Jamaica News

(Jamaica Star) Jhonny Martin and his wife Louise from Murray Mountain, St Ann, were plunged into mourning last Monday after losing their daughter Loraine ‘Marvet’ Martin to cancer.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The death of British reggae pioneer Delroy Washington, who passed away last Friday, is as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

(Jamaica Star) The Ministry of Health has announced that a second patient has died from the coronavirus.

(Jamaica Observer) University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica student Rayvon Stewart is on top of the world this morning after his invention “XERMOSOL” was yesterday named by Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland as a possible key weapon in the fight to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

(Jamaica Star) An 18-year-old Jamaican, Kyle Lambert, has been accepted to six Ivy League universities in the US, a feat his former principal, Nadine Molloy, describes as a major achievement.

(Jamaica Star) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that effective April 1, 2020, from 8 p.m.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica is to impose a seven-day islandwide curfew effective April 1 as the government seeks to limit the spread of COVID-19.

(Jamaica Observer) Attorney-At-Law Bert Samuels believes that some fines on Jamaica’s books do not reflect the current reality.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The COVID-19 pandemic came into the firing line of a self-confessed “puss” – a woman who admitted to her own sleight-of-hand exploits – as she bemoaned the murder of her stepson, a reputed robber and housebreaker, on March 23.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police have nabbed a man they allege is the mastermind behind a viral hoax voice note claiming Westmoreland was being placed under a lockdown because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

(Jamaica Star) The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) said it fears an increase in electricity theft due to the economic downturn brought on by the new conoravirus.

(Jamaica Observer) The leadership of the Calvary Baptist Church in Montego Bay, St James, has sought to set the record straight regarding controversy over an advertisement it placed in the media regarding the contribution of tithes and offering during the suspension of church services as a result of the local coronavirus (COVID-19) threat.

(Jamaica Observer) A 26-year-old woman, a first-timer working with a popular cruise liner, is among four Jamaicans stuck at sea as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but surprisingly she’s quite happy aboard the ship.

(Jamaica Observer) Several Jamaican teachers in the South Carolina county of Kershaw, which is the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in that state, are hunkering down for a long haul with schools declared closed for at least two months as authorities there try to contain the spread.

(Jamaica Star) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has just announced that Jamaica now has an additional four COVID-19 cases.

(Jamaica Gleaner) At least one Jamaican living in South Korea has reported that xenophobia in the South East Asian nation has increased tremendously since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, leaving her and other Jamaicans feeling ostracised.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Paul Adolphous Brown, a director of Brown’s Funeral Home in Kingston, has been charged in connection with the recent discovery of hundreds of hospital gloves and masks at the establishment located next door to the Kingston Public Hospital.

(Jamaica Observer) The  Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has announced an eight-point pre-emptive monetary strategy to assure financial institutions and the public that there will be adequate access to both Jamaican dollar and foreign currency liquidity in wake of the escalating COVID-19 pandemic.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Department of Correctional Services says sanctions are to be laid against murder convict Adidja Palmer, better known as Vybz Kartel, following the seizure of contraband in his cell.

(Jamaica Star) Veteran reggae singer, and prolific songwriter, Keith ‘Bob Andy’ Anderson, has died.