Published:Friday | February 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
At 6 a.m. last Thursday, a pot of banana and oats porridge bubbled near the entrance to the Yutes 4 Change Foundation headquarters in Portmore, St Catherine, sending a welcoming aroma to droves of children looking forward to a healthy breakfast...
Published:Friday | February 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The leadership of the police force is getting increasingly frustrated over the recent increase in the number of fictitious stories (fake news) being posted on social media, and the public panic they have caused.Already stretched thin by the number...
Published:Saturday | February 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
It's an everyday problem - a train of bumpers snaking its way through Manor Park, St Andrew, as a traffic gridlock settles on that section of Constant Spring Road.The problem is reportedly compounded by the unruly Coaster and minibus operators who...
Published:Friday | February 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
It has been more than a year since Marlon 'Duppy Film' Perry was alleged to have murdered, raped and shot his way to the top of Jamaica's most wanted list, and still he continues to elude the police.But the cops are convinced that Duppy Film remains...
Published:Wednesday | February 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Scores of residents of Rockfort, east Kingston, turned out early yesterday to access a number of social services on offer at a fair, even as the community continues to fight to shake off the shackles of gang violence that has held it captive for...
Published:Saturday | February 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Scores of Jamaican males, including teenage boys, are continuing to put their lives at risk by taking sexual stimulants which they do not need, despite dire warnings from medical personnel.To compound the risk they face, these boys and men are not...
Published:Friday | February 3, 2017 | 10:25 AMCorey Robinson
The national disgrace of persons, mainly men, urinating on public walls could be addressed if Jamaica copies a campaign introduced in Germany to wet persons who pee in public spaces.And it could be more economical than the thousands of dollars which...
Published:Saturday | February 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
It started just over one week ago when a concerned neighbour called The Sunday Gleaner to report a suspected case of child abuse.It came to a boil last Friday when officials of the Child Development Agency (CDA) and the police moved in to rescue a...
Published:Friday | February 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Representatives from the Child Development Agency (CDA) yesterday removed two children from their home in Portmore, St Catherine, and are seeking assistance for a mentally ill woman who was reportedly being abused by her mother and sister.The two...
Published:Friday | January 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The Kingston and St Andrew Parish Council (KSAC) is spending more than $300,000 each month to wash and disinfect sections of the St William Grant Park left stink by persons, mainly men, who use the...
Published:Friday | January 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Head of the Detention and Courts Unit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force Superintendent Leon Clunis is urging divisional commanders not to sacrifice their ability to deal with inmates in their lock-ups in order to take the fight to criminals on the...
Published:Thursday | January 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Researchers at the University of the West Indies (UWI) are becoming concerned about the rate at which Jamaica is seeing some sexually transmitted infections (STIs), which are becoming resistant to antibiotic treatment.To counter this growing threat...
Published:Saturday | January 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Chief of Defence Staff Major General Rocky Meade has vowed increased support for the police as the nation continues to struggle with a major crime problem.Addressing a vibrant Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Change of Command Parade at Up Park Camp...
Published:Monday | January 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
With an early-morning devotion at the death spot and a walk through of the area, dozens of August Town residents marched for peace, amplifying their concerns and reaffirming their commitment to prevent their St Andrew community from returning to the...
Published:Saturday | January 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Residents of Rocky Point, an informal fishing village on the Clarendon seaside, are begging to be rescued as gangsters continue to hold them hostage in their communities. It is not clear what started the rivalry, which residents claimed has been...
Published:Saturday | January 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
It will take at least a year before reconstruction work is completed on the building that houses a branch of the National Commercial Bank (NCB) at the Portmore Town Centre in St Catherine.The branch was relocated late last year after it was revealed...
Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The continued arrests of members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force by the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is not going down well with some residents of Havana Heights in Clarendon who claim that the investigatory body is making...
Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
No one knows how long it will take Voleta Wilson* to sleep without the help of medication after her two sons were slaughtered during a predawn gun attack that left the Havana Heights community in Clarendon shaking with fear since last September....
Published:Saturday | January 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Novlette Grant yesterday started her 90-day stint as the acting head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) having already served notice that Jamaica should not expect any crime-fighting miracles from her. "Please, don't look to me to...
Published:Friday | December 30, 2016 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Despite public criticisms over her office's handling of some high-profile cases last year, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn is adamant that her team did well."If you look at our statistics at the end of each term, certainly at...
Published:Friday | December 30, 2016 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
For Warren Clarke, last September wasn't one to remember. But then, neither was August. Or for that matter, all of 2016.Clarke is an assistant commissioner of police in charge of western Jamaica, which includes the parish of St James, which recorded...
Published:Wednesday | December 28, 2016 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Passersby, and even police personnel, were sent scampering for cover after two brazen gunmen, one of them heavily armed and clad in a ballistic vest, ambushed another man outside the Hunts Bay Police Station, where he had gone to report as part of...
Published:Wednesday | December 21, 2016 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Residents of the White Wing community, located off Hagley Park Road in South West St Andrew, will have their Christmas dinners with the stench of raw sewage assaulting their nostrils.And it appears that the sewage will continue to flow on the...
Published:Wednesday | December 21, 2016 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Both local and Honduran police were yesterday searching for two high-powered engines and other gadgets after a service vessel stolen from the Marine Police Division in Westmoreland last February was found scrapped and abandoned on a beach near...
Published:Saturday | December 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) has seemingly failed in its attempt to arrange pre-Christmas compensation for motorists affected by contaminated fuel last year."I am not as optimistic as I was, say, three weeks ago. I am still very optimistic...
