At least four people, including a three-year-old infant, were shot in St James between Friday night and Saturday morning. Two of the victims succumbed to their wounds. One of the incidents, which occurred in Mount Carey, is believed to have been...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James police have confirmed that one of the parish’s most wanted men and two of his cronies were fatally shot when they challenged members of a police-military team at a section of the Barrett Town community yesterday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Member of Parliament (MP) for Southern St James, Homer Davis, has labelled last week’s killing of five members of one family in his constituency as a “level of madness among young men”. Davis, who was speaking to reporters...
For Patricia* to ever accept that Kevin Smith, the late leader of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, is dead, she would have had to witness the reported cremation of the body of the man herself. Likening Smith to Jesus Christ,...
The partially decomposing body of a woman that was retrieved from the sea in Reading in Montego Bay, St James, on Friday morning has been positively identified as popular Kingston-based social media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend. Her...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has commenced a probe into the fatal shooting of three men and the injuring of a member of the Jamaica Defence Force at a party in Hague Settlement, Trelawny, yesterday morning. Those killed...
At least seven persons have been killed across Westmoreland since Monday, renewing concerns over the level of crime in the island’s westernmost parish, which is home to one of Jamaica’s major tourist resort towns. The latest in the string of...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, on Saturday, headed a delegation of dignitaries at the ground-breaking ceremony for the US$274 million Montego Bay Perimeter Road Project and the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the HEART/NSTA Trust...
Director of the Road Safety Unit in the Ministry of Transport and Mining, Diadre Hudson-Sinclair, is calling on motorists in western Jamaica to practise discipline on the roads as accidents and fatalities increase in the region. The plea comes as...
The St James police have confirmed that a pregnant woman who was yesterday shot dead in the arms of her teenage lover at her home in Norwood, St James, is the babymother of an accused gang leader currently behind bars facing murder charges. Thirty...
The Kingsvale police in Hanover have commenced an investigation into the death of a teenage student, who reportedly drowned while swimming in a river in the community on Friday afternoon. She has been identified as 17-year-old Shevenae Besley, of...
Five persons have been killed across western Jamaica over the past four days. The most recent incidents occurred between Friday night into Saturday morning as three men were shot dead and two left injured in separate incidents in the parishes of...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has commenced a probe into the police fatal shooting of a man in Montego Bay, St James, on Friday night, which resulted in angry residents staging a fiery protest along sections of Hart,...
The family of Ambrose Service, the popular St James security guard who was killed after being struck by a vehicle as he attempted to cross the road in Coral Gardens, St James, on February 20, is demanding justice over his death. The family members...
One of the three men shot dead in Norwood, St James, yesterday morning is believed to have been among the gunmen who carried out a deadly attack in the Warrica Drive section of the community on Friday night, killing another man. Those slaughtered...
Officers attached to the Trelawny Police Division are maintaining a strong presence in the adjoining communities of Spicy Hill and Refuge in Duncans, following yesterday morning’s murder of a man and a woman, and the abduction of the female’s four-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Six members of a Westmoreland family are now homeless and a manhunt launched for a man who is believed to have set their house on fire, minutes after he fired several shots on the dwelling. The incident occurred shortly after 2 a.m...
WESTERN BUREAU: A man who the Westmoreland police say topped the parish’s most wanted list since October 2021 was fatally shot by the cops during an operation in Bluefields yesterday. An assault rifle and several rounds of ammunition were taken...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two unidentified gunmen were fatally shot in separate shooting incidents which occurred in the Newmarket and Thornton communities in St Elizabeth on Friday night into Saturday morning. The police have also reported that two illegal...
Family and friends of 26-year-old Steven ‘Short Boss’ Taylor, the young businessman who was reportedly shot to death by his father at their home in Rhyne Park Village, St James, have labelled his death an accident, urging persons to stop spreading...
The parish of Westmoreland that has been plagued by numerous murders leading up to the end of 2021 continued on a bloody trend into the new year by recording the first double murder in Jamaica, along with a single killing. Those killed have been...
The St Elizabeth police have now laid criminal charges against a man who is said to be the cousin of murdered infant school teacher’s Chanel Smith ex-boyfriend, in connection with the murder of a popular St Elizabeth taxi operator two years ago....
WESTERN BUREAU: A 19-year-old is among two persons killed in separate incidents in St James on Friday. Dead are Damion Smith, 19, a labourer from Flanker; and 22-year-old Kemar ‘Red Plate’ Hoffenden, a push cart man of Pitfour. Two other men – a 22...
WESTERN BUREAU: A St James man, who reportedly went to Flankers in Montego Bay, St James, last Monday to meet a man he met on a gay dating site, is now in hospital in critical condition after he was abducted, robbed, had his penis partially severed...
Nigerian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Her Excellency Ambassador Dr Maureen Tamuno, has pledged to create a tourism gateway between Nigeria and Jamaica. During an exclusive interview with The Sunday Gleaner, the Nigerian high commissioner, who took...
