Tensions are running high in Morgan Lane, Grants Pen, St Andrew following the gun killing of the community don, his brother and a third male from the area yesterday afternoon. The third man who was shot and injured was rushed to hospital but...
Heavily armed thugs believed to be linked to the Bedward Gardens community in St Andrew on Wednesday launched an attack on a resident of August Town Road, coinciding with the second anniversary of the death of their cronies. The men reportedly...
The shooting of two men at a restaurant along Olympic Way in St Andrew yesterday evening has triggered deeper fears among residents that irregularity in the space is inevitable – at least for a while. Businesses had to be shuttered earlier than...
A teen with a seemingly bright future in athletics, who promised his mother that he would elevate their family out of poverty by following in the footsteps of athletics superstar Usain Bolt, died last week after contracting dengue fever. A shell-...
Kimberlee Palmer, 22, still recalls the final embrace of her mother Lorna Johnson on Glen Drive, northern St Andrew, hours before the 60-year-old bar operator took her last breath early Monday. Palmer had just taken a break from studies to join her...
Quick and effective intervention saved a 15-year-old gymnastic rising star who had been experiencing mental challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic to be back at peace with her favourite sport – and life – after her mother stumbled on a troubling...
The family of a Jamaican man killed in Bronx, New York, last Friday after being accused of standing too close to a woman is appealing to the killer and female accomplice to turn themselves in to the police. Stephaun ‘Bigsie’ Stewart, 24, was shot...
Shame and regret are sentiments that sum up the last five months for the Bath, St Thomas, woman who invited Davian Bryan to stay with her as condition of his bail pending his judicial fate in neighbouring Portland. What began as acceptance of a...
The mother of the first child abducted last October, allegedly by Davian Bryan, is elated at Wednesday’s detention of the fugitive but would rather he be dead than be fed and cared for in prison. That is a view shared by residents of Airy Castle...
Shock and sadness overwhelmed the Rae Town, Kingston home of 12-year-old Holy Trinity High School student Karuki Moncrieffe yesterday, a day after he collapsed in his community and was later pronounced dead at the Bustamante Children's Hospital...
Alexander Shaw, attorney for Stephanie Christie, the reputed pastor and sole female defendant in the ongoing Clansman Gang trial, has accused a retired inspector and gang investigator of fabricating evidence to secure convictions. The accusation...
Motorists who faced another round of fuel price hikes on Thursday are clamouring for Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke to reconsider his decision to maintain the seven per cent special consumption tax (SCT) on petrol. Clarke, during his Budget...
Market vendors in a section of the Coronation Market in downtown Kingston are in despair as millions of dollars in goods went up in smoke yesterday bringing to three, the number of markets razed by fires in three weeks. The section of the market...
There is a thin line between life and death for residents of Trench Town in the Kingston Western Police Division, as even mere association can have fatal outcomes as a gang war between the enclaves of ‘Angola’ and ‘Zimbabwe’ heats up. The latest...
The Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch (C-TOC) yesterday made another dent in the shipment of illegal firearms after 21 guns including three rifles were seized at a warehouse inside the One Stop Customs Clearance Centre in...
Jamaicans have long been encouraged to till the soil and Rockfort brothers Davian and Kevan Watt, who turned their backs on a life of crime, are now making significant strides as farmers in their community. The men, who reside in Wareika Hill in...
A mother is concerned about the future of her mentally challenged son who was among 25 men detained by the security forces during a predawn Joint Anti-Gang Task Force operation along Mountain View Avenue. But the police have claimed success,...
The murder of a farmer in Bakers Ridge in Brandon Hill, St Andrew, on Sunday night has dealt a blow to the rural district, dampening the spirits of community youth who had been inspired by him to chart a path in agriculture. Relatives and friends...
Residents and business operators on St John’s Road in St Catherine are fuming after a truck yesterday accidentally pulled down guy wires in their community disrupting power to several areas and damaging motor vehicles. The Jamaica Public Service (...
The 16-year-old ward who succumbed to gunshot injuries yesterday after he was shot while trying to escape from the Metcalfe Street Secure Juvenile Remand Centre reportedly told his mother that a staff member had encouraged him to abscond, telling...
An atmosphere of unease blanketed the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre on Monday after a bloody mid-morning bust-up between correctional officers and incarcerated dancehall artiste Tommy Lee Sparta. Tommy Lee Sparta, whose birth name is Leroy...
Three attorneys-at-law on Tuesday pooled together inside the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to pay a $5,000 fine for a 69-year-old woman charged for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA). Beverley Isaacs, a street sweeper of a...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has said that despite requests, it has never received footage from body-worn cameras to assist with any of its probes into the actions of agents of the State. INDECOM Commissioner Hugh Faulkner...
Shock and grief struck residents of Tavern Gully, a remote community located in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew, shortly before noon yesterday, after a round of unusual explosions rang out in the hills. Screams and wails followed shortly after,...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that his administration’s thrust to drive urban renewal and improve housing conditions in some unplanned communities is aimed at building a better country. “Every single day, we are making progress changing...
