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Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:33 -0500
DEATH THREATS
NORWICH, Portland: The family of Davian Bryan, the Portland man who allegedly abducted nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and who has been implicated in the disappearance of another girl, said that they are now living in fear after receiving death...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:45 -0500
Bath feels betrayed by fugitive
Residents of Bath, St Thomas, are ruing that their goodnatured hospitality has come to haunt them as they cited betrayal on Sunday by the main suspect in the abduction of nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and person of interest in the disappearance of.....

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:05:29 -0500
Bath’s women awake to new era of fear
The stark tension associated with the missing girls saga over the weekend in Bath, St Thomas, is in total contrast to what residents describe as a usually relaxed and safe environment. In fact, they admit that the happenings have dramatically...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:05:24 -0500
‘A house divided will not stand’
In a no-holds-barred address to Comrades at the People’s National Party’s (PNP) 83rd annual conference on Sunday, former president P.J. Patterson called for all hostilities within the organisation to cease as he delivered a sharp rebuke to warri...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:18 -0500
Fire-proof hero!
When Kyme Duncan was jolted from sleep by the shrill cry of his helper with news that his friend’s house was ablaze, he was spurred into action to assist his neighbour. That dedication to his Tower Isle community saved the life of his friend’s....

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:53 -0500
Golding vows to end ‘educational apartheid’
President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Mark Golding, said that a government led by him would pump significant resources into early childhood education to ensure that students transitioning to secondary schools have the required competence...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:06 -0500
Power parents graduate together with distinction
Kemar Gayle and Caroney Gregory met in college, embarked on parenthood, and recently mastered it together – literally! – with the award of their Master of Arts in teacher education and teacher development, with distinction, from The University o...

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:07:55 -0500
‘Please don’t kill him’
A desperate plea for the safety of her abductor was the first thing that reportedly left the trembling lips of an obviously traumatised nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia, when she was found in Arcadia, St Thomas, on Saturday following a two-day search.....

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:08:04 -0500
Holness, Golding square off over vax campaign
It started out as a Twitter spat between Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding over the Government’s COVID-19 vaccination blitz tours islandwide, which were supposed to include the Opposition to show unity and encourage....

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:07:42 -0500
Still on ice
An increase in the number of Jamaicans dying annually has triggered an explosion in unregulated funeral service providers popping up all over the country, with some even setting up shop in housing schemes, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt. The...

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:07:20 -0500
‘Only a mad man would not get the vaccine’
Forty-two-year-old Garth Lindsay has been living on the streets of Montego Bay, St James, for the past 15 years. He left his hometown in Fellowship, Portland, in search of a better life, completing the 135-mile trek after five days, and today has......

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:12:07 -0500
SPIRITS BROKEN
WESTERN BUREAU: After pumping more than $300 million in cash and kind into the Jamaica’s COVID-19 response effort, alcohol producers here have become the pariahs of the health sector. Their fate was decided by Minister of Health and Wellness Dr......

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:12:02 -0500
‘Send her home’
As dusk fell in Bottom Yard in Bath, St Thomas, on Friday, the desperate cries for nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia grew louder with a 24-hour search failing to yield clues as to the whereabouts of the abducted child. “Another night a go catch the.....

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:09:17 -0500
US$15K bounty for murder suspect believed hiding in Ja
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is seeking the Jamaican public’s help to locate a murder suspect believed to have fled to the island with a US$15,000 reward being offered through its Crime Stoppers programme for his capture. The NYPD fugitiv...

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:11:23 -0500
Ja could miss WHO 40% vax target for 2021
With Jamaica being among six Latin American and Caribbean countries yet to break the 20 per cent vaccination barrier, there are fears that the island could miss the World Health Organisation target for countries to vaccinate at least 40 per cent of....

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:11:17 -0500
Fertility fear
Uncertainty about how the COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility is among the main reasons nearly a third of the island’s registered nurses were not inoculated against the deadly respiratory disease up to August despite health officials noting that th...

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:10:52 -0500
Ready! Set! Stop!
Ahead of its 83rd annual conference this weekend, the People’s National Party (PNP) is reporting that 98 per cent of its candidates have been selected for the impending local government elections. But the party is demanding that the prime ministe...

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:10:22 -0500
Jamaican-owned laundromat looks to clean up Antigua market
WESTERN BUREAU: Antigua and Barbuda laundromat and dry cleaning operator Dr Onika Campbell has inked a major franchise distributorship deal with United States manufacturer of textiles and fine linen, Thomaston Mills. Campbell, who owns Express...

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:10:32 -0500
MOCA, FID launch JCTE fraud probe
At least two elite anti-corruption bodies have been asked by Education Minister Fayval Williams to investigate $124 million paid to the Cecil Cornwall-chaired Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) over a 32-month period by technocrats but......

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:10:27 -0500
‘If dem can’t catch Quaco, dem catch him shut’
Three weeks shy of her son’s 18th birthday, another Central Kingston mother is mourning a brutal murder after warning his elder sibling of the omens of crime. Shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday, armed thugs chased and shot to death 17-year-old Rohan....



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