04
Dec/2021
Bartlett elected chair of OAS Inter-American Committee On Tourism
Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, has been elected by acclamation as the new Chairman of the Organization of American States (OAS) Inter-American Committee on Tourism. Bartlett came out ahead of the candidates from Paraguay and Ecuador for...
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04
Dec/2021
Rocky Point, Clarendon under curfew
Rocky Point in Clarendon has been placed under a 48-hour curfew. The security measure started at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, December 03. The boundaries of the curfew are as follows: North - Along an imaginary line approximately 2 kilometres from the...
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04
Dec/2021
District constable, attacker killed in Manchester
A 53-year-old district constable died last night after being wounded during a gun attack in Abbey Gardens off the Hatfield Main Road, west of Mandeville. His attacker, who is yet to be identified but believed to be in his 50s, was...
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04
Dec/2021
GoodHeart | Tivoli Gardens High students receive tablets from alumni
Twenty Tivoli Gardens High School students were gifted with tablets purchased through alumni donations at a special handover ceremony last Tuesday. Addressing the ceremony, Cleve Laing, president of the Tivoli Gardens High School Alumni Track...
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04
Dec/2021
Quarry gets concrete road; residents happy
WESTERN BUREAU: Five months after work commenced on the rehabilitation of 1,200 square metres of roadway in the Quarry community in Glendevon, St James, the $15 million project, which was done using the new technology of combining concrete with...
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04
Dec/2021
Dance icon Jackie Guy is dead
LONDON: Jamaica’s High Commissioner Seth George Ramocan last week led tributes to renowned dance choreographer Carlton ‘Jackie’ Guy MBE, CD, who passed away in London on Tuesday, November 23. He was 77 years old. Jackie Guy was part of the famous...
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04
Dec/2021
Boonoonoonoos in Miramar
FLORIDA: The legacy of the matriarch of Jamaican culture, Louise Bennett-Coverley, affectionately called ‘Miss Lou’, is being carried on in no small way by a group of Jamaicans based in the city of Miramar in South Florida. Inspired by Bennett-...
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03
Dec/2021
St James municipality donates $250K to 10-y-o MoBay shooting victim
The St James Municipal Corporation today donated $250,000 towards medical expenses for 10-year-old Calyssa Walker, who was shot and injured by gunmen during a high-speed car chase in Montego Bay on October 6. Montego Bay Mayor Leeroy Williams...
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03
Dec/2021
Meadowrest boosts security to crack down on indiscipline
The management of the Meadowest Memorial Gardens in St Catherine has mobilised security changes to clamp down on indiscipline by some mourners.
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03
Dec/2021
US donates $29 million to support Jamaica’s COVID-19 vaccine implementation programme
The United States is to provide Jamaica with US$190,000 or approximately J$29 million to support the country's COVID-19 response programme. The funds, which are being provided through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
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03
Dec/2021
FLA to recover millions in legal costs from court cases
The Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) says it is moving to recover millions in legal costs from applicants and firearm holders who lost cases filed against the authority to reverse decisions of its board. The FLA says both the Supreme Court and the...
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03
Dec/2021
AFJ, PSVI partner for community vaccination days
United States-based non-profit American Friends of Jamaica Inc. (AFJ) has partnered with the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI) to implement a vaccination programme that targets vulnerable communities. Using data from the UWI-based Mona...
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03
Dec/2021
Man charged for Spanish Town burglary, wounding
A St Catherine man who is alleged to have been among two others who broke into a house on Windsor Road in Spanish Town in the parish and injured an occupant during a robbery has been charged. Charged with unlawful wounding, burglary, and robbery...
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03
Dec/2021
Alliance Finance insists it's in good standing after bosses, companies charged
Loan and insurance premium financing institution, Alliance Finance Limited, is insisting that it is in good standing with all government financial guidelines and regulations. The Financial Investigation Division today reported that the...
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03
Dec/2021
Clansman Gang Trial | Why the second main witness was not criminally charged
The chief investigator in the Clansman-One Don Gang case this morning disclosed that the prosecution's second main witness is not likely to face any anti-gang charges but may be charged with other crimes.
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03
Dec/2021
Two men shot in Elgin Town, Hanover
The Lucea Police in Hanover are now searching for clues at a crime scene in Elgin Town where two men were shot and injured by armed men on Friday morning. It is reported that shortly after 8 a.m, the two men were walking along a dirt track which...
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03
Dec/2021
Alliance bosses, companies charged with financial crimes
Alliance Investment Management Limited, Alliance Finance Limited, their president Peter Chin and vice president Robert Chin have been charged with various breaches of the Bank of Jamaica Act, the Banking Services Act and the Proceeds of Crime Act....
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03
Dec/2021
65 additional COVID-19 cases, four more deaths
Four more COVID-19 deaths have been recorded in Jamaica, increasing the tally to 2,406. The deceased are an 85-year-old woman from St Elizabeth, a 64-year-old man from St Catherine, an 85-year-old woman from Kingston & St Andrew and a 61-year-...
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03
Dec/2021
Jamaica Fire Brigade plans to increase staff
The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) has announced plans to increase its staff complement through the addition of new positions in the upcoming fiscal years. Speaking with JIS News, JFB Commissioner, Stewart Beckford, said the brigade's staff...
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03
Dec/2021
MPs to get $1 million for resilience building
The Government has allocated $1 million to each Member of Parliament to support resilience building efforts in constituencies across Jamaica. Minister of Housing and Urban Renewal Pearnel Charles Jr. said that the Ministry will be working...
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