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Gloria Thompson, the grandmother of Olympic 100m champion
@FastElaine
, was ecstatic this morning as she watched the final of the women's 100m from her hometown in Banana Ground, Manchester. It's a win Thompson had predicted and she is looking for a repeat in the 200m.
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Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, arrive at the Carib 5 theatre in Cross Roads, St Andrew, for the Bob Marley: One Love movie premiere. The film will be released in theatres on February 14.
#GLNREnt
📸: Rudolph Brown
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JUST IN: Reggae legend Bunny Wailer has died. Bunny was the last living member of the reggae group, The Wailers, which comprised Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. He was 73.
More details soon.
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"We're just some kids from Kingston, Jamaica," said Reggae artiste Kabaka Pyramid (
@Kabakapyramid
) after collecting the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album at the 66th Grammy Awards ceremony for his album, The Kalling.
#GLNREnt
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Joel Ras, one of the men who helped in the search for nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia, recounts how footprints led the group to the site where the St Thomas girl was found. Prussia was found alive a short while ago. She has since been taken to hospital for medical attention.
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.
@usainbolt
goes head to head with Samba dancers @ a 🇯🇲Olympic Assoc. press conference
@rmakyn
pic
#JAinRio
#Rio2016
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JUST IN: Jamaican Reggae singer Buju Banton has been released from US prison, an official of the McRae Correctional Institution has confirmed. Details soon.
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Former Immaculate Conception High School student Tonia Williams is Jamaica's 2022 Rhodes Scholar. Williams, who is now studying for a Master's degree in Education at Harvard will take up the scholarship at Oxford University for a doctoral degree.
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Burna Boy is in love with Jamaica and will seek to purchase a home on the island. He is also expected to return next year for another vacation.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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Over the last 25 years, Elizabeth ‘Jennifer’ Williams was shot once and robbed multiple times as she tried to eke out a living on the gritty Corporate Area streets and send her five daughters through school.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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The ruling of the court means that the injunction that barred the school from denying the child access, has now been lifted. The child's mother Sherine Virgo insists that she will not be cutting her daughter's hair. She also says her daughter has been doing well.
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What a 'Corona care package' looks like: One resident of Bull Bay in St Andrew submitted this video this afternoon after receiving her care package from Labour Ministry officials. The resident, Cherika Craig, said it was a long wait for the package but she was grateful.
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Phylisa Prussia has been found in Arcadia, St Thomas. She has been rushed to the hospital for medical examination. The suspected abductor, Davian Bryan, is believed to have been sighted and the search has intensified. A helicopter is circling the area.
#GLNRToday
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The six-year-old St Ann boy now recovering in the United States after being mauled by dogs was in total awe today as he touched snow for the first time. Little Mickele Allen has done three surgeries but has multiple skin graft and other surgeries to go. - Dr Jennifer Ashton video
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Jamaica's Sunshine Girls today defeated Australia 57-55 to top the zone and remain undefeated at the 2022
#CommonwealthGames
in Birmingham, England. They later celebrated their win with a dance routine to Ding Dong's single, 'Bounce.'
Video:
@TheVoiceNews
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Comedian Oliver Samuels had mourners in stitches at the graveside of his long time colleague Volier Johnson in Connors district, St Catherine last week. A giant in theatre, Johnson, died last month after suffering a heart attack. He was buried on Thursday. - Contributed video
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Jamaican entertainers Tami Chin Mitchell and Wayne Marshall have announced the birth of their fourth child, Ivy Arrow Mitchell. The newest addition to their family was born on June 16. The couple shares three sons; eight-year-old Jaxen, five-year-old Atlas and two-year-old Oz.
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Jamaica-born Carol Sharpe has been elected as a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. She was elected during Tuesday's election. Sharpe, who grew up in Kingston, is the sixth of seven children for her parents. She attended the HWT Primary and The Queen's schools.
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#TokyoGoldRush
: It was only destiny. After taking the wrong bus ahead of his semifinal, Hansle Parchment ran into a kind Olympic volunteer who set him on the right way. He's gone back to find her and share the Jamaican gratitude.
