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Published:Wednesday | August 30, 2023 | 12:12 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Former American and Canadian League football player Shonda Faulkner will be hosting a drive-through back-to-school treat across several communities in St Thomas this weekend with the aim of assisting some 500 students. The annual treat, which is...

Published:Saturday | August 26, 2023 | 12:10 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The community of Mount Ogle in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew, was plunged into mourning this week after news emerged that one of their own died in an accident in the Cayman Islands on Wednesday. The deceased is 39-year-old Errol Simpson, otherwise...

Published:Saturday | August 26, 2023 | 12:10 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

As Geovani Bernard walked across the stage to collect his Primary Exit Profile (PEP) award on Friday, Janetta Rodney beamed with pride as she reflected on the day he and his sibling were practically left at her doorstep. Rodney said that their...

Published:Wednesday | August 16, 2023 | 12:12 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The disappearance of a St Andrew man, who, along with his brother, was allegedly beaten inside their home by the security forces during a pre-dawn operation in May, has left a family on edge. The Hunts Bay police confirmed that a missing person’s...

Published:Wednesday | August 9, 2023 | 12:10 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Licensed firearm holders impacted by industrial action by staff at the Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) on Tuesday are concerned they could be prosecuted for permit registration lapses as the entity sorts through its issues. On Tuesday, some...

Published:Tuesday | August 8, 2023 | 12:10 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The Corporate Area has been rocked by a series of gruesome killings, including the discoveries of mutilated bodies and triple murders since the start of August, threatening to erode the declines in homicide made in the first half of 2023. In the...

Published:Saturday | August 5, 2023 | 12:09 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Bloodstains which lined Rusden Road in Rockfort, Kingston, on Friday told the tale of the terrifying onslaught that transpired during a party Thursday night, leaving three people dead and four others nursing gun-related injuries. Those killed are...

Published:Friday | August 4, 2023 | 12:10 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Fredrick Jackson turned up at the Old Harbour Police Station in St Catherine on Thursday, clinging to hope that his Nissan Wingroad, stolen in Clarendon last December, was among vehicles recovered in a car-stealing ring crackdown on Sunday in the...

Published:Thursday | August 3, 2023 | 12:09 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

United Kingdom fugitive Stasious Scott, who was sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter on Tuesday after he was held in Jamaica, lived on the island under an assumed name – Dwayne Romario McGiven. The findings were reportedly revealed in court...

Published:Tuesday | August 1, 2023 | 12:09 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Not even the deafening screams from frantic females, pleading for the children who were present, could stop two marauding gunmen from shooting indiscriminately into a house, leaving an eight-year-old boy and an adult male dead in Burgher Gully,...

Published:Friday | July 28, 2023 | 12:09 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

A firestorm of criticism has been directed at police chief Major General Antony Anderson following his decision yesterday to interdict the head of the police union for perceived “disrespectful” comments. Anderson, the police commissioner, ordered...

Published:Thursday | July 27, 2023 | 12:11 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Advanced plans by a 20-year-old to open his car-detailing business will never materialise after he was stabbed to death by an attacker late Tuesday while making his way home on foot from a store. The incident occurred at the intersection of...

Published:Wednesday | July 26, 2023 | 12:12 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The family of a taxi operator, who was fatally shot by a policeman – his ex-girlfriend’s current partner – on Monday, is asking for a thorough probe into the circumstances of his death, dismissing accounts in the public domain as fabricated....

Published:Tuesday | July 25, 2023 | 12:39 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The St Andrew North police, in seeking to curtail rampant car thefts in Havendale and Meadowbrook have seen a ballooning of the practice in other sections of the division. According to the police, there are also concerns about the reluctance of...

Published:Monday | July 24, 2023 | 12:06 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The Supreme Court is expected to rule on September 29 whether the parish court erred, on the grounds of a breach of privacy, when it ordered Amoi Leon-Issa to allow investigators access to her cellphone as part of a murder probe. Arguments were...

Published:Friday | July 21, 2023 | 12:05 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

MAROON CHIEF Richard Currie has urged former residents of Maroon communities, which he termed the ‘land of look behind’, to consider helping others when they leave. He was speaking at the Quickstep Community Development Committee (QCDC) meeting...

Published:Wednesday | July 19, 2023 | 12:06 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Top flight dancehall entertainer Alkaline and his family are mourning the death of his father, who passed recently. The nine night is scheduled for today at a private location in the Corporate Area. His father, Earl Bartley, more popularly known as...

Published:Friday | July 14, 2023 | 12:05 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

THE PROBE into the daring birthday gun attack on dancehall artiste Jahshii revealed that return gunfire by a licensed firearm holder may have saved the life of the singer. Initial reports following the July 7 attack were that Jahshii, whose given...

Published:Wednesday | July 12, 2023 | 12:07 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

Two of the nation’s longest-serving teachers, both in St James and who have worked tirelessly on the frontline in education for a combined 94 years, were the toast of yesterday’s Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) Golden Torch awards. Melrose...

Published:Tuesday | July 11, 2023 | 12:10 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

MEMBERS OF the church community and law enforcement said they will not allow the serious gains made to sustain peace within Grants Pen, St Andrew to be eroded by recent acts of violence and growing tensions. The latest incident took place early...

Published:Monday | July 10, 2023 | 12:17 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security has again called an emergency meeting to deal with worker unrest, this time with the unions representing workers of the National Water Commission (NWC) who have threatened strike action that could...

Published:Saturday | July 8, 2023 | 12:15 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

THE ST ANDREW Central police are probing the early-morning gun attack yesterday which left six people injured, after a convoy with entertainer Jashii in the mix was shot up by heavily armed men. The incident occurred about 4:30 a.m. in the vicinity...

Published:Wednesday | July 5, 2023 | 1:54 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

COMMISSIONER OF police, Major General Antony Anderson, is imploring parents to be vigilant. He urged them to safeguard children who are now on summer holidays, and who will be attending parties which offer Molly and Ecstasy, stimulant drugs that...

Published:Tuesday | July 4, 2023 | 1:20 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

The St Andrew South police are maintaining a strong presence in the Bow Tie Land community, located off Spanish Town Road, after what appears to be a series of deadly attacks on relatives of gangsters. The tit-for-tat murders and shootings, which...

Published:Saturday | July 1, 2023 | 1:23 AMAndre Williams/Staff Reporter

INVESTIGATORS SAY the man suspected of committing suicide yesterday in Beverly Hills, St Andrew, has a dark and chequered past, with reports of assault against women and attempts at trying to take his own life previously. In one instance, The...

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