Jamaica News

(Jamaica Star) Incarcerated dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel is the number one trending artiste in Jamaica yet again.

(Jamaica Star) The Westmoreland police have now deployed a strong detachment of officers in and around the relatively quiet community of Whitehouse in an aim to apprehend a group of gunmen responsible for the robbery and murder of a popular service station operator in the area on Wednesday night.

(Jamaica Observer) In an impassioned plea on Wednesday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness urged families that have been rocked by violence not to seek revenge.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Six persons, including a two-year-old infant, were shot about 6:30 yesterday evening on Bowens Road, off Waltham Park Road, in the St Andrew South Division, one of seven police zones under a state of emergency.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Tesha Miller, the man convicted in relation to the 2008 murder of former chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Douglas Chambers, was yesterday sentenced to 38 years and nine months. 

(Jamaica Star) Mark Brown, the older brother of slain Justice of the Peace (JP) Kevin Brown, said his family is in shock after police reports that their relative may have been involved in a visa and passport racket.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Municipal officials in the central Jamaica parish of Clarendon have been criticised for failing to intervene in the takeover of an abandoned house in May Pen by mentally ill vagrants who have turned it into a dump and a latrine.

(Jamaica Star) A 72-year-old deacon is singing praises to God after he ‘died’ last Sunday in church, but was miraculously raised by his pastor, Bishop Robert Coates.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Guardsman Armoured vehicle was significantly damaged after it caught fire in Montego Bay, St James on Tuesday afternoon.

(Jamaica Observer) Police here are probing the parish’s first murder since the start of 2020 and have launched a manhunt for a man who is accused of fatally chopping his 63-year-old father in the community of New Green on Monday night The deceased, Pansford Thompson, otherwise called “Pops”, was described by residents as a loving, caring and peaceful man.

(Jamaica Star) A St Catherine woman who decided to dine at a Chinese restaurant in the parish last month was left with an unpleasant taste in her mouth when she discovered that her meal was complemented with three spiders.

(Jamaica Star) A team of police in St Mary is being blamed for a motor vehicle mishap that has left a pregnant 21-year-old hospitalised.

Toast, the hit song by Koffee, has been certified silver in the United Kingdom for sales of over 200,000 copies.

(Jamaica Observer) Four prisoners have been given the chance to gain a university education through a multi-agency partnership that will see them accessing scholarships to pursue associate of science degrees in business administration at the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Detectives assigned to the Manchester Police Division have charged a 30-year-old man following the shooting death of a woman at a food store on South Race Course Road in Mandeville last week Tuesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The mother of a teenage truck driver is on the hunt for justice after her son’s death several weeks ago, reportedly from eating a poisoned ackee breakfast.

(Jamaica Observer) The New Year is off to a super start as a Jamaican has won the last Super Lotto jackpot for 2019.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Miley Cyrus’ decision to settle a US$300-million (J$40-billion) copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Jamaican songwriter Flourgon has been hailed as a “win-win” for entertainers from the land of reggae.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Miley Cyrus’ decision to settle a US$300-million (J$40-billion) copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Jamaican songwriter Flourgon has been hailed as a “win-win” for entertainers from the land of reggae.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A total of 228 workers departed Jamaica this morning for Canada to participate in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP).