(Jamaica Observer) After spending three years behind bars, Dishane Dixon’s first taste of freedom was short-lived, as he was shot dead on Slipe Road in Kingston, one hour after his release.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Shock and grief gripped a section of Waterford in Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday after three members of a family were shot dead in their living room shortly after 9 p.m.
(Jamaica Observer) The police in Manchester are on the search for the killers of a popular business man who was fatally shot in the parish Saturday morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) In what the police suspect to have been an illicit deal gone sour, three men of St James addresses died in St Ann on Saturday night, while one is in police custody and a firearm recovered.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jah is My Keeper, a composition by Jamaican reggae icon Peter Tosh, resonated mystically within the ancient walls of the celebrated Canterbury Cathedral in England yesterday afternoon, during the service of installation for Jamaica-born Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the new Bishop of Dover.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Negril is reeling from yesterday’s double murder of a businessman and his Italian wife in the popular tourist resort town, which is covered under a tri-parish state of emergency in Hanover, Westmoreland, and St James.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Una Spencer had returned to Jamaica in 2012 to help her sister having lived in Canada for more than 40 years, but she has ended up gaining an extended family of survivors of HIV/AIDS.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A St Thomas mother and her newborn daughter are said to be hospitalised at the Princess Margaret Hospital in good condition following a bizarre toilet delivery on Saturday night.
(Jamaica Observer) When four Haitian men — supposedly stranded at sea for just over two weeks — were yesterday rescued by Jamaican fishermen in Portland, it took the French-speaking skills of one civilian, who happened to be on the spot, for the police to be able to decipher what the men were saying.
(Jamaica Observer) Eighteen-year-old Joeith Lynch was dead by the time the letter from the Students’ Loan Bureau informing her that she had been successful in securing funds to begin her studies as a medical student at The University of the West Indies, Mona made its way into her family’s hands.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Government Minister Daryl Vaz says the revocation of his United States visa has not affected his ability to perform his duties so far.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Forty Cuban medical professionals were on Monday welcomed to the island under the Technical Cooperation Agreement signed between Jamaica and Cuba.
(Jamaica Observer) Fame FM disc jockey Collin Hines said the tragic death of his colleague, Raymond “DJ Venom” Peart, has cast a pall of gloom over the radio station as well as its employees.
(Jamaica Observer) For Carmen Thomas, an American who now resides in Jamaica, relocating to the Caribbean island was largely influenced by the quality of the country’s food.
(Jamaica Observer) United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia has promised to work assiduously with Jamaica for a direct flight between Jamaica and Phoenix, the capital of the south-western US state of Arizona.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of Tesha Miller, who is accused of ordering the 2008 murder of then chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company, Douglas Chambers.