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 (...
Hugh Bryan, the incumbent councillor for the Annotto Bay division, is confident that his performance in the area is sufficient to convince residents to retain him as their representative in the St Mary Municipal Corporation. Bryan said his drive to...
The defence representing murder accused Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald began its closing arguments on Tuesday in what lead attorney Christopher Townsend told the jury pool was not a difficult case. Townsend told the seven-member jury that his...
Justice Chester Stamp yesterday shot down a move by murder accused Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald’s defence team to have him freed by way of a no-case submission, with the courtroom subsequently descending into chaos. McDonald, 69, is charged...
Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey is imploring stakeholders to have meaningful talks with the Jamaican community in the United States (US) to help stem the flow of guns into the island, following the discovery of another massive weapons...
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is expected to rule in a few months on the fate of dancehall star Vybz Kartel and his three murder co-convicts following an adjournment of their appeal hearing on Thursday. The second and final day saw...
Crime scene investigators in St Andrew were kept busy on Tuesday following the shooting and attempted robbery of a Chinese businessman at his Oakland Apartments and the murder of a social media personality. About 8:45 a.m., the police responded to...
As the local government election campaign reaches fever pitch, political flags and posters are being mounted in public spaces in sections of the island in clear violation of the political code of conduct. Across the Corporate Area, buildings and...
Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is bemoaning the current shortage of optometrists and ophthalmologists in Jamaica and says time has come to engage in a conversation on solutions to satisfy the demands of the population. Dr Tufton...
The judiciary is to decide today in whose custody the children of Melissa Silvera and former legislator Jolyan Silvera will be placed as the high public interest murder saga involving the Silveras continues. The Gleaner has learnt that the matter...
Sections of the gritty community of Zambia in Central Village, St Catherine, have earned the tag of an unofficial burial ground, a concern for some residents as the security forces constantly unearth shallow graves with human remains. An excavation...
Senior attorney-at-law Bert Samuels says he is always wary of the court going ahead without the public viewing as the debate regarding media and family being locked out of the Jolyan Silvera murder case rages on. Silvera, 52, a former People’s...
One of two pieces of evidence the defence had to wrestle from the prosecution in the Petrojam fraud matter was disclosed yesterday, days after they wrapped up a no-case submission, and weeks after the long-running trial got under way. Former...
The defence team for murder accused and former St Mary Western Member of Parliament (MP) Jolyan Silvera, headed by King’s Counsel Peter Champagnie, says they have work to do, as per instructions, as their client maintains his innocence. Silvera, a...
Tensions flared yesterday at the scene of a suspected drowning at the Kingston Harbour as family members publicly expressed anger at how a son who longed for love met his demise while swimming on Tuesday. Dead is 12-year-old Karif Mitchenere, who...
King’s Counsel KD Knight yesterday said the state is using “its great might” against two former Petrojam executives accused of defrauding the petroleum company by using allegedly fraudulent claims for overseas travel allowances amounting to more...
Photographs reportedly taken at the scene of the crime, inside the Diamond Court, Stony Hill home of Melissa Silvera and her husband, former People’s National Party legislator Jolyan Silvera, are expected to play a critical role in the ongoing...
Exactly a week after Melissa Silvera’s funeral, detectives assigned to the Major Investigation Division (MID) yesterday preferred charges against her husband, former St Mary Western Member of Parliament (MP) Jolyan Silvera. Silvera, a land...
Former Member of Parliament for Western St Mary Jolyan Silvera was preparing for a party yesterday evening for an aunt of his deceased wife when investigators showed up to confront him. The Gleaner understands that the party was cancelled as the...
A St Andrew mother is hysterical after almost two weeks of non-communication with her son, who last spoke to her from Mexico as he sought to travel with his child across the border illegally into the United States (US). Michelle Clarke*, who...
Fire of unknown origin, which gutted premises located at 3 (1/2) and 4 Swettenham Road in Whitfield Town, Kingston 13, last Wednesday, has left 25 people homeless, including children of varying ages. The inferno reportedly began at 5:50 p.m. and...
It was a feeling of déjà vu for relatives of 14-year-old Rasheem Wilson, a student and resident of 100 Lane in St Andrew, after he was fatally shot during an alleged police operation mid-afternoon yesterday. His grandmother, Michelle Dawkins, told...
One of the attorneys representing entertainer Popcaan, Matthew Hyatt, in his submission before the St Thomas parish court yesterday said there is a vast inequality between soca and dancehall events. Popcaan, whose given name is Andre Sutherland,...
What began as a traffic stop along Maxfield Avenue yesterday afternoon quickly turned into a bizarre shooting incident, leaving a police constable seriously injured after a man disarmed his colleague and shot him repeatedly. The shooter, who is...
The defence attorneys representing former Petrojam General Manager (GM) Floyd Grindley and former board chair Dr Perceval Singh yesterday further cross-examined Delroy Brown, chief financial officer (CFO), during a recall of witnesses. The men are...
