Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Businessman Roger Chang has been found murdered in Windsor Castle on the border of Portland and St Mary.

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is urging the pastor accused of sodomising a teenage boy in St Ann, in 2018, to turn himself in to the police.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Doris Fuller bore a distressed look as she pushed a supermarket cart through the chemical aisle at the Walmart Neighbourhood Market in Green Acres, West Palm Beach, Florida.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Relatives of the woman who became Jamaica’s first confirmed case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been getting death threats from angry residents in their community, two family members have revealed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Taxi drivers across Jamaica are being warned by Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton that the Government may confiscate their licences if they continue to bar nurses from accessing their services, due to fear that COVID-19 may be transferred to them and other passengers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The first batch of 21 specialist nurses from Cuba will arrive in the island on March 24, to boost the capacity of the health system to deal with the coronavirus (COVID-19).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Scores of angry residents from the communities of Wakefield and Friendship in Trelawny, took to the streets on Saturday morning to protest the shooting death of an elderly woman.

(Jamaica Observer) THE Government of Jamaica has increased the number of countries on which there is restricted travel from eight to nine in light of the COVID-19 outbreak.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared all of Jamaica a disaster area amid the coronavirus. 

(Jamaica Star) Family members of Patient Zero, the first person to test positive for the novel conoravirus – COVID-19 – in Jamaica, say they have been subjected to harsh and unkind words by some members of the public.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has confirmed six more cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former national distance runner Kemoy Campbell is now recovering after experiencing a cardiac episode early this week.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are reporting that two more women were arrested for their alleged involvement in the fatal beating of former Miss Jamaica contestant Tamara Sinclair in the lobby of a Bronx bank.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Scotiabank has closed its New Kingston Branch after it came to light that one of the two confirmed local COVID-19 patients visited the location and was in contact with some staff members.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Percival Joseph, the Canadian who was arrested on February 21 after attempting to smuggle 14lb of cocaine out of Jamaica via the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined J$5 million.

(Jamaica Star) The US Embassy has suspended visa services and American citizens services after news that one of its employees has tested positive for the coronavirus.

(Jamaica Observer) Approximately 500,000 students are facing the prospect of being out of school as the island’s educational institutions were yesterday put on notice that they could be closed, following the announcement of the second imported case ofthe  novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) here.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A reward of $350,000 is being offered for the safe return of missing University of the West Indies, Mona student Jasmine Deen.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States Embassy in Kingston has suspended visa and other consular service after one of its employees tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has a second confirmed imported case of the new coronavirus.