Jamaica

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and husband to Serena Williams, has announced a new invitational track event for the world’s top female sprinters which ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/23/alexis-ohanian-announces-highest-paying-womens-track-event/

A team of Jamaican scientists and curators who left the island last week for Glasglow, Scotland, is expected to return this week with a 170-year-old lizard ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/23/artefact-repatriation/

A man accused of attempting to steal two cows has been hospitalised after he was beaten, tied to the animals and dragged on the Winston Jones Highway in ... Show more

People’s National Party candidate for Westmoreland Central, Dwayne Vaz, is to be charged for breaching the country’s Integrity Commission (IC) Act ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/23/pnps-dwayne-vaz-facing-corruption-charge/

The police in St James have revealed that they now have in custody a 14-year-old Irwin High School student in relation to the murder of 15-year-old Raneil ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/19/update-schoolboy-taken-custody-alleged-murder-schoolmate/

Bloodied but unbowed. Jamaica’s first woman Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn walked away from the job Sunday ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/paula-llewellyn-walks/

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Smith on Wednesday confirmed that #Jamaica officially recognized the State of #Palestine ... Show more

The Meadowbrook High School female student seen viciously beating a schoolmate in a video which went viral over the weekend ... Show more

On Friday, Stacy-Ann Dunkley stared blankly as she spoke about her son Raniel Plummer’s request to be transferred from Irwin High School in St James ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240420/i-dont-know-how-i-am-going-live-without-my-son   #GLNRToday

The dancing never stops when Kirk Franklin performs He Reigns (The Medley). #FunInTheSon #GLNREnt

Patrons are having a ball at the Fun In The Son concert at the National Stadium in St Andrew. The amazing energy is undeniable. #FunInTheSon #GLNREnt

Jamaican winger Leon Bailey scored one and assisted another as Aston Villa tightened their grip on Champions League football next season with a 3-1 win over ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/21/bailey-hits-10th-goal-epl-season-aston-villa-tighten-grip-top-four/

For more than six decades a 71-year-old man who identifies himself only by his first name Melvin has been digging graves to the point of him getting the ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/24/mr-dead-still-digging-graves-60-years/

President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Michael Ricketts says he is yet to speak to star forward Leon Bailey about his return to the Reggae Boyz set ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/24/jff-president-optimistic-issues-leon-bailey-reggae-boyz-will-resolved-soon/

The Integrity Commission has recommended that former PNP lawmaker Dwayne Vaz be charged for failing to provide information sought on his income and liabilities ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Students at the Irwin High School in James are now undergoing counselling following the death of one of their schoolmates on Thursday ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/19/irwin-high-student-dies-stab-wound-attack-schoolmates/

You know we in for a show with and entrance like this. No body bring energy to a gospel festival or show like @kirkfranklin.#FunInTheSon #KirkFranklin #GospleConert #OEntertainment

Opposition Leader Mark Golding says Attorney General Derrick McKoy and Justice Minister Delory Chuck should resign for saying Paula Llewellyn remains DPP ... Show more   #GLNRToday

A 25-year-old security guard has been removed from The University of the West Indies Mona campus after it is alleged that he attempted to abduct and rape an ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/24/security-guard-removed-post-uwi-following-rape-abduction-allegations/

Nationwide News Network (NNN) has suspended Trippple X whose given name is Darielle Cummings of his hosting responsibilities at the network in the midst of ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/nationwide-pulls-trippple-x-off-air-amid-assault-charges/

Pregnant with twins, Shelsy Chavez had been looking forward to her father joining her in the USA, at the end of May, for a routine doctor’s visit ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/17/wish-denied-murder/

Twelve new motor vehicles valued at $97.5 million have been commissioned into service at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240423/department-correctional-services-gets-12-new-vehicles   #GLNRToday

🎶Do you want a revolution? Whoop Whoop! I said do you want a Revolution? Whoop Whoop🎶 Kirk Franklin has lift the energy to another level at the Fun In The Son ... Show more   #FunInTheSon   #KirkFraklin   #GospleConert   #OEntertainment

The attorney general, the Government’s chief legal advisor, on Tuesday indicated that he has filed its appeal to clear up what is being described as an ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/24/fight-onattorney-general-cites-17-grounds-appealing-courts-ruling-dpp/

House Speaker Juliet Holness has tabled the attorney general’s opinion on the tabling of reports from the auditor general and the Integrity Commission ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Nearly half of Jamaicans are of the view that things are going in the wrong direction, citing unemployment among youth as a major indicator ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240424/wrong-way   #GLNRToday

Sheldon Lennox Walters, the gang leader known as Termite whose shooting death on Friday night by police sparked tension in Spanish Town, St Catherine ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/21/terrible-termite/

