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‘Unimaginable’ flood

Several market vendors in Brown’s Town, St Ann, are shouldering thousands of dollars in losses arising from a flash flood which washed away much of their produce on Saturday. Sixty-year-old Lindsay James, who said he has spent nearly five decades...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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DR DWAYNE Dyce, a Washington-based educator, is the new chair of the Jamaica Diaspora Education Task Force (JDETF), formerly headed by Leo

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CONROY STERLING begged his mom, Joan Spence, not to break down and cry as he, twin Conrad, and adopted brother Rohan were repatriated to the island aboard the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship on Tuesday

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In summary The State Building and Construction Trades Council placed a Facebook advertisement which members of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus objected to. The union retracted the ad and issued an apology, but the incident illustrates the fraught tensions at play in state housing

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St Ann buggery accused granted bail

The man accused of buggering a five-year-old boy in St Ann last month has been granted bail and ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation. The 20-year-old accused was granted bail in the sum of $300,000 with one or two sureties when...

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Beach Advisory for May 17-21

DPNR performed water quality analysis at 35 designated beaches throughout the territory during the week of May 17-21, 2021. All beaches sampled meet water quality standards and are safe for swimming or fishing.

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Fires rage in St Ann - Parish records 280% increase in bush fires

A CONTINUING dry spell in St Ann has manifested in a massive increase in bush fires for the month of April 2020 compared to the similar period the previous

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Update| Four die in fiery crash in St Ann

Four people have died in a crash along the Discovery Bay main road in St Ann. The police say the incident happened about 7:50 this morning. Those dead have not yet been identified. The St Ann Police are investigating. The Gleaner...

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StJMC points finger at NHT for Cornwall Courts flooding crisis

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) has pointed angry residents upset at the latest flooding of sections of the Cornwall Courts housing scheme in St James last week to the National Housing Trust (NHT), which it says has not...

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Hell will break loose as Kerensia Morrison chosen for St Catherine NE – JLP activist

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Experts predict busy Atlantic storm season but not like 2020 - Barbados Today

SOURCE :AP: The Atlantic hurricane season will be busier than normal, but it's unlikely to be as crazy as 2020's record-shattering year, meteorologists said Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasted that the hurricane season, which runs from June through

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Cronyism claim - Lisa Hanna dodges charges but scolded for contract nepotism

Lisa Hanna, a legislator and spokesperson for the Opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP) election campaign, has escaped criminal charges but has been slammed for nepotism and cronyism in the award of millions of dollars in contracts in St Ann...

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Ex-cop, sister lose appeal against conviction in murder of taxi operator

Ex-cop Jeffery Peart and his sister Roxanne have lost their appeal against their 2014 conviction for the murder of a taxi

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90 new COVID-19 cases, three additional fatalities

Jamaica has recorded three more COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 801. Those who died on Thursday are a 66-year-old woman from Manchester, a 48-year-old man from Portland, and an 88-year-old male from Kingston & St Andrew. Meanwhile,...

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Outrage as second St Ann child buggered

As two cases of violent sexual assault on minors spoil the start of Child Month in St Ann, parish leaders have expressed outrage, calling for greater protection of the nation’s most vulnerable citizens. In the first instance, the police reported...

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'Yellow' wrongly accused of rape

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Flooding headache in Mandeville

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Two more COVID-19 deaths, 45 additional cases

Jamaica has recorded two more COVID-19 fatalities, increasing the tally to 951. The deceased are an 80-year-old woman from Clarendon and a 95-year-old female from St Ann. One more case has been recorded as a coincidental death, pushing the tally to...

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More scrutiny on COVID clean-up

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39 arrested in major St Ann operation

Thirty-nine people have been arrested following an early morning joint police-military raid at a guest house in Discovery Bay, St Ann. During the raid, members of the security forces seized several items described as lottery scamming and advance fee fraud paraphernalia.

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Jamaica records 14 more imported COVID cases, recoveries remain at 458

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PM: T&T has racism issues | New York Carib News

Prime Minister Keith Rowley said on Saturday, that the country has issues of racism, but he hopes we can learn from what is happening to the US and other places that are reacting to the police killing of an African American man. Rowley was responding to protests which began on May 26 and eventually

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$15 million allocated for infrastructure works at Brown’s Town Market

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