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...
The freshly minted LASCO/JCF Top Cop for 2023, Woman Constable Jayann Raymond, is not ruling out her chances of one day ascending to the post of police commissioner in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). Swarmed by cheerful colleagues, who were...
CHAIRMAN OF the Jamaica Federation of Corrections Arlington Turner says correctional officers should be treated like policemen and soldiers under the new compensation package. He was speaking to The Gleaner yesterday in response to several of the...
Hours after a public throw-down between an uncle and nephew on National Heroes Day, a house which they occupy, along with other members of their family in Stony Hill, St Andrew, was set ablaze. The incident occurred shortly after 8 p.m. on Monday....
The Major Investigation Division (MID) has taken charge of the probe into the shooting of three men, two fatally in Parks Road, St Andrew, on National Heroes Day. The two deceased are elderly men identified as 76-year-old farmer Walton ‘Balla’...
Team Robotics Jamaica, who returned to the island on Thursday after their gold medal-winning performance at the Robotics Olympics in Singapore, hopes their international exploits will grow technology locally and lead to a greater focus by the...
CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank, as part of its corporate civic duty, is broadening its role in bringing greater awareness to and encouraging healthy lifestyles through its ‘Walk for The Cure’ 5K Walk/Run. The financial hub has invested in...
Centenarian Sybil Robinson tries to stay on top of current affairs, although she noted that today’s news, which is at times dominated by reports of crime, is “far different than before”. With all her faculties intact, the Stony Hill, St Andrew,...
A UNITED States Navy petty officer, 34-year-old Leoda Bradshaw, is among four persons arrested in connection with the disappearance of politician Phillip Paulwell’s daughter and her mother. The other three suspects are reportedly males. It is...
A gun attack on the headmistress of the St Richard’s Infant School on Thursday has left colleagues, students and parents feeling uneasy and a cloud of uncertainty hanging over today’s operations. The shooting reportedly took place about 6:30 a.m....
A near four-hour frantic search for a two-month-old twin girl by emergency responders and residents ended in sorrow in Bowden Hill, St Andrew, after a home collapsed in the hilly terrain on Tuesday morning. About 9:45 a.m., Timera Dennie was pulled...
The month of October began exactly as September ended, with women being murdered by the gun and in multiples. Yesterday, breakfast services, usually catered by a mother and daughter duo on the outskirts of the National Solid Waste Management...
Residents of Grants Pen in St Andrew are bemoaning the negative effects of the latest upsurge in deadly violence on their community, and many insist the crisis has no easy fix. Businesses in the area have seen sales dwindle in the last week after...
The murder trial of businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald in the case of his wife, Tonia McDonald, resumed in the Home Circuit Court on Monday with a rehashing of testimony. The first witness, a former employee of the businessman, told the...
There is heightened tension in Grants Pen, St Andrew, after a bloody weekend culminating in a shooting that claimed the lives of three men yesterday afternoon. In the incident, gunmen in a motor car drove up to a worksite and fired on a group of...
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Stand Up For Jamaica (SUFJ) Carla Gullotta is renewing her call for authorities to track and release all mentally ill inmates from prison. Some of these persons, she said, are lost in the system. Her call comes on the heels of...
