KINGSTON, Jamaica — Dancehall artiste Masicka is set to stage his first headline show in his hometown of Portmore with the inaugural Forever1NE Music Festival at Caymanas Park on December 19. The event, being staged in partnership with Zimi Entertainment and Magnum as title partner, is being positioned as a major celebration of dancehall, Jamaican music and culture. Masicka will headline the festival alongside special guests, with additional acts and...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Fi We Children Foundation (FWCF) is calling on the Government to enact comprehensive anti-bullying legislation, noting that the absence of a dedicated legislative framework represents a significant gap in Jamaica's efforts to fulfil its international obligations to protect children from violence, abuse and harm. The call follows a now-viral video of a Kingston College student being held over a staircase, with the school maintaining the students holding...

CLARENDON, Jamaica— Damion Beckford, the 37-year-old Clarendon taxi operator charged with the September 8 rape and abduction of a 10-year-old girl in May Pen, was remanded today when he appeared in court. Beckford, a resident of Canaan Heights in Clarendon, was charged with both offences on Monday, four days after he was detained by the police. When he made his first appearance in the Clarendon Parish Court on Thursday, the...

After 50 years on the market, the delicious, creamy drink that ‘boosts you up’ is a household name in Jamaica. Supligen is enjoyed by all generations of Jamaicans. However, what is unknown to many is that the product was conceptualised and launched right here on the island. In this episode of How Dis Mek?, Observer Online travels to the Serge Dairies Factory in St Catherine to find out how the...

TRELAWNY, Jamaica — President-elect of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Dr Maureen Mullings-Nelson, was rushed to hospital on Thursday afternoon after sustaining multiple injuries in a two-vehicle crash on the Duncans main road in Trelawny. The crash, which occurred about 3:30 pm, involved two Honda CR-V motor vehicles. Mullings-Nelson was a passenger in one of the vehicles, which was travelling from Montego Bay, St James, towards Kingston after a JTA...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 16-year-old student has been charged for setting a man on fire during a protest at the intersection of Nelson and Metcalf streets in Denham Town, West Kingston. The teen, charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm, is the second person to be charged in connection with the incident. An alleged gang member was charged earlier this week. The 31-year-old injured man is still in hospital being...

DALLAS, United States (CMC) – Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, who was convicted of murdering St Lucian-born accountant Botham Jean in his apartment in 2018, has been granted parole by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. Guyger was convicted seven years ago on October 1, 2019, and sentenced to 10 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Jean, who was 26. Jean, who was born in St Lucia...

A detective constable a few moments ago testified that murder accused Andre Ruddock confessed to him that he killed 39-year-old Taneka Gardner at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Albion St James. Gardner was killed on October 17, 2021, as part of what has been described as a human sacrifice ritual at the church. Ruddock is alleged to have cut her throat on the instructions of his now-deceased pastor,...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP)—A judge on Thursday denied an acquittal request by an American mother accused of murdering her three children, a court filing showed, weeks after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the high-profile case. During the trial, 36-year-old Lindsay Clancy did not deny strangling Cora, age five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months. But she claimed she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and sought to...

NEW YORK, United States (CMC) – Former Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL) chief executive officer Ingrid Innes has been fined US$7,000 and sentenced to time served after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The 70-year-old, who has stage three pancreatic cancer, avoided further imprisonment after District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto took her medical condition into account. Innes was charged in connection with a bribery scheme...