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Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:02:34 -0500
Witness refuses to bow in fear
For almost two years, Corporate Area Resident Mark Brown* has been constantly looking over his shoulder. He claims to have witnessed a murder, and his determination not to be silenced has put him in the crosshairs of the men who carried out the.....

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:02:47 -0500
Heaven-sent - Mother feels child’s name helped save her
When Kerry* was pregnant, she had a vision that she should name her daughter Heaven, and she did just that. She believes the name is divine and that it may have been instrumental in saving the baby who was shot threes when she was eight months old....

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:02:50 -0500
Family shaken by murder of Portland woman
When 30-year-old Kerry-Ann Hunter left her home at Norwich district in Portland on Friday night to attend a party, little did anyone know that it was the last time she would be seen alive. The body of the unemployed Guinep Tree Lane resident was....

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:02:36 -0500
St Catherine senior in love with farming
Rommell Newell is very active for 75 years old. The Planters Hall, St Catherine resident has been farming most of his life, and he has no intentions of slowing down. Newell says that his niche crops comprise cassava, gungo peas, peanuts and yam......

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:02:49 -0500
Major ganja find out west
Ganja worth an estimated $6.4 million was seized by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Narcotics Division in Wiltshire, Anchovy district in St James on Friday. According to the police, about 4:15 p.m., a team of officers was on anti-...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:02:49 -0500
St Thomas man charged with murder
A St Thomas mason has been charged with the murder of Nataliesha Earl, a 37-year-old shopkeeper of Taylor Land, 9 Miles, Bull Bay in St Andrew, who was shot in her house on September 4, last year. Charged with murder and illegal possession of...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:02:44 -0500
Relatives say ‘Bling’ was not involved in criminality
Family members of a man who was shot in downtown Kingston last week said he was a jovial, hard-working man who had ambitions of one day becoming a rapper. The youth, Shavar Burton, 17, is believed to have been killed in retaliation for the...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:02:40 -0500
Maxfield youth overcomes tough past
There was a time when Ainsley Rhoden appeared to be heading down the wrong path. He was consumed with anger and was frequently in fights, this despite the best efforts of his Sharon Barker, to steer him on straight and narrow. At age 14, Rhoden......

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:02:35 -0500
St Mary farm delights with grape tomatoes
A greenhouse farm which offers employment to four people living in the community of Little Bay in St Mary is regarded as a life-saving business for many. The daily operations at the facility are manned by Kirk Higgins, who is the maintenance...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:51:02 -0500
New variants raise worry about COVID-19 virus reinfections
(AP) - Evidence is mounting that having COVID-19 may not protect against getting infected again with some of the new variants. People also can get second infections with earlier versions of the coronavirus if they mounted a weak defense the first......

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:26:45 -0500
Man stabs cousin to death
Twenty-year-old Jerome Kerr, otherwise called 'Bull', a labourer of Hendon, Norwood, St. James has been charged with the murder of his cousin 37-year-old Kenroy Cox also of Hendon, Norwood. Reports from the Montego Hills police...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:25:08 -0500
Man caught on camera robbing friend's house
Detectives in Hanover have arrested and charged a 20-year-old man, after he was caught on camera breaking into his friend's house on Friday. Charged with burglary, larceny and malicious destruction of property, is Jamar Taylor of Kendal...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:17:13 -0500
Officials clampdown on illegal parties in Barbados during COVID lockdown
Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC) - Officials put the brakes on four illegal parties, all held on Sunday, amid a two-week lockdown that has been imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19. Coordinator of the COVID Communications Unit, Ambassador...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:29:50 -0500
Around the globe, COVID cancels spring travel for millions
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The annual journeys of late winter and early spring: Factory workers in China heading home for the Lunar New Year; American college students going on road trips and hitting the beach over spring break; Germans and...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:15:11 -0500
WHO head raises questions about vaccines
(AP) - The head of the World Health Organization said the emergence of new COVID-19 variants has raised questions about whether or not existing vaccines will work, calling it "concerning news" that the vaccines developed so far...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:37:52 -0500
One dead, two injured following crash in Clarendon
A security guard of Crofts Hills district, Clarendon was killed in a motor vehicle accident in his community on Sunday, February 7. Dead is 60-year-old Dexton Brown. Police reports are that about 2:30 p.m., Brown was driving his Toyota Corolla...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:43:16 -0500
Two arrested for stealing ceiling fan from school
The Westmoreland police have arrested and charged two men following the robbery of a ceiling fan from a school in Caledonia district, Westmoreland. Charged with office-house breaking, larceny, and receiving stolen property, are 51-year-old Steve...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:01:33 -0500
Jamaica records over 200 new cases for fourth consecutive day
Jamaica has recorded over 200 new COVID-19 cases for the fourth consecutive day. Of the 1,480 samples tested in the last 24 hours, 213 returned positive results increasing total confirmed cases to 17,298 with 4,435 active. Of the new cases,...

Sun, 07 Feb 2021 13:03:43 -0500
Haiti’s president alleges coup conspiracy; 20 arrested
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haitian President Jovenel Moise announced Sunday that police have arrested more than 20 people he accused of trying to kill him and overthrow his government, including a Supreme Court judge who has the...

Sun, 07 Feb 2021 11:11:41 -0500
AstraZeneca vaccine being tweaked to fight South Africa variant
LONDON (AP) -- Developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine expect to have a modified jab to cope with the South Africa coronavirus variant by autumn, the vaccine's lead researcher said Sunday. Health officials in Britain are trying to...



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