Two Portland residents managed to escape injury after their home in Content, Hope Bay was damaged in this morning's 5.6 magnitude earthquake. The occupants were spared due to having journeyed to Kingston to visit relatives on Saturday..
The Portland police are seeking the assistance of the public in locating two men who are wanted for sexual offences committed in the division recently. One of them has been identified as Javier Johnson, otherwise called 'Jabez', of a Port.
An escapee from the Tamarind Farm Adult Correctional Centre in St Catherine was this morning captured by the Portland police. He is 25-year-old Nathan Whitter of Orange Hill, Brown's Town, St Ann. Whitter escaped from the .
The 35 refugees who landed in Long Bay, Portland last weekend were sent back to their home country of Haiti via a Jamaica Defence Coast guard vessel on Monday. It is reported that the decision to repatriate the group came after it.