If battling sickle-cell disease was not tough enough, a nine-year-old boy’s family is eager for him to be discharged from The Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew after being admitted on New Year’s Day with a gunshot wound. The boy,...
Coming off a year that saw motorcyclists accounting for 34 per cent of the 482 road users killed, day two in the New Year continued along the fatal path with a crash in Trench Town. A motorcyclist identified as 20-year-old Ramarco Miller died, and...
“Mommy, mi feel like mi paralysed” were the last words 10-year-old Jezariah Tyrell spoke fluently before she lost consciousness, alerting her frantic mother to a single bullet wound although there was no sighting of blood. The household was first...
Investigators probing Sunday morning’s multimilion-dollar heist at the Red Stripe brewery on Spanish Town Road in St Andrew have recovered nearly half of the stolen beer and have seized one of two trucks believed to have been used in the robbery....
Thirteen-year-old Sherinaé Brown took to the streets of the Corporate Area during the holidays to feed and clothe the homeless and most vulnerable in the society so they would not feel left out. The grade eight student at Immaculate Conception...
Soothing to soft music in the aftermath of losing a son and her one-year-old granddaughter battling for life, a Central Kingston matriarch says she is leaving everything in the hands of God. The woman, whose identity The Gleaner will withhold, was...
Time is running out and frustration is building for the family of Taneka Gardner, the woman whose throat was slashed during a sacrificial ceremony at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration church last October as her insurance claim process...
Sandra Glasgow, chairperson for the National Crime Prevention Fund (Crime Stop), has reassured Jamaicans that their identity is safeguarded when they become informants and assist in solving crimes. Glasgow, speaking at the ‘Stand Up For our...
A man held on illegal firearm charges was acquitted in the Home Circuit Court on Wednesday after a police officer gave conflicting evidence in court in comparison to that which he had stated in an interview he had given to the media. Ramel Kelly...
The shooting death of project manager and Jamaica Labour Party activist Anthony Scully halted a drain-cleaning and beautification project in Waterford, Portmore, on Wednesday. Suzette Greenland, who was being consoled by friends on Wednesday, told...
A resident of Waltham Park Road in St Andrew said a concrete wall saved him from being struck by a bullet as gunmen fired indiscriminately, hitting four others during a drive-by attack on Tuesday. “We are not safe in Jamaica. You can be here today...
Residents of 142 Molynes Road in St Andrew, commonly called Ackee Walk, are refuting claims by the security forces that a man who was shot fatally yesterday had engaged the police in a shoot-out. Dead is 25-year-old Renardo ‘Nazrie’ Duncan. The...
More than a million dollars of ammunition was estimated to have been unloaded last Wednesday and Thursday as gangsters traded bullets in Kingston in apparent crude war games. The battlefield was centred in the Kingston Western Police Division,...
Pencils4Kids founder and CEO Randy Griffiths believes that in order for education to be adaptable and inspire children, it must start with the learning environment and early on in each child’s development. Griffiths is an alumnus of the Quickstep...
Justice Vinette Graham Allen on Thursday denied a request for a closer mention date to afford a murder accused an opportunity to attend his mother’s funeral. Defence attorney Ernest Davis had made the plea on behalf of Oscar Barnes, who is jointly...
A former head girl from a deep-rural St Elizabeth community said the secret to success of many children where she is from is the encouragement. Shantoy Campbell, who is also a former national under-19 cricketer, hails from Quickstep district. She...
What was intended to be a night of celebration of life morphed into tragedy for a 24-year-old woman celebrating her birthday and the motorcycle driver with whom she whizzed through Kingston’s streets late last week. Those circumstances appear to be...
Several children are singing the praises of a makeshift classroom created by sister teachers in the hills of Bull Bay, St Andrew, to release them from the frustrations of online schooling. Kimberlee Woods and Karen Wright are at the heart of the...
A high-level corruption probe has been launched into the mysterious disappearance from police custody of a Jamaican fugitive wanted in St Lucia for murder and gun crimes, with preliminary indications that lawmen might have been complicit in the...
A targeted man who escaped the wrath of gunmen during a drive-by shooting in Kintyre, St Andrew, last Friday was shot and killed by a lone gunman in the community on Monday afternoon. The deceased is 28-year-old Darren ‘Percy’ Cousins, a resident...
Nineteen days after the gun murder of his son, a distraught father claims investigators have not acted on useful information and he agrees with Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ hyperbolic advocacy for the death penalty for persons convicted of...
talks are still ongoing among Jamaica, Colombia and Haiti in relation to the transfer of Colombian fugitive Mario Palacios Palacios but it is unclear how soon the fate of the man fingered in the July 7 assassination of then Haitian President...
Physicians are reaffirming the need for Jamaicans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as a new variant deemed highly transmissible has already triggered the imposition of travel restrictions in several southern African states, this as the United...
The developers of a Corporate Area housing project have been forced to invest heavily in beefing up security with children being among thieves targeting the development, making off with windows and doors. William Lai, president and CEO of World...
A number of commanders have said that since the Government imposed states of emergency (SOEs) in seven police divisions two Sundays ago, more residents have been feeding them with information as the gangsters flee the space. The disclosure was made...
