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Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2022 | 12:13 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

The mother of the two-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted, allegedly by her own uncle at their home in Negril, Westmoreland, wants retribution for the 29-year-old when he is caught. The attacker is also accused of molesting a five-year-old...

Published:Thursday | April 7, 2022 | 12:06 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

Angry residents doused heavy equipment with gasolene and threatened to light it after a demolition crew turned up to evict them from disputed lands in Little Bay, Westmoreland. The battle for the property has been raging for decades and saw one of...

Published:Thursday | March 31, 2022 | 12:11 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

Six persons were murdered in St James between on Tuesday in four attacks, including a triple murder in the community of Rose Heights in Montego Bay, the second mass shooting in one of the troubled communities in the Second City within days. Those...

Published:Friday | March 25, 2022 | 12:08 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

The mother of 24-year-old Tascian Copeland, the pregnant woman among two persons murdered while travelling on a bike taxi in Westmoreland on Wednesday night, is calling for the Government to resume hanging. Copeland was returning home from work...

Published:Thursday | March 24, 2022 | 12:06 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica Labour Party councillor for the Cornwall Mountain division, Dawnette Foster, has expressed shock at the number of murders that have taken place within her political power base since the start of the year. Foster, who was speaking to...

Published:Tuesday | March 22, 2022 | 12:11 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

A school administrator has sounded the alarm about children’s growing obsession with occult practices in the wake of a deadly fight between students over a guard ring. Audrey Steele, acting principal of William Knibb High in Trelawny, said the...

Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 12:06 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

A popular Montego Bay vendor died from injuries received after being hit by a motor vehicle while crossing a section of the Lilliput main road in St James on Tuesday night. She has been identified as 59-year-old Esmeralda Russell, otherwise called...

Published:Friday | March 18, 2022 | 12:12 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Sleuths investigating a mass shooting that claimed three lives and left four persons injured in Santoy, Hanover, on Wednesday night are probing allegations that the attack could have been linked to an extortion racket in the area....

Published:Wednesday | March 16, 2022 | 12:13 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

A double murder in Green Pond, St James, on Monday has triggered outrage, sparking calls for increased police patrols in the western Jamaica community. Those killed have been identified as 19-year-old O’Neil Thelwell, otherwise called ‘CJ’,...

Published:Saturday | March 5, 2022 | 12:10 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

Several disgruntled goat farmers in Crowder, Grange Hill, Westmoreland, are calling on the Westmoreland police to carry out more patrols in their community following the gruesome murder of another goat herder on Wednesday. The latest victim has...

Published:Friday | March 4, 2022 | 12:09 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

Two good Samaritans who were assisting a gunshot victim to the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland on Wednesday night died from injuries they sustained in a motor vehicle collision along the Haddo main road in Westmoreland. The deceased have...

Published:Saturday | February 26, 2022 | 12:05 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

THE WESTMORELAND police have made an appeal to relevant collective voices across the parish to be vociferous in unison in demanding that criminals desist from attacking the police in the lawful execution of their duties. The appeal was made by head...

Published:Saturday | February 19, 2022 | 12:11 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

Detectives attached to the Freeport and Barnett Street police stations in Montego Bay, St James, have launched probes into Friday morning’s back-to-back daylight murders of two men in separate incidents in the Second City. The victims have been...

Published:Saturday | February 19, 2022 | 12:09 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

Melrose Gordon, the common-law wife of murdered Trelawny farmer Winston Stewart, is hoping that the men held for his death will get the maximum sentence of life imprisonment if found guilty. The family was still in mourning when The Gleaner made...

Published:Monday | February 14, 2022 | 12:08 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

RESIDENTS OF Lilliput, St James, are appealing for increased police patrols following three murders on Saturday, with a 17-year-old boy among the victims of two separate shooting incidents. Those killed have been identified as 31-year-old Akash...

Published:Saturday | February 12, 2022 | 12:08 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

A sub-machine gun and several items believed to be used in scamming were seized during a police-military operation in Chantilly Gardens, Westmoreland, on Thursday. Three persons suspected to be major players in lottery scamming were taken into...

Published:Friday | February 11, 2022 | 12:11 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

Relatives of a 30-year-old mentally challenged man who was fatally shot by a police officer outside his gate in Amity district, Westmoreland, on Tuesday, are claiming that he was killed in cold blood. According to police reports, shortly after 9 a....

Published:Tuesday | February 8, 2022 | 12:10 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: AN EVENT to raise funding for a cancer patient’s medical bills was transformed into a scene of death, robbery and bewilderment, as two persons were killed and six left nursing gunshot wounds after an invasion by armed men in the...

Published:Friday | February 4, 2022 | 12:12 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

POLICE ARE describing the man at the centre of Thursday’s big gun find in Trelawny as a known “violence producer” who has strong links with criminal gangs in western Jamaica. The man, 36-year-old Kevin Carpenter, was shot fatally after allegedly...

Published:Thursday | February 3, 2022 | 12:11 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRELAWNY police have confirmed the arrest of one of the main suspects in the murder of an elderly farmer, whose charred remains were discovered in Clark’s Town about 1 p.m. on Monday. “We have managed to apprehend one of the...

Published:Tuesday | February 1, 2022 | 12:13 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

The Trelawny police have launched a manhunt for the killer of a 41-year-old farmer whose head was partially severed in a domestic dispute at her Green Town farm on Monday. Residents and family members in the rural district expressed shock at the...

Published:Saturday | January 22, 2022 | 12:09 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

The killing of two women and a man in Bounty Hall, Trelawny, yesterday morning has been described by the police as an unfortunate case of mistaken identity. Twenty-four-year-old Daniel Williams, otherwise called ‘Alkaline’ of Bounty Hall; 25-year-...

Published:Saturday | January 22, 2022 | 12:09 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

Investigators probing the killing of nine-year-old Gabriel King who was recently murdered in St James are reportedly struggling to make a breakthrough in the case. Deputy Commissioner of Police in Charge of Crime, Fitz Bailey, indicated that...

Published:Monday | January 17, 2022 | 12:09 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

RESIDENTS in Savanna-la-Mar have welcomed the declaration of a zone of special operations (ZOSO) in the southern arc of the Westmoreland capital. However, they are appealing to the security forces to exercise greater respect when carrying out their...

Published:Friday | January 14, 2022 | 12:10 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Police Commissioner Antony Anderson are under mounting pressure to curb a tidal wave of murder that has swept the country, with an average of five homicides committed every day in 2022. The...

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