Jamaica News
Man jailed for robbing villa where Jamaica national security minster was guest
The police had reported that National Security Minister Peter Bunting was visiting two female friends at the villa at the time of the burglary and Bunting later denied that he was held at knifepoint during the incident.
Compensation for victims of ponzi scheme run by Jamaica national
A date for the payout has not been set but only those who invested during the period February 3, 2005 through to July 15, 2008 will be eligible....
Three held in multi-million dollar Jamaican robbery including political activist
Police said they had charged Kayon ‘Treasure’ Campbell, a political activist with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), businessman Donald Ho and Norman Robertson from Spanish Town in the central parish of St Catherine....
Government to hold meeting with Jamaica media houses
The Jamaica Government Information Service (JIS) said there had been recent encounters where journalists seeking impromptu interviews with the Prime Minister have been doing so in a manner that physically impedes the Prime Minister’s movements....
Jamaica security firm employees detained in major drug bust
The seizure was a collaborative effort by members of the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption (MOCA) task force, the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division, and the Jamaica Defence Force....
Jamaica Labour Party "alarmed" by minister's statement on crime
National Security Minister, Peter Bunting said he was “not embarrassed to say that right now as Minister of National Security, I am going through a kind of a dark night of the soul.”...
Jamaican musicologist, folklorist Olive Lewin dead at 85
Some of Lewin's research is captured in her several books, among them Rock it Come Over - The Folk Music of Jamaica and Some Jamaican Folk Songs....
Jamaica policeman brutally murdered in ambush
Police Commissioner Owen Ellington said the detective was shot several times and was rushed to the Kingston Public Hospital where he died....
Release of 81 Caribbean prisoners secured by Food for the Poor
Inmates of jails in Jamaica, Guyana, Haiti and Honduras were freed when the charity paid outstanding fines as part of its International Prison Ministry Programme....
Mother to appear in court charged with death of two children
Police said 10-year-old Juniel McKenzie and her seven year-old sister, Bianca, were asleep when their mother allegedly left them alone to purchase items at a nearby shop....
Doctors in Jamaica on strike
The Ministry of Health in confirming the reports of a strike said several health facilities have informed patients that only emergency cases, will be accepted....