always wanted to have children, and now, her reality is posing a challenge.

(Jamaica Observer) There is a new millionaire in town. H Wilson is the latest winner of Supreme Ventures’ Lotto and has scored a jackpot of $33 million.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A St Catherine barber has been rushed to hospital after receiving several shots then falling from the third floor of a plaza in Port Henderson, Portmore in the parish.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has released a statement deploring last week’s murder of one of its lecturers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Police Commissioner Antony Anderson is touting the pending end of the ‘big book’ in logging reports at police stations as part of the ongoing transformation of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) using technology.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) says the Level 3 United States travel advisory published on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was an upgrade from Level 4, which advises Americans ‘NOT TO TRAVEL’.

(Jamaica Observer) RHIANE Powell was overcome with emotion when his dream was realised — a home for himself and his mother.