Jamaica News

(Jamaica Observer) A man, said to be a member of the notorious Klansman Gang, was yesterday afternoon shot dead while travelling in a taxi on Wellington Street in the old capital.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach in Florida are among the first areas to receive Jamaican mangoes in the United States.

(Jamaica Observer) From frustrated ghetto youth to Internet sensation, Kemoy Lindsay has entered the realms of online stardom after one of his tweets went viral last Sunday and created an international buzz.

(Jamaica Observer) The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today announced that it will be suing the United States Coast Guard on behalf of four Jamaican fishermen who were held for five weeks in 2017 on suspicion of smuggling marijuana.

(Jamaica Observer) Two policemen who were on trial for murder after they were implicated in the controversial ‘death squad’ probe, are now rejoicing after they were yesterday both found not guilty of killing a man in May Pen, Clarendon, seven years ago.

(Jamaica Observer) The fear that has gripped legitimate residents of Caribbean Terrace in recent months, because of their unwanted neighbours, turned into a nightmare last Friday when a family was attacked in their house by an armed man believed to be one of the squatters.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St James police have arrested and charged the man who allegedly doused 74-year-old Evelyn Blair, of Lima district, St James, with a flammable liquid and then set her on fire following a failed attempt to rape her.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican -born rapper Bushwick Bill died Sunday at the age of 52.

(Jamaica Observer) Dujon DaCosta was killed before he could take up a scholarship at Excelsior High School where his football skills were in demand.

(Jamaica Gleaner) One of Jamaica’s top marine biologists, Dr Dayne Buddo, has been invited to speak at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York City, USA, this week.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago Arthur Williams is urging Jamaicans entering the twin-island republic to be mindful of the communities they enter, even while assuring there is no reason to be fearful in the wake of the recent kidnapping of businessman Yohan Chin.

(Trinidad Express) Just under a week after he casually walked out of Piarco International Airport despite being denied entry into this country, 29-year-old O’Shane Bailey has been held.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Come mid-July, 150 persons will be out of work in St Thomas as manufacturing conglomerate Seprod turns off the lights at the Golden Grove Sugar Factory.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is reporting that the recently concluded first phase of its Dead Elector Removal Exercise identified 106,000 dead electors. 

(Jamaica Observer) Siblings Jamelia and Javone Leslie, who had pleaded guilty to the gruesome murder of a woman and her two young children in Mavis Bank, St Andrew, last July, have been sentenced to a total of 88 years in prison.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It appears that Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte is not in support of the Government’s consideration to legalise obeah in Jamaica.

A non-profit organisation in Atlanta, United States, is reporting that from December last year to January 2019, it rescued six Jamaican victims of human trafficking.

(Jamaica Observer) A woman, seven months pregnant, who was reportedly attacked on a roadway and beaten by the father of her child, to the point where she urinated on herself, is requesting $1million in compensation.

(Trinidad Newsday) RELATIVES of Jamaican businessman Yohan Chin have paid an undisclosed sum of ransom to his kidnappers who released him on Tuesday, police confirmed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Salvation Army International has opened an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and corruption at a branch here, the communication arm of the organisation has said.