Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) With road deaths totalling 426 since January 1 this year, the country has inched perilously closer to 1993’s historic figure of 434, with four days remaining in 2019.

(Jamaica Observer) The new 194 megawatt (MW) natural gas power plant in Old Harbour, St Catherine is now operational, Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) announced Monday night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The pain of losing her own child has fuelled a fire that has driven Stacey-Ann Mullings to be a full-time philanthropist while employed in the hospitality sector.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican computational biologist Camir Ricketts has been invited to attend the 12th Annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) meeting to be held at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in April 2020.

Lloyd Smith’s last words to his neighbour on Sunday night were chilling.

(Jamaica Star) A 78-year-old returning resident died about a week after she and her husband were robbed of US$7,000 (approximately J$980,000).

Leroy Richards could hardly find the words to speak as tears flowed down his face yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 54-year-old cook who has been charged for several breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act is to appear in court on Christmas Eve.

(Jamaica Observer) If chairman and CEO of the Miss World organisation Julia Morley had her way, Jamaica would be the host of the 70th anniversary of the international beauty pageant come next year.

(Jamaica Observer) The people of Arcadia, St Thomas, say they, too, have a stake in the ‘ownership’ of Miss World 2019, Toni-Ann Singh, a native of the soil.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is among four persons who died yesterday in separate motor vehicle crashes.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Reggae and gospel recording artiste, Fabian ‘Ziggy Soul’ Arnold, has died.

(Jamaica Observer) The on-going gang violence in sections of lower Mountain View Avenue in the eastern end of the city intensified yesterday with the shooting of a man close to the area known as “63”.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Mexican-owned Pacific Airport Group, GAP, which operates Jamaica’s two international airports in Kingston and Montego Bay, plans to spend US$213 million over the next five years to upgrade the runways and buildings, but it will come with passengers paying more to use the facilities, according to its latest filings.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers Association (AIJCFA) has landed a deal with the Government to lease more than 3,600 acres of the land surrounding the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Trelawny to be sublet to cultivators affected by the closure of the historic facility.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Miss World, Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh, is back home.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Sarah Kleven’s “jaw hit the ground” when she received an email on Wednesday informing her that she was among 50 teachers shortlisted internationally for the ‘world’s most dedicated teacher’ award.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Hanover-based pastor who was arrested and charged last week following allegations that he sexually molested several children in the parish will spend Christmas behind bars as he was remanded when he appeared in the Hanover Parish Court yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A father cradling his one-year-old daughter in his arms was not enough to stop marauding thugs from spraying him with bullets in what police investigators believe was another reprisal attack playing out on the streets of the east Kingston community of Harbour View.

(Jamaica Observer) A member of the Jamaican all-schools team to the annual end of season tournament in South Florida is to appear before a Dade County judge this morning after he was caught shoplifting in a store in the US state on Sunday.