Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas has rejected claims he is the father of a 30-year-old visually impaired man from Six-Miles in Bartons in St Catherine.

(Jamaica Observer) Reigning Miss World, Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh will serve an extra year as the international pageant will not be staged due to the current pandemic.

(Jamaica Observer) Olympian Asafa Powell has requested a paternity test for his daughter.

(Jamaica Observer) Two American women who were arrested at the Sangster International Airport in St James on Friday, July 24 in relation to the seizure of more than a million dollars worth of cocaine are booked to appear in the St James Parish Court on Friday, July 31.

(Jamaica Star) Pictures posted on social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook by persons who should be in home quarantine will be used as evidence in cases where people have been deemed to be breaching COVID-19 rules.

(Jamaica Star) Lance, a 28-year-old resident of Ramsay Road along Maxfield Avenue, spent 30 minutes trying to kick off a padlocked gate and a bolted door to save his neighbour’s two-year-old son from a burning house on Sunday afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A brazen daylight robbery of the Jamaica National Bank Money Shop in Whitehouse, Westmoreland, on Tuesday has raised concern among the police that they can’t distinguish hoodlums from law-abiding citizens observing coronavirus protocols.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Yet another Jamaican has tasted success in politics in the United States.

(Jamaica Star) The world renowned Dunn’s River Falls and theme park in Ocho Rios, St Ann, has been recording an uptick in patronage since being reopened to the public on July 21, following a four-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Jamaica Star) Danville Walker, the national director for the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP), has defended the $5.9 million price tag for a one-bedroom house that was recently constructed by the state entity.

(Jamaica Observer) The August Town community in St Andrew has been left baffled after 47-year-old Kenneth Grant, a former football coach, was yesterday discovered swinging from an electrical cord at his residence in what the police have since said is a suspected case of suicide.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Catherine South police have launched an investigation into the death of a Portmore woman.

(Jamaica Gleaner) When Teri Nichols’ cell phone lit up two weeks ago with a message from a police detective in Jamaica, she immediately thought “more bad news”.

(Jamaica Observer) Need coffee? Take me to the cashier. This note to shoppers is placed on empty bottles of Jamaica Mountain Peak (JMP) coffee in some supermarkets.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican Bar Association has chastised Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte over comments she made in the wake of a court ruling attributed to Justice Bertram Morrison but she has hit back at her critics.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bogue Heights community on the outskirts of Montego Bay, St James, was plunged into mourning on Wednesday afternoon when a popular accountant was shot and killed by armed men when he made a valiant attempt to stop them from abducting his daughter.

(Jamaica Observer) MINISTER of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie says citizens who refuse to wear masks in public could soon face prosecution under the Disaster Risk Management Act.

(Jamaica Observer) A Clarendon man has been charged in connection with the 2019 murder of British national, 17-year-old Stefica Smith, who resided in Four Paths in the parish.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bogue Heights community on the outskirts of Montego Bay, St James, was plunged into mourning on Wednesday afternoon when a popular accountant was shot and killed by armed men when he made a valiant attempt to stop them from abducting his daughter.

(Jamaica Star) Scores of Jamaicans have been reportedly making requests to join the Montego Bay-based Zion Society spiritual group, in hopes of attaining spells that grant them great wealth and health.