The 85-year-old mother of businessman Robert Fletcher, who was killed at his Old Hope Road sports bar in St Andrew on Monday, said she has refrained from visiting the location ever since her husband was murdered there. Now, Pearl Fletcher’s...
During her hot streak, Andrea Gordon transferred $7,278,234.36 from the accounts of National Commercial Bank (NCB) in four months, from December 2019 to April 2020. And it was that series of transactions that drew heat from the police and bank...
A brother of the businessman who was gunned down at his Old Hope Road bar on Monday said that a history of violence has haunted the family, with Robert Fletcher being the third relative killed at the location. The murder trail led the police to the...
A man has been warned for prosecution after a fatal crash reportedly claimed the life of his friend, a taxi operator, he was transporting to hospital, after a drive-by on Lincoln Avenue on April 25. The dead man is 38-year-old Ricardo Bailey,...
A central Jamaica teacher was fleeced of $30,000 by crooks behind a virtual store she found via social media in her quest to buy a phone. Wendy Moore* is using her unfortunate experience to warn others of the scam that has left her embarrassed. “I...
Owen Dixon was a picture of grief as he lay on the grave of his late nephew taking selfies against the backdrop of emblazoned photos of the soccer star on the headstone on February 26. Dixon last saw Rushawn Duncan alive in the Cayman Islands in...
When Andrew ‘Oh Lord’ Andrews’ grandson dug a hole and placed a sculpture of two bodies beside it, residents of Mount Ogle in St Andrew were baffled. Little did they know it was an omen for what was to come. The grandson was yesterday arrested...
Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said that the alarm raised over a missing vial containing 10 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, could be overblown as it is just “one...
When Waterford residents saw Stephanie Hamilton wandering around the community naked on Sunday, nobody fathomed it was the last time the mentally ill woman would have been seen alive. The shock was palpable when a resident asked aloud on Tuesday, “...
“What have they done with my sample?” That’s the question bugging mental health nurse Angela James after an apparent bungling in the testing chain at the University Hospital of the West Indies resulted in her not getting her COVID-19 result and...
Scores of patients and medical personnel at the National Chest Hospital in St Andrew had to scamper for cover yesterday after a prisoner disarmed a policeman and shot another before escaping from the premises. The prisoner, Ricardo Richards, also...
Friday the 13th has for decades been a date of dread and danger, but a relative of Jamaica’s first COVID-19 patient remembers that day in March 2020 as the pivotal moment that redefined her family’s lives. Gloria Clarke had died days earlier and...
The police are asking alleged Bedward Gardens gangster Akeem ‘Duppy O’ Thomas, who they say is a top-tier member of the Berry Gang, to turn himself in to the nearest police station immediately. On the heels of Thomas’ interview with The Gleaner...
“I don’t want to die today.” Those were the soft-spoken words of Bedward Gardens resident Akeem ‘Duppy O’ Thomas on Wednesday during a despairing phone call to The Gleaner shortly before negotiations for his surrender...
For the second morning in as many days, Kingston residents awoke to screams of “Fire!” Again, they were left to salvage a few items of value amid the rubble. Eight members of a dwelling located at 12 East Lane in Allman Town fell victim to a fate...
From a sidewalk with head in hands on Monday, Marcia Hall sat staring at smoke rising from the debris as she pondered how to regain $30,000 in tuition fees she had saved for her daughter, Alitia ‘Hope’ Williams. There was no time to think where...
Sundays – the days usually reserved for worship, rest, reflection and recreation – have been transformed into a time of chilly uneasiness for residents of Howard Avenue off Waltham Park Road in the Corporate Area, as they are almost certain to be...
Twenty-six-year old Junior Dwight Bryce walked into the Accident and Emergency Department at The University Hospital of the West Indies yesterday morning shortly after being shot outside the St Andrew-based medical facility. He died while...
The UNTIDY affairs surrounding the unauthorised procurement of Department of Correctional Services (DCS) uniforms totalling $55.6 million will be ventilated following an internal audit. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of National...
Likening the loss-making Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) to the struggling Air Jamaica which was eventually privatised in the 1990s, some transport sector players are urging the Government to downsize the state-owned bus company, which is...
A Jamaican family is in mourning after 30-year-old Tashianna Johnson-Blake was reportedly shot dead by her military husband in front their two children in Colorado, United States, on the weekend. The police have arrested the suspect, Dermot Andrew...
The police are yet to make a breakthrough into Sunday night’s murder of Calabar High jumps coach Nicholas Neufville and University of Technology, Jamaica student Rahima Stewart, whose bodies were found in an open lot in Portmore on Monday morning....
Though mourning, relatives of 36-year-old race horse jockey Marvin ‘Spread Out’ Watson blamed him for the series of events leading to his stabbing death at the hands of his partner in a phone call row in Waterford, St Catherine, on Wednesday night...
A Honda Civic motor car left abandoned at an open lot near Dawkins Drive in Portmore, St Catherine, was what aroused the suspicions of a passing relative on Monday when Raheima Edwards did not come home Sunday night. The car looked similar to – and...
In an emphatic repudiation of Jamaica’s crime-fighting strategy, three retired police commanders have criticised the sustained use of states of emergency (SOEs) as ineffective. The dour assessment was a sweeping rejection of a key weapon in the...
