It was an all-too-familiar affair for Annete Lodge as soon after she heard explosions ringing out in a nearby community on Sunday afternoon, she was told that another of her sons had been murdered. The mother of eight – six boys and two girls – has...
With a 14.5 per cent spike in robberies this year, the police are urging the public to be more vigilant, especially when in possession of large sums of cash. The appeal comes after a near doubling of reports of armed robbery in the Kingston Central...
Hilroy Anderson and Berris Thomas, two homeless men living on the streets of Kingston, wished they had other alternatives than the cold concrete sidewalks or benches at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to sleep at night. Safety is a major...
Fleet Street and the community of Southside in central Kingston are mourning the tragic death of Tarcia ‘Tanney’ McLean-Lysius, who was shot in the head, reportedly by another woman, outside a party in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday. McLean-Lysius...
A near 12-hour search yesterday for two young girls swept away by a raging river during heavy rainfall in sections of St Mary on Thursday resulted in the recovery of the body of one of the cousins as raw emotions and unbearable grief consumed...
An eight-year-old child who ran frantically from his home and alerted relatives that his mother was killed on Monday reportedly recounted how the suspect lifted him up after the attack and glared at him before leaving. The child, the youngest of...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has rallied the young professional corps of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to instil patriotism in working-age youths as public debate rages on migration trends. While acknowledging that Jamaicans in a free economy and...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is conducting a probe into the alleged beating of two inmates at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in the Corporate Area on Monday. The alleged assault is believed to be linked to the death of 38...
The point-blank-range shooting of a teenage boy Tuesday has sparked a probe by the St Andrew South police to ascertain whether the killing was in reprisal for the murder of reggae singer ‘Tabby Diamond’. The deceased, 16-year-old Janio Ellis, was...
Stony Hill resident Horace Mair was jolted from sleep by a July 27 motor vehicle crash on Mandela Highway that claimed the lives of his son and two of his best friends. Horace, whose son Kevin ‘Breeda’ Mair was the driver, said it is a day he will...
Kemar ‘Doggy’ Campbell, the man who earlier this year executed a daring rescue mission as a contractor was being electrocuted atop a light pole in Trench Town, Kingston, is being sought by sleuths probing a June 29 murder. Campbell was widely...
The site of flattened tenement yards, the ground covered in soot, and the despondent faces of shell-shocked residents of Central Kingston stirred the rage of Rae Town division Councillor Rosalie Hamilton. Days after the patriotic show of the...
One of the attorneys representing a policeman implicated in the July murder of a tiler in Red Hills, St Andrew, is insisting that the case against her client is weak. Twenty-nine-year-old Phillip Wallace, of an East Kirkland Heights address, was...
A mother is desperately calling for warring factions in Gregory Park, Portmore, to end a series of gunfights as her home narrowly missed ruination in a wave of arson attacks on Tuesday that destroyed three houses. In a prolonged gunfight which...
It was extremely emotional for a mother who reportedly had not seen her son for “years now” as she positively identified him in a body bag at a gruesome scene on Maxfield Avenue on Monday. Her son and another man were killed execution style in the...
As the relatives of the Cocoa Piece five sought closure with the final rites at Sunday’s funeral, organisers and mourners were engaged in a battle of wills as Clarendon College convulsed with emotion. A sea of humanity flooded the school compound...
The St Andrew South police say they are following strong leads in Tuesday’s daring daylight murder and mass shooting in Waterhouse, St Andrew. Undeterred by a downpour about 8:50 a.m., assailants travelling in two motor cars opened fire on a group...
Business operators at a section of Premier Plaza in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, are tallying losses that will collectively run them into millions of dollars after a large fire ravaged several shops on Thursday. The blaze reportedly began about 11 a.m...
A foiled robbery last Friday is believed to have been the trigger for the horrific murder of several men from Denham Town whose dismembered bodies were excavated from shallow graves at the old Public Works Department (PWD) compound near Tivoli...
Residents of Green Glebe Road in Red Hills, St Andrew, are cowering in fear and have opted to clear the streets before dark amid a police conspiracy probe following the murder of Phillip Wallace on Saturday. Rogue cops are suspected to have carried...
It was a tearful affair yesterday as hundreds of friends and relatives of 27-year-old Shanice Dean said goodbye to a young woman whose life was cut short by gunmen weeks before she began training to become a police officer. Shanice, the eldest...
July 24 will mark one year since the mystery disappearance of reputed Park Lane strongman Shadari ‘Kishi’ Bryan and ongoing bloodshed between factions, which investigators theorise was at the root of Wednesday’s double killing. Dead are 63-year-old...
As thick plumes of smoke billowed into the darkening skies over the Riverton City dump in western St Andrew Tuesday, a woman named Sister Pinky looked on with relief that she had, just last week, sold her cache of plastic bottles stored there....
A tense calm hangs over residents and business operators on Mannings Hill Road in St Andrew amid puzzling questions behind the murder of well-known bar operator Iciline ‘Rosie’ Tamasa. Reports are that about 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Tamasa was...
A childhood friend of Dominic ‘Domz’ Davis has been left distraught at the murder of the popular photographer she grew up with, constantly sharing dreams and encouraging words as they blossomed into young professionals. Davis, CEO of DomzMedia, was...
