Jamaica News

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican authorities have seized an estimated US$80 million worth of cocaine from a ship at the port of Kingston in one of the country’s biggest-ever drug busts, authorities said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) United States law enforcement now has on its radar key US players in the criminal underworld who continue to fuel Jamaica’s crime problem.

 (Jamaica Gleaner) United States law enforcement now has on its radar key US players in the criminal underworld who continue to fuel Jamaica’s crime problem.

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness renewed states of emergency in eight parishes on Wednesday to control an ongoing threat of crime linked to gang activity in the Caribbean nation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) imposed a 20-day ultimatum on the Jamaican Government after it failed to respond to the body’s request for information about precautionary measures taken to prevent health and other dangers posed by bauxite mining to residents in several St Ann communities.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR) says it cannot support the pre-charge bail provision in the new Bail Act now before a joint select committee of Parliament for review.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans have been urged to temper their appetite for foreign-produced essential oils and to invest in local production to tap a global industry valued at US$8.8 billion and which is expected to exceed US$15 billion by 2027.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The seven states of emergency (SOEs) which were declared in sections of the island plagued with high crime rates on November 15 are set to fizzle on November 29 after the Government failed to win opposition support for their extension in the Senate yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With a six per cent increase in murders as at November 13 this year, the Andrew Holness-led administration has declared states of public emergency (SOEs) in seven parishes to cauterise the bloodletting across the country that has claimed at least 1,360 lives to date. 

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness today declared a state of public emergency in parts of the capital Kingston and in some central and western parishes in an attempt to control rising crime linked to gang violence.

(Jamaican Gleaner) The St James police have confirmed that a body fished from the sea in Reading, St James, on Friday is that of social media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An unfolding sex scandal has rocked the Jamaican army after more than a dozen female soldiers reportedly came forward with allegations that they were victims of sexual assault by a high-ranking officer.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Broadcasting Commission has imposed an immediate ban on the playing of music that, among other things, promotes or glorifies lottery scamming, the use of the illicit drug Molly, and illegal guns.

(Jamaica Observer) A teen whose father and brother were murdered months apart in Whithorn, Westmoreland, was killed by gunmen in the same community on Saturday night.

(Jamaica Observer) The teenage boy convicted of raping, buggering, and strangling to death a nine-year-old girl in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 23 years and nine months.

(Jamaican Observer) As outrage intensifies over the alleged rape of a student at a St Mary high school, the victim’s family has opted to pull her from the public education system.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago are only paying a fraction of the sum agreed on to fund The University of the West Indies (UWI), owing the regional institution approximately US$48 million as at July 31, 2021.

(Jamaica Observer) DEAN of the Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica (TCJ) Dr Garth Anderson is urging Parliament to examine Britain’s rationale for abolishing the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE) before it forges ahead with a legal framework which is seen as punitive and egregious to some extent.

(Jamaican Gleaner) Trinidadian Tariq Alli is the new Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Country Representative for Jamaica.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is urging members of the security forces to shoot to kill when confronted by armed gunmen, noting that the country was spending too much to treat criminals at public-health facilities.