(Jamaica Gleaner) A 17-year-old girl decided to join the choir of the Mount Zion Victory House of Prayer in Sandy Bay, Clarendon, to “give them a hand” because of the flagging youth numbers in her mom’s church.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has used a last-minute digital press conference on Independence Day to warn that tighter COVID containment measures will soon be reimposed.
(Jamaica Star) Jeffery Bowen is being hailed as a hero after he rescued a drowning boy from a crocodile-infested water canal in Bridgeport, Portmore, St Catherine, last Friday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The blast that killed more than 70 people and injured 4,000 in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday was felt as far as the Republic of Cyprus and is being described as an “atomic bomb”.
(Jamaica Star) In May, 27-year-old Thitania Williams was told that she desperately needed a heart transplant.
(Jamaica Star) Even with the news that the novel coronavirus claimed the lives of two senior citizens on the weekend, senior citizen Eletia ‘Miss Dottie’ Kelly is prepared to ignore stay-at-home orders, which require people aged 75 and over to leave their house only for the essentials of life.
(Jamaica Observer) United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia has cited national security concerns as the reason he has objected to the use of Chinese firm Genlot Game Technology as the back-end provider for new local lottery company Mahoe Gaming.
(Jamaica Star) “Me talk to him. If you cyah hear you must feel.”
(Jamaica Gleaner) Marcia Edwards of Crooked River, Clarendon, has a sense of regret that she never pressed her husband, Earl, not to take that final trek to the United States to work at Gebbers Farms.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A coma can leave both patient and despairing family in the dark.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Six reputed members of what the police call “a very big and dangerous” criminal network were killed in an alleged fierce fight with the security forces shortly after midnight Saturday, disrupting the Bushman Gang’s reign of terror in central Jamaica.
(Trinidad Express) A police investigation has been launched into an act of alleged political violence during a rally in the Oropouche West constituency on Saturday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) “Really?” That was the reaction from the seven-year-old Kensington Primary School student after learning that her constitutional rights were not breached when the school refused her access because of her dreadlocks, two years ago.
(Jamaica Gleaner) It took 13 years and at least 94 court appearances before 10 judges and four prosecutors before a murder case against Lynford Allen was tossed for lack of evidence.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Two of Clarendon’s most wanted men 25-year-old Leon Rose, otherwise called Hitler, and 24-year-old Zemmar Nelson, alias Terminator Boy, were among six persons killed during a police-military operation in Buzz Rock, Effortville in the parish this morning.
(Jamaica Observer) Just under 300,000 Jamaicans have emigrated between 2008 and 2018 the Planning Institute of Jamaica’s Economic and Social Survey 2019 report has indicated.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Paulette Wilson, a prominent Windrush campaigner, has died. She was 64.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Sherine Virgo said she will not cut her seven-year-old daughter’s hair despite yesterday’s court ruling that Kensington Primary School did not breach her child’s constitutional rights when it denied her access in 2018 for having dreadlocks.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, plans to test a digital currency as an alternative to cash later this year.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Two American sisters who were charged by the police following the seized of a quantity of cocaine valued at $1.3 million were each offered $100,000 bail when they appeared before the St James Parish Court on Friday.
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