When eight-year-old Courtney Greaves heard about the gruesome murder of Shantae Skyers and other children harmed in recent times, she begged her mother to help her and friends prepare a candlelight vigil in their memory. Greaves and her mother,...
Security specialist Alethea Fuller, who heads the Policy and Commissioning for the Police and Crime Commissioner in West Midlands in England, says as much effort needs to be placed on rehabilitating domestic abuse offenders as their victims.Fuller,...
Authorities at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) are now reviewing the findings of a multimillion-dollar simulation exercise of an aircraft crashing into the Kingston Harbour, which was conducted yesterday.The exercise, the first of its...
The usually cheerful Kingston College (KC) family has been mourning heavily following the deaths of at least six students and the hospitalisation and incarceration of two others in recent months.School authorities and KC's head boy have been trying...
When Latoya Riley smelled smoke coming from a nearby open lot in Arnett Gardens, she thought it was from a dead animal being burned. She never imagined that it was from the body of her 14-year-old daughter.Yetanya Francis, otherwise called 'Princess...
The demand for agricultural produce from Jamaica continues to increase internationally, but local exporters say their efforts to grow are being stymied by roadblocks set by mainly state agencies.Addressing a Gleaner Editors' Forum last week, Dr...
Relatives of a missing 13-year-old girl are worried about the well-being of the teenager who they speculate ran away from home to be with an older lover.They believe that Shanoya ran away from the family's Bedward Gardens home in August Town, St...
Criminals are using the addresses and other credentials of unsuspecting Jamaicans to send drugs through courier and postal services, and the police say that they are catching up on the trend.Speaking at a press conference put on by the Ministry of...
Egeton Newman, president of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services, yesterday urged Government to free up more public passenger vehicle (PPV) licences if it desires to clamp down on illegal taxi operators who cause mayhem on the...
Two of the strongest advocates of the Sentencing Reduction Day initiative, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Paula Llewellyn, and president of the Jamaican Bar Association, Jacqueline Cummings, are continuing to sing its praise, despite...
