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Mon, 09 May 2022 10:57:19 -0500
Body of baby found in rubbish bin
The body of a deceased baby boy was found in a rubbish bin in the Temple Lane area in downtown Kingston, earlier today. The police were alerted after dogs were seen assembled around the body. Investigations are underway. We want to hear...

Mon, 09 May 2022 05:02:36 -0500
Fear grips Naggo Head as another woman is killed
A blanket of fear hangs over sections of Naggo Head in Portmore, St Catherine, following the slaying of 33-year-old Jodian Thompson, a resident of the embattled community last Saturday. Thompson, according to residents, is at least the fourth...

Mon, 09 May 2022 05:02:31 -0500
Parents seek help for sick baby
Yesterday, when many women were basking in Mother's Day fun, Tracy Ann Ricketts-Williams and her husband Danzel Williams spent their day at the Bustamante Hospital for Children visiting their 10-month-old daughter, Grace. Ricketts-Williams, who......

Mon, 09 May 2022 05:02:45 -0500
Mystery surrounds discovery of bones
Following yesterday's discovery of bones believed to be humans in Morant Bay, St Thomas, there is plenty of speculation as to whom they belong to. The discovery was made about 9 a.m. during a demolition exercise which was being carried out by a......

Mon, 09 May 2022 05:02:44 -0500
Cops use fingerprint technology to nab suspect
A Manchester man is now facing firearm and ammunition charges as forensic evidence allegedly connects him to a May 2020 shooting incident on the Winston Jones Highway. He has been identified as Shane Johnson, 34, of Cottage Pen. Reports from the.....

Mon, 09 May 2022 05:02:43 -0500
St Thomas schools to get Chromebooks
A total of 1100 Chromebooks, valuing $27 million, are to be distributed to students across St Thomas, courtesy of Google. The donation was secured by the St Thomas Renaissance Foundation for its Mathematics Honours College programme in the parish....

Mon, 09 May 2022 05:02:41 -0500
Cabbie held with illegal ammunition
Oshane Reid, 28, a taxi operator of Silver Stone, Greater Portmore, St Catherine, is scheduled to face the courts to answer ammunitions charges following an incident on Brunswick Avenue in the parish last Friday. Reports from the Spanish Town...

Mon, 09 May 2022 05:02:34 -0500
Man pleads guilty to robbery says that he’s no thief
Though he pleaded guilty to robbery in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last Thursday, Xavier Blackwood, 23, is adamant that he did not steal the device from the complainant. Blackwood was remanded in custody after pleading guilty to...

Mon, 09 May 2022 05:02:33 -0500
St Bess farmer suffers big losses due to flooding
On the banks of Little River, an offshoot of the famous Black River in St Elizabeth, Howard Ricketts has been making a living planting crops like corn, okra, callaloo and cabbage for as long as he can remember. This year, however, he believes that....

Mon, 09 May 2022 05:02:30 -0500
How do you revoke a will?
WHAT IS REVOCATION? Revocation is the formal act of making or rendering a will or codicil invalid, null and void, or of no legal effect. A will being a written paper, means that a competent testator may change or revoke it at any time before his.....

Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02:13 -0500
Old cop claims justice - Constable says he has been on suspension for 36 years
Dave St Nicholas Riley has grown weary. He says that he has been waiting on a call from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to tell him to return to work for the past 36 years but has received none. Riley, 65, who joined the JCF in 1976 at age 19,...

Fri, 06 May 2022 16:29:20 -0500
Powerful blast at Havana hotel kills at least 9, injures 40
HAVANA (AP) -- A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak killed at least nine people and injured 40 when it blew away outer walls from a luxury hotel in the heart of Cuba's capital earlier today. No tourists were...

Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02:25 -0500
Heartbreak - Woman dreads first Mother’s Day without son who was killed in road crash
Last Mother's Day, Monique Hill prepared dinner and spent the afternoon laughing and joking with her then six-year-old son Dilshan McLean. He had given her a hand-made card and she felt that was the greatest gift ever. But, this Mother's Day on.....

Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02:18 -0500
More Jamaicans ‘renting wombs’
Jamaicans have joined the global trend of renting a womb from a surrogate mother, who carries the pregnancy but gives up the child shortly after it is born. Dr Vernon DaCosta, reproductive specialist and director of the Hugh Winter Fertility...

Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02:24 -0500
‘Major’ love for Momma P - Romeich hails his mother who he calls his ‘backbone’
Asked if there was one thing he could do for his mother that he has not yet done, Romeich Major basically answered 'mission accomplished'. In 2019, the music executive and businessman gifted his mother, affectionately called Momma P, a pricey...

Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02:20 -0500
‘They all call me Mama J’ Inspector Johnson is a cop with a motherly touch
Although she has no biological child of her own, police inspector Tanecia Johnson has been a mother to a host of children, both in her personal and professional life. On any given day, her house is occupied by children who turn up for various...

Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02:31 -0500
St Catherine clergy declares war on crime
Religious leaders in St Catherine declared war on crime yesterday and vowed to visit the troubled St John's Road area as prayer warriors as they believe that crime and wickedness have taken over. "Wherever the killings are taking place, they have....

Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02:30 -0500
Teen robs schoolboy of smartphone and $150
Senior Parish Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque blasted a man who robbed a high school student at the Half-Way Tree Transportation Centre in broad daylight. Raheme Dixon, 19, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery with...

Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02:28 -0500
Judge sends strong message to phone thief
Two men who were brought before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on separate charges relating to the theft of cellular phones were remanded in custody by Senior Parish Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque on Thursday. In one of the matters, Kavon....

Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02:27 -0500
Gangs used women to purchase SIM cards
It was revealed in the Clansman -One Don Gang trial yesterday that a number of women from Spanish Town, St Catherine and one from as far as Falmouth, Trelawny, were among several persons who had purchased SIM cards which were used by alleged gang.....



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