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Police hope evidence gathered from a backyard in South Jamaica will help them catch the person or persons who killed 14-year-old Daja Robinson, who was riding a public bus when she was hit by a stray bullet.

GENERATION 2000 , the youth affiliate of the Jamaica Labour Party , has described the decision of the former president of the Senate, Rev Stanley Redwood to resign and migrate to Canada as "cowardice". "It must come as a complete and utter shock to Madam Prime Minister and the Government that she leads, that the man she appointed as president of ... (more)

A 14-year-old girl riding a city bus in Queens Saturday on her way home from a sweet 16 party was shot in the head and killed by a stray bullet from gunfire on the street, police said.

A callous gunman blasted away at a city bus in Queens on Saturday, killing a 14-year-old girl riding inside, officials said.

A 14-year-old girl leaving a friend's Sweet 16 party was shot dead while boarding a city bus in Queens last night when a gunman opened fire from the sidewalk, cops said.

Jacqueline Johnson, executive director of Food For The Poor Jamaica, addressing Thursday's closing ceremony for economic diversification programme for banana producing parishes, at the Esher Seventh-day Adventist Church in St Mary.

Thanks to PCC Board Member Aisling Bier for the following: Pelham Children's Center spring fundraiser, "Cocktails and Clams," will be held on Friday, May 17th from 7-11pm. This more casual evening will welcome in the warm spring months with cocktails, clams and barbeque fare under the stars at Pelham Bay & Split Rock Golf Courses.

A fashion show organized by the The Jamaica Center BID is hoping to put the bustling neighborhood on the fashion map next month - featuring designs from local fashionistas and clothing stores and showcasing the area as a shopping destination.

Don't think this would happen in Bloomberg's city neighborhoods. 2. Huge box of industrial fluorescent lights which were dumped by someone in empty lot at 169-23 90th Avenue in the opening on 90th Avenue.

On last Friday's tour, Jeffrey Stirewalt took his group to Flatbush, where they visited Erasmus High School, Loews' Kings Theater, and a Dutch Reformed Church.

Thanks to PCC Board Member Aisling Bier for the following: Pelham Children's Center spring fundraiser, "Cocktails and Clams," will be held on Friday, May 17th from 7-11pm. This more casual evening will welcome in the warm spring months with cocktails, clams and barbeque fare under the stars at Pelham Bay & Split Rock Golf Courses.

Police would later find the 35-year-old's blood on the steps of 54 Chambers St. and conclude he had been shot there by unknown attackers before he stumbled a block west.

Influential Jamaica-born roots reggae musician and saxophone great Cedric 'Im' Brooks, who launched his career at age 11 at the Alpha Boys' Academy in Kingston and who achieved international acclaim as a solo artiste and as a member of the Skatalites band, will be honoured at the annual Groovin' In The Park concert on Sunday, June 30 at Roy Wilkins ... (more)

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An art exhibition should speak for itself, but shows at the Richard J. Demato Fine Arts Gallery so bear the imprint of its energetic owner - his eclectic enthusiasm and confident, slightly off-center style, not to mention shrewd business judgment - that it seems impossible not to sense his head and soul in "Reverie," the gallery's new exhibit.

Straphangers are advised to plan ahead as subway maintenance is slated to disrupt 15 subway lines across the city this weekend, the MTA said .

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A Jamaica Sunday morning walk just a few blocks to they new and very clean Blink gym revealed another "Jamaica Revealed", the other side.

A crook was caught on surveillance robbing a 7-Eleven at gunpoint, sticking up one clerk while another worker continued to restock the shelves behind him, unaware anything was wrong.