Jamaica News

(Jamaica Star) A herb which is allegedly treating persons infected with COVID-19 is now in high demand in Portland and St Thomas.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Christopher and Andrea Jacobs were eagerly anticipating celebrating son Kristophe’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination results at the family home in Sydenham Gardens, just outside Spanish Town, on Tuesday evening.

(Jamaica Observer) THE Ministry of Education, in the wake of complaints from students and parents regarding perceived irregularities in the just-released Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams, says it is investigating the concerns.

(Jamaica Observer) Mastercard today announced that it is partnering exclusively with Grammy winning reggae artiste, Koffee, as its official brand ambassador in Jamaica.

(Jamaica Star) Judith and Leighton Sharras had plans to celebrate their daughter Xanthe’s success in Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) when the portal opened last night.

(Jamaica Observer) Investigators are hot on the heels of the adults behind a video circulating on social media, which features a child, not older than five years old, who is being encouraged to drink and smoke as part of an apparent birthday celebration.

(Jamaica Observer) A major manhunt is now on for a vendor whom police believe ordered the fatal shooting of two sisters in Mona Commons, St Andrew, last Thursday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Knowing the opposition from his dad which would meet his decision to purchase a motorcycle, Constable Kamal Foster waited more than a month before breaking the secret to his dad.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Janet Thompson*, who has recovered from COVID-19, as well as her two-year-old child, still regrets that she never did enough to protect them all from the virus.

(Jamaica Observer) For nine-year-old Zoevaughn Reid the safety of his brother, aged two, took primacy as he, his mother and sister, now four, hurriedly escaped fire at their house in Hatfield near here, last Tuesday afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Attorney-at-law Sherene Golding Campbell has taken her place in the Upper House of Jamaica’s Parliament at a historic time for the legislature, which currently has the highest number of women sitting at any one time.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Mark John* is alive again. For weeks, he stared at dead skin in his darkened palms as he inched closer and closer to depression.

(Jamaica Star) A contract killer on Monday detailed how he lured Tonia McDonald, wife of popular Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald to a deserted roadway in the parish and watched as the man he sub-contracted stabbed her repeatedly.

(Jamaica Observer) Thirty-two-year-old Richard Scott was charged with housebreaking and larceny following an incident at a home on DeCarteret Road in Mandeville last Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Fifty-eight-year old deaf-mute Patrick Duncan lives in an abandoned car in a section of Arnett Gardens known as Mexico, a situation that residents are appealing for Jamaicans to open their hearts to and help change.

(Jamaica Star) A St Thomas man who accused police of stealing $200,000 from his home after they searched his property, was proven wrong after he found the money in the same drawer he had been keeping it in.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Little London Police in Westmoreland have charged a 70-year-old suspected con artist who allegedly fleeced unsuspecting persons of more than $1 million.

(Jamaica Observer) Thirty-year-old Denroy Whitely of Dalton district in St Elizabeth was arrested and charged for wounding with intent following an incident in his community on September 10.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica-born Andrea Ajibade was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer one month before the completion of her daughter’s chemotherapy treatment.

(Jamaica Star) Lucile Brown Ashman celebrated her 103rd birthday last Saturday at her home in Cross Roads, Kingston.