Weekly Round-up: Port Royal welcomes cruise ship… Four men killed in Trelawny crash… Call for swimming to be part of Champs
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January 24, 2020

Weekly Round-up: Port Royal welcomes cruise ship… Four men killed in Trelawny crash… Call for swimming to be part of Champs

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Port Royal welcomed its first cruise ship ever on Monday, when the Marella Discovery 2 docked in the historic city. Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett reported that some 2,000 passengers were on board.

Four men from Portland died on Sunday after the car in which they were travelling slammed into the side of a bus on the north coast highway in Hague, Trelawny.

And in sports, a call was issued on Wednesday for swimming to become a part of the annual ISSA Boys and Girls Championships.

Watch as OBSERVER ONLINE wraps this week for you.

See story links below:

Ship ahoy! Port Royal game-changer

‘Defend the peace’

Barbados PM says US seeking to divide region

Rowley backs Mottley on Pompeo’s visit to Caribbean

Gonsalves backs Mottley, but says US free to meet ‘whoever it wants’

St Kitts-Nevis does not regard meeting with Pompeo as dividing Caricom

Pompeo arrives at Jamaica House for bilateral talks with Holness

Holness, Pompeo reject claims of attempts to split Caricom

China says US criticisms of investments in Jamaica groundless

House battle!

Deadly airport ride

UPDATE: Baby believed to be missing Nyyear Frank found

Dad in disbelief after daughter arrested for stealing baby

‘LEARNER’S’ RUSH HOUR

Mad rush for ‘Learner’s’ Applicants swell to 5,000 to avoid road code test

Deejay found dead

 ‘Why yuh kill mi son?’

Missing 8-year-old boy found dead

UPDATE: Man listed as person of interest in death of 8-y-o

 Cop hit down while doing traffic duties

Auto king Jackson calls for swimming to be part of Champs

Racers strikes Gold

Grange says ‘Stadium’ redevelopment project should be off and running in 2021

 Clovis Toon

‘Deliberate indiscipline’

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