Jamaica Labour Party Leader Andrew Holness has served notice that the Opposition is not yet done with Cabinet minister Dr Fenton Ferguson over the dead babies scandal although he has been stripped of the health portfolio. "He still has some...
Dozens of People's National Party (PNP) workers in East Portland stormed out of two separate meetings Saturday afternoon insisting that they do no want incumbent MP Dr Lynvale Bloomfield as the standard bearer for the upcoming election. At...
A police Superintendent has testified that one of the bodies found in west Kingston during the May 2010 operation was that of a man who reportedly served as a sniper. Gladys Brown Ellis told the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry this morning that...
Western Bureau: With the Long Pond Sugar Factory, in Trelawny, sitting out 2015/2016 crop year, the government on Monday approved funds for cane farmers who normally supply that factory to transport their yields to other facilities outside the...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the Long Pond Sugar Factory, in Trelawny, sitting out 2015/ 2016 crop year, the government on Monday approved funds for cane farmers who normally supply that factory to transport their yields to other facilities outside the...
A 22-year-old female medical student of the University of Technology was this evening shot dead in Hope Pastures, St Andrew during a reported robbery while on her way home from school. Her name is being withheld, however, she was a student...
Drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke elected to remain silent about his criminal lifestyle during a marathon interview with police investigators a day after he was captured in May 2010. Superintendent Michael Phipps, the veteran...
Chairman of the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry Sir David Simmons this morning indicated that his tribunal has enough evidence to draw the inescapable inference that the armed thugs who confronted members of the security forces during the May...
A police Sergeant today gave evidence before the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry that appears to contradict the testimony of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) ground commander for the May 2010 operation in Tivoli Gardens. Sergeant...
Another senior police officer has given evidence before the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry contradicting the testimony of a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) commander about events in their area of responsibility during the May 2010 operation in...
Chairman of the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry Sir David Simmons this morning told a senior police officer that he found his evidence suspicious. The comment came after Superintendent Everton Tabannah testified about an encounter with...
The parliamentary opposition Sunday night produced what it says are excerpts from the audit of the public health care system which suggest that the health ministry knew of an infection outbreak in the neonatal unit at the Cornwall Regional...
The chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party's Area Council Three Winston Maragh has revealed that the party is targetting the Central Manchester constituency held by National Security Minister Peter Bunting. The made the revelation as hundreds of...
Buses loaded with throngs of orange-clad supporters have poured into the seaside town of Annotto Bay, St Mary for the People’s National Party (PNP) mass rally. For the second week straight Sunday, comrades are out in their numbers as...
The West Kingston Commission of Enquiry has agreed to hear contents of a diary taken from a slain gangster, which attorneys say indicate that he was among the armed thugs who waged a fierce firefight with the security forces during the May 2010...
A senior police officer this morning gave evidence that appears to contradict aspects of the testimony a top military commander gave before the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry. Superintendent Warren Turner testified that he and his team of...
A high-ranking police officer this morning recounted how heavily-armed gunmen laughed after they ambushed a group of policemen and women along Mountain View Avenue in St Andrew in 2010 and sprayed them with bullets for about 20 minutes. Senior...
The UK-based Privy Council has confirmed that an unsigned letter opposition Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte claims she has from the court, is authentic. During her contribution to the Caribbean Court of Justice debate in the Upper House last...
A retired senior police officer has revealed that there is a cemetery in Tivoli Gardens referred to as 'Heroes Park' which is reserved for the burial of respected gangsters. Retired Senior Superintendent Delroy Hewitt testified before the...
Published:Monday | October 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Members of the Jamaica Union of Seventh-day Adventists in St Ann turned out in their numbers on Sunday for a workday that formed part of the 125th anniversary celebrations of the union islandwide.The workday brought into focus undesirable conditions...
A Deputy Superintendent is among three members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and an ex-policeman who have been charged with murder arising from a 2001 incident in which two brothers were shot and killed in St Andrew. Deputy Superintendent...
Published:Monday | October 26, 2015 | 12:25 PMGleaner Writer
A top military commander during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens has testified that residents reported that armed thugs prevented them from leaving the west Kingston community. Major Luis Cheverria told the West Kingston Commission of...
Published:Friday | October 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
A top military commander during the May 2010 operations this morning recounted how his troops stumbled upon a cache of more that 4,000 assorted rounds of ammunition. Major Marlon Kennedy told the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry that the...
Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Chairman of the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry Sir David Simmons has weighed in on Jamaica's spiralling murder toll, calling it "really distressing". His comment came after Lieutenant Colonel Jamie O'Gilvie ...
Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Two members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) were demoted and two others sentenced to military prison as a result of their conduct during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens. Lieutenant Colonel Jamie O'Gilvie told the West Kingston...
