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Published:Tuesday | September 30, 2025 | 12:14 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The trial is set to begin on Friday of a man accused of fatally chopping his uncle at their home in Stony Hill, St Andrew, before chartering a taxi to transport the dead man’s body parts to Cavaliers, where he set the remains ablaze. The incident...

Published:Friday | September 26, 2025 | 12:10 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Under growing public pressure, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) on Thursday broke its silence on the controversial police killing of 22-year-old Jamar Farquharson while also taking aim at the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM)...

Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 12:12 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Life-saving blood was yesterday being sought for one of two men who were shot and injured after marauding gunmen opened heavy fire on patrons inside a bar at the Galloway and Mission roads intersection in St Andrew on Monday night. Both roadways...

Published:Wednesday | September 24, 2025 | 12:11 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The St Andrew traffic police are investigating two separate road crashes that occurred yesterday afternoon, leaving a woman dead and at least 13 others injured. The first crash occurred around 2:20 p.m. along the Newcastle main road in rural St...

Published:Tuesday | September 23, 2025 | 12:11 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The St Andrew South police have listed two brothers as persons of interest following the fatal shooting of veteran jockey O’Neil Mullings in Waterhouse, St Andrew, on Sunday night. Mullings, 49, was gunned down outside his home in an incident that...

Published:Saturday | September 20, 2025 | 12:06 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

MIAMI, FLORIDA: While several police forces within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have engaged the services of the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office for specialised training as other countries in the Western Hemisphere have received, Jamaica has not...

Published:Wednesday | September 17, 2025 | 12:15 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

MIAMI, Florida: Jamaica’s association with drug trafficking in the United States has earned it a prominent – and troubling – spot in the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) museum at the Miami port, notoriously dubbed the ‘House of Pain’. The...

Published:Saturday | September 6, 2025 | 12:11 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

A large daytime inferno, believed to have started as an act of arson, has left eight adults and three children homeless at Fitzgerald Avenue in Maxfield, St Andrew on Friday, just days before the full resumption of school. The police and Jamaica...

Published:Tuesday | September 2, 2025 | 12:12 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon has praised the smooth start to the new academic year, citing early disbursement of funds and strong parental turnout – particularly from fathers – as encouraging signs of progress in Jamaica’s education...

Published:Friday | August 29, 2025 | 12:11 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The St Thomas police and the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) are investigating the circumstances surrounding a shooting incident involving a woman and her partner, a police corporal assigned to the Seaforth Police Station. Sources...

Published:Wednesday | August 27, 2025 | 12:09 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Cordel Hylton is counting his blessings after he was spared the worst of a late-evening fire that engulfed a building along East Street in downtown Kingston that houses his headstone business. At least one other occupant of the building, who was...

Published:Monday | August 25, 2025 | 12:10 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

A pall of gloom fell over the afternoon in the rustic community of Mount James in St Andrew yesterday as the bodies of two men, one on the ground and the other in a stream, lay lifeless. They were killed hours apart in an apparent murder and...

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 12:16 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

A nationwide manhunt is under way to recapture eight prisoners who escaped custody early Tuesday morning from the Constant Spring Police Station lock-up in St Andrew. As at press time last night, none of the fugitives had surrendered to authorities...

Published:Thursday | August 7, 2025 | 12:11 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

With police fatal shootings increasing by 111 per cent for the first seven months of 2025 compared to last year, the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is continuing to express grave concern about the non-use of body-worn cameras (...

Published:Monday | July 28, 2025 | 12:07 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The St Andrew North police have recorded a 225 per cent increase in seizure of illegal firearms since the start of the year. The latest gun seizure occurred Sunday at a dance along Mannings Hill Road. Superintendent Randy Sweeney, head of the St...

Published:Friday | July 11, 2025 | 1:12 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Educator and coach Tamara Williams-Gayle was the surprise star of Merl Grove High School’s graduation ceremony last Thursday when she was unexpectedly recognised for the life-changing impact she had on a student who once struggled to find her...

Published:Friday | July 4, 2025 | 12:11 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing the fatal shooting of a man in the wee hours Thursday at the Sun Coast Beach Club residential complex in Bull Bay, St Thomas. Information reaching The Gleaner is that the police...

Published:Thursday | July 3, 2025 | 12:11 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Investigators assigned to the Major Investigation Division (MID) are probing, among other matters, whether stolen illegal firearms are the motive behind a double murder on Tuesday night in Mount Salus, St Andrew. The Gleaner understands that one...

Published:Monday | June 30, 2025 | 12:06 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

School principal Zonett Smith is hoping the Guidance Building at Ferguson Primary and Infant School in deep rural Manchester will get the support it needs to refurbish the roof that was destroyed during Hurricane Beryl. The school has been...

Published:Friday | June 27, 2025 | 12:09 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

As Euon Douglas-Graham yesterday clutched a framed picture of her daughter, 20-year-old D’Johnnay ‘Moya’ Graham, who was killed hours earlier at their home during a domestic violence incident, the grieving mother questioned whether she was in a...

Published:Tuesday | June 24, 2025 | 12:13 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Operations along the industrial corridor of Spanish Town Road in St Andrew came to a standstill yesterday after a massive fire, believed to have been sparked by a gas tanker, quickly spread to nearby premises. The blaze, which raged for nearly...

Published:Saturday | June 14, 2025 | 12:08 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Veteran entertainer Sheron ‘Ruffian’ Peterkin, who is now a little over a week into her near 14-year prison sentence for firearm-related charges, has been revealed to have come on the police radar following a major Beryllium robbery in Portmore, St...

Published:Friday | June 13, 2025 | 12:09 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Some five decades after its predecessor was destroyed by fire, Jamaica’s state-of-the-art government forensic pathology autopsy suite was reopened on Thursday, aiming to tackle a mounting backlog of more than 300 autopsies. However, while plans are...

Published:Thursday | June 5, 2025 | 12:13 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Several parents, whose children either still, or formerly attended, the Phoenix Academy Jamaica, have retained attorneys and filed a complaint with the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) over an investment programme being run...

Published:Friday | May 30, 2025 | 12:09 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

It was no ordinary homecoming for at least two Jamaican deportees who returned on a United States deportation flight yesterday. One deportee, overcome with emotion, wept as he reunited with about 15 relatives who had gathered, eagerly awaiting his...

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