Full video:
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A man's best friend! Stray, a dog belonging to Morris Claude Denny, lay at the alter at the Church of Prophecy in Stony Hill, St Andrew where Denny's funeral is taking place today. The 58-year-old died of natural causes on May 26. - Andre Williams photo
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: The AHPO luxury yacht owned by billionaire banker Michael Lee-Chin seen here docked in Port Antonio, Portland, on Monday. The 115m-long vessel, built in Germany by Lurssen and delivered in 2021, can accommodate up to 14 guests in seven staterooms.
#GLNRPics
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Jamaican reggae icon Beres Hammond today expressed joy after being conferred with an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at the graduation ceremony at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
#GLNRToday
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JUST IN: Reggae sensation Koffee, born Mikayla Simpson, just won herself a grammy, in the category of Best Reggae Album. She created history by becoming the youngest solo act to be nominated and now win the Best Reggae Album category. More soon
#GLNREnt
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The jury is still out on whether dancehall ought to crown a king on every continent. Nonetheless, Ghana-born reggae-dancehall musician Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jr has boldly laid claim to the title King of African Dancehall. Read more:
#GLNREnt
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They did it again!
@realshellyannfp
takes first place at the Wanda Diamond League meet in Lausanne, Switzerland with a new meet record of 10.60 with
@FastElaine
in second place in 10.64 and
@sherickajacko
rounds out the trio with 10.92.
#GLNRSports
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Jamaican Tia Clayton anchors the World U20 team to a new junior record of 42.94 in the Women's 4x100m at the World U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya.
#GLNRSports
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Following a touching tribute to his son, King Khalif Lawrence, who died last year, dancehall artiste Aidonia brought his wife, Kimberly Megan, on stage at Chris Brown and Friends to announce that they are expecting another child.
#GLNREnt
#ChrisBrownLive
#BZRWeekendJamaica
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Prime Minister Andrew Holness will not be attending the Coronation of Charles III set for Saturday at Westminster Abbey in London.
Read more: (📷: File)
#GLNRToday
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Criticism in the British media of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle “hobnobbing” with Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday are “absolutely ridiculous”, one local cultural expert has opined.
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#GLNRToday
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Dancehall artiste Shenseea takes her son, Rajeiro Lee, as her date to the 2022 Billboard Music Awards tonight in Las Vegas, Nevada. - Contributed photo
#GLNREnt
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Lamekia Lamont has been safely reunited with her dad, Obadiah and mother, Millicent. The 13-year-old Camperdown High student went missing on Friday.
More details in Tuesday's Gleaner
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Tawayne Spence, a recent honours graduate with two undergraduate degrees in business administration and nursing, aspires to serve as an example to others that anything is possible if one sets their mind to it.
Read more:
#GLNRFeatures
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Jamaica’s Constitutional Reform Committee has arrived at consensus to recommend the abolition of the constitutional monarchy as the form of government and has deliberated on the process by which a president would be selected.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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Yashieka Fearon, the brilliant Manchester High School student who was using the GoFundMe platform to pursue her dreams of attending Howard University, on Thursday, surpassed her target of US$21,990 (approximately J$3.2 million). Read more:
#GLNRToday
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Sheryl Lee Ralph arrives at the People’s National Party Women’s Movement 50th anniversary conference at Cedar Grove High School in Portmore, St Catherine, today.
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Nineteen-year-old Giovanni Scott of Spring Bank in St Thomas says he was the first to glimpse 13-year-old Winshae Barrett, who was rescued in the community this morning.
The teen was wrapped in stolen bed linen after she was abducted from her home on Saturday. - Kenyon Hemans
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Former Reggae Boy Luton Shelton has died. Shelton previously held the national goalscoring record with 35 goals. Since 2017, he had suffered from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a motor neuron disease. He was 35 years old. More details soon.
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At the start of his interview with The Gleaner,
@stonebwoy
said with pride that he “is an honorary Jamaican”, but truthfully, by the end of the interview, he proved that he is really a ‘yardie’.
Read more:
#GLNREnt
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World 100m champion,
@realshellyannfp
, has clocked 10.63 seconds to win the 100m at the JAAA/JOA Olympic Destiny series at the National Stadium in Kingston. The new national record is the second fastest time in history after Florence Griffith Joyner’s 1988 sprint.
