Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite seven of 19 Jamaican police divisions being under a state of emergency (SOE), murders and shootings are still higher as at October 19 this year than for the corresponding period in 2018.

(Jamaica Observer) They never got the chance to finish their last conversation due to a faulty phone.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has been discharged from hospital seven days after he was admitted with injuries received in a car accident at his Norbook, St Andrew home.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s foremost ceremonial and protocol expert Merrick Needham yesterday added to the debate on whether or not American rapper Kanye West blundered in his use of the national emblems and symbols for profit, following his ‘Sunday Service’ pop-up concert at Emancipation Park in Kingston on Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two brothers have been arrested following a gun-find at their home by the St Thomas police yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A female passenger was removed from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in Falmouth, Trelawny, this week after she “recklessly and dangerously” posed for a picture on a balcony railing over the Atlantic Ocean.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A gender-rights advocate has bemoaned the sentencing of Pastor Kenneth Blake, who, in July, pleaded guilty to having sex with a person under 16 years old.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaicans are to benefit from the visit of the US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), which will be anchored in Kingston to offer free medical services between October 28 to November 1, 2019, the US Embassy in Kingston said in a release.

(Jamaica Observer) For many it was not surprising that there was a Jamaican, among the members of the 120-strong mass choir lead by American rapper Kanye West, which ministered inside Emancipation Park on Friday evening.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Stung by defeat after a weeklong legal battle with the St James Municipal Corporation, gay rights lobbyist Maurice Tomlinson has vowed to reapply for permission to host a controversial forum after losing on a “technicality.”

(Jamaica Gleaner) Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has listed United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia among five persons whom she claims are “unqualified” and only got the job because they made financial donations to President Donald Trump.

(Jamaica Observer) American rapper, songwriter, producer and entrepreneur Kanye West will bring his Sunday Service music worship experience to Emancipation Park in Kingston on Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Detectives assigned to the Kingston East Division are reporting the seizure of two magazines loaded with 14 rounds of ammunition at the Norman Manley International Airport on Sunday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The bloodletting continues in Clarendon despite a state of emergency blanketing the mid-island parish since September 5 as the Government seeks to peg back a runaway homicide rate.

(Jamaica Observer) On Monday, October 21, Richard Patrick Salm will be among Jamaicans who will be recognised for their contribution to national development at the National Honours and Awards ceremony at King’s House.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government through the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) and China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) yesterday signed $9.5 billion in contracts for the construction of 1650 houses at Catherine Estates in St Catherine.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican man is now facing a long prison sentence and deportation following his second conviction in the United States on charges related to a prize scam.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are urgently seeking the public’s assistance in finding five-week-old Nyyear Frank of Hopewell district, St Andrew, who was stolen from his mother yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) A 26-year-old woman who was attacked by dogs in her Fair Prospect community in East Portland last month is demanding compensation from the owner, after stating that the incident has not only left her traumatised, but seriously injured.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday stressed that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) would not interfere with the ongoing investigation and court case involving former Minister of Education Ruel Reid, even as he fired shots at the People’s National Party (PNP).