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...
THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force’s (JCF) 14,094-strong members will today embark under the leadership of Dr Kevin Blake at the helm, boasting among them new and existing constables with degrees in forensic science, forensic chemistry and law. The man...
One of the attorneys who represented dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel in a previous appeal of his 2014 trial yesterday declared that she felt vindicated by the ruling of the United Kingdom (UK)-based Privy Council, quashing the murder conviction of...
Four people, including a businessman, were left nursing serious gunshot or machete injuries sustained in separate incidents in St Andrew over the weekend. Some residents are now living in fear as one of the attacks appears to stem from a long-...
UNITED STATES (US) embassy officials and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are confident that the completion of an evidence collection training for local investigators will boost the force’s investigative capacity in crime fighting. Thirty...
THE NATIONAL Housing Trust (NHT) hosted its 365 Compliance Engagement and Mobilisation session yesterday, catering to the interest of almost 400 people before noon as it marked another successful expo, the third for the financial year. The day’s...
EVEN IN death, the rift between the Hamiltons and McDonalds was apparent as the headstone on the grave of 32-year-old Tonia Hamilton-McDonald, Beachy Stout’s second wife, had just her maiden name. Even the slip of the tongue by a journalist...
“Let’s Go!” Those were the only words uttered from the shaking lips of convicted murderer Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald as he stretched his arms out, inviting the police to slap on the handcuffs and to promptly remove him from the courtroom....
Justice Chester Stamp has put the jury on notice that the high-profile murder trial of businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald and his co-accused, Oscar Barnes, is just about ready to be handed over to them for deliberations. Yesterday the...
AS THE DAY nears for trial judge Chester Stamp to hand over the high-profile murder trial involving Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald and Oscar Barnes to the seven-member jury, the victim’s mother’s anticipation is at fever pitch. McDonald, 69, and...
The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) completed its official count of ballots in the 2024 local government elections on Friday with both of the island’s major political parties still claiming victory and several divisions seem headed to court for...
Emergency responders were summoned to two crash sites along the Temple Hall main road in St Andrew on Friday as at least three persons were left nursing serious injuries. The busy thoroughfare, which connects St Andrew and St Mary, has recorded at...
Justice Chester Stamp again on Thursday pleaded with members of the jury pool not to speak with anyone about the ongoing murder trial involving Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald and Oscar Barnes. The trial judge made a special effort to advise the...
Despite a severe islandwide garbage collection crisis between 2022 and 2023 causing a black eye, the outgoing board members of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) were on Friday lauded for bringing a culture of accountability to...
Candidates in the upcoming local government elections moved to pacify angry residents of August Town in St Andrew on Thursday as they staged a fiery protest following a police shooting on Wednesday, reportedly involving a People’s National Party (...
