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MGM Muthu Hotels coming to Jamaica

MGM Muthu Hotels coming to Jamaica

WESTERN BUREAU: Global hotel group MGM Muthu Hotels is set to make its Jamaican début with the official opening of Grand Muthu Club Caribbean Runaway Bay on August 1, taking over the site currently operated by Decameron Club Caribbean, Ramada All...

Jamaica’s Ambassador lauds diaspora-led Integrity Children’s Fund for uplifting at-risk youth

Jamaica’s Ambassador lauds diaspora-led Integrity Children’s Fund for uplifting at-risk youth

Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Major General (Ret’d) Antony Anderson, has praised the Integrity Children’s Fund for its longstanding contributions to the education and development of at-risk children in Jamaica and the...

Boy, 15, charged with manslaughter in accidental shooting of 14-year-old in Jamaica: NYPD

Boy, 15, charged with manslaughter in accidental shooting of 14-year-old in Jamaica: NYPD

A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed inside his Jamaica apartment on Wednesday and one of his friends was arrested and charged with manslaughter on Thursday. Photo via Citizen App A 15-year-old boy was arrested Thursday morning and charged with...

Junior Chamber International Jamaica shines at 2025 Conference of the Americas

Junior Chamber International Jamaica shines at 2025 Conference of the Americas

RECENTLY, A 12-member delegation of Junior Chamber International (JCI) Jamaica, led by 2025 national president, Reneil Clarke, represented the island at the 2025 JCI Conference of the Americas, held in Roatán, Honduras, where hundreds of emerging...

Buddy busted after 14-year-old boy was shot to death inside his Jamaica apartment on Wednesday: NYPD

Buddy busted after 14-year-old boy was shot to death inside his Jamaica apartment on Wednesday: NYPD

A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed inside his Jamaica apartment on Wednesday and one of his friends was arrested and charged with manslaughter on Thursday. Photo via Citizen App A 15-year-old boy was arrested Thursday morning and charged with...

Missing American woman found safe in Jamaica, police say

Missing American woman found safe in Jamaica, police say

Bethany Park, the American woman who was reported missing on June 16, has been found and is in good health, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) said Wednesday. According to police, Park had been staying with a friend and failed to notify her...

Floating book fair Logos Hope returns to Jamaica in July

Floating book fair Logos Hope returns to Jamaica in July

Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating book fair, is set to return to Jamaica with stops in Kingston and Montego Bay this summer. Thousands of Jamaicans are expected to board the ship once again, following its abbreviated 2020 visit that was cut...

Fugitive teen gunman turns himself in for fatal bus stop shooting of 16-year-old in South Jamaica: DA

Fugitive teen gunman turns himself in for fatal bus stop shooting of 16-year-old in South Jamaica: DA

A 16-year-old boy turned himself in at the 103rd Precinct for the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old St. Albans student at a South Jamaica bus stop in March. NYPD A 16-year-old boy was criminally charged with murder for the fatal shooting of...

Location matters, even if it’s a better mousetrap

Location matters, even if it’s a better mousetrap

Developers must understand their market. VICTORIA Mutual Property Services (VMPS) CEO Allison Morgan is cautioning developers that although there’s brisk business in commercial real estate, players who don’t understand the market may be left with...

Montego Bay, Jamaica Is Getting Its First-Ever Marriott Hotel

Montego Bay, Jamaica Is Getting Its First-Ever Marriott Hotel

A new chapter in Montego Bay’s tourism evolution is set to begin. Sandals Resorts Executive Chairman Adam Stewart has unveiled plans for a new AC Marriott hotel, a 165-room property that will bring a contemporary, European Plan (that is, not...

How to watch Panama vs. Jamaica online for free

How to watch Panama vs. Jamaica online for free

TL;DR: Live stream Panama vs. Jamaica in the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup for free on YouTube. Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. The 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup action continues with the final round of group-stage...

Bank of Jamaica pledges $15m to downtown Kingston art district

Bank of Jamaica pledges $15m to downtown Kingston art district

ON FRIDAY, June 20, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), the nation’s central bank, announced an “impact investment” of $15 million for over a three-year period, as part of Kingston Creative’s Adopt-A-Block initiative, which seeks “to ensure the creation of...

Newsmaker: ‘Fowl Play’: When KFC’s free chicken promo sparked a frenzy across Jamaica

Newsmaker: ‘Fowl Play’: When KFC’s free chicken promo sparked a frenzy across Jamaica

This week’s featured development as Newsmaker of the Week is the frenzy that was sparked by KFC Jamaica’s buy-one-get-one-free promotion last Wednesday, which saw reports of glass doors being broken at some of the 40 KFC branches locally,...

10 Worst Fallout 4 Settlement Locations To Avoid At All Costs

10 Worst Fallout 4 Settlement Locations To Avoid At All Costs

The Commonwealth of Fallout 4 is packed full of locations and hidden gems, which make exploring and adventuring in the region tons of fun even after a decade. In a departure from previous entries in the series, Fallout 4 added new mechanics which...

Jamaica Coast Catering opens first brick-and-mortar location in Greensboro's City Kitch

Jamaica Coast Catering opens first brick-and-mortar location in Greensboro's City Kitch

Jamaican woman fatally stabbed in Bronx apartment

Jamaican woman fatally stabbed in Bronx apartment

A Jamaican woman was fatally stabbed in her Bronx apartment Saturday night in what police sources have described as a suspected case of domestic violence. The victim has been identified as 40-year-old Tamara Rowe, a former employee of The Gleaner...

Jamaican woman stabbed to death in Bronx, New York

Jamaican woman stabbed to death in Bronx, New York

June 30, 2025 NEW YORK, USA— A Jamaican woman was reportedly stabbed to death in Wakefield in the Bronx, New York, on Saturday night. The woman, identified as 40-year-old Tamara Rowe, a former employee of the Gleaner in Jamaica, was reportedly...

Crocs man wanted for Jamaica assault

Crocs man wanted for Jamaica assault

The NYPD is still on the lookout for a man with a dark complexion who was last seen wearing a black Reebok hooded sweater and black Crocs. On Thursday, May 29, at about 5:30 p.m., the unidentified man and a 24-year-old man both were at Archer...

How to watch Jamaica vs. Guadeloupe online for free

How to watch Jamaica vs. Guadeloupe online for free

TL;DR: Live stream Jamaica vs. Guadeloupe in the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup for free on YouTube. Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. The 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup has started with a number of really exciting games,...

“Tell unu long time say Jamaica get tie”

“Tell unu long time say Jamaica get tie”

Screen grab of Shalam in official music video Wah Di Boy Put Inna Chicken (YouTube:icekooliomusic) KINGSTON, Jamaica—Declaring himself a prophet, recording artiste Shalam says today’s overwhelming turnout at KFC locations islandwide is proof that...

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