Worried that her boys could be sucked into the cycle of violence plaguing the area, a Kingston Central mother has expressed a willingness to share her Wi-Fi password with cops to accommodate a security post at her Sutton Street gate. The mother had...
Stating that today’s criminals were more tech-savvy than those of the past and were using modern advances to outmanoeuvre cops, a senior clergyman yesterday called for a change in tactics to boost the police’s response to crime. Pastor Glen Samuels...
There is unease in a section of Collins Close in St Andrew following the death of a man and the ensuing investigations into his death. Nearly two weeks after the murder of Trey Beckford on December 29 in the Whitehall Avenue community, the police...
Member of Parliament for Kingston Eastern and Port Royal Phillip Paulwell says crime and violence is the number one problem in Jamaica and sometimes he, too, wants to cry as a result of the scourge affecting the country. Communities within the...
The Universal Service Fund (USF) yesterday launched another ‘Community Connect’ Wi-Fi portal at the McIntyre Villa Community Centre in Kingston and urged residents and especially students to make the best use of the technology. The USF intends to...
The Kingston Central policeman yanked from frontline duty for threatening to kill any resident caught with an illegal gun “is the subject of a wider enquiry”, the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) has said. That revelation was made...
Five days into the new year, homicide detectives attached to the St Catherine North Police Division are investigating their third murder in the Old Capital. The latest occurred in the Rivoli community, where a man identified only as ‘Shabba’ was...
If battling sickle-cell disease was not tough enough, a nine-year-old boy’s family is eager for him to be discharged from The Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew after being admitted on New Year’s Day with a gunshot wound. The boy,...
Coming off a year that saw motorcyclists accounting for 34 per cent of the 482 road users killed, day two in the New Year continued along the fatal path with a crash in Trench Town. A motorcyclist identified as 20-year-old Ramarco Miller died, and...
“Mommy, mi feel like mi paralysed” were the last words 10-year-old Jezariah Tyrell spoke fluently before she lost consciousness, alerting her frantic mother to a single bullet wound although there was no sighting of blood. The household was first...
Investigators probing Sunday morning’s multimilion-dollar heist at the Red Stripe brewery on Spanish Town Road in St Andrew have recovered nearly half of the stolen beer and have seized one of two trucks believed to have been used in the robbery....
Thirteen-year-old Sherinaé Brown took to the streets of the Corporate Area during the holidays to feed and clothe the homeless and most vulnerable in the society so they would not feel left out. The grade eight student at Immaculate Conception...
Soothing to soft music in the aftermath of losing a son and her one-year-old granddaughter battling for life, a Central Kingston matriarch says she is leaving everything in the hands of God. The woman, whose identity The Gleaner will withhold, was...
Time is running out and frustration is building for the family of Taneka Gardner, the woman whose throat was slashed during a sacrificial ceremony at Pathways International Kingdom Restoration church last October as her insurance claim process...
Sandra Glasgow, chairperson for the National Crime Prevention Fund (Crime Stop), has reassured Jamaicans that their identity is safeguarded when they become informants and assist in solving crimes. Glasgow, speaking at the ‘Stand Up For our...
A man held on illegal firearm charges was acquitted in the Home Circuit Court on Wednesday after a police officer gave conflicting evidence in court in comparison to that which he had stated in an interview he had given to the media. Ramel Kelly...
The shooting death of project manager and Jamaica Labour Party activist Anthony Scully halted a drain-cleaning and beautification project in Waterford, Portmore, on Wednesday. Suzette Greenland, who was being consoled by friends on Wednesday, told...
A resident of Waltham Park Road in St Andrew said a concrete wall saved him from being struck by a bullet as gunmen fired indiscriminately, hitting four others during a drive-by attack on Tuesday. “We are not safe in Jamaica. You can be here today...
Residents of 142 Molynes Road in St Andrew, commonly called Ackee Walk, are refuting claims by the security forces that a man who was shot fatally yesterday had engaged the police in a shoot-out. Dead is 25-year-old Renardo ‘Nazrie’ Duncan. The...
More than a million dollars of ammunition was estimated to have been unloaded last Wednesday and Thursday as gangsters traded bullets in Kingston in apparent crude war games. The battlefield was centred in the Kingston Western Police Division,...
Pencils4Kids founder and CEO Randy Griffiths believes that in order for education to be adaptable and inspire children, it must start with the learning environment and early on in each child’s development. Griffiths is an alumnus of the Quickstep...
Justice Vinette Graham Allen on Thursday denied a request for a closer mention date to afford a murder accused an opportunity to attend his mother’s funeral. Defence attorney Ernest Davis had made the plea on behalf of Oscar Barnes, who is jointly...
A former head girl from a deep-rural St Elizabeth community said the secret to success of many children where she is from is the encouragement. Shantoy Campbell, who is also a former national under-19 cricketer, hails from Quickstep district. She...
What was intended to be a night of celebration of life morphed into tragedy for a 24-year-old woman celebrating her birthday and the motorcycle driver with whom she whizzed through Kingston’s streets late last week. Those circumstances appear to be...
Several children are singing the praises of a makeshift classroom created by sister teachers in the hills of Bull Bay, St Andrew, to release them from the frustrations of online schooling. Kimberlee Woods and Karen Wright are at the heart of the...
