(Jamaica Gleaner) Reggae artiste Jah9 has pointed the finger at the Church for helping to create a culture in which some members of society become judgemental against others, in terms of when, how and who they choose to be intimate with.
(Jamaica Observer) Thousands of young people are to be trained for jobs in digitisation and animation in the new fiscal year.
(Jamaica Star) Many persons, including his past students, were shocked when they learnt that Troy Chambers, a drama teacher, had been impersonating a policeman for years.
(Jamaica Gleaner) “They know what they were doing. I will be all right”, was all one man, the first to walk out of the Harman Barracks processing centre in Kingston, had to say before he was warmly embraced by his crying mother, Ann-Marie Williams.
(Jamaica Gleaner) There were brisk movements in the precincts of Harman Barracks police outfit yesterday afternoon as 17 deportees were escorted there for processing.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican health authorities are reporting that a patient who was being quarantined after returning home from China is now showing a “progression of symptoms” of the Coronavirus.
(Jamaica Star) A man who police confirm was accused of being involved in last Wednesday’s shooting death of taxi operator Karl Senior, was shot and killed by armed men at his home in Duncans, last Saturday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The UK government has received a blow to its plans to deport about 50 people to Jamaica after one of two legal actions to try to halt the scheduled flight succeeded.
(Jamaica Observer) The legendary American actor Kirk Douglas, who died on February 5 at age 103, was popular with Jamaican movie-goers for over 50 years.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The estranged husband who killed his wife last Friday afternoon before committing suicide by drinking a poisonous substance was possessed with anger and bewilderment after his partner called time on the relationship, a family member has said.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The head of a United Kingdom (UK) pressure group is urging the Andrew Holness administration to deny landing rights to a charter flight from Britain with 50 Jamaicans to be deported to the island next Tuesday, after one of the detainees attempted to end his life.
(Jamaica Observer) The Government, accepting professional advice, will not be repatriating Jamaicans from Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the deadly novel coronavirus.
(Jamaica Observer) “Guyana is a real opportunity,” according to Keith Duncan, co-chair of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC).
(Jamaica Star) Baby Nyyear Frank, the infant who was snatched from his mother’s arms as she walked in a section of Kingston last October, was allegedly the subject of a $500,000 contract.
(Jamaica Gleaner) St Vincent and the Grenadines: Hundreds of Vincentians today marched through streets of the capital Kingstown ahead of a vigil to protest the murder of a nurse allegedly by her husband.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Two British nationals are set to be deported from Jamaica back to their homeland after overstaying in the island for more than 20 years.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican born Leroy Headley, one of America’s 15 most wanted who fled the United States almost two years ago, yesterday waived his extradition hearing rights and will be returned to Vermont where he is wanted for the murder of his girlfriend Anako “Annette” Lumumba, who had two children for him.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The police are reporting that the man suspected of murdering two women as they slept at a house on Knowles Road, Mandeville, Manchester this morning was caught in a dragnet a short while ago.
(Jamaica Star) Although the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus as a global emergency last week, Sean, a Jamaican teacher living in China, says he is not worried because the government there is handling the situation the best way it knows how.
(Jamaica Observer) There is no case of the novel coronavirus in Jamaica, but some Chinese restaurants are feeling the heat from the disease which has forced major fast-food chains and retailers in China to shut their doors as the death toll from the virus rises.
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