Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican ex-pastor, could face deportation from the US after serving a 30-year sentence for rape. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Fifteen-year-old Saneeka Leechman, a student of The Queen’s School in Kingston, was making plans to surprise her father, 42-year-old Romeo Leechman, on his upcoming birthday, but this will never come to pass as a land slippage caused by heavy rains destroyed their frail house yesterday in Shooters Hill St Andrew, crushing and killing her father.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Last week, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency announced that this is a historic year for them after a record number of wards became eligible for universities.

(Jamaica Observer) Telecommunica-tions firm Digicel on Tuesday launched itself as a “digital operator” and marked the occasion by delivering a suite of eight apps and a promise of powerful digital experiences.

(Jamaica Star) For 25 years, Beverly ‘Tashy’ Burry, who is blind, has been fending for herself by working as a hairdresser and craftswoman in her community of Tivoli Gardens.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Naomi Campbell has enjoyed being on her own during the lockdown.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Parents across Jamaica are making the effort to assist their children get accustomed to the online method of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Beverley Dressikie of Huddersfield, St Mary, is one of them.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The November 3 United States general elections could be a history-making one for Jackie Gordon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Portland Municipal Corporation has been plunged into mourning following the passing of Irvin Brown, the councillor for the Fellowship division in Portland Eastern.

(Jamaica Star) David Reid, a jovial tailor who loved his rum, died a terrible death last Friday after he was boxed to the ground, allegedly by a teenager who was engaged in an argument with a shopkeeper in Pisgah, a community located some 30 minutes from New Market in St Elizabeth.

(Jamaica Gleaner) On April 20 this year, George Jon-Andrew Bryan had just returned from the skate park and climbed on to the roof of his Boston, Portland, home to watch firefighters battle a wildfire that was consuming the hills.

Flocks of yellow-billed cuckoos, which normally migrate from North to South America to escape winter, have been seen in Jamaica in recent weeks, an unusual spectacle which Terrestrial Biologist Damion Whyte believes is a result of Hurricane Delta.

(Jamaica Observer) SIBLINGS Dwayne and Feleca Jonas are now both waiting to be called to the Jamaican Bar Association, having recently successfully completed their two-year tenure together at Norman Manley Law School (NMLS).

(Jamaica Gleaner) With two weeks to go for what is being described as one of the most important presidential elections in the history of the United States, Jamaicans in the US have high expectations of whoever takes the White House.

(Jamaica Gleaner) There is not a large Jamaican presence in Lake Charles, Louisiana – the section of the southern state that was bludgeoned by Hurricane Laura six weeks ago.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two bullet-riddled bodies with heads severed, which were found at Plum Lane off Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew, have triggered an intense probe by senior investigators of the Major Investigation Division who are working diligently to piece together whatever evidence or clues they can find to nab the perpetrators of the heinous murders which left the community in shock.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s first state-run shelter for victims of domestic violence is ready.

(Jamaica Star) James Smith, 75, started losing his sight in 2010.

(Jamaica Star) Emergency responders had to pull a man from underneath rubble after the roof of his house collapsed on him.

(Jamaica Star) A young girl was this afternoon rescued from floodwaters in the Sandy Gully in the Bay Farm Road area of St Andrew.