With a 225 per cent increase in break-ins in at least one section of St Andrew, citizens’ associations, and the police are working to empower residents to be nosey and safeguard each other. Up to February 28, the police had recorded 157 cases of...
Transport Minister Daryl Vaz says the Jamaica Urban Transit Company’s (JUTC) expansion of routes outside of the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region (KMTR) reflects the commitment of the Jamaican Government to providing safe, reliable, and...
Live rounds seized inside the parking lot of the Manor Centre shopping mall in Constant Spring and a loaded firearm seized along Red Hills Road are the successes coming out of a predawn operation conducted by the security forces in St Andrew...
The sound of gunfire followed by screams broke the night’s silence in a section of the Stony Hill, St Andrew community commonly called ‘Bridge’ after gunmen killed a teen and wounded his father during a home invasion on Sunday night. Javed Liscombe...
Car owners are under siege as motor vehicle larceny in Jamaica has skyrocketed by 92 per cent up to February 8, moving from 60 stolen vehicles for the similar period in 2024 to 115 reports since the start of the year. That is an average increase of...
There are renewed concerns about Jamaican students bringing toy guns – some resembling real firearms – into schools, prompting heightened vigilance from the police, who are actively seizing them. Reports indicate that these toys are being sold by...
The St Andrew South police, whose division has the highest number of murders in the country so far this year, are celebrating a significant win after the dramatic capture of a fugitive who attempted to evade arrest by leaping from a balcony at a...
A little over a year after allegedly shooting two young children and killing their father before fleeing Jamaica and crossing the United States-Mexico border, a reputed gang leader was deported last Thursday. Just four days later, he was charged in...
The last three days have been agonising for the parents of Kevin Walker, as they drain their remaining energy searching for answers regarding his whereabouts since Saturday. Speaking with The Gleaner on Monday, Roy Walker, Kevin’s father, tried...
Slain veteran journalist Barbara Gayle impacted so many lives that a scholarship is being curated in her honour, spearheaded by her son, Neil Josephs, and daughter, Dr Allison Williams. The announcement was made yesterday during her thanksgiving...
The state of crime in Jamaica, was, yesterday, the focus of sharp rebuke from Pastor Dr Meric Walker, president of the East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, who likened the country to a “paradise that has gone bad”. Walker, who did not...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, a day after the arrival of 56 deportees on Jamaica’s shores, yesterday added his voice to the discussion around the looming influx of Jamaicans booted from the United States (US) as well as those seeking to return...
Courtney Wilson appeared lost as he stepped on home soil for the first time in 33 years on Thursday after he and 51 other Jamaicans landed at the Norman Manley International Airport after being deported from the United States. In fact, it was his...
A visitor to Jamaica is among two men who were killed in a brazen gun attack and robbery at a bar on Cameron Lane in Whitehall, St Andrew, yesterday. Another man was also shot and injured, about 3 p.m., when three men with guns in hand exited a...
Despite the imposition of enhanced security measures in the Corporate Area under a state of emergency (SOE), gangbangers on a motorcycle, armed with an assault rifle and a loaded pistol, carried out an attack on rival factions along a major roadway...
Fifty-five-year-old Eric Shakespeare, reported to be a former member of the United States military and deportee, became the latest fatality at the hands of the police along Mountain View Avenue in Kingston yesterday morning. The incident, which...
Investigators say they will leave no stone unturned as they probe the brazen early morning gun murder of a 12-year-old child and serious injury to his mother yesterday along Lindsay Crescent in St Andrew. The dead child is Kevaughn Fearon. His...
A grandmother and her grandchild narrowly escaped serious injuries after their two-bedroom board-and-concrete dwelling in the Downcastle area of Mount Ogle in St Andrew was set on fire early Tuesday morning, allegedly by the child’s mother. The...
The St Andrew South Police Division is leading the country in homicides following a double killing late Tuesday, one of the latest in a series of murders across the Corporate Area since the start of the year. The violence in the St Andrew South...
With a seven-day period low of nine murders during the week of Christmas, and a high of 44 during one week in November, Jamaica’s homicide numbers in 2024 averaged 22 murders per week throughout the year, leading to a reduction in homicides by 252...
Taking no chances amid a planned immigration crackdown by United States President Donald Trump as he begins his second term, a Jamaican family in Chicago has taken the precautionary step to enrol their children in private online schooling and are...
A Jamaican fugitive and illegal immigrant, wanted for his suspected involvement in a gruesome 2019 torture and arson case in Massachusetts, was arrested yesterday in a dramatic capture at Panama City Beach, Florida. Dushane Jerome Simon was located...
An expelled former member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is reportedly among the latest persons to be fatally shot during alleged confrontations with the police. Up to yesterday, civilians killed by lawmen totalled 12 since the start of the...
A probe has been launched into the stabbing and strangulation murder of a landlord, allegedly committed by his tenant, at the property where they lived on Allerdyce Road in St Andrew. The deceased man is 56-year-old Roger Evans, who was killed last...
A gun attack carried out Monday night by men on motorcycles against residents of 75 and 77 Lanes, off Waltham Park Road in St Andrew, has left the community on edge, with fears of escalating violence. The area, which falls within the St Andrew...
