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(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.
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.
Residents of a neighbourhood in Hope Pastures, St Andrew have won their appeal against the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) in the long-running case over the decision of the electricity company to demand that they assume the expense for their...
The youngster is 18-year-old Aldain Daley, who, on May 17 of this year, ran into the burning home of Vernon Sewell, an 86-year-old retired farmer, after the senior citizen reportedly left his gas stove on by accident.
Young Daley was hanging out with friends at a section of the community when they spotted smoke coming from Sewell’s home, located on a nearby hill.
It was at this point two of young Daley’s friends arrived on the scene to render some assistance.
The young man’s act of bravery has not gone unnoticed in the community, where family and residents continue to praise him for his heroism.
One resident, Marlon Daley, notes that Daley did a “great and brave job” and that youngsters across Jamaica can take a page from his book.
THE Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has commenced payments to election day workers for the September 3 General Election.According to the EOJ, text messages have been sent to the workers, as well as reference numbers, to enable them to collect their payments through Western Union (indoor agents), JN Bank (presiding officers), and Victoria Mutual Building Society (poll clerks and sanitation clerks).
(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican ex-pastor, could face deportation from the US after serving a 30-year sentence for rape.
The article Jamaican ex-pastor in US gets 30-year sentence for raping girl appeared first on Stabroek News.
The police are reporting that 21 persons were arrested in Clarendon on Thursday for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act.\tThe police say that they were taken into custody for failing to wear face masks while in public places.\tThe arrests were...
\tSix new imported #COVID cases were today confirmed in Jamaica, bringing the overall count to 751. \tFive of the cases are patients who arrived on flights from the USA and one from Canada.\tMeanwhile, 600 patients have so far recovered with 124 others...
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...
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica-born Andrea Ajibade was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer one month before the completion of her daughter’s chemotherapy treatment.
The article Jamaica: Mom, daughter fight breast cancer together appeared first on Stabroek News.
\tPrime Minister Andrew Holness has not ruled out appointing resigned Energy Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley to a future Cabinet. In 2018, the Auditor General cited Wheatley for questionable conduct in the Petrojam scandal. READ: Auditor General...
The night of drama began with a police team pinned down by heavily armed gunmen Monday night in the Lizard Town area of Tivoli Gardens after cops ordered home hundreds of persons who gathered at a wake being held for an alleged gangster.
The police’s intervention reportedly triggered a fierce firefight between gunmen and the security forces, with arsonists allegedly flattening the market facility while making their escape.
The team went into the area because they had heard of a gathering of over 200 persons at a wake, so the police asked them to disperse,” said Lindsay.
Rae Rae Market has been devastated by fire at least three times in as many years.
Vendor Marva McEwan, who has sold clothing from Rae Rae Market for more than 40 years, was disgusted by the frequent blazes that have gutted the facility.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Oliver Frederick Clarke, the media mogul who stood at the helm of The Gleaner as chairman and managing director for more than four decades, has died.
Months before his passing, Clarke stepped down as the chairman of the RJRGLEANER Group paving the way for Joseph M. Matalon to take the reins.
But up until his death, Clarke had remained chairman of 1834 Investments, the investment spin-off of The Gleaner Company Limited, which in 2015 started a process of merger with the RJR Group.
He joined The Gleaner in 1976 at the invitation of then chairman Leslie Ashenheim and is credited with leading the turnaround of the entity.
In 2017, Clarke was appointed Chairman of the newly launched subsidiary, the JN Bank, as well as the restructured mutual holding company, The Jamaica National Group and the JN Financial Holding Company.
(Jamaica Gleaner) BRIDGEPORT HIGH School 11th-grader Tianna Fisher was not perturbed by new stipulations demanding physical distancing amid the partial reopening of secondary schools across the island yesterday.
The article Jamaica: Senior students head back to classrooms under ‘new normal’ appeared first on Stabroek News.
MONDAY October 19, 2020 - National Heroes' Day - will remain etched in the memory of Christine Bentley.She is the maternal grandmother of 15-year-old Sanique Leachman, whose body was found yesterday morning, buried under mud and debris following a land slippage in Shooters Hill, St Andrew, on Friday.
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...
(Jamaica Gleaner) There is not a large Jamaican presence in Lake Charles, Louisiana – the section of the southern state that was bludgeoned by Hurricane Laura six weeks ago.
The article Jamaican workers help rebuild Lake Charles, Louisiana, after hurricane devastation appeared first on Stabroek News.
(Jamaica Gleaner) For the first time in four months, Jamaican athletes steamed down the athletics track at the National Stadium in competition on Saturday.
The article Pandemic forces Jamaican athletes into seeking employment outside of track and field appeared first on Stabroek News.
Unfortunately for them, such theories have been gaining so much traction these days; especially so on social media, that it is no longer enough to swathe them with the tag “Fake News”.
“Fake news”, Computer Generated Images (CGIs) and many more have become the perennial tenants of social media warehouses.
Is it surprising that these media outlets are now employing the truth serum syndrome called “FACT CHECKING, to distil the information we can consume?
As these social media platforms engage in paucity of information, what are these restrictions based on, veracity, popularity, political palatability, ideological congruence, or religious and cultural conviviality?
What this tells us is that social media had provided the shackles from packaged information.
Mark Golding, People’s National Party (PNP) presidential aspirant, has indicated that his first order of business if he is elected as president is to unify the party regardless of the views held previously by Comrades. His comments came yesterday...
The St Thomas police are seeking the help of anyone with information that can assist investigators probing the shooting death of a man in the parish on Friday night. \t\tThe deceased has been identified as 59-year old Wayne Campbell, a security...
The driver of an ill-fated truck, which plunged onto the rocky bed of the Wag River in the community of Devon Pen, St. Mary, died from injuries sustained Friday night.\tHe has been identified as Lancelot Wilson. Thirteen-year-old ...
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.
Impelled by the Archdiocese of Kingston Strategic Plan 2020-2030, the Most Rev Kenneth Richards, Archbishop of Kingston, established the Communications Commission of the Archdiocese of Kingston on September 29, 2020. The commission is established...
