Butts-out! Spanish firemen protest budget cuts

By Jamaica Live Medias / April 13, 2019

Spanish firemen strip naked to protest spending cuts Taking a page from the Yellow Vest Movement ,firemen from the northern town of Mieres in Spain stripped naked wearing except yellow hard hats to protest budget cuts. According to EXPATICA SPAIN NEWS,the firefighters emerged one by one from their fire station wearing just their helmets and boots and…

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IMF approves $4.2bn loan for Ecuador days before Julian Assange was expelled from the embassy

By Jamaica Live Medias / April 13, 2019

Ecuador’s Economy Minister Richard Martinez (C) offers a press conference, along with other government representatives. Source: AFP WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund on Monday approved a $4.2-billion, three-year loan for Ecuador, part of a broader aid package to help support the government’s economic reform program. The Washington-based lender agreed to the terms of the financing…

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Afro-Mexicans Want To Be Fully Recognize By Mexico.

By Jamaica Live Medias / April 5, 2019

The Invisible People Of Mexico According to recent DNA studies, although the average Mexican has a small amount of DNA dating back to Black African slave ancestors who had mixed into the predominant Mexican mestizo (mixed Spanish and Amerindian) genepool, averaging to about 5% Sub-Saharan African DNA, Afro-Mexican refers specifically to those Mexicans who, conversely, are predominantly…

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Somali-British: Magic Magid – The Lord Mayor of Sheffield, England

By Jamaica Live Medias / April 3, 2019

See Cited source in links: Magid Magid , also known as Magid Mah, is a British-Somali activist and politician who has served as the Lord Mayor of Sheffield since May 2018. His appointment has attracted significant media attention, as he is the first Somali, the youngest-ever, and the first Green Party councillor to hold the role. Born in Somaliland, Magid came as a child…

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Breaking News: Lawyer Michael Avenatti arrested on Wire and Bank Fraud..Extorting Nike

By Jamaica Live Medias / March 25, 2019

New York Controversial Lawyer Michael Avenatti who represented adult-film star Stormy Daniels against President Donald Trump and who recently announced he will turn over allegedly sex tape featuring R. Kelly Having Sex With Minor is now arrested on fraud charges. Federal prosecutors in New York on Monday accused Avenatti of operating “an old-fashioned shakedown” by…

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Mueller: No proof of collusion with Russia or obstruction by Trump

By Jamaica Live Medias / March 24, 2019

AG Barr says evidence ‘not sufficient’ to prosecute After years of continued investigations and allegations, the verdict is in. Special counsel Robert Mueller found no proof that President Donald Trump criminally colluded with Russia and conclude there is no conclusion about whether Trump obstructed justice, Attorney General William Barr told Congress on Sunday. He also…

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Man seen kicking elderly woman in face on New York subway in viral video arrested

By Jamaica Live Medias / March 23, 2019

NEW YORK — A man who was caught on video viciously attacking an elderly woman while riding a subway train in New York is in custody, officials said Saturday. NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot F. Shea tweeted a photo with a caption announcing, “The subject wanted for the brutal subway attack of an elderly woman…

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Former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile hired by Fox News

By Jamaica Live Medias / March 19, 2019

Fox News has hired Donna Brazile, the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman, as a contributor, the company said in a news release on Monday. Donna Brazile was disgraced and lost her job at CNN for allegedly giving information to Hillary during a debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. According to the report, Brazile resigned…

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Kenya’s border fence that cost $35m for just 10km

By Jamaica Live Medias / March 14, 2019

At just 10km long, the fence has cost around $3m per kilometre Source: BBC According to the BBC, the Kenyan MPs have asked how a 10km wire fence built along the country’s border with Somalia cost $35 million. Many would wonder why Kenya wanted to build a wall in the first place? Well,  according to…

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Beto O’Rourke is running for president.

By Jamaica Live Medias / March 14, 2019

Another Democrat throw his hat in the ring to run for President Of The United States in 2020   “I am running to serve this country as the next President of the United States”.   “The challenges we face are the greatest in living memory. No one person can meet these challenges on their own. Only…

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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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