Published:Saturday | May 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
It has been just over a week since Noel Broadie was hit with the heartbreaking news of the death of two sisters who were found bleeding at their house in Washington Court Apartments, where they had been left with their 15-year-old brother.For years...
Residents of Hannah Town in west Kingston remained shell-shocked and fretful yesterday as three of seven persons reportedly shot in a drive-by attack last Friday evening remained hospitalised in serious condition.The police Corporate Communications...
Internationally renowned spirit manufacturer J. Wray & Nephew is moving to assure its customers that it is taking steps to prevent fraudulent bottles of its products from hitting the market...
Even as the Police High Command continues to push its 'Love Me To Live, Don't Love Me To Death' campaign aimed at reducing domestic-violence incidents across the island, several rights groups continue to bemoan the indifference with which some...
A Jamaican, who heads the Criminal Gang Homicide Division in the Los Angeles Police Department, has described the last October incident which left alleged Jamaican gang leader Robert 'Radigan' Davis dead in the American city as the bloodiest gang...
Published:Saturday | May 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Visitors to some gated communities in the Corporate Area and St Catherine are being given the cold shoulder by security guards at the entrances to these schemes because the residents they are...
Published:Friday | April 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
A feud that ripped a family apart in life in August Town, St Andrew, continues in death as grief-stricken relatives take sides following a fatal clash between two brothers.Police say that 35-year-old Ryan Murray of Bryce Hill Road was stabbed to...
Published:Friday | April 28, 2017 | 11:34 AMCorey Robinson
Students of at least two high schools in the Corporate Area are putting themselves, teachers, and classmates at risk as they use metalwork classes to attempt to make guns and other weapons whenever their teachers are not present.The two schools -...
Published:Friday | April 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Top-level business executives and attorneys are among the main targets of two new scams that seem to be taking root in Jamaica.The police have already confirmed that at least one case of a scheme dubbed the 'business email scam', while Sunday...
Published:Thursday | April 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Rum is among the latest items being counterfeited by criminals in Jamaica. The bulk of the $1.9 billion worth of fake goods seized by the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime (C-TOC) Branch last year is being linked to criminals.The seized items...
Published:Saturday | April 22, 2017 | 10:57 AMCorey Robinson
Scores of vendors in a section of the downtown Kingston market district, dubbed 'Back Market', are packing up their goods and leaving their stalls, defeated and dejected, as a band of robbers make their lives hellish.Last Friday, a group of senior...
Published:Thursday | April 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The ailing Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is shelling out millions of dollars each year to repair buses damaged by passengers, mainly schoolchildren, who deliberately break the windows and windshields, as well as deface the seats and other...
Published:Thursday | April 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Teachers at the central Kingston-based Holy Trinity High School have nothing but praise for the meditation programme which is helping to turn around the once-failing institution."For me, it allows me to be able to think through the day. Different...
Published:Thursday | April 13, 2017 | 1:07 PMCorey Robinson
It was once identified among the four worst-performing secondary schools in Jamaica, and several of the students are from some of the toughest inner-city communities in Kingston, but Holy Trinity High School is slowly discarding the bad name it had...
Published:Friday | April 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
With only 120 investigators, the Child Development Agency (CDA) was faced with approximately 14,000 reported cases of child abuse in 2015, leaving many of the investigators struggling to cope.The Government has started to take steps to increase the...
Published:Friday | March 31, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) seems set to intervene in an increasingly ugly dispute involving one of its councillors and a group of its supporters in Eastern St Andrew. “It will need a major political intervention because...
Published:Thursday | March 30, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The planned study of the effectiveness of antibiotics in the treatment of gonorrhoea in Jamaica has started, with researchers at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, joining colleagues around the world in trying to address this growing...
Published:Friday | March 24, 2017 | 1:47 PMCorey Robinson
When Errol Gordon stopped to play a board game at his usual 'chill spot' in the area known as Mongoose Town off Waltham Park Road in the Corporate Area just after 8 p.m. last January, he never considered that his life would be transformed into the...
Published:Friday | March 24, 2017 | 5:58 PMCorey Robinson
Sleuths have launched a hunt for a man who yesterday hurled two grenades at a police team, injuring a cop, when they turned up to arrest him at a house in Armadale, Alexandria, St Ann.Assistant Police Commissioner Ealan Powell said the cops had gone...
Published:Friday | March 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
There is trouble brewing in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) camp in Eastern St Andrew with first-time councillor, Andrew Bellamy, facing strong criticisms from some...
Published:Saturday | March 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The Auditor general has recommended that the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) move to recover more than $200 million it paid in travel allowance to staff without approval.In a special report tabled in Parliament last Thursday, the...
Published:Saturday | March 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is yet to determine if there was any wrongdoing on the part of members of the security forces involved in the fatal shooting of six alleged members of the Ski Mask gang in St James on January 14...
Published:Monday | February 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) expressed concern yesterday about a spike in the number of police fatal shootings reported since the start of the year.In 58 days, at least 31 people have been shot dead by the security forces,...
Published:Monday | February 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) yesterday reported a decrease in the number of suspicious fatal shootings committed by the security forces."These are incidents where there is some evidence that we have collected which could...
Published:Thursday | February 23, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Seemingly emboldened by the recent arrest of some high-profile Jamaicans and the public support for victims of sexual abuse, more and more women are going to the police to report their cases.The Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and...
