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EFFORTS to find 15-year-old Sanique Leachman, who is suspected to have died after a major landslide in Shooter's Hill, Bull Bay, St Andrew, flattened the home she shared with her father, Romeo Leachman, continued up to press time last night.
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
Contender for the presidency of the People’s National Party (PNP), Lisa Hanna, has asserted that healing and rebuilding the political organisation’s internal structures must be done outside of the public’s eyes. “For too long, the PNP, in many...
This year has been themed a New Normal and the Catholic youths of the Archdiocese of Kingston have shown that they are moving with this newness. CYM Jamaica Day 2020 took place virtually on October 19. The same energy, cheering and competition was...
[This Day] Uyo -- Worried by the level of destruction of properties and violence associated with protests across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has despatched his Ministers and aides to their states to speak to the youths to shun violence.
Splash!A motorist makes quite a splash yesterday as the vehicle goes through water that had settled alongside the Jamaica Information Service headquarters on Half-Way-Tree Road in St Andrew.(Photos: Naphtali Junior & Karl Mclarty)Gushing water is seen at a section of Shooter's Hill in St Andrew, yesterday.A section of a road in Shooters Hill, St Andrew, is blocked by a landslide yesterday, after hours of persistent rainfall.
Twenty-six-year-old Kemar Whyte, otherwise called ‘Brief Man’, a scrap metal worker of Riverton Meadows, St Andrew has been charged with robbery with aggravation and illegal possession of firearm.
The police report that about 9:30 a.m., on Friday, October 4, 2019, Whyte and another man allegedly held up the complainant and robbed him of his properties, including $250,000.
Whyte was subsequently arrested and charged on Tuesday.
With a worrying rise in the number of Jamaicans contracting COVID-19 in the last week, prospective election candidates who plan to crank up their political machinery in a show of strength today – nomination day – are being warned that campaign...
Businessman Duduzane Zuma was seen engulfed by crowds at a night club in KZN on Saturday after returning from Dubai.
The police are reporting that two firearms, a .38 revolver and a Remington shotgun along with 10 rounds of ammunition, were seized during a joint police-military operation in 100 Lane, St Andrew on Monday.
The police report that between 3:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., members of the security forces were on operation when a premises was searched and the revolver found on the roof of a house.
They say the shotgun was later found on the roof of an adjoining house.
Further checks led to the discovery of the ammunition hidden in a bag of sand at an unfinished dwelling.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaican Football Federation has confirmed it will carry out extensive COVID-19 testing of locally-based national players, before the squad leaves for next month’s international friendly doubleheader against Saudi Arabia.
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By Dr. Froswa' Booker-DrewColumnist This last month has been an interesting and yet, painful month to witness. First, the Dallas Morning News article sharing the story of the women who …
THE Government is reviewing its decision to reopen Jamaica's rivers and beaches for public use, after finding “flagrant and repeated” breaches of the COVID-19 protocols to minimise the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus.
McKenzie, in a statement to the House of Representatives, said that his ministry has receive detailed reports, and has witnessed “flagrant and repeated” breaches of the critical protocols by large numbers of beach and river-goers.
The Government allowed a phased reopening of beaches and rivers effective Sunday, June 7, allowing people to visit public beaches licensed under the Beach Control Act during the operating hours of 6:00 am to 6:00 pm, and rivers from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm.
McKenzie said then that the relaxation of the restrictions on the beaches and rivers would remain in place for 14 days, after which there would be a review.
He told the House that the Social Development Commission (SDC), which falls under his ministry, had been observing activities at 58 beaches and 65 rivers over the last two weeks.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Fifteen-year-old Saneeka Leechman, a student of The Queen’s School in Kingston, was making plans to surprise her father, 42-year-old Romeo Leechman, on his upcoming birthday, but this will never come to pass as a land slippage caused by heavy rains destroyed their frail house yesterday in Shooters Hill St Andrew, crushing and killing her father.
The article Double tragedy in Jamaica - Father killed, daughter missing after landslide covers house appeared first on Stabroek News.
