(Jamaica Observer) News that Caribbean neighbour Barbados has indicated that it is “prepared to recognise a form of civil unions for couples of the same gender” and will be going to the country of almost 300,000 citizens in a referendum to settle the matter has been met with revulsion by key Jamaican church groups.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Come October 5, distance learning will become the reality for tens of thousands of students, and Jamaican Shamir Saddler is hoping to help schools improve their educational and administrative processes.
(Jamaica Star) Karen scrolls through her cell phone as she lays on her bed beside her husband, Shawn.
(Jamaica Observer) A Corporate Area schoolteacher is heaping praises on members of the local medical community today after a frightening brush with what she believed was the dangerous novel coronavirus.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The fresh probe launched into the controversial death of Jamaica-born Rasheed Edwards has forced some residents of a New Jersey township to raise questions over the transparency of the police and post-mortem reports.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Twelve-year-old twins, Jay-Myer and Jemila Auld, can be considered the proverbial ‘peas in a pod’.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Shasha-Marie Williams could have been a pregnant teen, because that was the norm in Flankers, St James, where she grew up; while Shellian Blagrove was expected to scorn her problem-plagued community of Mt Salem.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica-born Palm Beach judge Renatha Francis has withdrawn her nomination to become a member of the Florida Supreme Court after the court, in a unanimous decision on Friday, ruled that she was not constitutionally qualified to be appointed.
(Jamaica Gleaner) It will take at least another two weeks for the police to complete investigations and present a case to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) into last month’s surprise birthday party for sprint legend Usain Bolt that reportedly breached COVID-19 risk management protocols.
(Jamaica Star) The owner of one of Clarendon’s most feared goat is trying to part ways with the animal, which he said could take the place of any guard dog around the home.
(Jamaica Observer) Legendary reggae singer Frederick “Toots” Hibbert died in the University Hospital of the West Indies in St Andrew on Friday evening.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Regional medical epidemiologist at the Western Regional Health Authority, Dr Maung Aung, says the country continues to see an increase in the incidence of prostate cancer.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s queen of cutwork embroidery, the doyenne of fashion, Olga Francis Keane is dead.
(Jamaica Star) Some church leaders have been giving thanks that their congregations have still managed to stay afloat amid the economic fallout brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Jamaica Observer) Lightning and tragedy struck in the deep rural community of Keynsham, just outside Balaclava on Wednesday, leaving two families devastated and residents in shock following the deaths of 14-year-old Ricardo Fisher and 30-year-old Sheldon Caine.
(Jamaica Gleaner) As COVID-19 numbers continue to mount in Jamaica, the Government is expecting the arrival of infrastructure to build out a field hospital within two weeks.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Tragedy rocked the rural district of Keynsham, St Elizabeth, yesterday after a lightning strike killed a teenager and a farmer under an avocado tree.
(Jamaica Star) Retailers and shopkeepers across the island are reportedly rationing chicken due to a shortage of poultry meat in the market place.
(Jamaica Gleaner) DNA samples taken from six persons of interest and close associates of murdered American model Desiree Gibbon have not led to the arrest or identity of the New Yorker’s killer three years after her death.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton says based on modelling, up to 1.5 million Jamaicans may contract COVID-19.
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