(JAMAICA OBSERVER) THERE was chaos yesterday in Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, after approximately two hours of heavy rain turned several roads in into waterways and leaving hundreds of motorists stranded for hours.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Three men, said to be gangsters, were killed during a shootout with the police in Trelawny, on Monday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) says construction of the state-of-the-art beach park at the Closed Harbour Beach in St James will begin in January 2019.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Child Protection and Family Services Agency’s legal officer, Nichole Chambers, has said that the failure of key countries such as the United States, United Kingdom and Canada to recognise Jamaica’s ratification of the Child Abduction Convention of 1980 limits how much the agency can do to rectify cases where children have been abducted and taken to foreign countries by a parent.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith is reassuring concerned members of the public that no Jamaican students were hurt during recent protests at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus.
(Jamaica Observer) Residents of Top Hill, St Ann’s Bay, were devastated yesterday at the gruesome discovery of the body of 14-year-old Raven Wilson in a wooded area of the community.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Sections of Jamaica was rattled by what is believed to be an earthquake a short while ago.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) It happened four years ago, but she would only speak publicly about it now.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A Canadian man has been reported missing in Rosehall, St James.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says 2018 is poised to be another excellent year for Jamaica’s cruise ship sector, with vessels from the world’s largest cruise companies expected to call at the island’s main ports.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has indicated that his administration is exploring ways to ensure that its two main anti-crime measures do not dampen the Christmas spirit for Jamaicans.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A Jamaican man who authorities said masterminded a lottery scam that defrauded at least 95 Americans out of more than US$5.8 million was sentenced yesterday to six years in federal prison.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Norman Tomlinson was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for the killing of former journalist Peter Abrahams.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Kingston resident Kimani Ramon Anderson, who singlehandedly and heroically rescued three young girls, all wards of the State, from a burning building at the Walker’s Place of Safety in January, will receive the Badge of Honour for Gallantry from the Government.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A man who attempted to get a second passport in a fake name and was arrested at the airport while on his way to Bermuda left individuals inside the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court, including the judge, in awe after the eloquent manner in which he apologised and begged for a second chance.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The 2018 Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey has found that more men than women across the island are rubbing on the bleaching cream, and male development specialist Marlon Moore is not surprised.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The leadership of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is insisting that there will be no increase in tuition fees to reflect the regional institution’s recent placing among the top five per cent of the world’s best institutions as published by the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The usually cheerful Kingston College (KC) family has been mourning heavily following the deaths of at least six students and the hospitalisation and incarceration of two others in recent months.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson is urging Jamaicans to invest in reinforcing structures to withstand a high-magnitude earthquake.
(Jamaica Gleaner) President of The Mico University College Dr Asburn Pinnock estimates that nearly 30 per cent of the country’s children have a special need and is, therefore, hoping that a diagnostic centre in each parish will soon become a reality.
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