Jamaica News Portal

01/06/2021

Calling on persons to do a quick survey on meal kit subscription service.

Link: https://forms.gle/iyZ54hTowDF6j3yBA

Meal kit delivery services are quite popular today. Some subscriptions require a minimum number of meals ordered and all deliver at the same time. A meal kit service where a meal can be picked up near your office or home would offer the flexibility to cook a healthy meal for your family when it is c...

05/03/2021

An Old Harbour man who in 2019 killed the 17-year-old mother of his child and buried her in his duck pen before going on the lam, yesterday tearfully apologised to her parents after he was sentenced to 14 years and four months behind bars at hard labour for manslaughter. According to details shared....

05/03/2021

Professor Clive Landis, Chairman of the University of the West Indies COVID-19 Task Force, believes Jamaica could see a significant drop in hospitalisation within six weeks of vaccinating the elderly population. The number of people hospitalised has become a major worry for health authorities in rec...

05/03/2021

Cabinet is to receive a report on Monday on the new policy for the importation of chicken neck and back. Agriculture Minister Floyd Green on Thursday told Parliament’s Standing Finance Committee that an investigation has been completed. Last year, the Integrity Commission recommended in a report t...

05/03/2021

(The Den) The police late Thursday(March 4) confirmed that a man was fatally shot during a confrontation with the officers in Portmore in St. Catherine earlier in the day. According to the police, firearm and several rounds of ammunition were seized in the incident. Detectives are at this hour worki...

05/03/2021

(The Den) Family members of 36-year-old Nicola Gibson-Campbell, a mother of three, were left heartbroken after she was gunned down while in her yard on Tuesday (March 02). One of Gibson-Campbell’s cousins told The Den that the tragic incident has left the entire family in a state of shock. “It.....

02/03/2021

The Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson has given directions that a policeman seen in a viral video in a “compromising position” be interdicted with immediate effect. The video has been making the rounds on social media. The policeman, who was dressed in uniform, was recorded d...

02/03/2021

Bunny Wailer, one of the foremost legends of Jamaica’s reggae music and a founding member of The Wailer’s, has died at the age of 73. The Trench Town native, whose given name is Neville Livingston, died at hospital this morning. In 2017, the Jamaican Government of Jamaica awarded him the Order o...

02/03/2021

There was a multi-million dollar co***ne seizure at Kingston Freeport Terminal on Monday. The co***ne was found on a ship which arrived from Panama. About 1 o’clock in the afternoon, the police and a team from Jamaica Customs Agency discovered 306 pounds of the narcotics in 122 packages stored in ...

02/03/2021

The police are conducting an investigation after a video surfaced on social media showing what appears to be a man using a firearm to threaten a woman and a child who were in a car. The Jamaica Constabulary Force is asking the maker of the video or witnesses to contact it immediately. In the video a...

01/03/2021

Jamaica will receive considerably fewer doses of vaccines in its first shipment under the Covax facility than was originally announced. Early last month Health Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton had announced that Jamaica was set to receive 146,000 to 249,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, by mid to...

01/03/2021

Effective Thursday (March 4), all persons entering the country (both Jamaicans and non-nationals) will be required to present a negative coronavirus (COVID-19) test at check-in for their flights. The test must be conducted within 72 hours prior to the date of travel. This was announced by Prime Mini...

01/03/2021

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced new and stricter COVID-19 measures under the Disaster Risk Management Act, effective March 1. The Government has implemented these measures amid an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations. According to Prime Minister Holness, the Government has been forced t...

01/03/2021

As Joanne Gordon clenched a necklace she now wears in memory of her late son Dillon ‘KC’ Walters, she couldn’t stop the rush of tears which flowed down her cheeks. Walters was murdered a day after his birthday, and Gordon, 45, informed THE STAR that she witnessed him take his last breath. Walt...

01/03/2021

The Government has announced that it has reached a deal with the African Medical Supply Platform for the delivery of 1.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, starting next month. The announcement comes as the Holness administration is under pressure to commence vaccination against the disease that ha...

01/03/2021

There is growing outrage at the operators of the East-West leg of Highway 2000 after a policeman who was stabbed some 14 times in an encounter with a gunman near the May Pen toll plaza was reportedly denied emergency access to turn back to get to the May Pen Hospital on Saturday. The injured cop, [....

09/02/2021

Thirty-nine-year-old Nadeen Geddes yesterday pleaded guilty in the Hillary session of the Trelawny Circuit Court to the murder of her sister, 36-year-old Tamara Geddes, who was shot in her bedroom in the Reserve community in the parish last year. The 36-year-old Geddes was reportedly gunned down in....

28/01/2021

The police have arrested and charged an alleged car thief in relation to an incident in Gutter’s, Old Harbour, St Catherine last year. He is 24-year-old Kemar Brown otherwise called ‘Blacks’ of Hazard Drive, May Pen in Clarendon. He has been charged with robbery with aggravation and illegal po...