OSLO, Norway: Sprint queen Veronica Campbell-Brown is quietly confident that she can run a sub 11 seconds 100m at Oslo’s ExonMobil Bislett Games tomorrow. The seven-time Olympic gold medallist is of the opinion that she can emulate compatriot...
West Indies coach Phil Simmons says he is very optimistic that the Caribbean side can pull off a series-levelling victory over Australia in the final Test. The Windies, trail the two Test series 1-nil and will face the Australians in the...
The Clarendon police are investigating a shooting incident last night in New Bowens that has left one man dead and another in hospital nursing gunshot wounds. The deceased has been identified as Denmark Thomas otherwise known as Tuggy, an...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says an appeals body is to hear in September, the case brought by the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) quash an order to refund customers almost $1 billion. The disclosure from the OUR follows a call last week...
BIRMINGHAM, England: There was no joy for Jamaica’s 100m sprinters at the Birmingham Diamond League meet today. Nesta Carter recorded 10.00 seconds for fourth place while Julian Forte clocked 10.15 taking fifth place in the final, after both...
BIRMINGHAM, England: A disappointed Simone Facey came home sixth in the 200m in Birmingham. Facey, who once broke Veronica Campbell's national junior record in the 200m, clocked 22.92 seconds. Facey told The Gleaner: “It was just a bad...
BIRMINGHAM, England: 400m hurdler Kaliese Spencer stormed to victory at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham to record yet another Diamond League victory. Spencer, who won the same event in Shanghai, set off like a train to record a season best time...
BIRMINGHAM, England: Stephanie McPherson confirmed her penchant for running in the United Kingdom, when she won the 400m at the Birmingham Diamond league meeting today. McPherson, who won gold at the same distance at last year’s Commonwealth Games, clocked a time...
One of the suspects in the St Elizabeth quadruple murder has surrendered to the police. The suspect reported to the Santa Cruz Police in the company of his attorney yesterday. His name is being withheld pending an identification parade. The...
The Clarendon police are now searching for a man after a farmer in Halsey Hall this morning saw his 64th cow being stolen since December last year. The owner of the animal, cattle farmer Kenneth Donaldson, says it had been sick since yesterday. He...
An off-duty police officer shot and killed one of Portland’s most wanted this morning during a daring attempted robbery at the foot of Spring Bank Road in Port Antonio. A police report has suggested that 43-year-old Calvin Henry, who goes by...
Deputy Commissioner of Police Clifford Blake today revealed that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) found no evidence to confirm a report that drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was seen at the private residence of then Information...
The Gleaner has received communication reportedly from the Police Federation advising protesting members that 'sick cops cannot go back to work'. According to the statement, doing so could result in charges being brought against them. The...
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) says, as long as necessary, it will continue to give support to the police force hit by ongoing industrial action. The restive rank and file Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) members have been off duty since last...
Published:Tuesday | June 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
St Ann: Acting head of the St Ann police Superintendent Steve Brown says the division is coping despite the fact that several police officers failed to report for work today. Brown said while he was unable to give a definite figure as to those who...
The senior police officer charged with crafting the tactical plan for the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens says going after the more than 300 heavily-armed gunmen who were assembling in the west Kingston community would divert attention from...
About 75 trainees from the Jamaica Police Academy are expected to be called out to work in stations across the Corporate Area as rank and file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) start a possible five-day protest. The JCF members are...
Assistant Commissioner of Police Leon Rose says the destruction of houses in Tivoli Gardens during the May 2010 incursion is not an indication that the operations was an "abject failure". Rose was testifying during cross-examination today...
Published:Monday | June 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Several categories of workers in St Ann and St Mary have stopped working to press for the payment of increments. Porters, attendants and patient nurse assistants represented by the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) withdrew their services at...
Former Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington was in a vehicle that encountered heavy gunfire in west Kingston in the days leading up the 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens, a high-ranking member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF...
The West Kingston Commission of Enquiry this morning heard evidence that 94 houses were destroyed during the 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens. Chairman of the three-member commission, Sir David Simmons, says a statement provided by...
Entertainer Admiral Bailey was today fined $160,000 he pleaded in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on fraud charges. The entertainer and former coach, whose real name is Glendon Orville Bailey was charged with uttering...
The former head of operations for the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has revealed that he did not request a report about the number of bullets discharged by members of the JCF during the May 2010 police-military operations in the west Kingston...
A high-ranking policeman today admitted at the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry that local law enforcement authorities had contemplated what is described as a soft detention of drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke in August 2009. Deputy...
The West Kingston Commission of Enquiry has heard evidence that Jamaican law enforcement authorities explored the possibility of taking drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke into custody outside of his Tivoli Gardens stronghold. Deputy...
