Cuba has expressed no issue with Jamaica’s decision to end a special arrangement for visa-free transit for Cuban nationals come March 13. The travel exemption allowed Cubans a 72-hour window to be in Jamaica for transit to a third country. Rolando...
Cash deposits totalling $661,000 at Sagicor Bank’s Liguanea branch in St Andrew on September 21 and 30 last year to the account of Alysia Moulton White have proven so puzzling that her attorney, Matthew Hyatt, has requested of the court video...
Disgruntled students at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, have vowed to continue protesting as they press for Dr Nadeen Spence, student services and development manager for Mary Seacole Hall, to be placed on leave as a probe continues...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that the issue of corruption has now been made a political weapon. His comments come against the background of calls by the parliamentary Opposition for him to step aside from his role as prime minister prior...
Some landowners along Lady Musgrave Road are on edge following the issue of property acquisition notices for a government project geared at widening the thoroughfare as part of the $8-billion Capital Expenditure Programme (CAPEX). Notices were...
It was a dream that pulled former Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas from continuing in his first job as a teacher and enlisting in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), where he climbed through the ranks to land the top job in 2005. Thomas, who...
Maternal instinct drove 65-year-old Barbara Walters to brave sporadic gunfire Friday night to check on loved ones who were believed to be in harm’s way. A daughter was outside playing bingo. A grandchild was reportedly milling about. Little did...
Attorneys representing the Financial Investigations Division (FID) and Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks accused Hugh Wildman, lawyer for Ruel Reid and Professor Fritz Pinnock, of using delay tactics and misrepresentation in challenging Crooks’...
Paul Anderson, the father of Andreen McDonald, is pleading with his friends and the public not to take vengeance on any member of Andre McDonald’s family shortly after the United States army major was sentenced for killing his daughter. Both...
Jamaican-born US Air Force Major Andre McDonald, son of 67-year-old businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, was found guilty of manslaughter yesterday in a Texas court for the 2019 death of his wife Andreen McDonald. The elder McDonald, who...
The attackers who murdered noted architect Euhon Darling appear to have been “well trained or been exposed to some training in terms of firearms”, Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey has said. Bailey’s theory on the 42-year-old’s murder may...
Leaders of two major business lobbies have expressed optimism about the sharp decline in murders and other serious crimes in 2023 and hope maintenance of that trajectory will boost the economy. Statistics released on Monday by the Jamaica...
An attorney representing Robert Fowler, the St Catherine mechanic accused of killing 20-year-old accounting clerk Khanice Jackson in March 2021, has said discussions have started with the prosecution in order to forgo a trial. Lynden Wellesley, who...
Anthony Hugh had scheduled a beach trip for this weekend to allow bonding time for his daughters, one of whom is visiting from overseas. However, those plans were painfully uprooted on Thursday after 12-year-old Liah Hugh perished in a house fire...
The Court Administration Division (CAD) sought Monday to forge a new verification scheme as motorists vented anger at chaotic courts islandwide as February’s implementation of the new Road Traffic Act looms. Wendy Facey wrote to The Gleaner...
Lucius Thomas, Jamaica’s 25th commissioner of police, has been hailed as a consummate professional who sought to improve the welfare of junior personnel and retirees. Thomas, 73, died on Wednesday after ailing for some time. News of his passing...
A former ward of the state who claimed she was sexually assaulted by a policeman who held a gun to her head was among protesters outside the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) headquarters on Tuesday demanding the resignation of...
Robbery appears to be the motive in the murder of a businessman in St Mary on Thursday after the police recovered more than $7 million from the scene. The victim’s family, however, has raised concerns about a shortage in the actual sum that should...
Market vendor of 26 years Paulette Baley said Monday’s fire at the Rae Rae Market in downtown Kingston was the 16th inferno she had endured at the location. Noting that she did not receive assistance to recover from the previous disasters, Baley...
Traumatic screams heard over the telephone during a crash on Monday, which claimed the life of a mother and her teenage son, were what alerted friends and family that something had gone horribly wrong. Tameika Peart, 40, and her 17-year-old son,...
A cabbie’s dream to acquire his own vehicle in 2023 will not materialise after his life was cut short just four days into the new year in Seaview Gardens, St Andrew. No motive has been established for the homicide, but relatives of 31-year-old...
A toddler who survived a gunshot wound to her head in 2021 is again living in the cross hairs of gangsters, who reportedly killed her great-grandfather on New Year’s Day, allegedly on a mission to wipe out the entire family. It is believed that a...
A Central Kingston mother of two was discharged from hospital yesterday but will have to live with a bullet inside her chest after she was shot during an illegal New Year’s Eve gun salute on Sunday. Jodi-Ann Sinclair, 34, told The Gleaner that 12:...
Sleuths are probing the execution-style killing of two women in St Thomas and St Andrew as the 2022 murder tally continues to climb. The first killing took place at Navar Lane in Seaforth, St Thomas. Reports are that about 6:45 p.m., 30-year-old...
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has remained mum after a service member reportedly sustained a self-inflicted wound while on duty at a checkpoint in St Andrew Thursday morning. The private remains in hospital after he accidentally discharged a...
