JetBlue Flight Attendant Alleged Kidnapping Controversy In Jamaica

By Jamaica Live Medias / February 14, 2021

According to the Jamaica Gleaner, Kalina Collier arrived in the country on January 28, and was scheduled to depart February 1. On Saturday, January 30, Collier did an antigen test that returned a positive result; another test an hour later was negative. Owing to the uncertainty surrounding the two tests, the Ministry of Health and Wellness…

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Sean Paul explains why he don’t do clashes

By Jamaica Live Medias / February 7, 2021

In an Interview with Dj 4eign, the International dancehall artiste said he believes clashes are a deterrent for people to embrace the full grasp of the dancehall genre of music. He wants more collab than clashes. Even though he understand that clashes are an important aspect of dancehall he believes it is holding back the…

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South Africa halts rollout of AstraZeneca, accepted by Jamaica

By Jamaica Live Medias / February 7, 2021

According to Aljazeera, South Africa has suspended the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in its immunisation programme until a committee of scientists advises on the best way to proceed. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize’s announcement on Sunday came after trial data showed the vaccine developed by drugmaker AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford offered only limited protection against…

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Movada Finally Respond To His Son’s Murder Conviction

By Jamaica Live Medias / February 3, 2021

Dante Brooks, 18, son of International dancehall artiste David Brooks, commonly known as Movado was found guilty of murder, illegal possession of firearm and arson in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston January 27, 2021. Brooks and his co-accused Andre Hinds were arrested and charged in connection with the home-invasion killing of Lorenzo Thomas…

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Jamaica To Get AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine In Mid February

By Jamaica Live Medias / February 3, 2021

The Health and Wellness Minister’s Office have released the statement that Jamaica is to receive between 146,400 and 249,600 doses of #AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine by middle of February 2021. This means that some 125,000 Jamaicans could receive vaccines by the end of February into March. The statement indicated that if the additional supplies of vaccine under the…

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Two Serial Rapists On The Loose In St. Ann’s Jamaica

By Jamaica Live Medias / January 31, 2021

According to the Jamaica Observer, a medical doctor at St Ann’s Bay Hospital and medical personnel have noticed a surge of women, as young as 12 to as old as over 50 years, who had gone missing for two or more days before showing up at the hospital stating that they were raped by two men.…

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Beenie Man And Krystal Tomlinson Are Over

By Jamaica Live Medias / January 18, 2021

Dancehall artiste Beenie Man broke the news on his Instagram page on Monday January 18, 2021 that he and fiancé Krystal Tomlinson are over. According to Beenie Man he is free, single and disengaged. Tomlinson, he said, is free, single and ready to be engaged. “We are apart. We are not together anymore. No bad…

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Thousands Of Young Jamaicans To Be Trained As Software Developers

By Jamaica Live Medias / January 18, 2021

According to the Jamaica Information Service, thousands of young Jamaicans will be trained as software developers to create cutting-edge technologies through the Amber HEART Coding Academy. The academy, which was officially launched on Thursday (January 14) by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is a partnership between the HEART NSTA/Trust and the Amber Group,…

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Norway: 23 Deaths Associated With Covid-19 Vaccination

By Jamaica Live Medias / January 17, 2021

The Norwegian Medicines Agency Statens legemiddelverk, are reporting that there are 23 deaths associated with covid-19 vaccination. According to the Press Release, the common adverse reactions may have contributed to a severe course in elderly people who are frail. The press release stated that out of the 23 deaths associated with covid-19 vaccination,13 have been assessed. According to…

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First Black Bachelor Matt James Allegedly Have a Whole Boyfriend

By Jamaica Live Medias / January 3, 2021

Matt James has made history as the first Black man to be named the Bachelor in the show’s 18-year history. Initially, he was cast as a suitor in Clare Crawley and Tayshia Adams’s season of The Bachelorette-but was then offered his own season, which will premiere on January 4. Matt James has been named the…

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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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