Jamaica

Jamaica: ‘Madness’ – Hospitals, doctors trade blame as delivering mother dies amid COVID chaos

April 27, 2020

Fearon posing with a small tummy during her pregnancy. She died at the University Hospital of the West Indies mere hours after giving birth at the Spanish Town Hospital. [...]

105 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Jamaica – a massive increase of 32

April 14, 2020

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has reported Jamaica’s largest increase in a 24-hour cycle [...]

Singer Apple Gabriel is dead

March 27, 2020

BY HOWARD CAMPBELLObserver senior writer Friday, March 27, 2020 Albert “Apple Gabriel” Craig Albert “Apple Gabriel” Craig, an original member of Israel [...]

Doctors, nurses who test positive for COVID-19 not included in Jamaica’s 19 confirmed cases

March 22, 2020

By Jamaica Gleaner March 22, 2020 A number of “frontline people” have been quarantined because they were exposed to the coronavirus. (Photo by Gladstone Taylor)(JAMAICA [...]

JAMAICA: 2 more COVID-19 cases confirmed

March 16, 2020

Sunday, March 15, 2020 KINGSTON, Jamaica— The Ministry of Health and Wellness has confirmed two more cases of COVID-19 in the island, bringing the number of confirmed [...]

JAMAICA: 8 MURDERS IN 4 HOURS

March 16, 2020

Eight murders, one of them a double homicide, were committed in just over four hours between Friday night and early yesterday morning, even as Jamaicans continued to be [...]

Exclusive Preview: Chronixx’s Second Album, Dela Splash

March 13, 2020

The musician discusses his upcoming work, starting with a new single and video on Friday. BY DAN ADLERMARCH 13, 2020 BY HARRY EELMAN. By the time the Jamaican [...]

CDB Lauds Economic Performance of St.Kitts-Nevis as he announces a 4.1 per cent Target growth rate for the Caribbean

February 14, 2020

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Lamenting the fact that borrowing member countries (BMCs) were only able to achieve just about an average of one per cent growth in 2019, president [...]

Jamaica records 34 murders in the first 11 days of 2020 while St.Kitts-Nevis Has Not had a Murder in over 8 months since May 2019.

January 14, 2020

Over the last 10 years Jamaica and St.Kitts-Nevis have been consistent among the top most murderous countries in the Caribbean and the world as far as murder rates per capita [...]

Buju, Ifrica cry foul

December 7, 2019

MyVueNews.com December 5, 2019 BY RICHARD JOHNSON, Jamaica Observer At least two Jamaican artistes are denying reports that they have been booked for the Nigeria [...]