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Members of the
@JamaicaConstab
this morning arrested several people in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew who were not wearing their masks. They are to be charged under the Disaster Risk Management Act. Jamaica yesterday recorded 245 new COVID cases, the highest in a 24-hour period.
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#SilverWiSeh
Jamaica's Shanieka Ricketts finishes second in the women's triple jump final at
#Oregon2022
.
🥈🥈🥈🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🥈🥈🥈
@taylor2nd
photo
#GLNRSports
#OregonGoldRush
#WCHOregon22
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Kasi Bennett, long time girlfriend of Jamaican Olympian
@usainbolt
has shared long-awaited photos of their daughter, Olympia Lightning Bolt. The couple welcomed their first child on May 17. -
@kasi__b
photos
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World 400m champion Antonio Watson, who produced a spirited run to claim his maiden title at the recently held IAAF World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, is receiving a hero's welcome in Westmoreland.
Read more:
#GLNRSports
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Winshae Barrett, the 13-year-old St Thomas girl abducted from her home on Saturday has been found. She was in bushes outside the community of Spring Bank. She is now being rushed to hospital for medical treatment.
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Ardenne ace student cops five ones in CAPE
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#TaylorMade
Shot of the Day: Olympic bronze medallist Megan Tapper emits a burst of energy to close a day of mixed emotions for Jamaica on day four of track and field at the
#TokyoOlympics
. A round of applause for this bundle of joy! -
@taylor2nd
photo
#Tokyo2020
#TokyoGoldRush
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The Good Samaritan who gave taxi fare to Olympic gold medallist Hansle Parchment in Japan, allowing him to secure his place in history, is being invited to Jamaica by the Government.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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Tonya 'Ton Travels' Williams is the winner of The Social House Season 2.
Williams defeated influencers Dancing Rebel, Lee Notnice, Chad Luchey, Quite Perry and Yaadman Etan.
Read more: (📷: File)
#GLNREnt
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BREAKING: Commodore Antonette Wemyss Gorman to become the first woman Chief of Defence Staff. She will be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral effective January 2022 when she takes over from Lieutenant General Rocky Meade who is retiring after 38 years in the army. Details soon.
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#TokyoGoldRush
: Day four of
#TokyoOlympics2020
opens up with Jamaica’s National Anthem playing inside the Tokyo Olympic Stadium on Emancipation Day, during a historic medal ceremony for the women's 100m finals.
#Tokyo2020
#TokyoOlympics
#GLNRSports
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Russhana Reid looks on proudly on Monday at 11-year-old son Dreshaun Napier who scored a distinction in the City & Guilds mathematics Level 2 exam - normally sat in fourth form – on his first attempt. - Nicholas Nunes photo
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BREAKING NEWS: Broadcaster Michael Sharpe has died. Sharpe, 65, joined the RJR newsroom in 1983. He was the news the operations manager at the Jamaica News Network, a member of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group. Shape had been ailing in hospital. More details soon.
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Governor General Sir Patrick Allen and Lady Allen will leave Jamaica tonight for the United Kingdom where they will attend the coronation of King Charles III at Westminster Abbey on Saturday.
Read more: (📷: File)
#GLNRToday
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Demario Waite never imagined that he would secure a job as a financial analyst at an American multinational corporation immediately after graduation.
Read more:
#GLNRFeatures
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Theatre icon and pioneering voice in Jamaican television and radio, Leonie Forbes, has died. She was 85. Forbes played leading roles in twelve pantomimes and has acted in plays such as 'The Rope and the Cross' and 'Old Story Time'.
#GLNRToday
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.
@FastElaine
blazes to 10.54 to win the women's 100m at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon. Jamaica's
@realshellyannfp
finishes second with 10.73 and
@sherickajacko
rounds out the top three with 10.76. - File photo
#GLNRSports
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It took just 21.84s for Namibia's Christine Mboma to blaze across the
@Diamond_League
track in Brussels, Belgium ahead of Jamaica's Olympic bronze medalist
@sherickajacko
(21.95s). Third is Britain's
@dinaashersmith
clocking 22.04. USA's Sha'Carri Richardson took fourth in 22.45s
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A policewoman cradles a newborn girl who was found abandoned at the Coronation Market in downtown Kingston, yesterday. The baby was found by a homeless man and was taken by the police to the Bustamante Hospital for Children for a medical examination. -
@JamaicaConstab
video.
