WESTERN BUREAU: The 15-year-old boy charged in connection with last week’s shooting death of his six-year-old cousin in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, was remanded when he made his first court appearance on Wednesday. Following the hearing in the...
A 15-year-old girl who was allegedly molested at a western Jamaica hospital by a nursing assistant last Friday was reportedly being overwhelmed by demons she was silently battling due to sexual assault by a relative in 2017, driving her to the...
Western Bureau: The 15-year-old boy, who allegedly shot and killed his six-year-old cousin on Monday in a bizarre shooting incident in a yard on Dalling Street, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, was formally slapped with a murder charge late Thursday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twenty-one-year-old Soniman ‘Shortman’ Walker, who was wanted by the St James police in connection with the murder of an American tourist, was captured in Clarendon last Wednesday by detectives attached to the Major Investigation...
WESTERN BUREAU: A jealous boyfriend in Great River, Hanover, is on the run after allegedly dousing a woman with gasoline and setting her afire yesterday, much to the horror of bystanders. The incident is the latest in a grim roll of cases of...
WESTERN BUREAU: A dark cloud of grief hung over a family in Barrett Hall in Lilliput, St James, yesterday after a mid-morning fire destroyed their board and zinc dwelling, claiming the lives of two infant brothers trapped inside. The deceased...
WESTERN BUREAU: A massive fire almost totally destroyed the Granville Police Station in St James on Tuesday night, resulting in the authorities having to prematurely roll out a plan to construct a new state-of-the-art facility at the same location...
A 15-year-old suspect is being sought in the shooting death of his six-year-old cousin in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Jadaine Miller, who lived in the same yard as the accused. Reports by the police...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dancehall artiste Moses ‘Beenie Man’ Davis was fined $150,000 or 35 days in jail when he appeared for sentencing before the St Elizabeth Parish Court in Black River yesterday, having previously pleaded guilty to breaches of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A 28-year-old businessman, who allegedly shot and killed 27-year-old pool attendant Kimmorlay Anthony Forbes on Sunday night while they were having drinks on the compound of the Spicy Hill Farm in All-Side, Trelawny, has been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Stenneth Wilson, the 62-year-old Trelawny farmer who allegedly chopped his 29-year-old partner, Nickeisha Keeling, to death on the weekend, has now been formally charged with murder. Commanding officer of the Trelawny Police...
WESTERN BUREAU: Irate residents of All-Side in southern Trelawny yesterday protested the killing of a man, who was allegedly shot dead by his best friend after being invited over for drinks. The deceased has been identified as 27-year-old Kimorlay...
An eight-year-old boy missed out on Sunday’s Mother’s Day celebration after his 29-year-old mom was hacked to death overnight in a suspected case of jealous rage by her elderly common-law partner in Clark’s Town, Trelawny. When lawmen accompanied...
Clive Campbell, captain of the 18-foot ill-fated boat the Kahder, which set out on a spearfishing expedition in which Donovan Haywood returned to land without an arm, described Saturday’s battle with a seven-foot shark as a harrowing nightmare. “...
WESTERN BUREAU: The operators of Honeyghan’s Funeral Home are threatening to haul the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) before the courts if it does not retract a statement in which they claimed that an employee of the business had issued threats...
As calls mount for the resignation of under-fire Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright, pastor and confidant Custos Hartley Perrin sought on Sunday to cast the politician embroiled in an assault scandal as the victim of detractors...
Western Bureau: The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has commenced a probe into the killing of three men who lost their lives in an alleged shoot-out with the police on Thursday in the small farming community of Bronte Common in...
Convinced that gunmen were on the hunt for her 20-year-old son, Dwayne Christopher Scott, when they barged into her home in Crowder district, Westmoreland, Veronica Lawrence prayed throughout the ordeal that her two daughters would not be harmed....
WESTERN BUREAU: Fire destroyed the iconic 129-year-old Railway Corporation Train Station building in Balaclava, St Elizabeth, on Wednesday morning, wrecking the livelihoods of the persons who were using it as a furniture shop. The Balaclava police...
WESTERN BUREAU: A female taxi operator was shot and killed by attackers posing as passengers along the Tucker main road in St James on Tuesday. The murder is likely to increase the temperature of national outrage against violence against women amid...
WESTERN BUREAU: Detectives attached to the Lacovia Police Station in St Elizabeth have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the murder of a housekeeper, whose body was discovered Tuesday morning at her home with her neck...
WESTERN BUREAU: The grieving family of 78-year-old Joyclyne Gordon, the retired farmer whose decomposed body was found in a section of her from Breadnut Walk community in St Elizabeth on Saturday, is still puzzled as to the circumstances under...
Tennyson Bernard may have lost an estimated $25 million in property when fire razed his hardware store in Flankers, Montego Bay, on Sunday, but his real treasure, his seven-month-old daughter, was saved in a dramatic rescue that unfolded on Sunday...
The police and the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) have launched probes into the stabbing death of a detainee, allegedly by another inmate, at the Negril lock-up in Westmoreland on Friday night. The dead prisoner has been...
WESTERN BUREAU: A man who was wanted by the St James police in connection with several murders and shootings in the volatile Norwood community was apprehended during a joint police-military operation yesterday. He was reportedly found hiding in a...
