There is heightened tension in Grants Pen, St Andrew, after a bloody weekend culminating in a shooting that claimed the lives of three men yesterday afternoon. In the incident, gunmen in a motor car drove up to a worksite and fired on a group of...
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Stand Up For Jamaica (SUFJ) Carla Gullotta is renewing her call for authorities to track and release all mentally ill inmates from prison. Some of these persons, she said, are lost in the system. Her call comes on the heels of...
The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) does not believe that Portmore will get parish status before the country holds its next general election, which is constitutionally due in 2025. PNP General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell cited two reasons...
The shooting death of a 33-year-old businessman in Grants Pen on Tuesday has caused tensions to heighten in the St Andrew community. Dwayne Williams, who lived at a Border Avenue, Havendale address in St Andrew, was reportedly shot about 12:45 a.m...
The People’s National Party (PNP) believes it has a balanced approach and effective overarching plans to tackle the country’s crime problem if it is elected to form the next Government. Speaking with journalists at a Gleaner Editor’s Forum on...
PEOPLE’S NATIONAL Party (PNP) President Mark Golding yesterday outlined his disappointment in the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) over what he has labelled the journalism body’s “reprehensible” stance against comments made by party general...
The Hunts Bay police are keeping a close watch on the Sherlock Crescent area of St Andrew following the murder of a 56-year-old man on Sunday. Dead is 56-year-old Douglas Stewarton, otherwise called ‘Rastaman’, of a Sherlock Crescent, Kingston 20...
The authorities are searching for three female wards of the state who escaped from the Homestead Place of Safety in Stony Hill, St Andrew, sometime Thursday night into Friday morning. Missing person’s reports were also filed on Friday at the Stony...
COMMANDER OF the St Andrew North Police Division, Superintendent Shericka Service, says it is a very serious offence when a crime scene is compromised, and those culpable can be held liable. She issued the warning after reports surfaced that the...
Former American and Canadian League football player Shonda Faulkner will be hosting a drive-through back-to-school treat across several communities in St Thomas this weekend with the aim of assisting some 500 students. The annual treat, which is...
The community of Mount Ogle in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew, was plunged into mourning this week after news emerged that one of their own died in an accident in the Cayman Islands on Wednesday. The deceased is 39-year-old Errol Simpson, otherwise...
As Geovani Bernard walked across the stage to collect his Primary Exit Profile (PEP) award on Friday, Janetta Rodney beamed with pride as she reflected on the day he and his sibling were practically left at her doorstep. Rodney said that their...
The disappearance of a St Andrew man, who, along with his brother, was allegedly beaten inside their home by the security forces during a pre-dawn operation in May, has left a family on edge. The Hunts Bay police confirmed that a missing person’s...
Licensed firearm holders impacted by industrial action by staff at the Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) on Tuesday are concerned they could be prosecuted for permit registration lapses as the entity sorts through its issues. On Tuesday, some...
The Corporate Area has been rocked by a series of gruesome killings, including the discoveries of mutilated bodies and triple murders since the start of August, threatening to erode the declines in homicide made in the first half of 2023. In the...
Bloodstains which lined Rusden Road in Rockfort, Kingston, on Friday told the tale of the terrifying onslaught that transpired during a party Thursday night, leaving three people dead and four others nursing gun-related injuries. Those killed are...
Fredrick Jackson turned up at the Old Harbour Police Station in St Catherine on Thursday, clinging to hope that his Nissan Wingroad, stolen in Clarendon last December, was among vehicles recovered in a car-stealing ring crackdown on Sunday in the...
United Kingdom fugitive Stasious Scott, who was sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter on Tuesday after he was held in Jamaica, lived on the island under an assumed name – Dwayne Romario McGiven. The findings were reportedly revealed in court...
Not even the deafening screams from frantic females, pleading for the children who were present, could stop two marauding gunmen from shooting indiscriminately into a house, leaving an eight-year-old boy and an adult male dead in Burgher Gully,...
A firestorm of criticism has been directed at police chief Major General Antony Anderson following his decision yesterday to interdict the head of the police union for perceived “disrespectful” comments. Anderson, the police commissioner, ordered...
Advanced plans by a 20-year-old to open his car-detailing business will never materialise after he was stabbed to death by an attacker late Tuesday while making his way home on foot from a store. The incident occurred at the intersection of...
The family of a taxi operator, who was fatally shot by a policeman – his ex-girlfriend’s current partner – on Monday, is asking for a thorough probe into the circumstances of his death, dismissing accounts in the public domain as fabricated....
The St Andrew North police, in seeking to curtail rampant car thefts in Havendale and Meadowbrook have seen a ballooning of the practice in other sections of the division. According to the police, there are also concerns about the reluctance of...
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on September 29 whether the parish court erred, on the grounds of a breach of privacy, when it ordered Amoi Leon-Issa to allow investigators access to her cellphone as part of a murder probe. Arguments were...