By The Associated Press BERLIN — Several people attacked Germany's national disease control center with incendiary devices early Sunday, Berlin police reported. A security guard noticed the attack on the Robert Koch Institute in the German capital and was able to quickly extinguished the flames. Nobody was injured, but one window was destroyed. Criminal police has taken over the investigation on suspicion that the attack may have been politically motivated. Among other things, the institute keeps track of Germany's coronavirus outbreak. It publishes daily new infection figures and also advises the government and the public on how to keep the […]
The post The Latest: Germany's health agency attacked; cases double appeared first on Black News Channel.
By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Among transgender-rights activists, there's a powerful mix of hope and fear heading toward the Nov. 3 election. They're yearning for President Donald Trump's defeat but dreading the possibility that his administration might win four more years and continue targeting them with hostile policies. 'The stakes are extremely high,' said Shannon Minter, a transgender attorney with the National Center for Lesbian Rights. 'It seems clear that President Trump intends to use the full power of the presidency and the executive branch to inflict maximum damage on the transgender community.' Among the administration's moves that have […]
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The body of 15 year-old Saneeka Leachman, who went missing yesterday morning, following a deluge, which caused a wall to collapse on the board dwelling she and her father occupied, has been found.\tOur sister radio station, Radio...
With the measures implemented to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus putting the breaks on many activities, including graduations, Dunrobin Primary School in St Andrew got creative to be able to still give their graduands a ceremony yesterday.Instead of the customary gathering, the school hosted a drive-through graduation on its compound, which saw grade six students collecting their packages and moving on.
However, some bright sparks, in the midst of this pandemic, pandemonium and panic, are persons who will give every penny they own to help improve the lot of another neighbour.
So when the need of a final-year university student from Portland was published in The Gleaner on April, this Trinidadian by birth saw a great opportunity to help another student with her education.
My advice to neighbours is to continue helping each other, especially now when persons have lost hope”.
By now I am pretty sure that, even if you were, you are not preoccupied with ‘pandemic’, ‘pandemonium’, and ‘panic’ but rather, how can I be of assistance to someone in need at this time?
Activate the spirit of philanthropy and help someone in need today.
… ;t ready to put our African-American players on a pedestal and … , Gibson became only the second black American, after 1936 Olympic sprint champion … education. Her grandfather, the only African-American in his class, got a …
(CMC)- State documents pertaining to the People’s Revolutionary Government that were seized by the United States Military during the October 1983 Grenada intervention and was returned to the country more than a decade ago, are...
Jamaica has recorded 24 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the national tally to 1,106.\tThe Ministry of Health and Wellness says 16 of the newly confirmed cases are men and eight are females, with ages ranging from 10 to 71 years....
(Jamaica Gleaner) Two bullet-riddled bodies with heads severed, which were found at Plum Lane off Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew, have triggered an intense probe by senior investigators of the Major Investigation Division who are working diligently to piece together whatever evidence or clues they can find to nab the perpetrators of the heinous murders which left the community in shock.
The article Jamaica: Residents horrified as headless, bullet-riddled bodies found appeared first on Stabroek News.
Harriet Elizabeth Byrd was an American politician from Wyoming, and was the first African American elected to the Wyoming Legislature. Byrd was born on April 20, 1926, to Robert C. “Buck” and Sudie Rhone. Her grandfather, Charles Rhone, arrived to the Wyoming Territory as a child in 1876, later working for the railroad and becoming […]
Two more people died from COVID-19 yesterday, the Ministry of Health and Wellness has revealed. \tThe deceased are two senior citizens, both of them men aged 72 and 70 years-old, from St Catherine and St Elizabeth respectively. ...
Western Bureau: Hanover, which was the last parish to record a case of the coronavirus in Jamaica, took a direct hit yesterday as the family court in the parish had to be closed because of positive COVID-19 cases at the facility. A press release...
The Senate Commerce committee is set to grill the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google on Wednesday amid right-wing accusations... View Article
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