A mother is relieved to have her teen daughter return home alive after her bid to land a job at a Portmore call centre morphed into a nightmare after she was allegedly abducted after the interview. The 19-year-old was reportedly abducted for two...
SENDAI, Japan: DEVELOPING RESILIENCE and a greater appreciation for historical data are ways that a Japanese city ravaged by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami 11 years ago has recovered and is better prepared for any recurrence. Lessons...
OSAKI, Japan: Since 2015, successive administrations have spent millions of dollars in training and certifying community wardens to assist with Jamaica’s failing garbage disposal problem. However, the country continues to experience significant...
OSAKI, Japan: CHANGING MINDSETS and improving the environmental impact are the pillars which operators of a successful recycling plant in the township of Osaki in Japan thrive on, making their community a world model. Complaints about garbage...
TOKYO, Japan: JAMAICA’S water-supply woes could be eased if Japanese inventors of WOTA, a reusable water-treatment system that maximises conservation, get a foothold in the Caribbean. Co-founder of WOTA Corp, Ryo Yamada, is enthused at the...
TOKYO, Japan: Chitaru Shimizu, director of Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Division at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says expanding relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is paramount and Jamaica, its oldest partner in the...
Residents of Grants Pen in St Andrew were sent scampering for cover on Tuesday morning as two cabbies reportedly challenged each other in a shootout reminiscent of a scene from the Wild West, leaving one dead and the other on the run. Dead is 28-...
As he lay on his deathbed, 18-year-old Tyrone ‘TJ’ McDonald expressed forgiveness to the policeman who shot him, but made one final request of his family to seek justice on his behalf as he maintained his innocence. Tyrone succumbed to injuries at...
A 12-year-old girl and her 15-year-old sister, who were raped, stabbed and chopped multiple times in a predawn attack at their home just over a week ago, are recovering in hospital while their family ponders their next move. The accused man, who...
Too embarrassed to disclose the scale of his losses, a young man standing at the cordoned security checkpoint along the Bernard Lodge main road Thursday morning rued the decision of his mother and girlfriend to purchase land from an unscrupulous...
Justice Vinette Graham-Allen on Wednesday made an impassioned plea to the police, backed by a recurring court order, for Robert Fowler, the St Catherine mechanic accused of killing 20-year-old accounting clerk Khanice Jackson, to undergo blood...
In damning allegations drawing on DNA and video footage, prosecutors cast accused murderer Constable Noel Maitland as a calculated killer who schemed to clean up evidence linking him to the death of 23-year-old girlfriend Donna-Lee Donaldson. The...
Tivoli Gardens, the western Kingston community whose history has been stained with bloodshed and trauma, is using art as therapy for young and old to overcome grief and to project a favourable outlook on the inner city. The mural project,...
A St Catherine father could be in serious legal trouble after reportedly firing three shots through a door at a figure thought to be an intruder at his home, only to discover it was his 15-year-old son. The boy later died. The deceased has been...
The community of Creamy Corner in Above Rocks, St Catherine, which has suffered at the hands of robbers for years, rejoiced at the fatal shooting of two men who were allegedly caught red-handed during a break-in at a bar early Tuesday. Among the...
Recycling Partners of Jamaica Chairman Dr Damien King says the entity has been surprised by citizens’ enthusiasm to embrace plastic-bottle recycling. Speaking on Thursday as the RPJ signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tourism Product...
Several residents in the Crescent Road area of St Andrew were on Friday adamant that they would be heading to the United States-Mexico border after the latest explosion of violence which claimed two lives and left a third man injured. Jamaicans...
What was supposed to be a gathering of mourning relatives taking steps to prepare a final place for a senior family member dramatically turned into a machete-wielding and gunslinging bloodbath in Glengoffe, St Catherine, on Wednesday, leaving one...
As a tropical wave sweeps westward over the southern Caribbean Sea threatening showers for Jamaica this weekend, residents of Waterford, St Catherine, are fearful of another episode of lamentable flooding. Blockages of the sewerage system were...
A frenetic hunt for a child which ended in a showdown between a mother and stepmother at a Corporate Area primary school last Thursday has reportedly resulted in emotional trauma for the grade three student whose father allegedly breached custodial...
A mother’s warning to her targeted 22-year-old son, who on two previous occasions was shot and injured by gunmen in their Delacree Lane community, came to pass after the third and fatal attack Monday night. Novelette Forsythe and her family...
Fresh fears now exist in central Kingston following a daring attack in which masked men travelling on foot opened fire at a group of people, killing one man, in full view of a team of police officers sitting in a service vehicle. The man killed in...
Cheers filled the air in the deep rural St Elizabeth community of Quickstep last week Friday as international charity Pencils4Kids and students cut the ribbons to open a newly built basic school. It was bright smiles all around as parents,...
Tit-for-tat murders and shootings between warring factions in the Angola and Top Jungle sections of Arnett Gardens, St Andrew, this week have left some residents fearful and resorting to mounting blockades along the roadways to prevent more drive-...
Curfews were imposed in Olympic Gardens and Waterhouse late Tuesday as law enforcers scrambled to rein in escalating violence as five persons were murdered in the St Andrew South Police Division in 24 hours. That intervention was activated after...
