One of two men shot dead in Wednesday’s double murder on Wildman Street in Kingston has left the mother of his child saddened that the bond between father and son has been broken. Akiel ‘Bull’ Ainsworth, 26, and 30-year-old DeShane ‘Eddie’ Palmer,...
Fifteen-year-old student and philanthropist Sherinae Brown, following a successful third year of Christmas street feeding, is moving to register as a non-profit organisation her initiative dubbed ‘Nourishing Neighbours with Helping Hands’. Brown,...
The Police High Command made a raft of management changes in St Elizabeth in June after a major jailbreak there. Now, the fate of their counterparts in St Mary is to be decided after seven more escaped custody yesterday. The Gleaner understands...
A case review into the suspected murder of Melissa Silvera is expected to determine, among other things, whether the initial investigating officer, a police sergeant, attended upon the scene by himself. Silvera, the wife of former St Mary Western...
John Jacobs, one of five attorneys representing murder accused Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, took the investigator to task over his statements and a cellphone during cross-examination on Monday. McDonald is charged with Oscar Barnes for the...
The lead investigator in the Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald trial yesterday picked up where he left off on Tuesday, detailing how he took charge of the case and arrested the main suspects. The policeman, a detective sergeant who has been serving...
The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) on Tuesday passed a motion to allow for a section of Orange Street in downtown Kingston to be transformed into a vending zone for the period December 18 to January 14, 2024. The motion was...
Courtney Rowe, one of four attorneys representing murder accused Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, on Monday drilled a police constable, who later admitted to writing a second statement three years after his initial evidence and after the trial had...
Bloodstains lined adjoining streets of Dunkirk in Kingston following Tuesday’s mass shooting inside the Michael Manley Market located on Pine Street in the war-torn community. A man, who was identified as ‘Tyson’, was killed and six others,...
CITING GAINS made while reviewing the judiciary this year, including matters of high public interest, the country’s chief prosecutor Paula Llewellyn says she has moved her office into the 21st century. Llewellyn, the director of public prosecutions...
Residents of Sunlight Street in Kingston 13 are fearful that Friday’s fatal shooting of an alleged gang leader by the security forces could breed a generation of vipers. The police say they shot 27-year-old Nackeem ‘Jack A Diamond’ Mullings in self...
Two $10-million contributions from two anonymous Kingston College (KC) old boys have set the institution on its way to an ambitious $1-billion fundraising target by April 2025 to mark its 100th anniversary. The North Street, Kingston-based...
Investigators yesterday revealed that preliminary accounts have suggested that a deadly early morning double shooting in the parking lot of Market Place, located off Constant Spring Road in St Andrew, might be connected to a recent nightclub brawl...
A mentally ill ex-convict was fatally shot by the police after he reportedly attacked lawmen inside the Grants Pen Police Station in St Andrew and extensively damaged nine vehicles, including three service units. The bizarre incident occurred late...
The National Family Planning Board (NFPB) has launched a chatbot to give children access to real-time, accurate and age-appropriate information to improve their knowledge, promote risk reduction measures and increase access to sexual and...
IMAGINE BEING asked to outshine your boss. That is one of the public service challenges thrown out by Jamaica’s chief prosecutor, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, to every member of her staff. Under the theme, ‘Raising the bar...
Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has disclosed that while resources have been stretched thin in responding to recent bomb threats at various institutions in the Corporate Area and other sections of the island, there is no telling when...
International Fraud Awareness Week got under way on Sunday with news of yet another local data breach, this time at Courts, the island’s largest furniture and appliance retailer. The public was made aware of the breach, which reportedly took place...
School nutrition specialist Dr Patricia Thompson has re-emphasised to parents that the first order of business daily is breakfast, noting that hungry children cannot focus on their lessons in school. She was speaking at the relaunch of Project STAR...
Multiple fatal mass shootings – with seven people shot last Thursday in Trench Town, St Andrew, followed by five in the Corporate Area on Friday and Monday’s triple killing in St James – have two things in common. Child and random victims. Three...
Unlike the nearby supermarkets and wholesales that shuttered their doors after an earthquake rocked Jamaica on Monday, a group construction workers in Stony Hill, St Andrew, were back on the job within minutes of the nightmarish scare. Audley ‘...
Denvalyn ‘Bubbla’ Minott, the second witness in the murder trial of Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, yesterday again detailed how the Portland businessman’s wife, Tonia, was killed and claimed that the police fabricated aspects of his statements....
The Supreme Court is to rule next week Thursday whether to strike out a lawsuit filed by an attorney and retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Wilfred Rattigan brought against Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith and the Government. The...
The United States Embassy in Kingston on Tuesday reminded that country's citizens to think carefully before travelling to Jamaica under the current high-crime climate. The call came following Tuesday’s publication of a Gleaner story on the murder...
The St Andrew South Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) is probing yesterday’s stabbing death of a female United States (US) citizen, allegedly at the hands of her own son. The deceased woman has since been identified as 54-year-old Marvel Johnson...
