(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.
(Jamaica Observer) MARRIAGE licence fees are to be increased in line with charges in other jurisdictions, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has announced.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says governments over the years have ended up holding onto assets that drain the public purse because of the sentiments attached to the State retaining ownership.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A man was Monday night shot dead and his teenage son shot and injured when a gunman attacked them in Patrick City, a middle-income community in Kingston.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) WHEN 26-year-old Jermaine Clarke learnt that he was a match for his son Zaiden, who desperately needed a liver transplant, he was beside himself with joy, but more importantly, he was relieved.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) A “high priority” probe is now under way into the disappearance of a Portland man whose female companion has reportedly told investigators that he was last seen two weeks ago in the company of a police constable.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness said that the country is living on past glory and that it was important to invest in the country’s infrastructure – including a new Parliament building – to show that as a people, we are serious about development.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The trial of O’Brian and O’Neil Walters, the brothers charged with the murder of 22-year-old Kahni Erskine who was fatally shot at a gas station on September 22, 2016, started its second day in the St James Circuit Court on Wednesday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government has divested the operation of the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) to Mexican entity, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico S.A.B.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) THREE years ago when Delene Seabourne reunited with her father, her expectation was that the relationship would be long-lasting.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A family dispute in Manchester on the weekend that left one brother dead and one in police custody has also left their mother and four of their siblings homeless after her house was burnt down.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Iconic Jamaican fashion designer Ivy Ralph passed away yesterday at Nuttall Hospital in Cross Roads, St Andrew.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Several criminal charges have been laid against an entertainment coordinator who is accused of raping two female guests at Riu Reggae Hotel in St James.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Embattled real estate attorney, Jennifer Messado, has been struck from the roll of practising attorneys in Jamaica.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) THE police say the caretaker of the Church Of God of Prophecy on Old Harbour Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine, has been held in connection with last month’s murder of pastor James Johnson.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Sections of the island were rattled by a minor tremor around 9.28 p.m.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Comedienne and media personality Elva Ruddock died at the Kingston Public Hospital yesterday morning following what is being described as a brief illness.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) WHEN Kerrian Powell Simpson took her daughter Adrianna Davis to be vaccinated on June 14, 2017, the mother of five thought it would have been just another regular day.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Government Senator Kerensia Morrison has urged Jamaicans overseas to help stem the murder rate in their homeland by stopping the shipping of guns into the country.
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