The police are reporting that a number of persons of interest in crimes have been picked up in dragnets under the state of emergency now blanketing three western parishes. Yesterday, the joint security forces targeted various communities within the...
A deportee who resides in Woodland district in the parish of Hanover is among five persons taken into custody in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Trisha Morris, whose body was discovered on Tuesday. The Gleaner was informed that the...
The body of an 11-year-old girl who was reported missing four days ago was discovered yesterday with signs of a brutal sexual attack, a gut-wrenching discovery on the eve of Child Month in Jamaica. Trisha Morris of Pond, Hanover, was last seen...
Western Bureau: A St James taxi operator, who first held his eight-year-old son hostage and then tried to kill him, was shot dead by the police following a bizarre six-hour stand-off in Comfort district, near Anchovy in St James, yesterday. The...
Two men were shot and killed and two high-powered rifles seized during an operation in Retirement, St James, on Thursday. Reports by the Freeport police are that shortly after 9:30 p.m., a joint police-military team was carrying out an operation in...
Western Bureau: The St James man who was recently arrested and charged after he was allegedly held with 41-cell site batteries, which were reportedly stolen from various FLOW mobile cell sites in St Ann, was offered bail in the sum of $500,000 when...
Western Bureau: A pall of gloom is hanging over John’s Hall, St James, home of two-year-old Sasha-Gaye ‘Munchie’ Dennis, who succumbed to injuries she sustained when she and her 10-year-old sister were mowed down by a motor car along the Howard...
Despite efforts by the Area One police to curb crime and apprehend gunmen, western Jamaica continues to bleed, with five murders taking place over the past six days. The latest incident occurred in Westmoreland on Sunday, where 27-year-old cookshop...
WESTERN BUREAU: Detectives from the St James Police Department, in collaboration with detectives from the St Ann department, seized 41 cell-site batteries on Wednesday during a major operation in Norwood, St James. One man, a 38-year-old barber...
Despite additional security personnel being deployed throughout Hanover, the parish continues to bleed, with more shootings and murders. There have been at least 14 murders so far this year. Over the past three weeks, five persons have been gunned...
Western Bureau: Despite repeated promises by the police to rein in the spate of cold-blooded murders plaguing western Jamaica, the killings are seemingly continuing unabated with all four parishes in the Area One region recording murders over the...
On a day when Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson and National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang toured police stations, and other government officials and dignitaries converged in the area, gunmen carried out a daring robbery,...
The Trelawny police are now investigating the double murder of a taxi operator and his common-law wife in Kinloss district on Thursday night, following the shooting death of a man who has been described as one of the parish’s top gangsters. Fifty-...
National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says that the Government is considering a new maintenance system to ensure proper upkeep of police departments in the western end of the island. Chang made the announcement yesterday while touring several...
The murder toll in western Jamaica continues to climb, with at least seven persons killed in St James and one in Trelawny in the three days up to yesterday. National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has described the situation as a disease for...
One of two men who were recently charged in connection with last November’s murder of 72-year-old American national Nancy Hardy was offered bail in the sum of J$300,000 with two sureties when they appeared in the Hanover Parish Court on Tuesday....
The Area One Police Division in western Jamaica is basking in its success following the seizure of eight illegal firearms and more than 180 rounds of assorted ammunition in Westmoreland and St James on the weekend. The gun seizures came on the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Savanna-la-Mar Mayor Bertel Moore has sounded an alarm over rising murders in Westmoreland, following two killings in the parish, including a student in Negril last Thursday night. Eighteen-year-old Kehian Pryce, who hailed from...
One of St James’ most wanted men was fatally shot on Thursday morning during a confrontation with members of the security forces in the Granville community in the parish. The deceased has been identified as Amoy Young, otherwise called ‘Pinky’, of...
Western Bureau: As the Trelawny police continue their bid to make their division safe for residents and visitors, investigators working out of the Criminal Investigation Branch have listed murder suspects Lascelles Wright and Clinton Davis as the...
WESTERN BUREAU: For Glendon Brydson, the principal of Somerton All-Age School in St James, six-year-old Jordonian Hodges, who was shot and killed by gunmen on Monday afternoon, was an extraordinary child with star potential. “He was a...
Thirty-six-year-old Karon Williams, a farmer of Samuel Prospect district in Trelawny, who recently pleaded guilty to three counts of illegal possession of firearm and five counts of illegal possession of ammunition, was sentenced to 39 years’ hard...
WESTERN BUREAU: The commanding officer for Trelawny has praised the police for being the third-most successful parish at suppressing murders, behind only St Elizabeth and St Mary in per-capita analysis. Trelawny and St Elizabeth have both recorded...
Four persons are now dead and another four, up to yesterday afternoon, remained in hospital following their involvements in two separate road accidents along sections of the Holland Bamboo main road in St Elizabeth, on Friday night into Saturday...
Western Bureau: Blood washed western Jamaica yesterday as fresh on the heels of Valentine’s Day, lovers’ quarrels ended in death for three persons in St James and St Elizabeth while a female farmer was butchered in Trelawny. Yesterday...
