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Delcita Anderson, mother of Kerry Ann Collins, pleads for help for her daughter on Thursday. Collins was badly burned in a kitchen explosion at her Palm Grove Court home on Friday, November 27, resulting in third-degree burns.
Delcita Anderson, mother of Kerry Ann Collins, pleads for help for her daughter on Thursday. Collins was badly burned in a kitchen explosion at her Palm Grove Court home on Friday, November 27, resulting in third-degree burns.

Jamaican woman clings to life freak explosion in kitchen

(Jamaica Gleaner) Tears streamed down the face of Delcita Anderson as she stomped and yelled inside her Kingston home, cursing the misfortune that had left her daughter, Kerry Ann Collins, clinging to life with third-degree burns after a freak explosion in her kitchen.

Deshawn Ashley, 14, was shot dead in Christiana on December 2.
Deshawn Ashley, 14, was shot dead in Christiana on December 2.

Jamaica: Christmas grief as 14-year-old slain in Christiana

(Jamaica Gleaner) The sound of bullets ripping through their loved one and the wails following their impact will forever scar the memory of relatives and residents of Brockery, Christiana, who recalled Wednesday’s shooting death of 14-year-old Deshawn Ashley.

San Diego police sued for wrongful death of Jamaican

(Jamaica Gleaner) The family of Oral Nunis Sr, a Jamaican man who died in the custody of the Chula Vista police, has sued the San Diego city government and the police department for what they are alleging is his wrongful death at the hands of officers.

In this September 26, 2012 photo, the Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas cruise ship is docked in Falmouth, Trelawny, as vendors prepare to sell clothes, souvenirs and other goods to tourists.

Stressed Jamaican cruise workers face tough decisions amid lingering uncertainty

(Jamaica Gleaner) With no indication as to when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will give the green light for cruise activity to return to US waters and an expectation that COVID-19 protocols will reduce the number of guests on each voyage, Jamaican cruise line workers whose tour of duty ended prematurely at the start of the outbreak are worried that their jobs could be under threat.

Nigela Purboo

Jamaican couple in Canada launches project to help black grads

(Jamaica Gleaner) Black university and college graduates who struggle to find internship opportunities, mentors, or employment in major corporate companies across Canada will now receive support through an initiative launched last month by two entrepreneurs – Wayne and Nigela Purboo, who boast Jamaican heritage.

Persons are now paying three times the standard cost of fares to travel from Papine to Stand Up Hill along the Gordon Town main road, which has been affected by a breakaway.

$1 trillion to fix Jamaica’s roads

(Jamaica Gleaner) The $1-trillion bill to efficiently upgrade Jamaica’s roads requires a paradigm shift in construction and maintenance policy and provision of a credible budget, National Works Agency (NWA) Chief Executive E.

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