One girl was eight years old. Her sister was nine. Both are victims of gun violence who survived a cold-blooded attack in a country otherwise distracted by the displacement wrought by COVID-19. Border McIntosh, their uncle, is thankful to be...
Easter is mere weeks away, but the traditional fetish for fish is not taking the bait. Fisherfolk at the Old Harbour Bay fishing village in St Catherine have resorted to supplying fish on credit, banking on the trustworthiness of consumers as sales...
Lockdown. But this time, it wasn’t only the state ban on mass gatherings and business closures ordered to counter transmission of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). A section of Olympic Gardens was transformed into a virtual ghost town yesterday,...
President of the Jamaica Association of Certified Embalmers and Funeral Directors Calvin Lyn says that they are reasonably satisfied with talks held recently with the Ministry of Health and Wellness in treating with novel coronavirus cases. The...
Two men were murdered this morning in the vicinity of Simmonds Park in Kingston 20. They have been identified as Meschac 'Niney' Smith, of a Lime Tree, Kingston 20 address, and 31-year-old Chrishmar Hydol,...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday criticised as “weak fences” Jamaican travellers who give incomplete or wrong information to immigration officials. His broadside during his Budget Debate presentation in Parliament came 24 hours after a voice...
Three weeks after the disappearance of visually impaired University of the West Indies (UWI) student Jasmine Deen, investigators are banking on the photo of a man taken about 30 minutes before her final trace as crucial to cracking the case. The...
Bar operators in the Corporate Area and some rural towns across Jamaica are agitating against a total shutdown of their services as the Government rolls out stringent measures, starting today, to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. Prime...
Monday is the new Sunday. That’s the reality cabbies, Coaster bus drivers and the Jamaica Urban Transit Company woke up to yesterday as ridership was a major casualty of the fallout from COVID-19. A week after the health ministry confirmed the...
International Women’s Day may have passed on Sunday, but the Jamaica Fire Brigade pressed the reset button and deployed an all-female crew on Monday to cool tempers and out blazes across the capital. Jamaica’s first appointed female superintendent...
Several Jamaican suppliers of cleaning agents and protective gear are reporting shortages or depleted stock of N95 dust mask as the heightened threat of the global novel coronavirus has caused buyers to be stocking up. The Gleaner understands that...
President of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) Students’ Union Khalil Hutchinson is cautioning fellow students against taking life for granted. Hutchinson was speaking with The Gleaner on the heels of a triple fatal crash early Thursday...
On any given day, thousands of commuters flirt with danger as they board cabs, with engines running on the pumps of gas stations – which have been converted into unofficial taxi stands – across the Corporate Area. Tuesday night was no different at...
Irked by rising anger over the stench emanating from a St Thomas dump that has grown into a mountainous mess, Morant Bay Mayor Michael Hue is lobbying for garbage from the parish to be transported to the Riverton City landfill in Kingson. Hue, who...
Principal Regina Rossetta-Hanson, who has taught hundreds of students over 30 years at the Collins Close Basic School in the Whitehall Avenue area, says the community is in its worst state ever. Attendance at her school, which is located at 1B Plum...
Travel reservations that a mother had procured for her teenage son to fly to New York on March 7 were aborted last Wednesday after gunmen killed him and another man on Cameron Lane, St Andrew. Instead, the teen’s mother, Danzalee West-Johnson, flew...
The St Catherine Police are investigating a shooting incident in Eltham Vista, Spanish Town this morning involving another member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). The Gleaner understands that the incident occurred after the JDF soldier...
Investigators are at the scene of a murder, where the body of a man, identified as 'Cucus', was found on a garbage dump near the entrance of 60 Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew. The body was found about 1:40...
Students sweated in the early-morning sunshine as school authorities locked out dozens of Oberlin High pupils who turned out in ripped jeans for Jamaica Day celebrations in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew, yesterday. As early as 7:30 a.m. on Friday,...
Residents of 7 East, Greater Portmore, were left stunned between midnight Thursday and early Friday morning after a dramatic incident, featuring a love triangle among a soldier; his wife, a cop; and another policeman – who is now nursing a gunshot...
For 15 years, a once-hearty west-rural St Andrew man has had a major challenge walking, the victim of a neurological dysfunction since diagnosed as Parkinson’s disease. Anthony ‘Bradley’ Shaw, 49, struggles daily to move around, his illness...
Wandering around the yard with his cell phone in hand amid speaker boxes blaring Luther Vandross’ Dance With My Father, a 12-year-old boy contemplated the loss of his hero. Only a few hours had passed since the murder of his father, 42-year-old...
There is heightened concern for the Jamaican sex offender registry to be publicly accessible after three victims – a daughter, her aunt and, since Sunday, a six-year-old girl – have confessed to being sexually assaulted, years apart, by the same...
The off-roads are eerily empty, except for the whirring of a patrol vehicle under the piercing stares of the security forces. People speak in hushed tones, muzzled by the force of fear that has turned Maxfield Avenue’s maze of satellite streets...
The police have cautioned that they have not yet ruled the mystery death of Mark Leslie, an 11-year-old boy whose body was found in a stream, as murder. This after a forensic pathologist concluded last Saturday that the cause of death was blunt-...
