(Jamaica Observer) A former Jamaica Defence Force soldier who has reportedly been stalking his ex-lover and assaulted both her and her current young lover on separate occasions, claiming the young man had destroyed his family, was remanded for psychiatric evaluation when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last week.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Looking to secure a larger foothold in the ethnic market in western Canada by year end, GraceKennedy has expanded retail space and launched new products in that market.
(Jamaica Observer) FREEPORT, St James — Massy Gas Products has disclosed that it has an interest in leasing the Petrojam Oil Refinery should it be divested by Government as was recently recommended in the report from the Christopher Zacca-led Petrojam Strategic Review Committee.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Catherine Health Department said it has identified the source of the rat infestation at the Spanish Town Hospital and has taken steps to eliminate the problem.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans living illegally in the United States are being advised by New York-based immigration attorney Millicent Clarke to have a lawyer’s number on speed dial as they could quickly find themselves on a plane back home if a US government-planned operation gets under way this weekend.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Digicel this morning announced the appointment of Allison Cole Philbert as its chief executive officer (CEO) in Jamaica.
(Jamaica Observer) CASSANDRA Brown, after having two daughters, was over the moon when she was told during a prenatal clinic visit that she was having a boy.
(Jamaica Observer) Police are puzzled over the gun murder of a Bishop Gibson High School teacher at her home in Melrose Mews, a few miles east of here, in the very early hours of yesterday morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Mandeville Police are probing the murder of a high school teacher in Melrose Mews, Manchester.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A major figure in Jamaica’s most dominant period in international track and field, iconic sprinter Usain Bolt, says he is disturbed by the state of the country’s male sprinting, heading into the World Championships in Doha, Qatar, in September.
(Jamaica Observer) A mother is demanding answers after an expletive-laced altercation between her son and members of a police team manning a checkpoint on Pretoria Road in Kingston 13 left him nursing multiple wounds and needing surgery to repair a broken jaw.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A deputy superintendent of police assigned to the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has revealed that more than $2 million was found in the house of one of the accused as the multimillion-dollar Manchester Municipal Corporation fraud trial continued yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Another year and another major award for author, community activist and human resource professional Kimberlee Shelley-Ajibolade.
(Jamaica Observer) Former chief of state protocol in the Office of the Prime Minister, Elinor Felix died yesterday after a struggle with cancer.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced that a state of emergency has been declared in the police division of St Andrew South.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica, despite being pushed by fellow regional states, on Friday stood its ground that it will not participate in the second round of the Carib-bean Community (Caricom) Development Fund (CDF), based on a decision taken by the previous Administration in 2015.
(Jamaica Gleaner) President of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), Professor Fritz Pinnock, is to go on leave amid ongoing corruption investigations involving former Minister of Education, Ruel Reid, the Education Ministry and the University.
(Jamaica Observer) Earlier this week it was reported that Omar Robinson, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), expressed that Airbnb operators should be asked to pay hotel accommodation tax.
(Jamaica Gleaner) In 2017, fewer Jamaicans migrated to foreign countries in comparison to 2016, data from the 2018 Economic and Social Survey Jamaica (ESSJ) has revealed.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s ability to identify the perpetrators of some of the island’s most heinous crimes will receive a boost shortly when the National DNA Database becomes operational.
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