A HEARTBROKEN Albert Reid struggled to recognise the lifeless body of his runaway 15-year-old daughter, Toni-Ann, after she and a man were slain by gunmen as they slept in bed in Roehampton, St James, yesterday morning. The other victim, 25-year-...
Gunmen continued their reign of terror in St James Tuesday morning, as another man was shot and killed in the Salt Spring community. The latest killing comes hours after three men were gunned down in Providence Heights, also in St James, on Monday...
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO MEN were killed on the roadways late last week as the parish of Westmoreland recorded the first fatal accident in the Area One Police Division for 2022. The victims have been identified as 62-year-old Garth Campbell, a driver of...
Latoya Blake, the mother of six-year-old Tyrece Wint, one of the two boys who were shot and injured during a confrontation at a party in Accompong Town, St Elizabeth, on Thursday night, is distressed about the incident and is also peeved that up to...
Residents of Bent Town, a section of Mulgrave district, St Elizabeth, are breathing a sigh of relief after the decomposed body of 88-year-old Kenneth Brown, the senior citizen who went missing from his home on December 18, was removed from a sink...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS IN a section of Brighton, St Elizabeth, known as ‘Zoar’ are calling on the Government to establish a unit in the Jamaica Constabulary Force to deal with mental health patients and to train cops in how to interface with...
JUST THREE days after the first double murder of the year was recorded in the parish, there was more tragedy in Westmoreland as two brothers were killed in the quiet community of Carawina Tuesday morning. They have been identified as 43-year-old...
The parish of St James closed out the year with bloodshed yesterday with the brazen daylight gun murder of a municipal warder and his uncle, who were shot, in a drive-by attack. The victims have been identified as 46-year-old Peter Stewart and his...
WESTERN BUREAU: Relatives of 27-year-old Chaleen Evans, the Hanover woman who went missing on Christmas Day, were in a joyful mood yesterday after the University of the West Indies student was found alive on a beach near the Hopewell High School...
HUNDREDS OF commuters who travel via the Montego Bay Metro bus service were left stranded yesterday morning after disgruntled drivers and conductors employed to the company calling in sick yesterday, reportedly over outstanding salary and...
INVESTIGATORS IN Montego Bay, St James, are trying to determine if the unidentified male who was fatally shot yesterday morning while attempting to stage a robbery at the Scotiabank branch in Sam Sharpe Square in the parish had a history of mental...
The number of persons searching for missing University of the West Indies (UWI) student Chaleen Evans is expected to swell today as extensive combing of bushes by anxious relatives, friends, and the security forces up to late Monday had to be...
DAYS AFTER thieves murdered two goat farmers in Westmoreland, gunmen struck again in the parish on Monday night, this time in the small community of Kingswood, where they shot and killed a common-law couple. The latest victims have been identified...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Crowder district in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, are mourning the gruesome killing of two goat farmers whose mutilated bodies were found in bushes on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as 65-year-old Henry ‘Mas...
WESTERN BUREAU: The ushering in of the Christmas season has done little to quell the bloodletting in the Area One Police Division – which covers St James, Westmoreland, Hanover, and Trelawny – with recorded seven homicides over the last weekend...
WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie says there will be additional adjustments to the protocols governing the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) during the upcoming Christmas season. McKenzie, who was speaking at Thursday’s...
WESTERN BUREAU: Trembling in anguish after his schoolteacher daughter Chanel Smith was gunned down in the full view of infants in Treasure Beach on Tuesday morning, Vernon Smith channelled his rage into a rallying cry against cold-blooded killers....
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the various strategies employed to stem the rampant bloodletting in St James, criminals are continuing to create mayhem going into the final three weeks of the year as they churned out back-to-back murders in Salt Spring and...
WESTERN BUREAU: A Westmoreland family is struggling to come to grips with a deadly home invasion on Thursday night, which left a 17-year-old boy dead and other relatives injured as gunmen lit their board dwelling and opened fire at the occupants,...
WESTERN BUREAU: The National Works Agency (NWA) has begun to assess the damage to the road network in western Jamaica after sustained heavy rainfall lashed that section of the island between Sunday afternoon and yesterday morning, triggering...
WESTERN BUREAU: Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James says rank-and-file lawmen are fuming over the action taken by St Elizabeth Parish Judge Alwayne Smith, whose instructions resulted in a uniformed policeman being hauled before the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Trelawny police have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding last Thursday’s death of a three-month-old baby boy at his home in Troy district, in Trelawny. The dead child, who has been identified as Ian ‘...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite police confirmation that disgraced Pastor Kevin O. Smith was killed in a motor vehicle accident on Monday, members of his faithful flock at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James are claiming...
WESTERN BUREAU: Meakof Jarrett, whose 39-year-old sister was killed in an alleged ritual sacrifice at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries church in St James on October 17, believes that Monday’s crash death of Pastor Kevin...
WESTERN BUREAU: Eleven-year-old Jada Wright is no ordinary child, having passed four Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects with distinction, the latest two racked up in this year’s June sitting. Jada, who lives in Junction, St...
