Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) James Bond lead actor Daniel Craig was injured while filming the popular movie in Jamaica and has been flown to the United States for treatment.

(Jamaica Observer) Since kicking off his career eight years ago, JahDore has not made any major headlines until now.

(Jamaica Observer) What was supposed to be a day of celebration for Bridgette “Tutty Gran Rosie” Bailey quickly turned to mourning yesterday morning when her son Danekey Bailey was shot and killed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The May Pen High School is now in mourning following the murder of 17-year-old Stefica Smith.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A total of 10,626 Jamaicans overstayed their United States (US) non-immigrant tourism/business (B1/B2) visas between October 1, 2017, and September 30, 2018, the US Department of Homeland Security has reported.

(Jamaica Observer) One man has been hospitalised following an early morning robbery attempt at Andrew Memorial United church in Mandeville, Jamaica yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) The Ganja Growers Producers Association Jamaica (GGPAJ) says it is strongly opposed to the Government’s embrace of hemp cultivation here and has made a number of demands designed to protect the local cannabis industry from what the group sees as a threat.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Had Antonette Bernard heeded the warnings of the police to leave a community drink-up in York Town, Clarendon, on Saturday night, she might have lived to enjoy Mother’s Day with her daughters yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are reporting that a woman was killed along the Dunn’s River main road in St Ann yesterday after a tree branch fell on the vehicle in which she was travelling.

(Jamaica Observer) The woman who found a large sum of money in an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) on East Queen Street in downtown Kingston has stoutly defended her mother who called her “stupid” for returning the cash.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid mounting public condemnation for abuse of power and human-rights breaches and a multiagency investigation, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has denied a reggae singer’s allegations that the police trimmed his Rastafarian children and fed them meat.

(Jamaica Observer) Following last Friday’s release of Country For Sale by Grammy-winning reggae act Buju Banton, his first track since being released from a US prison where he served time for a drug trafficking conviction, the artiste and his team are already looking towards the release of an album within the next three months.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In an alleged case of abuse of power and violation of human rights, conscious reggae artiste JahDore, whose real name is Sean McDonald, said members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) forcibly took his Rastafarian children from their home, trimmed their locks and fed them meat.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Detectives in Clarendon are seeking the public’s assistance to locate Andy Williams of Desire district, Clarendon who is believed to have taken six-month-old Fredericka Tulloch from her house in the community on Monday.

 (Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican man has been arrested and charged in relation to the deaths of two women whose bodies were found in a luxury Miami condominium on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Observer) The probe into allegations of fraudulent activities at the Ministry of Education and connected agencies has resulted in former Minister of Education Rule Reid now being the subject of a criminal investigation.

(Jamaica Observer) Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga has been hospitalised in Miami, Florida, where he is being treated for an undisclosed ailment.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Simeon Anthony Sutherland, the 20-year-old man charged with the murder of Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield, was today granted $800,000 bail when he appeared before the Portland Parish Court.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are seeking a construction worker who yesterday shot and injured two of his colleagues at the work site of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) where rehabilitation is under way.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Eleven Edwin High School students have been admitted to hospital after the taxi in which they were travelling plunged over the Grantham Bridge en route to their schoool in Frankfield, Clarendon on Wednesday morning.