Jamaica News

A Jamaica-born woman said she is counting her blessings after she was shot in the head while sleeping in her apartment in Orlando, Florida, on September 6.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Seeking to reside in Jamaica with his Canadian husband, LGBT activist and attorney-at-law Maurice Tomlinson has taken his same-sex marriage case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

(Jamaica Observer) Japhene Campbell wept bitterly as guidance counsellors, police and clergymen encircled her, singing praises unto God.

(Jamaica Observer) The People’s National Party (PNP) last night approved the recommendation of Krystal Tomlinson to be named the West Rural St Andrew candidate in the next general election.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government has signed a new bilateral security cooperation agreement with the United States (US) that will assist in the fight against transnational criminal activities.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Lt Com Devon Foster was a picture of fulfilment as he spoke to The Gleaner aboard a vessel in the Kingston Harbour yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prominent Montego Bay businessman Patrick Chung was yesterday freed of all 11 sexual assault charges in relation to a woman who accused him of having sex with her over a nine-year period, beginning in 1976 when she was 13 years old.

(Jamaica Observer) Eleven-year-old Clan Carthy Primary School student Georgenae Pinnock was a picture of shock and grief as she told her mother about horrific accident that claimed the life of a schoolmate yesterday afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A stunning revelation that the Caribbean region, led by Jamaica, is the amputation capital of the world, due to poor foot care, has been made by a local The University of the West Indies (UWI) professor.

(Jamaica Star) Songbird Tessanne Chin has tied the knot with Brandon, the father of her unborn child.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Education Ministry has confirmed that it has received “isolated reports” of the hand, foot and mouth disease across the island.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents in Cox Piece in deep rural St Mary have dubbed as Moses the day-old baby retrieved from a pit latrine in the community on Thursday morning, likening him to the iconic biblical figure who was saved and catapulted to greatness.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Andrew South police are hunting for a man in connection with the mob killing of a motorist on Ricketts Crescent in Kingston 13 on Thursday afternoon during heavy showers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A newborn was discovered in a pit latrine in Cox Piece, St Mary this morning and later brought to the Gayle Health Centre in the parish.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James —Not even a heavy afternoon downpour could further delay the long-awaited ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the US$43 million Western Children and Adolescents Hospital on the grounds of the Cornwall Regional Hospital, yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In a stunning revelation on Wednesday, former Contractor General Dirk Harrison detailed how the pockets of local contractors are raided by politicians, the police, and dons although already faced with stiff competition from foreigners who enjoy vast concessions.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of Mountain View are fearful that yesterday’s daring daylight murder of a reputed lieutenant of an eastern St Andrew crime lord could trigger a series of reprisals in the violence-plagued community.

(Jamaica Observer) Chairman of the Guardsman Group, Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Benjamin, today offered condolences to the family and friends of Paul Bruce, a security officer of the company who was killed in St Lucia last Friday, October 18.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has indicated that due process was followed to allow American artiste Kanye West and his 120-strong gospel choir the right to stage last Friday’s Sunday Service concert at Emancipation Park in New Kingston.

(Jamaica Observer) Eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt, along with Glenford Christian, founder and chairman of Cari-Med Group of Companies, will be bestowed with the 2019 International Humanitarian Award this Friday, October 25 in New York City.