A former head girl from a deep-rural St Elizabeth community said the secret to success of many children where she is from is the encouragement. Shantoy Campbell, who is also a former national under-19 cricketer, hails from Quickstep district. She...
What was intended to be a night of celebration of life morphed into tragedy for a 24-year-old woman celebrating her birthday and the motorcycle driver with whom she whizzed through Kingston’s streets late last week. Those circumstances appear to be...
Several children are singing the praises of a makeshift classroom created by sister teachers in the hills of Bull Bay, St Andrew, to release them from the frustrations of online schooling. Kimberlee Woods and Karen Wright are at the heart of the...
A high-level corruption probe has been launched into the mysterious disappearance from police custody of a Jamaican fugitive wanted in St Lucia for murder and gun crimes, with preliminary indications that lawmen might have been complicit in the...
A targeted man who escaped the wrath of gunmen during a drive-by shooting in Kintyre, St Andrew, last Friday was shot and killed by a lone gunman in the community on Monday afternoon. The deceased is 28-year-old Darren ‘Percy’ Cousins, a resident...
Nineteen days after the gun murder of his son, a distraught father claims investigators have not acted on useful information and he agrees with Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ hyperbolic advocacy for the death penalty for persons convicted of...
talks are still ongoing among Jamaica, Colombia and Haiti in relation to the transfer of Colombian fugitive Mario Palacios Palacios but it is unclear how soon the fate of the man fingered in the July 7 assassination of then Haitian President...
Physicians are reaffirming the need for Jamaicans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as a new variant deemed highly transmissible has already triggered the imposition of travel restrictions in several southern African states, this as the United...
The developers of a Corporate Area housing project have been forced to invest heavily in beefing up security with children being among thieves targeting the development, making off with windows and doors. William Lai, president and CEO of World...
A number of commanders have said that since the Government imposed states of emergency (SOEs) in seven police divisions two Sundays ago, more residents have been feeding them with information as the gangsters flee the space. The disclosure was made...
An early-morning fire on Tuesday flattened a tenement building along Hanover Street in Kingston, putting a damper on plans for Christmas cheer for some residents, while others have been plunged further into poverty having lost all their possessions...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes received a resounding thank you from the hungry group of accused One Don gangsters yesterday after his intervention yielded news that they will be allowed to consume food prepared by relatives starting today. The accused,...
Members of the security forces operating in the Corporate Area are peeved at the recent declaration of states of emergency (SOE), lamenting the distress among officers who are being asked to make do with insufficient resources. Kingston Western was...
An inconsolable girl who witnessed a gunman, posing as a customer, murder her grandaunt at close range on Wednesday is wracked with guilt after letting him inside their Passage Fort Drive yard. The tragedy unfolded after the gunman gave the...
Lottery scammers and obeah practitioners in western Jamaica are reportedly buying up snakes, thus sparking a market for their capture, a survey conducted by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has unearthed. The island has eight...
A Jamaican man who was a state witness in a high-profile gang trial has got himself in trouble with the law in the territory to which he was dispatched under the Government’s witness protection programme but claims he is being shunned by local...
Ground has been broken for a state-of-the-art forensic pathology autopsy suite at 149 Orange Street in Kingston. The project is expected to cost taxpayers over half a billion dollars and should be completed in 15 months. Minister of National...
The defence for Pathways International murder accused Andre Ruddock was yesterday instructed to officially write to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to enquire whether his wallet could be returned to him, following a request yesterday....
A courier service business operator is calling on the police to thoroughly investigate the murder of her best worker, 28-year-old Damique Mullings, who was gunned down while driving a motorcycle in St Andrew yesterday. At about 11 a.m. yesterday,...
A hairdresser brutally attacked in downtown Kingston last Thursday died at the hands of a gunman who, it is theorised, mistakenly pumped bullets into her as she sat in front of a wholesale attired in clothing similar to their intended target’s....
Talks for the removal and compensation of residents of an informal settlement along Portland Avenue in Riverton apparently may have taken a deadly turn after a businessman co-opted as a negotiator between the owners and residents was killed on...
In chilling evidence laid before the court, accused murderer Andre Ruddock was one of two archangels ordained by Kevin O. Smith, now-deceased pastor of the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries, and was instructed to perform a...
A close relative has disclosed that help was being sought from as early as last Thursday for a now-hospitalised former Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier after he began exhibiting signs of strange behaviour. The former army man, who is believed to...
Nearly a year after the Gordon Town main road in St Andrew suffered a major breakaway during heavy rainfall last November, the roadway was officially reopened yesterday with stakeholders singing praises that it was completed within budget....
The family of a 28-year-old Jamaican who was killed in Trinidad and Tobago over a week ago is not ruling out the possibility that his death could have been related to a deadly gang war in his Bentley Lane, Kingston, community, although they have...
