Surrey County, Jamaica

A freak accident on Tuesday evening claimed the life of a motorcyclist and resulted in the injury of his common-law partner after the biker was attacked by ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240417/dog-attack-leads-deadly-st-andrew-motorcycle-crash   #GLNRToday

American gospel artiste Kirk Franklin arrives at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston. He is greeted by Minister of Culture, Gender ... Show more   #GLNREnt

A love triangle is the alleged cause of the latest flare-up of violence among some Corporate Area schools, resulting in at least three students sustaining ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240419/schoolers-brawl   #GLNRToday

A St Thomas poultry farmer who struggled to keep his small business afloat due to a lack of capital and resources, had his fortunes changed dramatically when ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/12/chicken-farmer-wins-2-2m-izizzi-jackpot/

Police and gunmen engaged in a shootout Thursday afternoon at the Mystic Plaza on Hagley Park Road, St Andrew, thwarting what authorities believe was a robbery ... Show more

A teacher has been hospitalised with chest and upper-left side wounds after gunmen smashed open a window to her St Andrew home and opened fire in the wee hours ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240416/teacher-shot-home-attack   #GLNRToday

Mona High School in St Andrew has been closed today and Friday amid ongoing violence among students of several Corporate Area schools ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240418/mona-high-closes-amid-corporate-area-school-violence   #GLNRToday

Social media influencers Chad Luchey and Rogay ‘Swiiss Lee’ Clarke stop for a quick pic during the 2024 Carnival In Jamaica Road March in St Andrew ... Show more   #ReadyFiDiRoad   #CarnivalInJamaica   #GLNREnt

Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Alando Terrelonge says a member of his team was responsible for posting a photo to his Instagram account with images of former ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Earlier this month, Jamaica’s Taino chief, Kasike Kalaan Nibonrix Kaiman, gave a presentation titled, ‘Stories as medicine: Taino and African Healing and the ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240418/jamaicas-taino-chief-speaks-abroad-stories-medicine   #GLNRToday

The fleet of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company has been boosted with 12 new compressed natural gas buses. The buses arrived in the island on Wednesday and were ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240412/jutc-gets-12-new-buses   #GLNRToday

Reigning 100 and 200 metres World Championships winner Noah Lyles has been confirmed to compete at the Racers Grand Prix, which was announced earlier today at ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/sports/20240416/noah-lyles-confirmed-racers-grand-prix   #GLNRSports

Five Corporate Area high school principals have condemned a street brawl among students from their schools, in which a number of them were injured ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/19/unacceptable-20240419-0334-543560/

Two scholarships honouring the memory of public relations doyenne Marcia Erskine were announced at the thanksgiving service for her life on Saturday afternoon ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/14/marcia-erskine-scholarships-announced/

Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby says he has called in the organisers of Sunday's Carnival road marches over the filthy New Kingston streets in St Andrew that ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240408/kingston-mayor-calls-carnival-bands-meeting-amid-garbage-concerns   #GLNRToday

If you asked Brian Cuff, production lab coordinator, senior sports producer, and current adjunct lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240408/he-took-art-heart   #GLNRFeatures

Having been awarded the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Best Kept School title on April 5, Principal Shernet Clarke Tomlinson and her team are placing ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/16/changing-community-education/

Three weeks into his new job as police commissioner, Dr Kevin Blake declared his intention to arrest Jamaica’s nagging problem of public disorder and sent a ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/10/public-order-push/

After finishing 12th in the Jamaica Premier League last season, with just five wins and 22 points, no one expected Tivoli Gardens to have the turnaround they ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/sports/20240419/waite-tivoli-can-win-jpl-title   #GLNRSports

Curious onlookers and plant enthusiasts on Friday morning gathered at Palm Drive in Hope Royal Botanic Gardens in St Andrew to gaze upon the Talipot palm ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240413/century-palms-bloom-hope-gardens   #GLNRFeatures

An insurance agent employed to Sagicor insisted on Wednesday that he had numerous meetings with murder accused Omar Collymore and his now-deceased wife Simone ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/18/agent-says-collymore-knew-multimillion-dollar-insurance-policies/

For six years Ackeem Lewis has been trying to find the final resting place of his beloved great-grandmother Dolareen Grey. www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/14/grave-frustrationfamily-spends-six-years-trying-find-great-grandmothers-final-resting-place-may-pen-cemetery/

