Jamaica News

(Jamaica Observer) The body believed to be that of missing attorney-at-law William Hines, 65, was found in a sink hole on his farm in St James yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Senior sleuths from the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Major Investigation Division remained clueless up to last night about the circumstances that led to the death of Member of Parliament (MP) for Portland Eastern, Dr Lynvale Bloomfield yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) The 53rd annual Grammy Awards was held on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, in the United States.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Member of Parliament for East Portland Dr Lynvale Bloomfield has been found stabbed to death at his home in Passley Gardens.

(Jamaica Observer) A day after her two-year-old twin girls perished in a blaze on Grant’s Pen Road in St Andrew, 22-year-old Osheen Rogers, who is being haunted by images of her precious toddlers perishing in the fire, is questioning why no one could help to save her children.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has moved to explain the significant fall in the value of the local currency against the benchmark United States dollar in the recent weeks. 

(Jamaica Observer) Two-year-old twin girls Naieelia and Nihailia Pinnock perished last night in a blaze in the Grants Pen, St Andrew.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “So, now that you’re rich, is there anyone you’re going to make sure you never talk to again?”

(Jamaica Observer) Donique Anderson is finally a police officer. The Trewlawny native who was the only woman among the 196 recruits is the epitome of triumph over struggle.

(Jamaica Observer) Christopher Townsend, attorney-at-law representing Elephant Man, said his client will be at an undisclosed location today for “talks” with members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force.

(Jamaica Observer) Up-and-coming reggae singer Mortimer was freed of rape in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Assistant Superintendent Dahlia Garrick, head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Corporate Communications Unit (CCU), is confirming that investigations are under way to determine whether a firearm in a video involving a popular dancehall artiste and a woman is real.

(Jamaica Observer) The overall state of West Indies cricket has been a source of irritation, agony and pain for millions of West Indian fans in the Caribbean and the Diaspora, not the least of them being retired Prime Minister of Jamaica, PJ Patterson.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The government will be using a near $2 billion loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to finance the training of Jamaicans for high-skilled jobs.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Big-game hunters from the United States are trying to get permission to head to Jamaica to hunt the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), which is reportedly breeding at an alarming rate and emerging as a major threat to the natural environment and agriculture, especially in the eastern parish of Portland.

(Jamaica Observer) Freed reggae artiste Buju Banton has been given a resounding vote of confidence by retired Jamaica Prime Minister PJ Patterson.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican man has come forward as the winner of last month’s US$298 million Powerball lottery jackpot in the United States.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Trial judge Justice Vivene Harris had strong words for murder-convict police constable Collis ‘Chucky’ Brown in handing down sentencing yesterday afternoon in the Home Circuit Court.

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), the world’s number one performing stock exchange, launched the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE) as a move to address social inequity at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday night.

(Jamaica Observer) R Kelly has come under fire in the United States after the Lifetime channel released a six-part docu-series, Surviving R Kelly, on January 3.