Jamaica News

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

When Kaydia Levien felt a lump in her right breast earlier this year, she initially thought it was pre menstrual syndrome.

(Jamaica Star) A St Catherine woman was stabbed to death last Saturday, allegedly because of an argument about clothes.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With early voting already under way in a number of states, with others set to start polling later this month, there is a massive push within communities with large numbers of Jamaican and Caribbean nationals to rally support for a number of Jamaicans running for posts in the November 3 elections to elect a president and fill Senate and House seats across the country.

(Jamaica Gleaner) At 45 years old, mother of nine and grandmother of 10, Susan Burke* finds herself begging on the streets of the capital city to provide for her household.

(Jamaica Star) June 27 will forever be etched in the memory of Tavia Bishop, as it signifies the day she received her calling from God who she said chastised her for ‘worshipping’ her pet cat.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The 14 year-old brother of a nine year-old girl who died yesterday, after being shot with a fish gun in St Elizabeth yesterday, is being interviewed by the police. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) President Donald Trump and Joe Biden are entering the final stretch of the campaign in a fierce battle for Latino voters who could sway the results in Florida and determine who wins the White House.

(Jamaica Observer) HOUSEHOLD worker Sharon Ferguson has seemingly, in cricket terms, been given out off a no-ball after spending over 15 years at the crease batting for one of Jamaica’s legends.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 700 people have been murdered across Jamaica since the dreaded respiratory ailment reached local soil.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A well-known and influential Jamaican in Britain, Paulette Simpson, is to be made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). 

(Jamaica Gleaner) As a medical doctor, Roselyn Brown Fuller tries to meet the needs of her demanding profession while raising twin sons, who both recently copped scholarships to attend the top secondary school in Jamaica.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Twenty-year-old barber Tyrique Banton was on Thursday freed of illegal possession of firearm and wounding with intent charges after a witness admitted to giving a false statement.

(Jamaica Star) Neatly tucked away in a valley in Georgia, St Thomas, are two beautiful pools of water referred to as the Copper Hole.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The alleged mastermind of the Uchence Wilson Gang exhaled heavily on Thursday as Chief Justice Bryan Sykes found him and several cronies guilty on several major charges.

(Jamaica Observer) United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed a Member of Parliament with Jamaican roots as the new trade envoy to Jamaica and the rest of the Commonwealth Caribbean.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The 27 migrant farmer workers who reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus at an apple farm in Vermont in the United States last weekend are all Jamaicans, Champlain Orchards confirmed yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) As Virgin Atlantic returns to Jamaica, passengers are protected with high-performance pepper filters capable of filtering viruses, says the airline’s local airport manager, Eaton Hubbard.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Charles Edward James, Jamaica’s oldest citizen, has died. He passed away at his Holly Hill home in Darliston, Westmoreland, on Sunday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Bondholders will likely lose the principal on their investment, worth US$84 million ($12 billion), arising from the September maturation of two Digicel bonds that were refinanced.