Published:Sunday | November 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Residents of the west Kingston community of Shooters Hill, which was recently included in the Denham Town zone of special operations (ZOSO), are annoyed with the restrictions they are now facing.According to several of the residents, the ZOSO is a...
Published:Saturday | November 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Recently elected president of the Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC), Merlyn Hyde Riley, is urging the local Christian community to empower women who see abortion as an option instead of condemning them.Hyde Riley, the first female to be elected the...
Published:Friday | November 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The community of Portmore Pines in St Catherine has been dubbed a 'feeding tree for robbers' by residents of the community, who are living in fear as criminals make their lives hell, robbing them of valuables and their peace of mind.Just last week,...
Published:Monday | November 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Seven months ago, residents of Hannah Town in Kingston were cowering in fear after gunmen sprayed at a birthday party on Hannah Street, killing one man and seriously injuring six others.Yesterday, they were still wary, but far less fidgety as the...
Published:Saturday | November 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Several persons involved in the sexual abuse of Jamaica's children are getting off scot-free as detectives from the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) struggle to get enough ammunition to put them away.Many...
Published:Saturday | November 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Albert Crosdale, the man who last May sought the assistance of The Sunday Gleaner after being denied visitation rights to his five-year-old son despite a court ruling, is dead.Crosdale's mother, Patricia Rhoden, said her son died in a car accident...
Published:Friday | October 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
For years, they have run to the rescue of scores of Jamaican children living in filthy, unhealthy conditions, but hardened investigators at the Child Development Agency (CDA) still shudder at what they find...
Published:Saturday | October 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Residents of the west Kingston community of Hannah Town, which borders Denham Town, where a zone of special operations (ZOSO) is in place, are livid that their freedom of movement is also being restricted."They advertised that the ZOSO is in Denham...
Published:Saturday | October 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Twenty-five years after Agana Barrett, Ian Forbes, and Vassell Brown suffocated in an overcrowded cell at the Constant Spring Police Station, not much has changed, causing the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) to again turn the...
Published:Saturday | October 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
A prominent jurist is challenging Jamaican judges and lawyers to become more innovative in their practice."Innovation doesn't come naturally to judges and lawyers, and that is partly because of the training and the habits of thought that are...
Published:Friday | October 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Less than eight weeks after they returned to school decked out in clean uniforms, shiny shoes, and new book bags, approximately 10 per cent of the students, mainly boys, in schools in some of the tough inner-city communities in the Corporate Area...
Published:Tuesday | October 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The young, the old, vendors and even parents taking their children to school - all were sent digging into their purses and wallets for identification as the second zone of special operations (ZOSO) brought movement to a crawl in sections of Denham...
Published:Monday | October 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
A number of Jamaicans are languishing in hospital beds overseas without visits or aid from relatives in those countries, prompting attempts by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade to locate family members in Jamaica who may be able to...
Published:Thursday | October 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The calls are growing louder for the Government to make a more sustained effort to reach unattached youth in the many volatile inner-city communities across the island as part of the effort to tame the crime monster."The programmes that work are...
Published:Friday | October 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Approximately 60 persons have been deported from Jamaica since April as law-enforcement agencies step up efforts to keep undesirable visitors from the nation's shores.The Passport Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) says...
Published:Saturday | October 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Several nurses based at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) yesterday continued to voice concerns over their safety following the suspension of a shuttle bus service that transports them from the hospital to the bus parks in downtown Kingston after...
Published:Thursday | October 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
It appears a new trend is developing where relatives of notorious gunmen are taking out life insurance policies on them.The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that senior officers in the East Kingston Police Division were left stunned two weeks ago when they...
Published:Friday | October 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The cruel and inhumane treatment meted out to some of Jamaica’s children was brought into sharp focus recently when a video went viral of a St Thomas mother beating her child with a machete...
Published:Friday | October 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Investigators at the Kingston East Police Division are begging the co-operation of residents whom they say are being left shell-shocked as gangsters in Franklin Town and its environs carry out bloody attacks on each other."We need the statements. We...
Published:Friday | October 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Twenty years after the Government first commissioned a study on motor vehicle emissions in Jamaica, there is still no regulation in place, and the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) is getting increasingly concerned about the impact the smoke is having...
Published:Friday | October 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Jamaica has copped the prize for the country in the region with best-quality drinking water on three consecutive occasions in recent years, but the watchdog group Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) is worried that this has been achieved without any...
Published:Saturday | October 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
More than 40 allegations of sexual abuse at schools were reported to the Office of the Children's Advocate (OCA) in the first nine months of this year.In addition, the OCA received 120 allegations of children being physically abused, 23 cases of...
Published:Friday | September 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Joy Crawford has spent most of her life probing the minds of, and seeking solutions for, at-risk youths. Today, she wishes she could probe the minds of the men who murdered her brother, this time for her own peace of mind."I wish I could understand...
Published:Friday | September 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Three weeks after The Sunday Gleaner started probing reports of a pile-up of unclaimed urns at the nation's ports, the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) has confirmed that scores of persons have seemingly abandoned the remains of who should be their...
Published:Wednesday | September 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Terrence Williams yesterday said that responses are slowly coming in from the hierarchy of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Police Service Commission a day after he...
