(Jamaica Gleaner) The commissioner for Broward County in South Florida, United States, Jamaica-born Dale Holness, says despite calls for relaxed regulations to allow for more law-abiding citizens in Jamaica to acquire a legal firearm for self-preservation, the authorities must be careful those guns do not end up in the wrong hands.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Coordinator of the Jamaican Language Unit at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Joseph Farquharson, has asserted that there is still a stigma attached to Patois, otherwise called Jamaican creole, because it was born out of the island’s colonial past.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite the fact that they can be imprisoned for non-payment of child maintenance fees, nearly 5,000 fathers are being taken to court by Jamaican women for child maintenance every year.
(Jamaica Observer) Opposition Senator Dr Andre Haughton took to social media Friday evening in an attempt to rebuff criticisms about his foot-in-mouth moment in Parliament earlier in the day when, during a presentation in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, he declared his love for female breasts.
(Jamaica Observer) Four Jamaican final year Norman Manley Law School students, with the backing of their coaches, Hanielle Hines and Meridian Kohler, were declared champions of the Cybersecurity Moot at the inaugural Qatar International Cybersecurity Contest on October 3.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The contentious resolutions that sought to bar members of the public from accessing Cabinet documents for 70 years was officially withdrawn from the order paper of the Senate yesterday.
(Jamaica Observer) American comedian, television host, producer, radio personality, actor, and author Steve Harvey arrived in Montego Bay yesterday for the Sagicor Motivational Seminar (SMS) where he will be the closing speaker today.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Opposition Senator Dr Andre Haughton has been hammered by social media users over his Senate blunder this morning as he rose to pay tribute to breast cancer victims and survivors in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
(Jamaica Gleaner) An expert witness yesterday testified that two audio recordings of conversations said to be between the female foreman and Livingston Cain, the juror accused of attempting to bribe the jury in the 2014 trial of dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel, were tampered with.
(Jamaica Observer) The father of the baby who was snatched from Victoria Jubilee Hospital on January 9, 2019, Sinclair Hutton, is dissatisfied with the sentence handed down to the perpetrator yesterday.
(Jamaica Observer) Member of Parliament for St Andrew Eastern Fayval Williams has been hit hard by a series of tragedies which impacted her constituents over the past week, while she was overseas.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States Government has moved a motion for the court to dismiss the suit by four Jamaican fishermen who have accused the US Coast Guard (USCG) of holding them captive in inhumane conditions for over a month.
(Jamaica Observer) One Jamaican student studying in Canada is encouraging her countrymen to consider a similar option, a move she says would bring valuable results.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) is reporting that the Haile Selassie student who was struck by lightning at an ISSA/Manning Cup match yesterday is recovering from his ordeal.
(Jamaica Observer) A 37-year-old father, Oral Grey, was yesterday morning shot dead as he walked back to his motor vehicle just minutes after escorting his daughter into the Care Bear Early Childhood Development School in St Andrew Southern.
(Jamaica Observer) Louie Rankin’s Jamaica manager, Lexxi, has confirmed that the dancehall deejay/actor died Monday evening as a result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash in Canada.
(Jamaica Observer) People’s National Party (PNP) President Peter Phillips is expressing sadness at the death of former west central St James Member of Parliament (MP) Patrick Rosegreen.
(Jamaica Observer) Miss China, Alice Li, was crowned Miss Global International 2019 during a glitzy ceremony at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James on Saturday night.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s top prosecutor has defended the decision by one of her deputies to withdraw rape charges against a man who was allegedly linked through DNA evidence to a string of sexual attacks in Red Hill, St Andrew, in 2015.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Sherine Kidd was a picture of anguish, staring into space yesterday as she processed news that the body of her son, nine-year-old Kyle Richards, had been found.
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