Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says a recent jury conviction in lottery scamming and money laundering sends a strong message to criminals that there is a critical mass of civic-minded Jamaicans determined to stand for justice...
Mystery continues to shroud the death of 74-year-old developer Horace ‘Randy’ Mair more than a week after he was killed at his Gwendon Park Avenue home in the upscale neighbourhood of Norbrook. Heightened curiosity has attended the investigation...
Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Winston Smith yesterday urged his colleague educators to make taking care of themselves a priority as he led them in a service of prayer and reflection in the wake of the deaths of several persons among...
A high-level probe is under way to determine the motive behind the gun murder of Lennox Hines, Jamaica Labour Party councillor-caretaker for the Southboro division in St Catherine. The incident occurred shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday along the busy...
Two sentences of life imprisonment were handed down on Wednesday to a Clarendon gangster who committed a double murder at age 16 and who was involved in a million-dollar heist at 17. Justice Ann-Marie Lawrence-Grainger hopes the confessed killer,...
If Nicole Williams could turn back the hands of time, she said she would not have engaged in daredevil driving that sparked a police chase across the Corporate Area last month which was captured in a viral video. Faced with humiliation and an...
Jamaica’s Forestry Department CEO Ainsley Henry has cautioned against the growing practice of tree-chopping by protesters, classifying the troubling incidence as “wanton destruction”. Not only are demonstrators hauling on to thoroughfares old cars...
Carol Palmer, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology, affirmed yesterday that no public sector worker can spend the Government’s – or taxpayers’ – money at will. Taking the stand in the ongoing fraud trial of former...
The Mexican government has toughened immigration processes in permitting landing to Jamaicans amid growing concerns over an illegal “human-smuggling” corridor to the United States. The development has caused increased scrutiny on travellers on bona...
Sixth-graders at a Corporate Area school have pledged to honour their late teacher with exam success in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP). Carlos Gordon, who taught at One Way Prep in St Andrew, died in hospital last Wednesday after a suspected heart...
Had Clarrisa Palmer been home, she might have played her routine role of referee in a long-running, bad-tempered dispute between two brothers that turned deadly on Saturday. In her absence, a teen, who on Saturday reportedly carried through on...
The window of opportunity for defence lawyers in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial to further cross-examine the main witness was closed yesterday and the matter against Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan and 32 accused adjourned until May 24. The main witness,...
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is to get a $117-million technology upgrade to allow it to be more responsive to the needs of inmates as it moves away from the current manual system. Courtney Williams, permanent secretary in the...
A woman reported standing in despair and running for cover on Monday as she witnessed masked gunmen murder her father at McKoy Lane, St Andrew. Gary ‘Matto’ Thomas, 48, was standing with a friend near his gate when two men approached and started...
A Mother’s Day domestic dispute is at the centre of an arson attack early Monday that has left 13 people homeless, four families displaced, millions in cash destroyed, personal belongings damaged, and victims nursing injuries. When gunshots rained...
A new round of turbulence erupted in Denham Town Thursday afternoon as a pregnant woman clashed with soldiers – the second major conflict in the crime-plagued western Kingston community which has been under a security blanket for almost five years...
THE POLICE say they are yet to make a breakthrough in the March 2022 murder of Mighty Diamonds lead singer Donald ‘Tabby Diamond’ Shaw. Thirty-six days have passed since Jamaica, and by extension the reggae world, was rocked with news that the ‘...
A father is thankful his son and other children were spared the wrath of gunmen travelling in an SUV before going on a shooting rampage on Fitzgerald Avenue in St Andrew Sunday night. Reports are that one man was shot and injured about 9:30 p.m....
Residents in Tivoli Gardens are stocking up on salt. However, it is not for cooking. The West Kingston-based community is battling a surge in the maggot population in some areas as uncollected garbage piles up. When The Gleaner visited the area...
Wayne Smikle said he regrets dodging a cop’s bullet, which damaged a step, which caused him to retreat from patrolling police – the prelude to the final time he saw his son alive Tuesday night. When he darted inside, the elder Smikle said that he...
A parent has threatened legal action against Kingston College (KC) and the Government if her son performs below par in upcoming external exams following the lockout of students in a grooming firestorm on Tuesday. Her child was among scores of...
From as early as 3:30 a.m. yesterday, scores of angry residents in Cavaliers, St Andrew, reportedly began cutting down sections of the woodland and blocking the main road with felled trees and other debris to register their frustration at the poor...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has tasked the incoming representatives of the Youth Advisory Council of Jamaica to challenge the old order of thinking, while noting that Jamaica is at a tipping point. The servant-leaders were ushered in during the...
Tantalising aromas filled the air yesterday as the newly developed Crab Circle came to life in Kingston with the street food hub donning a fresh, bold look. Vendors sang the praises of corporate giants J. Wray...
The school feeding programme at the St Elizabeth-based Aberdeen High has been hard hit by the theft of a cash register earlier this month. The device, valued at roughly $180,000, was lost in the second break-in at the institution in recent months....
