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In an interview with the St Lucian boat owner, Moses Mondesir, he told Loop News that as soon as the fishermen returned to shore with the Barbadians, they called him and recounted the incident to him. “They told me that they had rescued two Barbadian fishermen at sea, whose boat had engine problems. They said the fishermen were in distress for three days and their boat was about to sink,” Mondesir said. He said the local fishermen were on their way to a fishing expedition when they met the...

"We need to minimise the fires." This stern piece of advice comes from Leading Fire Officer Rudolph Farnum as the country records its sixth house fire for the year. The latest fire yesterday, Sunday, January 10, saw an apartment and all its contents completely destroyed by the blaze while the other units received minimal water damage. The blaze was reported at 4:54 am and two water tenders from the Bridgetown Fire Station responded to the Wanstead, St James location.  Related Article With one ...

Lisa Campbell-Mitchell, a Jamaican-born registered nurse in the United States. A Jamaican nurse working in areas of the United States ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic says Jamaicans are generally more compliant than Americans with protocols set out by health authorities to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Lisa Campbell-Mitchell, whose work has taken her to several hospitals and COVID-19 testing centres in Florida, Georgia and Texas, says based on her visit home last December, Jamaicans s...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness (left) and ATL Group Deputy Chairman Adam Stewart (right) place their hands on the casket of late ATL Group Chairman Gordon "Butch" Stewart at a viewing ceremony on Friday. Looking on are Member of Parliament Juliet Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding. A sombre mood gripped the Stella Maris Roman Catholic Church in St Andrew on Friday as mourners paid their respects to late Jamaican businessman Gordon "Butch" Stewart, chairman of the ATL Group, at a viewing ...

By Ansray Thomas An appeal is expected to be filed for a Jamaican man in Barbados who was sentenced to six months in prison last Thursday for breaching the eastern Caribbean islands COVID-19 protocols when he left a quarantine facility to purchase juice. The sentence has been described by many as unjustifiably harsh. Dean Scott, a 49-year-old mason, reportedly pleaded guilty to contravening Paragraph 14 of the Emergency Management (COVID-19) Curfew (No.4) Directive 2020. He was unable at the...

By Ansray Thomas An appeal is expected to be filed for a Jamaican man in Barbados who was sentenced to six months in prison last Thursday for breaching the eastern Caribbean islands COVID-19 protocols when he left a quarantine facility to purchase items. The sentence has been described by many as unjustifiably harsh. Dean Scott, a 49-year-old mason, reportedly pleaded guilty to contravening Paragraph 14 of the Emergency Management (COVID-19) Curfew (No.4) Directive 2020. He was unable at the...

Gordon “Butch” Stewart- Photo Credit: Getty Images Caribbean tourism mogul and founder of Sandals Resorts International, Gordon “Butch” Stewart dies at a hospital in the USA. He was 79 years old. His son Adam Stewart who is currently the Deputy Chair of the Sandals and ATL group, announced his father’s death, saying he was recently diagnosed with an illness but did not disclose the cause of his death.   Gordon Stewart was born in Kingston, Jamaica leaving his wife Cheryl and seven c...

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Loop News reports that Cuban doctors have received four new nominations for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize from the UK’s House of Commons. A proposal to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to a contingent of Cuban doctors who specialize in disaster situations and serious epidemics, has been endorsed by four members of the British Parliament. According to the official site of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign in the United Kingdom, th...

A man was reportedly shot dead by a female after he attempted to steal her mobile phone and other valuables in downtown Kingston on Saturday. Reports are that about 9:45 am the woman was in the market district of the busy commercial hub when the would-be robber and his cronies arrived in the area and demanded that the female hand over her phone and other valuables. Information reaching Loop News is that the leader of the group grabbed the phone from the female and pushed her to the ground a...

Social and political commentator, Dennis Chung, has suggested that Jamaica will not be able to keep in place the COVID-19 protocols, designed to limit the spread of the c