After a horrific encounter in which he was forced down a 55-ft hole, 66-year-old George Smart said he has forgiven his abductors and is ready to spend the rest of his life serving God and preaching love for humanity. The Portmore cab driver related...
Melody Francis, the fiancée of 66-year-old George Smart,who was rescued after three days from a 55-foot pit in the Jones Avenue section of Spanish Town, St Catherine, is ready to tie the knot as soon as he recovers from an ordeal in which he dodged...
The pain was palpable for Dennis Carter as he mourned the loss of his beloved daughter. Incapacitated by a stroke earlier this year, Carter, who worked as a newspaper vendor, said it would have been better if they had killed him and spared his...
Johnross Morgan had been investing in a partner plan for weeks with dreams of starting a business to offer his family “a decent life”. But the very thing that was to be the route to the 29-year-old security guard’s independence cost him his life...
The parents of 16-year-old Damar Patterson of Tawes Pen, Spanish Town, have disputed police claims that their son was the driver of the Honda motor car that smashed into a concrete utility pole in Kingston and killed all four occupants in the...
The release of Christopher Linton from prison, an acquittal, of a largely accepted to be a guilty man, a mother has labelled her son a good person. The acquittal, and the mother’s comments have been met with derision from the public, who are...
“I feel like I am out in space, don’t know where I am.” That captured the free fall into which Bishop Beverly Miller Haynes was plunged on Sunday as she sat with senior members of her church processing the shock death of former Jamaica footballer...
The mysterious shooting death of Tacius Golding High student Joel Lawman has left his parents deeply troubled and heartbroken. They are still searching for answers about the circumstances under which the 16-year-old died. Moments before Joel’s...
The acquittal of Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton has brought joy to his family, who believes that he was innocent of the charges from the very outset. Linton’s 62-year-old mother, Claris Senior, who described herself as a “born-again Christian”,...
Something just didn’t feel right. That’s the sense that gnawed away at the mind of Derrick Pryce as he travelled from Balaclava to Kingston on a Toyota Hiace minibus on the fateful Monday morning that climaxed with a deadly crash that claimed five...
Moments before bodies were flung on to the asphalt in a macabre canvas of blood and gore, the driver of an ill-fated Toyota Hiace minibus had been warned of ominous sounds that foreshadowed the carnage that would unfold late Monday morning. The...
Monday’s killing of the main suspect in the murder of police Constable Jermaine Bennett of Gregory Park, Portmore, has been greeted as welcome news to the family of the slain cop, but they say the agony of their loss has not subsided. Eugene...
A massive inter-parish security operation comprising 75 soldiers and police failed to locate missing schoolteacher Nattalie Dawkins or a fleeing suspect during a search of the Bellas Gate and Connors communities of St Catherine on Sunday. The two-...
The family of Khanice Jackson said they will not accept any sentence less than the death penalty if the suspect who has reportedly confessed to the murder of the 20-year-old is found guilty. Speaking on behalf of the family, Kevon Williams,...
The story behind the disappearance and eventual surfacing of the body of Khanice Jackson, not just hurt a nation already under severe duress, but laid bare the nature of grief, as a mother cried for vengeance on the woman’s as yet unknown...
The boyfriend of Khanice Jackson, whose body was found near an old fishing village on March 26, had warned the 20-year-old Portmore woman against taking rides to work with the main suspect in her eventual murder. Kevon Williams disclosed to The...
The mother of 20-year-old Khanice Jackson, whose body was found near a Portmore fishing village days after she went missing, wants the book thrown at her daughter’s killer. A distraught Eunice Chambers disclosed that her daughter had told her that...
COVID-19 was the last thing on the mind of Verez Brown when she ventured out to the wake of a resident who had passed in January. Little did the woman of Fairfield district, St Catherine, know that the dreaded pandemic she had sought to evade would...
John Thomas of Brown’s Hall, St Catherine, has never had the luxury of a consistent supply of potable water to his home, even after attempts were made to regularise the network in his and adjoining communities by the late 1990s. Thomas, born in...
A HawkEye security guard died valiantly while responding to a robbery in progress at the Public Sector Employees Co-operative Credit Union at the Caribbean Estate housing development in Portmore on Tuesday. An eyewitness said that four gunmen were...
Firefighters are investigating the origin of a fatal blaze that destroyed a four-bedroom tenement dwelling on Old Harbour Road. Conroy Houston, 61, who lived in a front room, died in the blaze after getting trapped. Five other occupants, including...
The Riversdale Natural Bridge, considered by community stakeholders to be ‘an eighth wonder’ of geological significance, has been pitched as a potential economic game-changer for the farming-dependent rural district. Situated at the square, the...
The slaying of a 52-year-old disabled man, allegedly by his 21-year-old son, in Greater Portmore, St Catherine, has left a family in turmoil. Residents are equally shocked about the tragedy, which unfolded at about 8:50 p.m. on Monday, claiming the...
As gun violence continues to plague the parish of St Catherine, the latest victim to die at the hands of gunmen is Cody McLaughlin of Duncans Pen in Spanish Town. McLaughlin, a construction worker, was shot at his home about 9:30 a.m. Sunday and...
Despite the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) winding down operations at its Portmore Mall store due to low usage by customers, residents of the municipality are urging the light and power company to reconsider as the closure will be a major...
