Jamaica News

(Jamaica Observer) Sixteen-year-old Akacia Quest, a ward of the state of the Mary’s Child Children’s Home, and her one-year-old son Daniel Francis have been reported missing.

(Jamaica Observer) Ackaisha Green, the 24-year-old mother who was ridiculed by her mother for turning over to the police a bag of cash she found in an ATM two weeks ago, is now the recipient of a flood of kindness from Jamaicans here and abroad.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican Olympians Kemar Bailey-Cole and Ristananna Tracey have announced their engagement.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans who abandon their relatives at public hospital may soon face legal action from the State.

(Jamaica Observer) A plane had to make an emergency landing at Miami International Airport after the pilots reported a damaged tire.

(Jamaica Observer) Between 2013 and 2018, a total of 22 women were arrested for having sexual intercourse with boys under 16 years old.

(Jamaica Observer) When 15-year-old Cleon Morgan said farewell to his friends at Penwood High School yesterday, no one thought it would be his final goodbye.

(Jamaica Observer) Two Wednesdays ago, Ackaisha Green was inside the ATM at Central Police Station on East Queen Street in downtown Kingston when she stumbled upon a stash of cash suspected to be in the millions of dollars.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Research commissioned by the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) in March 2019 has concluded that between seven and 30 per cent of the population are believed to be lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender (LGBT), and a large majority of employers (68 per cent) were willing to report violence and discrimination against them.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St James Municipal Corporation is pressing ahead with plans to bulldoze a cemetery along Jimmy Cliff Boulevard in the western resort city of Montego Bay and turn it into a parking lot.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are reporting that the driver who was involved in a hit-and-run that claimed the life of two-year-old Sasha-Gay Dennis on the Howard Cooke Highway in Montego Bay, St James last month has been charged.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Chinese Ambassador Tian Qi has praised Jamaica’s decision to sign on to the mammoth Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), saying that it has opened a new era of mutual development and cooperation between the two nations.

(Jamaica Observer) The cash reward for information on the suspect in the killing of a Vermont woman last year has been increased.

(Jamaica Observer) A Clarendon businesswoman yesterday provided details about a frightening three-hour experience she had with armed, masked men who broke into her home and robbed her, her daughter, and partner of two guns, a large sum of money, clothes, and other items.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A deportee who resides in Woodland district in the parish of Hanover is among five persons taken into custody in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Trisha Morris, whose body was discovered on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Observer) Five men have been taken into custody for questioning as police intensify their probe into the death of 11-year-old Trisha Morris of Woodland district, Hanover.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The body of an 11-year-old girl who was reported missing four days ago was discovered yesterday with signs of a brutal sexual attack, a gut-wrenching discovery on the eve of Child Month in Jamaica.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A St James taxi operator, who first held his eight-year-old son hostage and then tried to kill him, was shot dead by the police following a bizarre six-hour stand-off in Comfort district, near Anchovy in St James, yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An investigation by the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has singled out Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Daryl Vaz, for strong criticism in relation to the divestment of the Rooms on the Beach Hotel and beach lands in St Ann accusing him of undue influence.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Trinidadian recording artiste Fay-Ann Lyons, in her song Girls, sings, “Carnival is woman, carnival is girls, girls, girls”.