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Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:13 -0500
DPP to determine pastor’s fate
Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony McLaughlin says the police are currently awaiting a ruling from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to decide the fate of St Ann pastor Peter Chambers. The clergyman remains in custody....

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:05 -0500
Wanted man nabbed by cops in St Catherine
The St Catherine North police have detained one man who they say has been on their radar in relation to various crimes. The man, who the police say goes by the alias Clansy, was captured during an early morning raid in the Morgan's Lane community....

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:02:57 -0500
He’s no longer into me
Dear Pastor, I am 32 years old and I have been in a relationship with a 43-year-old man for the past three years. Looking on at this man from the outside, he is all a woman would want. He has children of his own but he still manages to take care of....

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:19 -0500
Getaway driver in church murder gets six years
The getaway driver involved in the killing of banker Andrea Lowe-Garwood was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in the crime. Leon Hines, 23, was sentenced to six years for illegal possession of firearm and one year for accessory after....

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:08 -0500
Ricky Stereo is still the ‘Bad Artiste’
Back in the 80s, DJ Ricky Stereo was such a master of the game that the people decided that there was only one name that truly fit him: 'Bad Artiste'. His first recording, TV Know All, was a collaboration with Lt Stitchie on the Stereo One Label....

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:07 -0500
A little TLC could work magic for Langley Great House
Curiosity was what made photographer Ian Allen and I divert from the Mount Airy main road and follow the 'Welcome' sign that led to the Langley Great House and Garden in West Rural St Andrew. Two minutes into the slippery track that was...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:17 -0500
St Andrew man fixes public road ... One pothole at a time
Alley Edwards, a resident of New Garden in West Rural St Andrew, is a firm believer in self-reliance and for the past two years, he has been using the material from a landslide to fill potholes in and around his community. On Wednesday, it was......

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:11 -0500
Had to run for my life from angry spouse
From mi a grow mi a hear story about man a get catch a woman yard and always swear mi wouldn't make dat reach mi cuz nuh woman nuh suh great; but I was wrong. Mi say mi and a girl a link and we always back and forth a each other yard. She have a....

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:09 -0500
4-y-o killed after being struck by car
The St James Traffic Department has commenced an investigation surrounding the death of a four-year-old boy, who was mowed down by a car in the Salt Spring community on Wednesday night. The child has been identified as Omar Lionel Lambert,...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:03 -0500
Two killed in attack on Tivoli
When Charles Williams' three children came to spend the day with him at his home in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston on Wednesday, they had no idea it was their last chance to bond with their father. He was one of two men who were murdered in the...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:01 -0500
Children with Down’s syndrome to get tablet computers
Annette Clayton Baker, director of the Jamaica Down's Syndrome Foundation, has hailed the donation of $1.5 million by the Digicel Foundation as a welcome injection that will assist the organisation in empowering some of the country's...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:00 -0500
Relocated Innswood residents want Internet access for their children
Relocated Innswood Estate residents are having mixed feelings as they try to adjust to their new Ebony Park community in St Catherine. They were forced to relocate last month after their homes were demolished as the state-owned SCJ Holdings...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:21:03 -0500
UN-backed program laments vaccine supply woes, looks to US
GENEVA (AP) -- A leader of the U.N.-backed program to ship COVID-19 vaccines to needy people in low and middle-income countries expressed disappointment on Friday about supply delays from a key Indian manufacturer, but says he hopes the United...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:55:05 -0500
ENDS to go live today
The governement's web-based E-commerce National Delivery System (ENDS), designed to enable the quick-service industry to contnue operating dduring the hours of the COVID-19 curfew, by facilitating online delivery orders, is set for its 5 o'...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:05:50 -0500
Social media personality Ivany gets new court date
Internet sensation Ivany Wright who is facing a charge of larceny by trick, is scheduled to reappear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on May 12. The new date was set today when the matter was mentioned before Chief Parish Judge Chester...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:18:50 -0500
Cops seize gun in Kingston, man in custody
One man was arrested in connection with the seizure of a firearm at Race Course Lane, Golden Heights in Kingston West on Thursday, March 25. Reports from the Denham Town police are that about 4 p.m., a team of officers were conducting a patrol of......

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:22:35 -0500
50-y-old man held in connection with murder of Khanice Jackson
A 50-year-old man listed as a person of interest in the murder of  20 year-old Khanice Jackson, accounting clerk of a Portmore address is now in police custody. He has been identified as Robert Fowler otherwise called ‘Backra’ a...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:31:13 -0500
Travel itinerary and ID needed for airport trips during weekend lockdown
The police are advising members of the public who will transport persons to and from the airports, over the lockdown period, to travel with the itinerary of the person travelling. According to the police, the person doing the pick-up should also......

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:24:24 -0500
Body of missing accounting clerk found near Portmore Fishing Village
The body of missing 20-year-old Accounting Clerk, Khanice Jackson was this morning found near the Portmore Fishing Village in St Catherine. Jackson, who is from Manchester Avenue in Independence City, Portmore, St Catherine had been missing...

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:20:48 -0500
Shots in little arms: COVID-19 vaccine testing turns to kids
(AP) - Researchers in the U.S. and abroad are beginning to test younger and younger kids to make sure COVID-19 vaccines are safe and work for each age. The first shots are going to adults who are most at risk from the coronavirus, but ending the...



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