Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has expressed the need to partner with community-based organisations to address the issues of violent crime in Jamaica. Dr Chang was speaking at the installation ceremony for...
National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has lamented the pace of investigations and prosecutions of alleged criminals, suggesting that institutional hurdles inside and outside the police force are to blame for trial delays and acquittals. Chang...
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has continued its efforts to honour party stalwarts during the launch of its 2021 scholarship fund on its 78th anniversary on Thursday. The JLP’s 2021 Scholarship Fund aims to provide educational opportunities for...
Millions of dollars will be pumped into Maxfield Park Children’s Home over the next three to five years to transform the facility into a centre of excellence for childcare, State Minister Robert Morgan has pledged. Morgan, the junior minister in...
The COVID-19 vaccination blitz on Saturday, July 3, organised at various locations across the island, went off smoothly. Throughout the day, persons who were to be administered the second dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made a beeline to...
A Mona Commons resident, who goes by the alias ‘Southie’, is denying allegations that he was involved in the shooting death of police officer Corporal Devon Thomas. Corporal Thomas was gunned down last Friday in the Mona Commons community when two...
The issue of insufficient social housing in the Corporate Area was once again raised during the most recent Gleaner Editors’ Forum that tackled urban development within the city. In recent years, a number of high-rise housing developments have...
Jamaica’s urban planning and traffic authorities have been pressed to speed up pedestrianisation and to promote short-route transportation to ease congestion on the streets of the Corporate Area. Greater Kingston’s corridors are often scenes of...
A shadow now looms over the African Martyrs of Uganda Roman Catholic Church in Bull Bay, St Andrew, which is slated to be steamrolled by the Government’s highway project in what congregants and clergy view as a crude casualty of progress. Salt was...
Wherever you stand on the argument about whether or not dancehall music has helped foster criminality and violence in Jamaica, the former ‘Poor People Governor’ and ‘Warlord’, Bounty Killer makes a wonderfully put-together...
Dancehall artiste Bounty Killer has pushed back at suggestions that dancehall has been fuelling violence in Jamaica. Recently, the debate on the link between dancehall music and crime was reignited with strong arguments on both sidest, with many...
