Offstream
news

Six people are arrested in connection to a mass shooting due to feuds that occurred last week in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, which killed eight people and injured nine others.
2024-08-17

Hurricane Beryl causes a six- to nine-feet high storm surge and fierce winds along Jamaica's southern coast, killing at least one person before tracking towards the Cayman Islands.
2024-07-4

Jamaica becomes the 140th UN member state to recognize the State of Palestine.
2024-04-23

Jamaica reports its first case of the Omicron variant in a person who travelled from the United Kingdom.
2021-12-22

Three people are killed and three more injured during a police raid at a compound of a religious group in Montego Bay, Jamaica, due to concerns that they were preparing ritual killings.
2021-10-18

Two missionaries from the United States are found slain in separate areas of rural St. Mary parish in Jamaica. Randy Hentzel and Harold Nichols both worked for a Pennsylvania-based Christian charity called Teams for Medical Missions.
2016-05-1

Jamaican reggae singer Buju Banton is found guilty on drugs charges in the U.S. state of Florida.
2011-02-22

Christopher Coke, sent to United States territory by Jamaica, pleads not guilty to United States charges of drug smuggling at a federal court in New York and, in his first public comments since August, says he took the decision to be extradited "in the best interest of my family, the community of western Kingston and in particular the people of Tivoli Gardens and above all Jamaica".
2010-06-25

The death toll in the recent violence in Jamaica jumps to 73, and 44 in west Kingston alone.
2010-05-27

Two police officers are killed and six others are wounded by gunmen during unrest in Jamaica's capital, Kingston.
2010-05-24