The professional basketball dreams and aspirations of former national under-17 representative, 24-year-old Marco-Miche Downer, who had reportedly been eligible for the 2024 NBA draft next month, will not be realised after he was found dead in...
The Jamaica Customs enforcement and investigation branch swooped down on a Corporate Area plaza on Thursday and interrogated operators of a popular jewellery store, before seizing a quantity of assorted jewellery. The mid-afternoon operation had...
The Major Investigation Division (MID) is probing the alleged cowboy and Indian-like bizarre double murder and shooting in Burnside Valley, Red Hills, which left two attackers dead and another man nursing life-threatening gunshot wounds....
Sixty days after the United Kingdom (UK)-based Privy Council quashed the murder convictions of Vybz Kartel and his three co-accused, the Supreme Court yesterday began hearing a habeas corpus application filed on behalf of three of the accused....
A commonly held view that wanton violence and crime cripples economic and social stability was put to test in communities of West Rural St Andrew over the past week, with several violent incidents occurring within hours of each other. The horror of...
A man is dead after what residents of Craig Town in Kingston believe was an act of false pretense by his killer(s). The residents are alleging that the pretender(s) used a telephone number assigned to someone he knew to lure him to his death on...
While Perceval Singh was labelled a charitable and God-fearing man by one of two defence character witnesses, under cross-examination, the witness was unable to pinpoint any charity the former chairman of Petrojam was involved with or church he...
There will be no roadblocks and ‘we want justice’ outrage for the death of four males, including a 17-year-old, whose lives fatally ended during an alleged gun battle with the police in Kingston yesterday morning. The usual demonstrations...
The St Thomas police have indicated that an investigation is under way into the arrest of one of their own on the weekend, for his alleged involvement in an abduction and multimillion-dollar robbery that reportedly took place at Golden Grove in the...
The no-case submission by the defence team representing former Petrojam General Manager Floyd Grindley and former Chairman Dr Perceval Singh was part heard yesterday with the prosecution in the line of fire, heavily criticised as being disingenuous...
Despite pleading his innocence and distancing himself from an alleged crime in a widely circulated video, a St James deliveryman was cut down in a hail of bullets on Thursday night in the vicinity of the Barnett Street Fire Station. The Gleaner...
Former legislator Dwayne Vaz will know his fate on June 6 after he was bound over after his appearance in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court, where he pleaded guilty to the offence of failing without reasonable cause to provide the...
THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force’s (JCF) Eastern Kingston Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) is probing the death of a vendor who was killed allegedly by a man travelling in a motorcar during a daring attack yesterday morning. Up to press time, the...
A KING Alarm security guard previously stationed at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Garden Boulevard entrance security post, reportedly made a failed attempt to rape a nine-year-old girl who, allegedly, he subsequently assaulted on the...
Bloodstains along the roadway, abandoned footwear, and spent casings strewn around were telltale signs of the terror that gripped Burnt Shop Square in Lawrence Tavern on Monday morning and left three men admitted in critical condition in hospital....
The Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) first Central Executive meeting in the aftermath of the bruising February 26 local government elections has ushered in a raft of changes by way of resignations from some key stakeholders. Among the notables to step...
A teacher has been hospitalised with chest and upper-left side wounds after gunmen smashed open a window to her St Andrew home and opened fire in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The incident occurred sometime after 3 a.m. in a section of Lawrence...
Executive Director of the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) Dr Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie is accusing the authorities of paying lip service to important environmental issues such as repeated fires at the Riverton landfill, the nuisance they create in...
Commissioner of Police Dr Kevin Blake said the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has observed a concerning trend in road fatalities since 2024, prompting the police to intensify their strategic response. Blake was speaking on Tuesday at his...
The father of a Jamaican man who was gunned down in Lauderdale Lakes in Florida on Sunday was reduced to tears yesterday as he remembered his youngest child and his reluctance to send him to the United States (US). Shakief Brown, 27, reportedly...
JAMAICA COLLEGE (JC) school board chairman Lance Hylton and acting headmaster Wayne Robinson say operations at the school remain normal, following Thursday's protest, and seeming discontent by some of the institution's old boys. No more than nine...
THE INDEPENDENT Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is likely to reconstruct a crime scene and, along with postmortem findings, piece together its evidence to determine who fired the fatal bullet which struck a female passenger in a moving...
If Kingston College’s (KC) 2024 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ Championship victory celebration yesterday was anything to go by, the all- boys school will be pulling out all the stops to extend the record for most ever titles during their centennial next...
SOME PARENTS are expressing grave concerns over the mental well-being of their daughters who attend a prestigious Corporate Area all-girls high school following the deaths of two students within a near three-month window. The latest death occurred...
QUICKSTEP PRIMARY and Basic School in St Elizabeth is now the envy of many other institutions in the parish, following a recent retrofitting with a state-of-the-art play area which rivals playgrounds at First-World institutions. The latter was the...