Trouble is brewing at Calabar High in St Andrew, where at least two stakeholder groups expressed strong opposition to any attempt by the institution’s board to ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240417/showdown-calabar   #GLNRToday

The new chairman of the Finance Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has alleged that the former administration spent more ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240409/new-leadership-request-audit-alleged-88m-overspend-salaries-ksamc   #GLNRToday

The Jamaica Labour Party's fight for the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation has reached the Supreme Court as its losing candidate for the Kintyre ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240409/jlps-fight-ksamc-reaches-supreme-court-0   #GLNRToday

Students of Seaview Gardens Primary School in St Andrew were greeted to padlocked gates when they turned up for school on Monday ... Show more   #GLNRToday

The Jamaica Agriculture Society (JAS) and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) have asked the Portland Municipal Corporation (PMC) to rethink plans to ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/13/protect-it/

Six firefighters received an electric shock while working at the scene of a house fire in Greenwich Farm, St Andrew early Tuesday morning ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Themed in Africa 🔥 The Sagicor Corporate Awards, held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel this evening, saw the group’s membership exquisitely embracing the theme ... Show more   #OTeam   #AlwaysAhead   #SagicorGroup   #Sagicor   #CorporateAwards

Mona High School has been closed for Thursday, April 18 and Friday, April 19. Speaking with the Observer Online on Thursday ... Show more

Mona High School in St Andrew is set to remain closed tomorrow amid ongoing violence among students of several Corporate Area schools .. ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Former Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has labelled plans by the new chairman of the Finance Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240410/former-kgn-mayor-denounces-audit-plans-distraction   #GLNRToday

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) said Sunday that it remains gravely concerned about the House Speaker’s failure to withdraw the letter to former ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/08/pnp-renews-call-withdrawal-letter-former-clerk-houses/

Now this is a vibe!!! @stalkashley teams up with @pepsijamaica to bring to you a fresh new look with the same JamaICAN Flava! The grand reveal took place at ... Show more   #PepsiJamaica   #ThirstyForMore

The JamaicaEye Programme has been boosted by a donation of 215 closed-circuit television cameras by the Government of the Republic of Korea ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240417/jamaica-receives-215-cctv-cameras-republic-korea   #GLNRToday

A truck carrying construction material overturned on the Stony Hill main road in St Andrew this morning. The passengers of a Nissan AD Wagon ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Alando Terrelonge says a member of his team was responsible for posting a photo to his Instagram account with images of former ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Delon Williams, human resource assistant at the University of the West Indies, Mona, views the partial solar eclipse from the balcony of the Department of ... Show more   #GLNRPics

The Ministry of Tourism plans to develop a luxury tourism market in the parish of St Thomas as part of a strategic push to diversify Jamaica’s tourism product ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/17/high-end-destination/

A call has been made for the PNP's Dennis Gordon, chairman of the finance committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) to withdraw his ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240410/williams-wants-pnps-gordon-withdraw-comments-about-municipal-cops-ksamc   #GLNRToday

Calabar High students are in a jubilant mood as they arrive at the Television Jamaica studio for tonight’s Schools’ Challenge Quiz Final ... Show more

There were almost 2,000 cellphone calls and texts made that were linked to Omar Collymore, Michael Adams, and other men leading up to the January 2 ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/11/almost-2000-calls-texts-made-accused-double-murder/

The bilateral aviation agreement between Jamaica and the Dominican Republic has fostered increased cultural exchange in tourism and increased commercial trade ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240418/jamaica-dominican-republic-bilateral-aviation-agreement-yielding-significant   #GLNRToday

Recently appointed Clerk of the Houses of Parliament Colleen Lowe has moved swiftly to address concerns about the administration of the financial affairs of ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/11/parliament-accounting-mess/

A mathematical model for the treatment of breast cancer using magnetic nanoparticles was developed in a study conducted by Dr Victor Job and Dr Nagarani ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/health/20240410/mathematical-model-treatment-breast-cancer   #GLNRHealth

In a bid to increase its revenue, The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus has commenced a project to revitalise its College Commons housing ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240411/uwi-eyes-100m-payroll-savings-revitalising-college-commons   #GLNRToday

Member of Parliament for South East St Andrew, Julian Robinson, is expressing concern about the pile-up of garbage in New Kingston and surrounding areas ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240408/robinson-bemoans-garbage-pile-following-carnival-road-marches   #GLNRToday

A Portland man today died in hospital from injuries sustained after being hit by a garbage truck along West Street in Port Antonio ... Show more   #GLNRToday