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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.
Daryl Vaz, the minister with responsibility for the environment, has admitted that he knew the “sensitivity” of his position in government when he offered to lease lands bordering the protected Holywell National Forest Park in St Andrew to build a private cabin.
Vaz has been forced to come public following a Jamaica Observer report today in which the caretakers of the park raised concerns that the National Land Agency (NLA) was leasing lands within the buffer zone of the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, a world heritage site.
In Photo: A section of the Holywell National Forest Park in St Andrew
Vaz said his initial 2019 application for the 7.7-acre property was approved by the Forestry Department but a divestment committee later decided that the land should be advertised.
The Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust, which manages Holywell, wrote to the NLA on June 11 objecting to the lease offer, noting that the proposed land is one of the few remaining sites in the area \"under good forest cover and will require the clearing of trees\".
It also noted that the land was within the area submitted by the National Environment and Planning Agency for expansion of the Holywell recreational area.
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...
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.
The autopsy for 23-year-old Javane Duhaney, who was allegedly shot and killed by a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier on Bray Street in Kingston on May 9, has been delayed as forensic pathologist Dr Althea Neblett reportedly objected to independent observer retained by the family, Dr Jephthah Ford.
As the family gathered at the Tranquility Funeral Home in Kingston yesterday, eagerly anticipating that the procedure would be conducted so that they could move forward with funeral plans, Neblett reportedly declined to work with Ford.
I will write exactly what I see,” Ford said yesterday.
I don’t take sides, and nobody can bribe me, and I say exactly what I see,” he added, also revealing that he had been contacted by East Kingston and Port Royal Member of Parliament Phillip Paulwell, who asked if he could assist the family.
Ford said that a new date for the post-mortem had not been scheduled.
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 […]
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THE TECHNICAL Services Division of the Ministry of Local Government is reviewing plans submitted by the Jamaica Fire Brigade for the construction of a fire station on lands it owns near to the Old Harbour town centre in St Catherine.
This was disclosed by the ministry in a press release last evening as it responded to a Gleaner exposé yesterday detailing the plight of roughly 30 firefighters forced to work in filthy conditions at a rented house, which is sometimes flooded by raw sewage.
Yesterday, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie said that plans are in place to address the fundamental issues at the station, but failed to provide any specifics or timeline.
McKenzie said the issue with the sewage pit emerged in May and that the leadership of the Jamaica Fire Brigade had made arrangements with the owner of the property to build a new sewage pit, and this was done and put into service last week.
“I am sensitive to these issues of functionality and dignity, and I want to assure them that our policy involves the improvement of the people as well as the systems of our fire services,” the minister was quoted as saying in the release.
The suggestion by Quality Incorporations VII Ltd Director Krishna Vaswani is that the Government starts reopening the economy in parishes where there are few cases of the novel coronavirus.
From St Ann all the way back around to St Elizabeth, that's less than five per cent of the overall cases in Jamaica,” Vaswani stated in an interview with the Jamaica Observer last week.
He also noted that Kingston and St Andrew, St Catherine, and Clarendon have the highest number of cases, but there has been a gradual relaxation of the measures implemented by the State to stem spread of the virus since March when the first case was reported.
Vaswani, in an effort to strengthen his argument, drew comparisons between some of Jamaica's parishes and Caribbean islands — namely Antigua, St Lucia, and The Bahamas — that have already announced dates for the reopening of their economies.
Asked for a response to people who warn that a full reopening the economy could result in further spread of the virus, Vaswani said: “All the supermarkets have been open; all the banks have been open.
Western Bureau: As the nation continues its relentless drive to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus, two communities, Rae Town, in Kingston, and Cornwall Courts, in St James, were placed under special area curfew because of the troubling...
Four more people have died from COVID-19 and another death is under investigation, the Ministry of Health and Wellness has reported. \tThis means Jamaica has now recorded 186 deaths from the disease since it's first case on March 10. ...
While Mark Golding and his campaign director, Dr Angela Brown Burke, were busy ramping up delegate support for the upcoming People’s National Party (PNP) presidential election last week, their constituents – some old and destitute – were occupied...
A 48 year-old farmer has been charged with the rape of a 15 year-old girl in Portland. \tHe was arrested and charged on Friday. \tThe police allege that on July 31 at about 9:00 p.m., the teen was one her way home when she was...
