Children in Tivoli Gardens and other Kingston communities could be psychologically scarred by days of gun battles, a clinical psychologist told The Gleaner on Tuesday. Dr Karen Richards said children struggling to come to grips with the graphic violence suffer from behavioural shifts.
THE NUMBER of guns found, as well as the sophistication of the resistance which the security forces encountered in west Kingston, were revealed yesterday during a press conference at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) headquarters at Up Park Camp in St Andrew.
THE PLANNED rebuilding and refurbishing exercise for the Coronation Market, downtown Kingston, later this year, becomes even more urgent as the market, regarded as the pivot of trade and commerce in the heart of the city, is almost completely destroyed.
PERSISTENT RAIN throughout yesterday could not quench the thirst of scores of Jamaicans who journeyed to the gates of the National Stadium in Kingston to get answers about their relatives whom they believed had been detained during the west Kingston operations.
As Jamaica's negative images bombard international mainstream media, the aftershocks ripple throughout the diaspora. As a result, this year's staging of the fourth biennial Jamaican Diaspora Convention has been postponed. No new date has been set.
THE JUVENILES who were among detainees held by the security forces during their recent operation in Tivoli Gardens are now in settled homes where they are reportedly safe.
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has received the appointments of the members of the Emergency Powers Review Tribunal.The appointments satisfy the requirements for such a panel under the Emergency Powers Regulations.
MANY HOMES were flooded yesterday as some sections of the island experienced up to four millimetres of rainfall. The Meteorological Service issued a flash-flood watch for the low-lying and flood-prone areas of all parishes yesterday.
The fatal shooting of businessman Keith Clarke in the upscale St Andrew community of East Kirkland Heights yesterday has led to alarm at the strategy of the security forces during the current state of emergency...
Former head of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF), Harold Crooks, was nabbed on Thursday morning in Ocho Rios shortly after arriving in the island aboard the Carnival Liberty cruise ship which docked in the resort town....
THE TRAIL of blood that has marked attempts to arrest accused drug baron Christopher 'Dudus' Coke lengthened yesterday with yet another civilian casualty as the security forces came up empty-handed after a fierce firefight in an upscale St Andrew community....
The scene in Hannah Town yesterday was typical of most communities in war-torn west Kingston. Armed military and police teams patrolled littered streets which were occupied by angry residents...
Some Trench Town residents have insisted that there were more women and children killed in the military assault on Tivoli Gardens than the authorities are letting on....
THE Golding administration has announced an independent enquiry into the security operation in Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town in west Kingston which left at least 73 civilians dead and three members of the security forces killed....
AT LEAST two human-rights organisations and a fringe political party have demanded a full enquiry into the ongoing operations of the security forces in west Kingston...
SNOT AND TEARS gushed from the nose and eyes of a Tivoli Gardens woman as she lamented the macabre canvas of carnage into which the community had been transformed in three days ...
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) yesterday called for the Government to cease the awarding of state contracts to businesses with reputed criminal partners...
Market vendors started to return to downtown Kingston yesterday, three days after they hastily packed up their goods and fled the area, which was ground zero for a massive...
A small number of street people who were forced to survive without a morsel amid running gun battles in downtown Kingston finally received assistance yesterday as the firefights waned.
Mounting casualties from the massive offensive by the security forces on Tivoli Gardens have put morgues on the brink of overflowing.Ferdinand Madden, chief executive of Madden's Funeral Supplies...
There are growing concerns about the conditions facing hundreds of residents still barricaded in Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town. The residents have been unable to leave the community since Sunday when they were blockaded first by criminals...
As merchants yesterday began the official tally of multimillion-dollar losses from the shutdown of the downtown Kingston commercial district, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) said it was willing to pay the ultimate price...
