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One of the many flooded roads seen yesterday AS the Flash Flood Warning in effect for low-lying and flood prone areas across the island continues to influence weather conditions, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) wishes to remind the public that its telephone numbers are: 906-9476/5 754-9077/8 Toll Free: 1-888-225-5637 Fax: 754-3229 Casualties Five confirmed deaths Fourteen persons are reported missing across the parishes of St Elizabeth, St Catherine and the Kingston/St Andrew regions. CLICK HERE …
Onlookers watch as the Rio Cobre inches closer to flooding the Mandela Highway yesterday. (Photo: Keri British, Jamaica Observer reader) DUE to the adverse weather conditions affecting the island, the left lane of the Mandela Highway leading to Kingston is impassable. Police are advising motorists to use alternative routes to arrive at their destinations. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY
Hammer: The Bloods (DeeWaan) – The Bloods seek to address domestic violence against women in light of the recent situation with high-profile deejay Bounty Killer. They highlight how unfair it is to women…
Comedy duo Ity and Fancy Cat will once again grace the New York stage this Fall at the George W. Wingate Campus in Brooklyn for one show only on Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 8 p.m…
Club Barcode at the New Quad in New Kingston was a jam-packed event with free entry for college students with ID before midnight on Saturday. When THE STAR arrived at midnight, the line to get into the party…
Animated patrons danced their cares away, as songs from ‘yester-year’ had them rocking all night long, at Footloose held at Mas Camp, on Saturday night. It was a special event indeed, as the party lived up to expectations.
Reggae artiste I-Octane recently signed a partnership with telecommunications giant Digicel to represent them as a brand ambassador. The signing, which took place yesterday at Digicel’s New Kingston headquarters…
Forty-two spellers braved non-stop rain, traffic snarls and flooded roadways yesterday to turn out for the first parish final of the 2010-11 Gleaner’s Children’s Own Spelling Bee competition in the Breadbasket Parish of St Elizabeth….
A SENIOR government technocrat has indicated that the multibillion-dollar road repair and maintenance programme now being rolled out by the Bruce Golding administration could be scaled down. While the possible…
Local family members of 41-year-old Patrick Dell, a Jamaican in Riviera Beach, Florida, who murdered his estranged wife, Natasha Whyte-Dell, and four of his stepchildren, before turning the gun on himself, have been left in a state of shock….