Any organisation, in order to grow and hope to sustain that growth, needs a set of strategies to guide its development. Part of this developmental plan is to build a solid foundation as it prepares for challenges that lie ahead. In other words, it...
A week after Omari Stephens rushed from one end of the Corporate Area to “rescue” his mother, Susan Bogle, in August Town, St Andrew, after he was told shots were being fired at her residence, he confesses he is now living in a zone between shock and denial.
Her only sister, Keisha Bogle Small, told the Observer that she has had sleepless nights since her sibling was killed.
In the meantime, Bogle Small said while the promise from Prime Minister Andrew Holness of a new structure to house her remaining relatives and financial support could not replace her only sister, her death has brought hope and light.
Yesterday, Holness, who paid a visit to the area in the company of Member of Parliament for St Andrew Eastern Fayval Williams, committed to giving a monthly stipend for a year to Stephens, who was the caregiver for his mother and her three relatives, in addition to erecting a proper home.
Stephens, who expressed doubt about the circumstances that led to his mother's death when asked by Holness, “So you are not of the view that it was a shoot-out or stray bullets?”
Catholic Schools Week will be celebrated from October 25-31, using the theme ‘Baptized and Sent to Be Holy’. The week begins with the celebration of World Mission Sunday – October 25. Catholic Schools’ Week Mass will be celebrated on Friday,...
PRIME Minister Andrew Holness yesterday declared two new states of public emergency (SOE) in the island, drawing immediate criticism from Opposition Member of Parliament and former Minister of National Security Peter Bunting that the measure is being overused and has failed to serve as a deterrent to crime.
SOEs were declared in the Kingston Central and Kingston Western police divisions where Holness said there have been increases in criminal activities since the second quarter of the year.
The commissioner said murders and shootings in Kingston and St Andrew represent 42 per cent of the national figure and are characteristic of long-standing and deadly inter- and intra-gang conflicts.
He pointed to divisions with ongoing SOEs, noting that there has been a 64 per cent decrease in murders in the Kingston Eastern Police Division since the declaration of an SOE earlier this year.
The boundaries of the newly announced SOEs are as follows:
To the west, the boundary extends from the coastline by the Petrojam oil refinery a north-easterly direction on to East Avenue then on to Maxfield Avenue to the intersection of Rousseau Road.
June Jordan was one of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed African American writers of her generation, poet, playwright and essayist. Jordan was also known for her commitment to human rights and progressive political agenda. Jordan was the only child of Jamaican immigrant parents, Granville Ivanhoe and Mildred Maud Jordan, in Harlem, New York. Her father […]
Jamaica on Wednesday recorded three more COVID deaths increasing the tally to 27. \tThe Health Ministry said all three had underlying issues.\tMeanwhile, there were 139 new cases pushing the total to 2,822.\tThe ministry says there are now 1,822...
(AP): US Vice President Mike Pence plans to maintain an aggressive campaign schedule this week despite an apparent outbreak of COVID-19 among his senior aides, the White House says.\tPence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, and “a couple...
The Office of the Prime Minister has announced special curfews for Rae Town, Kingston and Cornwall Courts, St James amid an increase in COVID cases in the communities. The curfews take effect Friday at 6 p.m., Friday, October 23 and will run until...
Ford was arrested and charged by the Half-Way-Tree police this afternoon.
“Their case is that on Saturday night at 9 o’clock, I attacked a young man outside the NCB bank in Half-Way-Tree and cut him with a small machete,” he told The Gleaner.
According to Ford, he was at his medical office on Red Hills Road, St Andrew with patients at the time of the alleged incident.
He said a retired assistant commissioner of police was among the patients who he said gave an account of his whereabouts on Saturday to the police.
I can provide a list of all the patients I saw that night,” he lamented.
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...
Media giant Oliver Clarke died late Saturday evening at his St Andrew home after a battle with cancer.
Clarke, a former chairman of the RJRGLEANER Group has held several prominent positions including president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica.
Here are 10 things about the media mogul, who, in 1998 received the Order of Jamaica, the fourth highest national honour:
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In 2004, the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies recognised him as a Caribbean Luminary.
received honorary doctorates from the University of the West Indies, the University of Technology, Jamaica and the Northern Caribbean University.
A Royal African Company ship that carried more African slaves to the Americas than any other institution in the history of the Atlantic... View Article
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