A 12-year-old female student has been admitted to the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital after being shot during an incident at the Ocho Rios High School in St Ann on Monday. The police say her condition is serious but stable. Reports are that a 14-...
Evidence by a crime scene forensic investigator has countered the defence’s assertion that blood from another injured person, aside from that of Keith Clarke, was discovered in the house on the night of the businessman’s fatal shooting. The defence...
WESTERN BUREAU: When Kimone Thomas awakened from her dream minutes before 6 p.m. on Sunday, she immediately knew something was wrong. Moments later came the devastating news that her twin brother, Kymani ‘Fatta’ Thomas, lost his life in a...
Jenicia Jones, the new Clarendon Festival Queen, hopes to make an impact in the lives of at least 600 students through her parish project dubbed, HEAD Start. The initiative is geared towards offering scholarships and back-to-school supplies to...
In November last year, Latoya Linton received the devastating news that she had cancer of the womb. The diagnosis came after months of discomfort, multiple doctor visits and various medications to combat what she was initially told were non-...
Following a successful tourism sales mission in South America last summer, led by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett and Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) officials, LATAM, the largest airline in Latin America, will return with nonstop flights between Lima...
Four months after a mystery shipwreck caused a disastrous oil spill from the Caribbean island of Tobago to neighbouring Bonaire, Bertrand Smith, director general of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica, wants more support for the country’s marine...
A local human rights lobby has raised concerns over what is being described as the deplorable state of a facility in St Mary that is currently housing 21 Haitian males who were recently transferred there. Carla Gullotta, director of Stand Up For...
With the nation joining the globe in recognising World Oceans Day earlier this month, and nearly 40 years after a major disease outbreak killed most of the local sea urchins, local scientists believe enough is still not being done to save the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rushawn Patterson, the man charged in connection with the October 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneika ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, has once again been denied bail following his latest appearance in the St James Circuit Court...
WESTERN BUREAU The Jamaica Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), is claiming to have detected what it calls a “security threat” in the force. Sergeant Arlene McBean, the federation’s...
The Senataz Youth Club in Denham Town, one of the seven zones of special operations (ZOSOs) declared by the Government, last Thursday hosted a street dance on Regent Street in Kingston, where both gangsters from the community and their arch nemeses...
WESTERN BUREAU: With nearly 200 murders since the start of the year in the county of Cornwall despite the rollout of several initiatives, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has indicated that it will take some time to break the back of...
On September 7, Deputy Police Commissioner Fitz Bailey will retire from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) after serving for 40 years and seven months. And although he would pursue his dream job as an accountant if given an opportunity to start...
Of all the crime scenes seared in the memory of retiring Deputy Police Commissioner Fitz Bailey, none has shaken the father of three more than the 2022 Cocoa Piece massacre in which a mother and her four children were slaughtered by a relative. “I...
The Court of Appeal has upheld a landmark ruling that companies can sue for constitutional breaches, dealing a blow to the Government, which is in a fight with a firm and a farmer over mining near the Cockpit Country. The unanimous ruling clears...
Fiscal Commissioner Courtney Williams yesterday confirmed to The Gleaner that since his appointment on May 1 last year, his compensation for the eight-month period May 1 2023 to December 2023 has been “delayed”. Leader of Opposition Business in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tears flowed freely in several Hanover communities yesterday as family and friends mourned the killing of five men. The men were killed in three separate shooting incidents across the parish between midday on Thursday and early...
WESTERN BUREAU: Chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation (JPF), Sergeant Arleen McBean, has warned rank-and-file members of the police force that they will not get her support should they choose to use their powers and abuse civilians. Speaking at...
Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck has criticised the services being offered by entities within both the private and public sectors as being “poor” and “weak”. Speaking on Thursday at the St Matthew’s Anglican Church in St Elizabeth at the ministry’s...
Located in a residential community in the Corporate Area is a farm that is breaking the conventional standards of farming by eliminating soil from the growing process. The process is called aeroponics, and farm owner 35-year-old John Mark Clayton...
BUFF BAY, Portland: Principal of Buff Bay Primary School Jacqueline Edwards has commended the effort of Portland-based spring water company Lifespan for what she described as their unwavering commitment towards education. Edwards shared her...
Excelsior Community College, the institution which caters to the most of students enrolled in the Government’s Sixth-Form Pathways Programme, has opened a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Robotics Centre to better help...
The 10th Biennial Diaspora Conference, which opens in Montego Bay tomorrow, will see a drastic departure from previous conferences with more interaction by participants. So says Dr Kevin Brown, chair of the conference’s programme and content...
