Tantalising aromas filled the air yesterday as the newly developed Crab Circle came to life in Kingston with the street food hub donning a fresh, bold look. Vendors sang the praises of corporate giants J. Wray...
The school feeding programme at the St Elizabeth-based Aberdeen High has been hard hit by the theft of a cash register earlier this month. The device, valued at roughly $180,000, was lost in the second break-in at the institution in recent months....
As tempers flared on a second day of fiery protests in Denham Town over a controversial fatal shooting, the slain man’s family is worried about the future of his son who has reportedly been traumatised by the incident. Residents said that Horaine...
Time has not healed the wounds of two families in Thornton, St Elizabeth, whose recollections of the brutal deaths of St Elizabeth teens Ashnell ‘Joe’ Coke and Deswick ‘Donjay’ Williams were rekindled with the April 8 Court of Appeal ruling...
When heavily armed attackers began firing indiscriminately at a party in Franklyn Town, Kingston, on Sunday night, many thought men from the community were engaging in an illegal gun salute as Aidonia’s Badman Salute (Real Killa) blared through the...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says his ministry is ready to embark on a programme to take alternative dispute resolution right across the Jamaica, especially in schools, which he claims have now become battlefields. Chuck was speaking yesterday at...
Up to press time last evening, scene-of-crime investigators were combing a section of Zambia in Central Village, St Catherine, where residents had discovered human remains spread across three properties, some wrapped in plastic. Yesterday, turkey...
Evanie Henry, the common-law wife of slain reggae legend Donald ‘Tabby Diamond’ Shaw, has broken her silence on the police allegation that the gun death was a reprisal against her son, Jahmarley Shaw, who has been dubbed “a known violence producer...
The murder tide in the St Andrew North Police Division shifted to the Park Lane community on Tuesday after men reportedly posing as cops killed two men, setting off fresh fears in the crime hotspot. The deceased have been identified as 40-year-old...
With the assistance of the military, the St Andrew North police yesterday increased their presence in the Grants Pen and Cassava Piece communities, conducting walk-throughs as they searched for illegal guns and wanted persons, three days after a...
Some operators of public passenger vehicles (PPVs) and commercial carriers who had receipts before the March 31 deadline to renew transport licences were given a lifeline by the Transport Authority (TA) before the close of business Friday. However...
Tensions are running high in Morgan Lane, Grants Pen, St Andrew following the gun killing of the community don, his brother and a third male from the area yesterday afternoon. The third man who was shot and injured was rushed to hospital but...
Heavily armed thugs believed to be linked to the Bedward Gardens community in St Andrew on Wednesday launched an attack on a resident of August Town Road, coinciding with the second anniversary of the death of their cronies. The men reportedly...
The shooting of two men at a restaurant along Olympic Way in St Andrew yesterday evening has triggered deeper fears among residents that irregularity in the space is inevitable – at least for a while. Businesses had to be shuttered earlier than...
A teen with a seemingly bright future in athletics, who promised his mother that he would elevate their family out of poverty by following in the footsteps of athletics superstar Usain Bolt, died last week after contracting dengue fever. A shell-...
Kimberlee Palmer, 22, still recalls the final embrace of her mother Lorna Johnson on Glen Drive, northern St Andrew, hours before the 60-year-old bar operator took her last breath early Monday. Palmer had just taken a break from studies to join her...
Quick and effective intervention saved a 15-year-old gymnastic rising star who had been experiencing mental challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic to be back at peace with her favourite sport – and life – after her mother stumbled on a troubling...
The family of a Jamaican man killed in Bronx, New York, last Friday after being accused of standing too close to a woman is appealing to the killer and female accomplice to turn themselves in to the police. Stephaun ‘Bigsie’ Stewart, 24, was shot...
Shame and regret are sentiments that sum up the last five months for the Bath, St Thomas, woman who invited Davian Bryan to stay with her as condition of his bail pending his judicial fate in neighbouring Portland. What began as acceptance of a...
The mother of the first child abducted last October, allegedly by Davian Bryan, is elated at Wednesday’s detention of the fugitive but would rather he be dead than be fed and cared for in prison. That is a view shared by residents of Airy Castle...
Shock and sadness overwhelmed the Rae Town, Kingston home of 12-year-old Holy Trinity High School student Karuki Moncrieffe yesterday, a day after he collapsed in his community and was later pronounced dead at the Bustamante Children's Hospital...
Alexander Shaw, attorney for Stephanie Christie, the reputed pastor and sole female defendant in the ongoing Clansman Gang trial, has accused a retired inspector and gang investigator of fabricating evidence to secure convictions. The accusation...
Motorists who faced another round of fuel price hikes on Thursday are clamouring for Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke to reconsider his decision to maintain the seven per cent special consumption tax (SCT) on petrol. Clarke, during his Budget...
Market vendors in a section of the Coronation Market in downtown Kingston are in despair as millions of dollars in goods went up in smoke yesterday bringing to three, the number of markets razed by fires in three weeks. The section of the market...
There is a thin line between life and death for residents of Trench Town in the Kingston Western Police Division, as even mere association can have fatal outcomes as a gang war between the enclaves of ‘Angola’ and ‘Zimbabwe’ heats up. The latest...
