Gates Foundation Launches 8-Year Contraceptive in Kenya Amid Debate Over Global Population Policies

By Jamaica Live Medias / August 20, 2025

Jamaica Live International News– | Aug 20, 2025 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the launched what they dubbed as groundbreaking contraceptive — a hormonal intrauterine device (IUD) capable of preventing pregnancy for up to eight years. Kenya, alongside Nigeria and India, is among the first countries to benefit from this initiative, which…

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Could Interracial Marriage Be on the Supreme Court’s Chopping Block?

By Jamaica Live Medias / August 18, 2025

Jamaica Live International News Desk– | Aug 16, 2025 A storm of controversy erupted when U.S.  Republican Senator Mike Braun suggested that the Supreme Court should leave the question of interracial marriage to individual states. In a recent interview, Braun argued that deeply personal freedoms—such as marriage rights and access to contraception—should be decided at the…

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No More Photo Finish: Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson Leaves Noah Lyles Eating His Words

By Jamaica Live Medias / August 17, 2025

For months, track fans have debated who really is the fastest man alive. Paris 2024 gave us a “photo finish” that handed Noah Lyles Olympic gold by a mere five-thousandths of a second. Many Jamaicans cried foul, branding it “Olympic robbery” – bureaucracy, technology, and slow-motion pixels deciding glory instead of raw speed. But in…

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Jamaican man in Brooklyn becomes a victim of what some describe as underhanded gentrification

By Jamaica Live Medias / August 16, 2025

Jamaica Live News Desk– | Aug 16, 2025 Brooklyn, New York – A Jamaican immigrant’s American dream turned into a nightmare when the city of New York sold his fully paid-off home at auction over an unpaid water bill of just over $5,000. The case of Filmore Brown, a Canarsie resident who worked tirelessly for…

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Port of Spain to Remove Columbus Statue, Honour Genocide Victims and Pan-African Hero Kwame Ture

By Jamaica Live Medias / August 14, 2025

Jamaica Live Regional News- Aug 14-2025 Port of Spain, Trinidad – August 1, 2025 – In a historic move aimed at reckoning with the city’s colonial legacy, the Port of Spain City Council has remove the bronze statue of Christopher Columbus from the capital’s Columbus Square and rename the landmark in honour of the victims…

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US “Keep Call Centers in America” Bill Could Shake Jamaica’s BPO Industry

By Jamaica Live Medias / August 13, 2025

Jamaica Live News Desk- Aug 13-2025 Jamaica’s booming call centre and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry could soon face major challenges if a new bill making its way through the United States Congress becomes law. The proposed S.2495 – Keep Call Centers in America Act of 2025 aims to discourage U.S. companies from moving customer…

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Could the Conflict with Israel and Other Middle Eastern Countries Escalate?

By Jamaica Live Medias / August 13, 2025

Jamaica Live International News Desk-Aug- 13-2025 Concerns are mounting across global capitals that the simmering tensions in the Middle East could spiral into a wider regional conflict, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed his attachment to the controversial vision of a “Greater Israel.” In a televised interview on Tuesday with i24 News, Netanyahu was…

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The United States Offers $50 Million Bounty for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

By Jamaica Live Medias / August 8, 2025

Jamaica Live International News Desk | August 8, 2025 Washington, D.C. – The United States has dramatically escalated its pursuit of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, with Attorney General Pam Bondi announcing on August 7 a $50 million reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction on narco-terrorism charges. This unprecedented bounty, the highest ever…

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SHOCK: Two Black Women Allegedly Shot and Fed to Pigs on South African Farm

By Jamaica Live Medias / August 5, 2025

Jamaica Live International Edition-Aug 5, 2025 LIMPOPO, SOUTH AFRICA — A chilling case unfolding in South Africa has once again thrown the spotlight on the nation’s deeply entrenched racial and land-related tensions. A white farmer and his two employees have been charged in the brutal murder of two Black women, whose decomposing bodies were discovered…

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Jamaica stock market has become a case study!

By Jamaica Live Medias / August 3, 2025

Jamaica Live News Desk– Aug 3, 2025 Jamaica’s stock market is turning heads—and not just within the Caribbean. Faida Investment Bank Founder and Chairman Bob Karina, a leading figure in Kenya’s financial sector, has called for his country to study the Jamaican Stock Exchange (JSE) as a potential blueprint for growth. Karina, who recently visited…

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Was Dr. Jason Arday Hounded to Death? Questions Over Racism, Right-Wing Attacks and a Relentless Media Campaign

JAMAICA LIVE – SPECIAL REPORT The sudden death of Professor Jason Arday, Cambridge University’s youngest-ever Black professor, has left Britain confronting an uncomfortable and deeply troubling question: did legitimate scrutiny of an academic accused of wrongdoing develop into a racially charged, right-wing media campaign that placed unbearable pressure on one of Britain’s most prominent Black…
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OP-ED | Jamaica Is at a Crossroads of Neocolonialism and Becoming a Developed Nation

Since Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962, the country has struggled with economic and structural disadvantages inherited from colonialism.  Jamaica entered independence as what was then widely described as a “Third World” nation, while Western powers, including the United States and former European colonial states, continued to enjoy far greater levels of wealth, industrialisation,…
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Vaz Turns the Clock Back on Golding: 2000 Squatter Dispute Resurfaces Amid Cooper’s Pen Controversy

Jamaica Live News Desk– | Aug 13, 2026 KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport Daryl Vaz has turned to the newspaper archives in an attempt to challenge Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s position on the demolition controversy in Cooper’s Pen, Trelawny, accusing the People’s National Party (PNP) president of politicising the plight…
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Isat Buchanan Under Fire Over ‘Chop Di Line’ Remarks Following Coopers Pen Demolition

Jamaica Live News Desk– | Aug 12, 2026 KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition Spokesperson on Youth and Human Rights and East Portland Member of Parliament Isat Buchanan is facing criticism over remarks circulating on social media in which he appears to encourage Jamaicans who were not affected by the demolition of homes in Coopers Pen, Trelawny,…
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MP Tova Hamilton and ODPEM Respond as Mayor Gager Clarifies Cooper’s Pen Evictions Followed Private Court Dispute

Jamaica Live News Desk– | Aug 12, 2026 TRELAWNY, Jamaica — Member of Parliament Tova Hamilton, in conjunction with the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), moved on Wednesday to respond to the plight of residents of Cooper’s Pen, Trelawny, who were displaced after being evicted from property by a private developer following…
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Stop Rewriting Bob Marley and Marcus Garvey: Jamaica’s Pan-African Legacy Is Not Israel’s Story

OPINION | A recent claim by journalist and documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, who describes himself as a three-time Emmy Award winner, should be challenged and publicly admonished for attempting to recast Bob Marley as a Zionist while drawing Jamaica’s National Hero Marcus Garvey into the same narrative. Such claims distort the historical record and misrepresent…
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