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Jamaican fashion designer makes the ideal fabric mask

Mandatory wearing of mask in public to curtail the spread of COVID-19 has created high demand for the product, with the garmex and textile…

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Double murder in Old Harbour Mews

They have been identified as 24 years old Sachone Haynes alias ‘Cake Soap’ and his younger brother Shamar Blackwood, 21, both of…

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Old Harbour business group launches GoFundMe to help COVID-hit SMEs

The move according to its president Adrian Samuda is to assist or prevent small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within south west St…

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Shahine was my ‘little sister’, her passing 'hurts deeply'

Robinson, 66, died May 29 following a long battle with cancer. She was the Minister of Labour and Social Security at the time of her passing…

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Residents spruce up and fortify Bushy Park Post Office on Labour Day after break-in

For a few days postal operations were transferred to the Old Harbour branch, inconveniencing hundreds of citizens, pensioners the most…

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Optimist Club New Harbour Village aids Dare to Care HIV programme

The club’s initiative dubbed ‘Giving Back to the Labourers of Love’ saw each of the 42 female caregivers receiving Mother…

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Warmington rejects renaming monuments in honour of politicians

This time the straight talking St Catherine South West Member of Parliament made it clear to his parliamentary colleagues that he was against…

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Jamaica utilizing ‘empiric treatment’ on COVID-19 patients

Both are in the testing phase of long trial runs in the US, India and China that is estimated to last approximately 18 months before any…

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Old Harbour among Jamaica’s most infected COVID-19 communities

This was revealed in data presented during a virtual meeting of the special select parliamentary committee for public health on Tuesday. St…

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Thetford family lambasts Old Harbour police following raid

Twenty-seven year-old March alias ‘John’, Lamar Newell, 27, and Matthew Simpson, 18, were all taken into police custody following…

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Annual Old Harbour & Friends Association Spring Ball cancelled

Organisers of the prestigious charitable fundraiser were forced to cancel this year’s event in light of the ongoing global coronavirus…

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$US1 million awarded to clean polluted Kingston Harbour

The Benioff Ocean Initiative on May 7 awarded the funds to The Ocean Cleanup in a project that will run for several years and is part of a…

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Police Inspector leads academic support initiative in West Kingston

Detective Inspector of Police Pilmar Powell, who has been assigned to the Kingston Western Police Division since 2018, tells JIS News that…

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89 children and teens have contracted COVID-19

Chief Medical Officer, Jacquiline Bisasor- McKenzie, made the disclosure while responding to questions on Wednesday (May 5), during a virtual…

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Tax authority suspends two in-line services at corporate area offices

The suspension will be initially for one week and comes as TAJ moves to reduce the crowds at these two corporate area offices.

This…

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Old Harbour man shot fatally by cops

The deceased has been identified as Tayvar ‘Hot Skull’ Fothergill, 31 of Old Harbour Glades.

According to the police,…

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