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American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson looks set to miss the Olympic Games as her US Olympic Trials performance was disqualified because she tested positive for a banned substance. News of the infringement arrives four weeks before the start of the Olympics in Tokyo event.
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He is ‘lijitimately’ one of the most underestimated kings ruling over local Twitter land, where he goes by the handle
@lijitimate
. And he has been taking Japan by storm as an English teacher and a master’s student.
Read more:
#GLNREnt
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#BudaQuest
: After a successful appeal, Jamaican sprinter Andrew Hudson has been granted permission to compete in the men's 200m final at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
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For many persons completing university, it takes a while for them to get a job. But not for Tashae Bowes, who graduated with first-class honours in actuarial science – one of the most rigorous programmes at The University of the West Indies.
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To all Jamaicans, at home and abroad, this Independence Day, let us take a moment to reflect on our journey as a nation. Our vibrant culture, distinctive music, and indomitable spirit. Happy Independence Day!
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Opposition Senator
@GabrielaJMorris
is radiant in orange as she was today sworn in as a member of the Upper House. The 23-year-old is one of the youngest senators ever. The Senate reviews and considers Bills passed by the House of Representatives. - Ian Allen photo
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JUST IN: Significant earthquake hits parts of Jamaica. Reports of it being felt in Kingston, St Andrew, St Ann and Manchester. Where are you? Did you feel it?
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Vybz Kartel and his co-accused have been granted conditional permission to go to the Privy Council in the United Kingdom to challenge their murder conviction.
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Rameish Desouza, the 21-year-old social media influencer known for whipping up innovative dishes from ordinary Jamaican ingredients, will be opening his first restaurant in downtown Kingston early next year.
Read more:
Full video:
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British Royals Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge Kate are slated to visit Jamaica in March as part of a Caribbean tour to mark the platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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To protect Jamaica’s image, Usain Bolt has kept largely quiet about his almost $2 billion allegedly missing from Stocks & Securities Limited. But frustration over a lack of updates could force a change, his attorney Linton Gordon says.
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Retired Jamaican sprinter, Veronica Campbell Brown, will headline a star-studded group at the People Profile Awards in Florida where she will be presented with a lifetime achievement award for her outstanding career in track and field.
Read more:
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Broadcaster Dorraine Samuels has died at the age of 59. Samuels, a long time employee of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group passed away this afternoon. She had been battling cancer. Her immediate family is asking for privacy at this time.
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Yesterday for the first time in Jamaica’s history, children were addressing a sitting of the House of Parliament in a special session focused on violence against children. Led by seven-year-old Ngozi Wright and her twin brother Tafari, each made a plea to the parliamentarians.
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Ghanaian hitmaker
@stonebwoy
has been in a “happy” mood. He has contributed to three albums nominated in the Best Reggae Album category for the 64th annual Grammy Awards.
Read more:
#GLNREnt
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The annual Donkey Race in Top Hill, St Catherine did not disappoint as it was a fight to the finish for John Dawkins and his donkey, Blossom, who won the race. The event has been a part of
#EmancipationDay
festivities in the community for years. - Asha Wilks' video
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Popular media personality Khadine ‘Miss Kitty’ Hylton and fellow well-known attorney Ian Wilkinson KC today tied the knot in holy matrimony. The lovebirds exchanged vows at a fabulous ceremony at the lush Panorama Estate in Cooper’s Hill, St Andrew.
