Licensed firearm holders impacted by industrial action by staff at the Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) on Tuesday are concerned they could be prosecuted for permit registration lapses as the entity sorts through its issues. On Tuesday, some...
The Corporate Area has been rocked by a series of gruesome killings, including the discoveries of mutilated bodies and triple murders since the start of August, threatening to erode the declines in homicide made in the first half of 2023. In the...
Bloodstains which lined Rusden Road in Rockfort, Kingston, on Friday told the tale of the terrifying onslaught that transpired during a party Thursday night, leaving three people dead and four others nursing gun-related injuries. Those killed are...
Fredrick Jackson turned up at the Old Harbour Police Station in St Catherine on Thursday, clinging to hope that his Nissan Wingroad, stolen in Clarendon last December, was among vehicles recovered in a car-stealing ring crackdown on Sunday in the...
United Kingdom fugitive Stasious Scott, who was sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter on Tuesday after he was held in Jamaica, lived on the island under an assumed name – Dwayne Romario McGiven. The findings were reportedly revealed in court...
Not even the deafening screams from frantic females, pleading for the children who were present, could stop two marauding gunmen from shooting indiscriminately into a house, leaving an eight-year-old boy and an adult male dead in Burgher Gully,...
A firestorm of criticism has been directed at police chief Major General Antony Anderson following his decision yesterday to interdict the head of the police union for perceived “disrespectful” comments. Anderson, the police commissioner, ordered...
Advanced plans by a 20-year-old to open his car-detailing business will never materialise after he was stabbed to death by an attacker late Tuesday while making his way home on foot from a store. The incident occurred at the intersection of...
The family of a taxi operator, who was fatally shot by a policeman – his ex-girlfriend’s current partner – on Monday, is asking for a thorough probe into the circumstances of his death, dismissing accounts in the public domain as fabricated....
The St Andrew North police, in seeking to curtail rampant car thefts in Havendale and Meadowbrook have seen a ballooning of the practice in other sections of the division. According to the police, there are also concerns about the reluctance of...
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on September 29 whether the parish court erred, on the grounds of a breach of privacy, when it ordered Amoi Leon-Issa to allow investigators access to her cellphone as part of a murder probe. Arguments were...
MAROON CHIEF Richard Currie has urged former residents of Maroon communities, which he termed the ‘land of look behind’, to consider helping others when they leave. He was speaking at the Quickstep Community Development Committee (QCDC) meeting...
Top flight dancehall entertainer Alkaline and his family are mourning the death of his father, who passed recently. The nine night is scheduled for today at a private location in the Corporate Area. His father, Earl Bartley, more popularly known as...
THE PROBE into the daring birthday gun attack on dancehall artiste Jahshii revealed that return gunfire by a licensed firearm holder may have saved the life of the singer. Initial reports following the July 7 attack were that Jahshii, whose given...
Two of the nation’s longest-serving teachers, both in St James and who have worked tirelessly on the frontline in education for a combined 94 years, were the toast of yesterday’s Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) Golden Torch awards. Melrose...
MEMBERS OF the church community and law enforcement said they will not allow the serious gains made to sustain peace within Grants Pen, St Andrew to be eroded by recent acts of violence and growing tensions. The latest incident took place early...
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security has again called an emergency meeting to deal with worker unrest, this time with the unions representing workers of the National Water Commission (NWC) who have threatened strike action that could...
THE ST ANDREW Central police are probing the early-morning gun attack yesterday which left six people injured, after a convoy with entertainer Jashii in the mix was shot up by heavily armed men. The incident occurred about 4:30 a.m. in the vicinity...
COMMISSIONER OF police, Major General Antony Anderson, is imploring parents to be vigilant. He urged them to safeguard children who are now on summer holidays, and who will be attending parties which offer Molly and Ecstasy, stimulant drugs that...
The St Andrew South police are maintaining a strong presence in the Bow Tie Land community, located off Spanish Town Road, after what appears to be a series of deadly attacks on relatives of gangsters. The tit-for-tat murders and shootings, which...
INVESTIGATORS SAY the man suspected of committing suicide yesterday in Beverly Hills, St Andrew, has a dark and chequered past, with reports of assault against women and attempts at trying to take his own life previously. In one instance, The...
A police team came under fire on Wednesday in the tense Sunlight Street area in Arnett Gardens, St Andrew, where a deadly gang conflict has prompted two divisional commanders to work more closely to stem the murders and sporadic shootings. Senior...
IT TOOK a social media rant and public backlash for an aggrieved motorist to at least get an official response from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) regarding an incorrect traffic ticket issued. The motorist was given a $6,000 ticket by a...
Relatives and friends of a missing security guard are now anxiously awaiting news after the gruesome discovery of the remains of an unidentified male after what was initially thought to be a late-night bushfire in St Andrew last week. The discovery...
THE LEVEL of proficiency by students who sat the 2023 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations is encouraging when compared to 2019, the last time the full complement of the pre-secondary school tests were used to assess students. During the COVID-...
