Jamaica News

Bianca Findlay and Rasheed Bramwell in happy times.

Jamaica: Young couple killed in crash with tour bus

(Jamaica Observer) The lives of a young, common law couple ended tragically after the motor car in which they were travelling collided with a tour bus along the section of the North Coast Highway which passes through Spring Hill, Trelawny, yesterday morning.

Bermudan national flees cocaine charge in Jamaica

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St James Parish Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of a Bermudan national who should have appeared in court on cocaine charges on Thursday but who had somehow managed to leave Jamaica despite a stop-order forbidding his departure.

Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett

Jamaica under scrutiny over sexual assaults of US tourists at top resorts

(JAMAICA GLEANER) Jamaica’s tourism sector has been left with the difficult task of trying to cauterise serious damage being done to its reputation, following an investigative story published in the international media, which outlined terrifying incidents of sexual assault on several United States tourists at some of the country’s leading resorts.

University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus

Jamaica: 800 UWI students deregistered over tuition fees

(JAMAICA GLEANER) Approximately 800 new students of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, have been deregistered for failing to pay their tuition fee or arranging a payment scheme, and there are claims that more than twice that number of returning students have met the same fate.

Kerensia Morrison

Jamaican senator voices support for Spice’s new ‘bleached look’

(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Last week’s social media frenzy over Dancehall star Spice’s new “bleached look” spilled over into the opening of the Senate’s annual “State of the Nation Debate” on Friday, as government member, Senator Kerensia Morrison, made no bones about her support for the controversial DJ.

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