Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison has described as insensitive and inappropriate photographs posted on social media sites believed to be from the post mortem of Kayalicia Simpson, the 14-year-old Donald Quarrie High School teen who...
Conflicting information is coming from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) about when the fire at the Riverton City dump in Kingston will be extinguished. The fire which has been burning since last Wednesday is a...
Campion College has won their first ISSA/Grace, Corporate Area, Grace Shield Cricket title in 27 years, after completing a six wicket victory over St George’s College, in the final at Melbourne Oval a short while ago. Campion who resumed...
A nine-year-old student and a policeman are now in hospital after they were both stabbed in the head during an incident in downtown Kingston a short while ago. Their attacker - described as a man of unsound mind - managed to elude the police and is...
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness says several factors including poor parenting, are to be blamed for teen pregnancies. He made the comments in Frankfield, Clarendon yesterday in reaction to the recent cases of teen pregnancies and killings. He says...
Several bee farmers in Clarendon have complained that praedial thieves have left them with hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. The farmers say since Thursday thieves have made off with several boxes of bees and honey in the communities of...
Published:Wednesday | March 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
President of The Mico University College, professor Carol Clarke, says she is concerned about the unprofessional attire of some teachers in the public school system. She was reacting to a photograph that has emerged on social media showing a...
Published:Wednesday | March 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is urging attendees at the Jamaica Investment Forum 2015 to invest in the island's emerging industries such as neutraceuticals. Her remarks came during her keynote address, a short while ago, to open the second...
Published:Monday | March 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Sporting Central Academy's two-goal hero against Barbican on Sunday, Kemar Reid, says he has the potential to produce match-winning performances more consistently and has no doubts the Clarendon club will escape relegation from the Premier League....
Classes at the Kilsyth Primary School, in Frankfield Clarendon have been suspended for the day following this morning's killing of the school's road warden in a drive-by shooting. The police have not released her identity. The woman...
A fatal accident in Clarendon this morning has left a media worker dead and a woman nursing injuries at hospital. The victim has been identified as 35-year-old Barrington Campbell of an August Town address. According to the police, shortly after 11...
Published:Saturday | March 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Residents in Windsor, St Ann’s Bay are expressing outrage after a young female was discovered chained in the cellar of the house occupied by her father and stepmother. Both the father and stepmother have since been taken into custody and will...
Investigators probing the murder of 14-year-old Kayalicia Simpson say the teen was at least four months pregnant when she was killed. The Donald Quarrie High Student was hacked to death on Tuesday morning. A senior investigator very close to...
Well-known attorney-at-law Harold Brady has been arrested and charged by investigators at the police Fraud Squad. Attorney Raymond Clough, who attended the question-and-answer session held this afternoon, says Brady has been charged in relation to...
The prominent attorney who was being sought by fraud investigators has turned himself in. He walked into the office of the Fraud Squad in downtown Kingston shortly before 2 o’clock this afternoon. The attorney is now being questioned by Fraud...
Police investigators have confirmed that a stop order has been placed at the ports for a prominent lawyer and senior member of the Jamaica Labour Party. The lawyer is the subject of a multimillion-dollar fraud probe. The attorney was expected to...
Published:Wednesday | March 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
A woman was shot and seriously injured in a domestic dispute with her common law husband this morning in Pineapple, St Ann. Reports are that the woman was shot several times. She was rushed to the St Ann’s Bay hospital and later airlifted to...
Published:Wednesday | March 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Construction workers at Moon Palace Jamaica Grande have withdrawn their services again. The workers stopped work this morning, claiming that the management of the hotel plans to replace some of them with workers from Mexico. General Manager Clifton...
The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) is asking the Government for a 25 per cent increase in basic wages for the more than 30,000 teachers in the public education system. The JTA wants the increase to take place over two years with 15 per...
A 14-year-old student of Donald Quarrie High was this morning reportedly beheaded at her home in Newlands, St Thomas. She has been identified as Kayalicia Simpson. The Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre understands that Simpson woke up...
Upset parents of students at the May Pen Primary School say they will not give up their push to have the institution’s principal, Paul Scott, removed from office. Yesterday, parents padlocked the gates to the school as they pressed their...
The Legal Aid Council says the police are still engaging in what it calls the wide-spread practice of detaining citizens without advising them of their right to legal representation. Under the Constitution, persons must be advised of this right...
A 20-year-old student of the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) in Kingston, was killed last night in a car crash in Swansea, Four Paths, Clarendon. She has been identified as Vanessa Peart from Bushy Park in the parish. Three others, the...
There were no empty seats at the Ardenne High School's Auditorium as hundreds of persons came out to pay their final respects to Reverend Glen Archer. His annoyance for mediocrity, his love for God and family were characteristics that resonated ...
Former Prime Minister of Jamaica, P.J. Patterson who was unable to attend the funeral service of Reverend Glen Archer in his tribute remembered the educator as a giant in the teaching profession. The tribute which was read by Reverend Dr Lenworth...
