Author: Kera

As Jamaica continues to brace for updates on the missing university student Anisa Dilworth’s case, ride-hailing platform inDrive has stepped forward to clarify its involvement. On Wednesday, the company released a statement saying there’s no evidence she used the app around the time she vanished. 20-year-old Dilworth, who attended the University of Technology, was last seen on May 6 and reported missing the next day. On May 10, a driver affiliated with inDrive was taken into custody in connection with her disappearance. Although still being questioned, he has not been charged. In response to growing speculation, inDrive recently issued a…

Chris Brown has been granted bail by a London judge after being charged with grievous bodily harm in connection with an alleged nightclub assault in 2023. The singer, known for songs like Loyal, Run It, and Under The Influence, was released on Wednesday following a hearing at Southwark Crown Court, during which he was absent. Judge Tony Baumgartner approved the bail on the condition that Brown pay a £5 million ($6.7 million) security fee. Brown, 36, was apprehended last Thursday at a Manchester hotel. He had arrived in the city last Wednesday by private jet ahead of his international tour.…

A chaotic scene inside a packed movie theatre has ignited racially charged criticism on the social media platform X after a video showing several Black women engaged in a physical altercation went viral. The incident, which user @White_Ghost187 posted yesterday, has already surpassed 200,000 views. The footage shows a group of Black women in a heated physical altercation. The women pummel each other while several individuals wearing shirts labelled “police”, believed to be theatre security, struggled to break up the brawl. Amid the chaos, a few bystanders also attempted to calm the situation. The theatre was crowded then, with numerous…

A 4-year-old girl was shot and killed Tuesday night in Manchester. The child, identified as Gia Grinnel, was shot in the head while at her Ingleside home in Mandeville. The heartbreaking incident occurred around 10:00 p.m. in the high-end neighbourhood. According to a police report, Gia was with her 12-year-old sibling and their mother at the time of the shooting. The mother reportedly recounted to investigators that moments after helping the children get settled for sleep, she went into the bathroom. While in the bathroom, she heard a powerful explosion. Upon rushing to the scene, she discovered her daughter had been shot. Gia was…

A 27-year-old Jamaican living in Florida lost his life in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash while allegedly attempting to outrun state troopers. The deceased, identified as Craig Thomas, died while riding a red Suzuki sports bike along Front Beach main road on Saturday. According to reports, the Lawrence Tavern native from the Goldbourn district of St Andrew was travelling along the route when troopers signalled for a traffic stop just before midnight. Rather than pull over, Thomas reportedly accelerated away and tried to escape the police. Reports say the bike veered off course, and he was violently thrown to the pavement.…

Over a dozen masked thieves stormed into a jewellery store in Modesto, California, on Sunday evening. The thieves were caught on camera ramming a car through the front entrance before running into Sai Jewellers on Standiford Avenue. The group made off with a large quantity of jewellery shortly before 6 p.m. The incident, which occurred shortly before 6 p.m., is now at the centre of a police investigation that has already led to the arrest of four men. The surveillance video captured the dramatic scene as multiple vehicles pulled up outside the store. After the first car smashed through the…

Megan Thee Stallion is once again making it clear that she has not changed her stance about Tory Lanez shooting her in 2020. The rapper took to TikTok on Monday to call out the continued harassment she’s been facing and to shut down claims of “new evidence” in the case against Tory Lanez. “Tory you shot me!! Ain’t no new f**ing evidence,” she posted. “Facts are facts, he did it, it was proven in court.” The shooting took place on July 12, 2020, and led to Lanez, born Daystar Peterson, being convicted of multiple firearm charges. He was sentenced to…

A reward of $1 million is being offered by social media personality LA Lewis to anyone who can help the Jamaica Constabulary Force bring the killer of Corporal Kamal Mayne to justice. The policeman was fatally shot on Saturday upon arriving home. Reports detail that the corporal was gunned down outside of his Old Harbour residence in St Catherine. The Jamaica Star cited a statement from LA Lewis explaining that allowing such a crime to go unpunished could start a horrible trend in Jamaica. He expressed that due to the severity of the incident, he has decided to put up…

A man was hurled from a moving train and beaten on Sunday in Bogura, Bangladesh. A video of him clinging to the train before falling underneath has gone viral. Fortunately, he returned to his residence in Paril village, Raninagar upazila of Naogaon, on Monday evening following medical treatment for serious injuries. Forty-year-old Matiur Rahman had been hospitalised after the shocking ordeal at Nasratpur railway station in Adamdighi upazila. According to a report, Matiur, a former auto-rickshaw driver, was thrown from a train following issues in his current business of arranging overseas work visas. He was on a northbound train when…

Footage of a 34-year-old musician in Brazil being stabbed to death in a bar is circulating on the internet. The deceased, identified as Guilherme Moreira de Lima, was killed on Saturday evening, May 17. The fatal stabbing in Porto Alegre do Norte, Mato Grosso, reportedly stemmed from an argument between him and another man, who was reportedly drunk. Guilherme, known for his role in the pagode group “Só Resenha”, was attacked around 6 p.m.  His alleged attacker was identified as 38-year-old Cledinaldo Oliveira da Silva. The authorities have not yet determined the nature of the heated dispute that led to…