Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Culture Minister, Olivia Grange, is encouraging Jamaicans to observe ‘nine night’ in honour of the late former Prime Minister Edward Seaga.

(Jamaica Gleaner) For more than a century, the practice of obeah has been illegal under Jamaican law.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A new mandatory requirement for Jamaicans and other citizens across the globe to disclose all the social-media platforms they have visited in the last five years, along with their user names, when they apply for American visas will have a “chilling effect” on free speech, a Jamaica-born immigration attorney based in the United States (US) has said.

(Jamaica Observer) A teacher who was chopped and injured in the parish last Thursday, allegedly by her child’s father, is still undergoing treatment in hospital.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — Police were, up to late yesterday evening, combing the home of popular Montego Bay businessman Raymond Kerr after his decomposing body was found with multiple stab wounds and his throat slashed.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON and St Andrew Parish Judge Maxine Ellis has sent a strong warning to individuals who dress inappropriately for court, after turning away two accused who were clad in extremely tight pants last Tuesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The body of former Prime Minister Edward Seaga arrived in Jamaica yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Five young men, including four high school students, were left nursing injuries after gunmen sprayed a popular hang-out spot in their Manchester community with bullets on Thursday.

(Jamaica Observer) The Manchester police were last night hunting taxi operator Shawn McPherson, who is accused of chopping his infant son to death and wounding the boy’s mother yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) ST JAMES, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness, says the Government is giving consideration to implementing a gun amnesty as part of measures to curb gun-related crimes in the country.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Yesterday’s sitting of the Primary Exit Profile Grade 4 Performance Task test at Ramble Primary in Manchester had to be postponed as the school community was left traumatised by an attack on a teacher and her eight-month-old baby.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With an expression of shock as he collected his medal, The Gleaner’s Children’s Own 2019 Spelling Bee champion Darian Douglas has landed a spot in finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the United States.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A British woman and her Jamaican boyfriend who are charged with trying to smuggle five pounds of cocaine disguised in packs of seasoning out of the island were remanded when they appeared in the St James Parish Court on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) After 31 years behind bars without standing trial and having not entered a guilty plea for the murder charge levelled against him, 61-year-old Walter Blackstock is set to be a free man, following a declaration on Tuesday by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn that her office will not be embarking on a trial of the matter given the circumstances.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Entertainer Daniel Rose, who was charged with the December 2011 shooting of his neighbour in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew, was today freed in the Gun Court in downtown Kingston. 

(Jamaica Observer) Academic and political commentator Martin Henry died suddenly last night, sending shock waves throughout the media and education fraternities.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced this afternoon that State protocol has already been engaged, and that the body of former Prime Minister Edward Seaga will be flown back to Jamaica “at the earliest possible  time”.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Edward Philip George Seaga, Jamaica’s fifth Prime Minister and longest-serving Member of Parliament, has died.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Edward Phillip George Seaga, Jamaica’s fifth Prime Minister and longest serving Member of Parliament, has died.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A police corporal this morning allegedly shot and killed his wife at their house in Tower Isle, St Mary.