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Multiple cases of UK COVID variant confirmed in St Lucia Saint Lucia’s Ministry of Health has announced that the more infectious UK COVID-19 variant has been confirmed on the island, with five cases detected thus far. On Sunday, January 24, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received confirmation from the Caribbean Public Health Agency CARPHA of five cases of the SARS-Co-V-2 British variant diagnosed in-country. Two of the cases are British nationals who were diagnosed on December 17th...

Family member of the late Kerry-Ann Collins has to be consoled as she views the body of the 25-year-old. Kerry-Ann Collins, who was severely burned at her Kingston-based home and later died last month, is to be buried on Saturday. A thanksgiving service is now underway at her home at Palm Court Block C on Spanish Town Road.   The 25-year-old Collins battled for almost three weeks at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) after receiving third-degree burns to most of her body on November 27 but ...

Minister Marion Hall Minister Marion Hall, formerly Lady Saw, has refuted allegations that she is heading back to the dancehall as "Lady Saw", saying her return to that music space is merely to win souls and entertain. Hall told Loop News that  she merely wants sinners to dance like "David when the Ark of Covenant was returned to Jersualem". "I am not returning to dancehall, I am dropping a dancehall gospel album. I have already started it. I will be recording three songs in Fort Lauderdal...

Stephanie Lindsay Police have launched a major investigation across several divisions into the attack on six homeless men, which left four of them dead and two others nursing chop wounds at hospital, between late Sunday night and early Monday morning. The incidents reportedly happened in downtown, Kingston, Spanish Town Road in the vicinity of the Remand Centre and Half Way Tree in St Andrew. In an interview with Loop News, head of the Jamaica Constabulary Forces Corporate Communications Un...

The airplane which crashed landed at White Sands Beach in Rocky Point, Clarendon on Saturday evening. While the security forces are busy searching for the persons who were on board a Cessna aircraft when it crash landed on White Sands Beach in Rocky Point, Clarendon on Saturday evening, sources from the area are indicating what they understand to have actually happened and why law enforcers have so far not been able to find the passengers from the craft. The sources told Loop News that three H...

File photo With constant calls over the years from farmers for action to tackle the scourge of praedial larceny nationally, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is now seeking funds to resume the agricultural warden programme. In addressing farmers at a graduation ceremony in Manchester recently, Gabrielle Hylton, Technical Advisor to Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Floyd Green, disclosed that when wardens are deployed into communities, they can assist in efforts to cauterise incide...

A Jamaican man who was imprisoned for six months late last year for breaching COVID-19 protocols in Barbados, is awaiting a date for the hearing of his appeal against the conviction. Dean Scott, a 49-year-old mason who was unable to pay a fine of BAD$6,000 immediately on December 31 for breaching the eastern Caribbean islands COVID-19 protocols by leaving a quarantine facility to purchase items, was promptly sentenced to prison time. His attorney, Andrew Pilgrim, has filed an appeal of his conv...

The crime scene where three homeless men were chopped to death in downtown Kingston near the Kingston Central Police Station and divisional headquarters on Monday morning. Three homeless men were reportedly chopped to death in their sleep on Sutton Street in downtown Kingston early on Monday morning. The incident occurred in the vicinity of the Kingston Central Police Station and the divisional headquarters. The victims were reportedly all chopped in their heads. Further details are unavailable...

3 Homeless Men Killed in Down Town, Kingston 15SHARES As reported by Loop News and the Jamaica Observer, three homeless men were found unresponsive with chop wounds to their body, mostly to the upper body. The gruesome incidents took place earlier Monday morning on January 25th, the bodies were found at two separate locations in the same community a road away from each other. Yellow tapes were drawn along sections of Sutton Street in Downtown Kingston where an abandoned building is located clos...

Loop News source revealed Thursday. The men have been identified as Oral Nelson, otherwise called ‘Antsman’ and Jodane Coure, who the police claimed were on their way to commit murder when they were intercepted and cut down. According to the Loop News source, Nelson was acquitted last December for the double murder of Barrington Hutchinson and Fabian Tucker on Henderson Road, Waterford, St Catherine in 2015. After the 2015 incident, he had traveled to the United States as a limited perm...