An unknown bug is afflicting the island’s two largest prisons, triggering a wave of concern among staff and inmates. The Gleaner understands that Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in downtown Kingston and St Catherine Adult Correctional...
Residents of Cherry Gardens in St Andrew were taken aback on Thursday morning when they saw emergency service vehicles with flashing sirens parked along Millwood Avenue as authorities investigated a suspected suicide in their typically quiet...
What was supposed to be a 15-minute drive to her workplace aboard an illegal taxi turned into a 30-minute horror story for an unsuspecting female security guard caught in a reckless high-speed chase involving the police in the Corporate Area...
On one of the biggest travel weekends for flights to the United States (US), an emergency landing by Fort Lauderdale-bound Spirit Airlines Flight NK270 had passengers in a tailspin as it departed the runway of the Sangster International Airport (...
Four people were hospitalised with minor to serious injures in two separate motor vehicle crashes along the usually busy Stony Hill Main Road in St Andrew yesterday. In the first incident, which occurred about 5:30 a.m., at a section of the road...
A student of Oberlin High School is lucky to be alive and recovering in a Corporate Area hospital after a sharp instrument was used, reportedly by another student, to inflict a serious head wound which required surgery. The police and school...
When Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald was arrested in August 2020, it appeared that no jail cell at any of the eight police stations in Portland or the neighbouring parish of St Mary could hold him. The seemingly larger-than-life Portlander was...
United Kingdom Privy Council judges, examining the appeal of dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel’s 2014 murder conviction, have asked attorneys to come back today with additional submissions on their arguments around the ‘tainted jury’. The matter was of...
The first ever Don Anderson poll examining the main causes of Jamaica's murder rate has found just a percentage point separation, based on public perception, between top-ranked poverty and corruption in general. The survey, conducted November 24 to...
While arrangements governing the Crime Monitoring Oversight Committee (CMOC) are still being reviewed and a new agreement not yet reached, Jamaicans at the start of 2024 have been left to absorb murder statistics of 1,393 people killed last year....
Devotions at the Gregory Park Primary School in St Catherine were disrupted by the sound of gunfire on Thursday morning as the police and an alleged gunman traded bullets on the premises, ending with the death of the unidentified man. The man, who...
Jamaica’s maritime security and blue economy received new offshore capabilities yesterday with the naming and commissioning of the His Majesty’s Jamaican Ship (HMJS) Norman Manley. Chief of defence staff Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman and Minister...
THE JAMAICA Defence Force (JDF) said an escapee and other migrant criminals affiliated with the One Order Gang in St Catherine were given a safe haven in sections of Mountain View Avenue in St Andrew since the imposing of a state of emergency. The...
King's Counsel (KC) Valerie Neita-Robertson led an arsenal of defence attorneys who took the prosecution to task yesterday in the multimillion-dollar fraud case brought by Sagicor against four former employees. The plea and case management hearing...
The United States (UA) Embassy in Kingston, speaking on the impasse between security provider G4S GuardsmanJV and its employees, who staged a sickout Tuesday, say the US government is a strong supporter of workers rights and collective bargaining....
Unmanned guard rails left behind from a curfew imposed almost a month ago were no deterrent for heavily armed killers who drove on to West Avenue in Dunkirk, east Kingston, in the daytime yesterday, leaving death in their wake. Up to press time,...
The verdict is still out on whether a 35 per cent fare increase, to come on stream in stages beginning this Sunday with a 19 per cent hike, will move the needle for taxi and bus operators islandwide. Some are even wary of the swift and sudden move...
The year 2023 will no doubt be remembered, among other things, for a spate of attacks on Beryllium cash-in-transit teams as robbers continued their attempts at outgunning them on Tuesday. Taking on the teams in busy commercial area or lonely...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has urged the global network of law enforcers to be stronger than the network of criminals if success is to come from the disruption of transnational criminal organisations and their supply chains. Holness was making...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) most authoritative figure on traffic violations, head of the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch (PSTEB), Assistant Commissioner of Police Gary McKenzie, up to yesterday afternoon said he was unaware...
Police personnel at the Hunts Bay station in St Andrew have been plunged into mourning following the tragic death of their colleague, 35-year-old District Constable Herbert Gayle, yesterday in Harbour View. Reports are that Gayle was driving a...
In a dry response to complaints from residents pleading for better access to water in Walkers Hill in her St Andrew West Rural constituency, MP Juliet Cuthbert Flynn says they should take their concerns to the National Water Commission.
China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has come under fire for alleged incomplete construction works in Bull Bay, St Andrew, that have been blamed for the crash death of a three-year-old girl who ran into the path of a motor vehicle Wednesday...
Gangster-turned-lay evangelist John Martin watched more than 50 times a video of heavily armed attackers who drove into the Tower Hill, St Andrew, community and murdered his son at a cookout last Saturday. Robert Martin, otherwise known as ‘...