The attorney for the 14-year-old boy who is in custody in relation to the fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Irwin High School student, Raniel Plummer ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240420/attorney-says-irwin-student-custody-didnt-introduce-knife-deadly-stabbing   #GLNRToday

Reigning 400m world champion Antonio Watson has expressed his eagerness to break the sub-44 barrier this season, believing that once he is injury-free ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/19/just-getting-started/

Great technical execution, great performances all around, visual presentation spot on and glitch free, and a gigantic stage that rivals any major music event ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/high-praises-fun-sonheadliner-kirk-franklin-brings-dance-party/

Opposition lawmaker Phillip Paulwell raises concern that tributes are being made to retired Clerk to the Houses of Parliament Valrie Curtis without her being ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Today's #LasMay editorial cartoon. See more cartoons: jamaica-gleaner.com/cartoon

Senior Superintendent Christopher Phillips has dismissed criticisms that the Jamaica Constabulary Force is not applying the heat evenly to the two main gangs ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240424/police-pan-idea-bias-treatment-clansman-one-order-gangs   #GLNRToday

Renowned gospel artiste Kirk Franklin is promising a specially tailored set at the Fun in the Son concert on Saturday night at the National Stadium in Kingston ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/20/kirk-franklin-promises-energetic-set-fun-son/

Member of Parliament for Clarendon North Central, Robert Morgan, has resigned as the head of the public relations committee of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240421/robert-morgan-resigns-public-relations-chairman-jlp   #GLNRToday

Determined to fight for her place on Jamaica’s team to the Paris Olympic Games, relay medallist Shashalee Forbes says she is aiming to return to action as soon ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/23/forbes-fighting-ready-trials/

General secretary of Jamaica Football Federation Dennis Chung says that it could cost over $500 million to finance the Reggae Boyz’ 2026 Fifa World Cup ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/21/chung-says-jff-needs-500m-boyz-wcup-qualifying-campaign/

The Ministry of Justice says the government will be appealing the court ruling against the extension of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn’s ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/19/govt-appeal-constitutional-court-ruling-dpps-extension/

Jamaica Labour Party leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness is being urged to go to today’s meeting of the party’s Central Executive with political guns blazing ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240421/holness-urged-clean-house   #GLNRToday

Minister of Education and Youth, Fayval Williams, has revealed that she is awaiting a report from the board of the St James High School in relation to a matter ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/23/education-minister-awaiting-report-st-james-high-school-board-regards-student-expulsion/

A reputed enforcer within the Clansman gang, 'Termite', was reportedly killed in a shootout with the police on Friday night. 'Termite' ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240419/reputed-clansman-enforcer-termite-killed-st-catherine   #GLNRToday

Maintenance work is being carried out in an area adjoining the UWI Mona campus, where a nine-year-old girl was physically assaulted on Monday ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Jamaica Labour Party stalwart and former Cabinet Minister Derrick Smith says the changes coming out of Sunday’s Central Executive meeting are not enough ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240423/not-enough   #GLNRToday

Three men were shot in a drive-by at Burnt Shop Square in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew on Monday morning. They have been rushed to hospital ... Show more   #GLNRToday

The Watt Town police in St Ann have launched a probe into the suspected drowning of a seven-year-old boy whose body was found in a water tank in Madras this ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240424/suspected-drowning-7-y-o-boy-st-ann   #GLNRToday

Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the parliamentary Opposition may ask the court to compel House Speaker Juliet Holness to release the legal opinion of the ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240420/golding-threatens-legal-action-over-shielded-ags-opinion   #GLNRToday

Generation 2000 (G2K), the young professional affiliate of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party, says the rise in the number of Jamaicans with a positive view of ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240424/g2k-lauds-rise-positive-view-countrys-direction-pnp-calls-change   #GLNRToday

Today's Clovis Toon, April 19, 2024

A gunman posing as a passenger fatally shot a taxi driver and injured three persons last night in Linstead, St Catherine. The deceased cabbie has been ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240424/taxi-driver-fatally-shot-passengers-injured-linstead   #GLNRToday

A man who was arrested on Monday after he allegedly withdrew over US$800 from an ATM at the Sangster International Airport in St James is one of seven men now ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240423/seven-men-suspected-lottery-scamming-arrested-st-james   #GLNRToday

Even as Education Minister Fayval Williams expressed concern that students of Irwin High School do not feel they are being heard ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/24/teacher-told-irwin-high-boys-write-report-fatal-stabbing/

The assault case against popular entertainer Trippple X has been dismissed after the complainant revealed in court that she was no longer interested in ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/23/assault-charges-trippple-x-dismissed/