(Jamaica Observer) BRITAIN yesterday listed Jamaica among more than 50 countries exempted from its COVID-19 quarantine rules, but excluded the United States, which yesterday posted a record 53,000 new cases of the virus.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Forty-nine-year-old Abraham Lawrence, one of several mentally challenged persons, who had been locked away in state custody for two decades, was granted bail in the St Elizabeth Parish Court in Black River yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Michael Belnavis, the mayor and chairman of the St Ann’s Bay Municipal Corporation, is faced with a decision to relinquish his position or could possibly be unceremoniously toppled from his high seat.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Lisa Hanna, a legislator and spokesperson for the Opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP) election campaign, has escaped criminal charges but has been slammed for nepotism and cronyism in the award of millions of dollars in contracts in St Ann in a ruling by the director of public prosecutions (DPP).
(Jamaica Star) A suspect has surrendered to the police in connection with the stabbing death of a man on Lawrence Drive in St Andrew on Wednesday night.
(Jamaica Star) Six months after their story was first highlighted, the Jackson family is still in a painful pursuit for answers, seeking the remains of their deceased relative Jimmy Jackson.
(Jamaica Star) Social media darling Tanesha ‘Rose’ Thellwell will be heading to the altar with her on again-off again lover, Ford Spence, on November 2.
(Jamaica Observer) AUDREY Marks, Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States and permanent representative to the Organization of American States, has announced the reopening of the Offices of the Jamaican embassy in Washington, DC, USA.
(Jamaica Observer) In an initiative with the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington DC, Community Scholar Inc — a US-based non-profit organisation — is hiring Jamaican teachers to tutor students in the United States online.
(Jamaica Star) For 12 years, 67-year-old Roy Barnes says that he was unable to walk freely.
(Jamaica Observer) RELATIVES of Latoya Monte, the 34-year-old woman who was fatally shot during an alleged confrontation with the police moments after 6:00 pm on Monday in the Kingston 10 area, are insisting that she was murdered, contrary to information released by the constabulary.
(Jamaica Observer) Four Jamaican missionaries stranded in Río Abajo, Panama, are seeking the Government’s assistance to return to the island, as they struggle to stay afloat in the Spanish-speaking country despite support from the Jamaican consulate in Panama City.
(Jamaica Gleaner) It was George Williams’ first Sunday as a free man, and his family made certain that he had a hearty dinner and experienced the warmth and togetherness of being at home in Ewarton, St Catherine.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Popular Montego Bay dancehall entertainer Rygin King was shot and seriously injured during a gun attack in Struie district, Westmoreland, on Sunday while a woman, identified as his girlfriend, was killed.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica could possibly have another contestant in a major international televised talent show.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A teen from the Kilmarnock district in St Elizabeth is being hailed as a hero after running inside a burning building to rescue an elderly man with a physical disability.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Governor General Sir Patrick Allen has suspended personal use of the controversial insignia of the Order of St Michael and St George.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of National Security has acquired four additional offshore patrol vehicles and two maritime aircraft to aid in improving border security, reducing transnational crimes and providing support to other small island developing states.
(Jamaica Gleaner) George Williams had his first meal in 50 years outside of prison walls on Wednesday after a St Catherine Circuit Court judge upheld a notice of abandonment in his murder case.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Three western Jamaica cops were charged on Tuesday in a sweeping narcotics operation involving high-profile United States law-enforcement agents in two American cities.
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