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...
The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) does not believe that Portmore will get parish status before the country holds its next general election, which is constitutionally due in 2025. PNP General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell cited two reasons...
The shooting death of a 33-year-old businessman in Grants Pen on Tuesday has caused tensions to heighten in the St Andrew community. Dwayne Williams, who lived at a Border Avenue, Havendale address in St Andrew, was reportedly shot about 12:45 a.m...
The People’s National Party (PNP) believes it has a balanced approach and effective overarching plans to tackle the country’s crime problem if it is elected to form the next Government. Speaking with journalists at a Gleaner Editor’s Forum on...
PEOPLE’S NATIONAL Party (PNP) President Mark Golding yesterday outlined his disappointment in the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) over what he has labelled the journalism body’s “reprehensible” stance against comments made by party general...
The Hunts Bay police are keeping a close watch on the Sherlock Crescent area of St Andrew following the murder of a 56-year-old man on Sunday. Dead is 56-year-old Douglas Stewarton, otherwise called ‘Rastaman’, of a Sherlock Crescent, Kingston 20...
The authorities are searching for three female wards of the state who escaped from the Homestead Place of Safety in Stony Hill, St Andrew, sometime Thursday night into Friday morning. Missing person’s reports were also filed on Friday at the Stony...
COMMANDER OF the St Andrew North Police Division, Superintendent Shericka Service, says it is a very serious offence when a crime scene is compromised, and those culpable can be held liable. She issued the warning after reports surfaced that the...
