Relatives and friends of a missing security guard are now anxiously awaiting news after the gruesome discovery of the remains of an unidentified male after what was initially thought to be a late-night bushfire in St Andrew last week. The discovery...
THE LEVEL of proficiency by students who sat the 2023 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations is encouraging when compared to 2019, the last time the full complement of the pre-secondary school tests were used to assess students. During the COVID-...
THE ST Andrew North police say tensions are high in the Grants Pen community following a June 7 murder, but they are proceeding diligently with their investigations and expecting to make headway soon. According to investigators, the tension in the...
The murder of a man along Maxfield Avenue in Kingston 13 on Monday was evidence that the area remains volatile despite a recent peace signing and talks by warring factions on Sunlight Street. The drive-by shooting, which occurred about 5:30 p.m. at...
His friends were too distraught to speak when contacted by The Gleaner on Thursday. “I’m not in a good place right now,” one medical doctor said while another, in a voice that was cracking said, “Not right now.” Bonni-Paul Williams was a medical...
THE MULTILEVEL investigative team probing the gruesome murder of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe has indicated that it is following good leads and yesterday, collectively, revisited the scene along Roosevelt Avenue, where the primary school student...
Chinese business operators are running scared. That is the revelation from Dalton Yap, president of the Chinese Benevolent Association (CBA) Jamaica chapter, following the arrest of two policemen who last week allegedly stole nearly $15 million from a...
An autopsy has determined that Department of Correctional Services (DCS) official Reverend Orville Moore, who was believed to have lost his life in an unfortunate motor vehicle accident along Spur Tree in Manchester last month, died of...
The St Andrew North Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), up to press time last night were at the scene of a murder and shooting at a house along Boone Hall Road in Stony Hill, St Andrew. The heavy downpour of rain did not deter a gunman from...
TWO MEN who swore to serve, reassure, and protect, in roles as law enforcement personnel, might have found themselves on the wrong side of the law after a multimillion-dollar robbery of Chinese nationals on Tuesday in Kingston. Reports are that the...
Jennifer Hayles and her family used much of Monday cleaning what was left of the Lincoln Crescent home that was gutted by a fire that tragically claimed the life of her 71-year-old father on Saturday. The inferno, which reportedly started due to a...
THE ST James police are monitoring the United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention of dancehall artiste Andre ‘Squash’ Whittaker, as it may have security implications for the already troublesome western division, which is...
FOR THE second day, strike action by teachers and public school administrators sent rippling effects across other industries with transport and food stakeholders also praying for a ‘fix’. The Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) intervened...
“GET UP, stand up,” the popular Bob Marley and The Wailers song blared from speakers of a town crier, as protesters waved banners during yesterday’s lunch hour, as they demanded a roll back of salary for the political directorate. The large group,...
THE JOY of living the American dream as a legal immigrant became a nightmare after a young teen found out the man he called daddy was not his father, following a DNA test as part of the filing process. More than a week after the results were...
DESPITE A 16.4 per cent reduction in murders year on year, with 409 reports as at April 30, this brings little comfort to families whose loved ones have fallen victim at the hands of cold- blooded killers. Among the latest to be plunged into...
Until a few months ago, Victor Andrews* had spent the last 40 years of his life living on less than $100 a day in a gritty St Andrew community. The last person from his immediate family who had been left in Jamaica, he had struggled with basic...
The management at Pavilion Jewellers is heaping praise on a member of staff who, despite her emotional state, did not comply with repeated instructions of armed thugs to open a vault during a robbery yesterday. Speaking with The Gleaner on...
After almost a decade of working to modernise the deep rural township of Quickstep in St Elizabeth with Internet connectivity, residents can now breathe a sigh of relief. Complete access was initiated last week by the Universal Service Fund (USF),...
Investigators in New York City are still searching for two men who killed a Jamaican man outside a St Albans nightclub in Queens on Saturday. The murder was caught on closed circuit television. Footage of the incident is being circulated on social...
The usually quiet school zone was reduced to the scene of a shooting, which unfolded in full view of students and parents at the entrance to Meadowbrook Preparatory School on Tuesday afternoon. Reports are that just as the St Andrew-based school...
A 30-year-old woman who was shot in her buttocks and arm yesterday is the lone survivor of an invasion by heavily armed thugs on Malvern Avenue, Kingston, which left two men dead. The dead men have been identified as 26-year-old carpenter Malcolm...
The police in the Kingston West and St Andrew South divisions are monitoring an upsurge in violence along Maxfield Avenue and in surrounding communities that border the troublesome divisions, which recorded 33 murders combined at the end of...
There was fright and anxiety among travellers of Swoop Flight WO646 from Toronto, Canada, en route to Kingston, Jamaica, on Tuesday as a fuel leak caused an emergency landing in Cuba. The flight was scheduled to land at the Norman Manley...
Thousands of dollars and cell phones reportedly stolen from the five victims in Sunday’s deadly crash along the Temple Hall main road in St Andrew have not gone unnoticed by their relatives, who are now stricken by grief as they prepare to face the...
