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Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:09:47 -0500
TENSION AFTER COP’S MURDER
Residents of Third Street in Trench Town are experiencing a heightened level of anxiety as mere hours after a shootout claimed the life of Corporal Oliver Mullings and 26-year-old Shemar Fletcher, a second fatal incident occurred, taking the life......

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:09:15 -0500
Lee-Chin recalls how letter to Shearer propelled him to success
“Jamaica has enabled me and for that I’ll be forever grateful.” These are words of gratitude spoken by Jamaican billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin, shortly after he was inducted into the the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) ...

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:09:37 -0500
Police: Relatives of social media personality to view body fished from sea today
WESTERN BUREAU: Relatives of a popular social media personality are today expected to view the body of a woman found with what appeared to be gunshot wounds on Thursday morning in Reading, St James, as the police seek confirmation of the victim’s....

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:09:22 -0500
Mother’s birthday morphs into mourning over slaying of daughter
Vanessa Clarke should have been celebrating her birthday on Friday, but in a cruel twist of fate, the mother spent hours in the pews of Pentecostal Tabernacle mourning the death of her 16-year-old daughter, Michion Campbell, who was stabbed to...

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:08:23 -0500
HIV-positive woman seeks help to cover medical bills
A young woman who was infected with HIV after being raped more than two decades ago is seeking assistance to cover her medical bills after a recent bout of illness cast uncertainty over her life and depleted her savings. The woman, who told The...

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:08:56 -0500
J’can man charged with voter fraud in Florida
A Jamaican man has been arrested by the Florida state election police in the United States and charged with voting illegally in two special elections in the Sunshine State. The accused, Alfred Samuels, is reportedly living in the United States...

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:06:36 -0500
A peek into leading Japanese town’s garbage collection, recycling system
OSAKI, Japan: Since 2015, successive administrations have spent millions of dollars in training and certifying community wardens to assist with Jamaica’s failing garbage disposal problem. However, the country continues to experience significant.....

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:06:47 -0500
Rollington Town Health Centre adopted in memory of Dr Charles Denbow, wife
The Rollington Town Health Centre in Kingston on Friday became the 39th facility to be adopted under the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ Adopt-a-Clinic Programme. The 43-year-old type-two health centre will benefit from an injection of more than...

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:08:04 -0500
Hill wants local exports ramped up to close trade deficit
Senator Aubyn Hill has charged that more focus must be placed on exports if Jamaica is to achieve economic independence. Citing 2021 data, Hill, the minister of industry, investment and commerce, said Jamaica imported goods and services valued at.....

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:13:54 -0500
SCHOOL BOARD PROBE
Portfolio minister Fayval Williams has issued a fact-finding directive to a team within the education ministry to determine the scope and extent to which persons are appointed to multiple school boards and for “inordinate” periods. Williams’.....

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:12:23 -0500
‘Forget his name’
If Justice Leighton Pusey had his way, the cold-blooded and unrepentant Cocoa Piece killer who snuffed out the lives of five family members would be a distant memory and only be recalled by the judiciary for legal...

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:12:53 -0500
2-y-o dies at hospital as scores of gastro cases emerge
WESTERN BUREAU: Amid a rise in cases of gastro-enteritis in St James and St Andrew, doctors at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay have confirmed that a two-year-old boy who was admitted to the medical facility Tuesday night with...

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:11:11 -0500
Slain cop’s mother mourns third child in four years
Pamelleta Williams held her stomach and broke down in tears on Thursday upon seeing the team of police officers and officials entering her home in Maxfield Park, St Andrew, to show their support as she grieved the murder of her 22-year-old son,...

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:13:02 -0500
‘Rushane deserves what he get’
Gwendolyn McKnight, the woman whose daughter and four grandchildren were brutally murdered in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, in June, says that convicted killer Rushane Barnett should remain behind bars, adding that she is “a little” pleased with his....

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:11:51 -0500
Three held in Chinese businessman’s murder probe
WESTERN BUREAU: Three suspects have been held in connection with the murder of 36-year-old Chinese businessman He Jin, otherwise called ‘Archie’, who was gunned down during a robbery at his supermarket in Orange Bay in the western parish on...

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:10:17 -0500
Duncan: Fiscal commissioner shortlisted
The candidate for fiscal commissioner is close to being selected and should serve to protect Jamaica’s future from a heavy-spending finance minister, EPOC Chairman Keith Duncan said Thursday. Shortlisted candidates have been interviewed for the.....

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:11:41 -0500
3,000 farmers get boost to rebound from COVID setback
When the pandemic struck in early 2020 and resorts saw tourist figures plummeting and many shuttered their doors, an accompanying ban on large gatherings and restrictions on operating hours meant restaurants also significantly scaled back on...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:10:59 -0500
Family man: J.C. Hutchinson hit by second nepotism claim in two years
Prime Minister Andrew Holness and House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert have been urged to “sanction” William ‘J.C.’ Hutchinson, a member of the executive, for actions adjudged to constitute a conflict of interest and for being cited for...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:12:03 -0500
CARICOM still in dialogue over fix to Haiti chaos
There are concerns within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that a pending United States resolution to the United Nations Security Council seeking support for the deployment of forces to Haiti may be vetoed by China and Russia even as nationwide...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:11:46 -0500
Samuda rages at ‘stale news’ after Mombasa grass scolding
Stung by criticism that he was “ethically reprehensible”, senior government minister Karl Samuda has ridiculed the Integrity Commission after it condemned him for benefiting unduly from the cultivation of 14.2 acres of Mombasa grass by the Jamai...



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