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...
Edume Joseph, the wife of former Haitian Senator John Joel Joseph, expressed concern through a translator on Tuesday that their 17-year-old son, who is in custody at the Horizon Adult Facility, has not been attending school. That concern was...
A distraught family is calling for a thorough probe into the death of a 29-year-old security guard whose body was found in the swimming pool at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston last Thursday, his birthday. Ramone Henry is suspected of drowning,...
The absence of the doctor who performed an autopsy on 39-year-old Taneka Gardner, whose throat was slashed during an alleged sacrificial church ritual in St James last October, has delayed the readiness of the report. The Crown, in the case...
Kemar ‘Doggy’ Campbell, over the past five days, has been second-guessing if he would mount another utility pole after his heroics last Wednesday when he rescued Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) contractor Ainsley Scott in Arnett Gardens,...
Simeon Ramsay, the “teddy bear”-like son who became increasingly reclusive and is alleged to have slain his parents in St Catherine last Friday, wrestled with psychological turmoil from a controlling father who ruled the household with an iron fist...
When crashing sounds jolted some residents of Christian Meadows in Portmore, St Catherine, out of their sleep about 4:30 yesterday morning, they could not fathom the ghastly reality which would greet them after two members of their community were...
The heroics of 30-year-old Kemar ‘Doggie’ Campbell Wednesday have led to him being hailed as a hero after he mounted a utility pole to the rescue of a Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) contractor electrocuted by power lines in his Arnett Gardens...
The unlicensed taxi operator nabbed after taking several passengers on a daredevil ride Monday in a bid to elude the police is reportedly a repeat traffic offender who had more than a dozen unpaid tickets. Jamoy ‘Massive’ Pusey, 26, was cornered in...
The Government is launching a new incentive-based campaign to reward persons offering information leading to the seizure of illegal guns and the arrest and charge of wanted persons. The National Crime Prevention Fund (NCPF), which operates Crime...
Law enforcers who have traditionally focused on hunting the triggermen behind Jamaica’s gangland violence are now targeting critical support cronies who repair and modify guns. The recent capture of an alleged armourer, dubbed ‘a ghost’, and...
Brothers wanted for the murder and shooting of a neighbour, allegedly in full view of others, have been elusive for close to two years and were recently listed as most wanted by the Portmore police. The St Catherine South police named, on the...
A young man remains unconscious in a Corporate Area hospital since early Sunday morning after he leapt from a building in Stony Hill, St Andrew, suffering head and other serious injuries. The man, who is believed to be in his early 20s, was...
The police are combing through social-media exchanges, including voice notes with death threats, as they seek to snare players in feuding factions with connections in Naggo Head and the United States amid a surge in criminal violence in the...
A grieving father yesterday lamented that Jamaica’s crime problem turned up at his doorstep snatching his beloved daughter who was killed at the hand of a gunman inside a shop at Royale Plaza, St John’s Road, in St Catherine. The victim, 24-year-...
Well-known St Andrew businessman Craig ‘Sprinta’ Gooden became the latest murder victim of the violence gripping the Plum Lane, Whitehall Avenue area of St Andrew yesterday morning, days after three persons were shot, one fatally. Head of the St...
Accused assassination plotter John Joel Joseph and his family are believed to have surreptitiously moved into a house in Warminster, St Elizabeth, less than 48 hours before their arrest last Friday. Joseph, a Haitian, his ex-wife, and his two...
Hours after his 42-year-old son was slain in the Plum Lane area off Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew, Eric Powell took sips of an alcoholic beverage trying to soothe his grief as he pondered whether Shamari would have still been alive if he had heeded...
New head of the Kingston Central Police Division, Superintendent Beresford Williams, told residents and stakeholders during a street meeting yesterday inside the Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) that the divisional murders should be held under 20...
Queen’s Counsel Tom Tavares-Finson, who represents the embattled Alliance duo Peter and Robert Chin, has signalled intentions to have the court subpoena top government officials, including Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke. Alliance Finance Limited...
Worried that her boys could be sucked into the cycle of violence plaguing the area, a Kingston Central mother has expressed a willingness to share her Wi-Fi password with cops to accommodate a security post at her Sutton Street gate. The mother had...
Stating that today’s criminals were more tech-savvy than those of the past and were using modern advances to outmanoeuvre cops, a senior clergyman yesterday called for a change in tactics to boost the police’s response to crime. Pastor Glen Samuels...
There is unease in a section of Collins Close in St Andrew following the death of a man and the ensuing investigations into his death. Nearly two weeks after the murder of Trey Beckford on December 29 in the Whitehall Avenue community, the police...
Member of Parliament for Kingston Eastern and Port Royal Phillip Paulwell says crime and violence is the number one problem in Jamaica and sometimes he, too, wants to cry as a result of the scourge affecting the country. Communities within the...
The Universal Service Fund (USF) yesterday launched another ‘Community Connect’ Wi-Fi portal at the McIntyre Villa Community Centre in Kingston and urged residents and especially students to make the best use of the technology. The USF intends to...