#GLNRLifestyle
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A group of women, clad in black, took to the streets of Savanna-la-mar, Westmoreland today to protest violence against women. They also highlighted the recent beating of a woman, allegedly by MP George Wright. The protest was organised by the Central Westmoreland Women's Movement
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The 140 Cuban health workers who arrived in Jamaica on March 21, today ended their 14-day quarantine at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel and Courtleigh Hotel and Suites. They will now be dispatched across the island to help with Jamaica's
#COVID19
fight. - Brittany Brown photo
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Jamaica's team won gold at the Robotics Olympics in Singapore. The team topped the competition, held from October 7-10, to win the Kathrine Johnson Award for engineering documentation.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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Health workers at the St Ann's Bay Hospital are celebrating the recovery of the first patient with
#COVID19
. The woman, 'Patient 5', was released on Sunday night. One person linked to her, however, remains in a hospital - (credit: Kevin Morrison)
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Afro-dancehall sensation
@stonebwoyb
does not show signs of slowing down any time soon. He’s been on the move, travelling and getting his business together even throughout the global health crisis. Read more:
#GLNREnt
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American actress Kerry Washington takes a photo with a fan, Ayesha Laing, at the Kingston Creative Art Walk Festival in downtown Kingston on Sunday. The visual arts festival ends at 5 pm and features local artists.
📸: Kenyon Hemans
#GLNRRoving
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The policeman who died in this morning's car crash while transporting controversial pastor Kevin O. Smith to Kingston has been identified as Constable Oshane Irons.
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The controversial $100 million raised by the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation in 2018 has finally been released to facilitate upgrades at the Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew.
Read more:
#GLNRToday
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WATCH: Jamaica's
#ReggaeGirlz
celebrate in their dressing room after their historic 4-2 penalty shoot-out victory over Panama earned them a spot in the Women's
#WorldCup
- Contributed video
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Daniel Carthy (left), a grade two student at Homestead Primary and Infant School in Spanish Town, St Catherine, was on Tuesday morning seen praying for Education and Youth Minister Fayval Williams during a visit to the institution.
📸: Ian Allen
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Dressed in denim, Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce joins a star studded guest list at the Bob Marley: One Love movie premiere at the Carib 5 theatre in Cross Roads, St Andrew.
#GLNREnt
📸: Rudolph Brown
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JUST IN: Influential reggae and dancehall producer, Robert 'Bobby Digital' Dixon has died. Dixon was one of the first local producers to experiment with digital rhythms in the 1980s. He produced Sizzla's 1997 studio album, 'Black Woman and Child'.
#GLNREnt
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American actress Angelina Jolie was spotted Saturday at the 15th Calabash International Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth. The three-day event started Friday. The festival was last held in 2018. The ones for 2020 and 2022 were cancelled because of COVID-19.
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VIDEO: Reggae artiste
#BujuBanton
being escorted through the immigration hall at
@NMIAJA
(🎥:
@taylor2nd
)
#GLNRToday
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Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is to do an ultrasound on her right knee after suffering an injury while running the second leg in the 4X100m relay at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
#GLNRSports
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Trijana, the volunteer at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan, who assisted Olympian
@ParchmentHansle
when he boarded the wrong bus, today, posted a photo in a Jamaica-branded shirt, given to her by Parchment, with a message of thanks to everyone.
📸:
@d_treefairy
/Instagram
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Calabar High School student Cornel Grant has ended his battle with cancer. The 16-year-old who, in January, received a hero's welcome upon his return to school after two years absent, had a brain tumor. He passed away this afternoon, principal Albert Corcho has announced.
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American stewardess Kalina Collier, who reported that she was being held hostage in Jamaica after testing positive for COVID-19, has been fired from her job at JetBlue Airways.
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What a bam bam!
#JoeBiden
supporters in Philadelphia have started the party as the former vice-president closes in on the 270 electoral votes needed to become the next US president. Last evening, the supporters rocked to the music of Chaka Demus and Pliers - Contributed video
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"The world is watching us right now," said dancehall artiste Beenie Man. Did you catch the clash between
@KingBeenieMan
and
@grunggaadzilla
? The J'can artistes quenched the appetite of the globe with over 400,000 viewers on
@verzuzonline
as they showcased enviable catalogues.
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Residents of Springfield in St Thomas lit up in excitement this morning as their hurdles hero Hansle Parchment led a motorcade through the parish. The St Thomas native returned to Jamaica yesterday following his gold medal run in the men's 110m hurdles in Japan. - Kenyon Hemans
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JUST IN: Reggae Singer Frederick 'Toots' Hibbert has died. He was 77. He died at the University Hospital of the West Indies in St Andrew on Friday where he had been hospitalised for more than a week. Details soon.
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