‘NOT MY SHELLY’ Tearful grandfather in shock at cop granddaughter’s arrest on scamming, drug trafficking rap Jamaica Gleaner 20 Feb 2022 Mark Titus Sunday Gleaner Writer mark.titus@gleanerjm.com THE DISBELIEF was unmistakable on...
Attorneys pool to pay $5,000 DRMA fine for sick, old woman PNP rues unequal enforcement of law 19 Feb 2022 Andre Williams/Staff Reporter andre.williams@gleanerjm.com THREE ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW on Tuesday pooled together inside the Kingston and St...
Cops say hands tied in confronting mentally ill 18 Feb 2022/Kimone.francis@gleanerjm.com THE INDEPENDENT Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has expressed concern about the police’s interaction with mentally ill persons, noting t hat there...
SECOND CHANCE Meadows defends approval of gun permits to rejected applicants Jamaica Gleaner 17 Feb 2022 Kimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter DENNIS MEADOWS, the former deputy chairman of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) who is embroiled in an...
Reports are that the student went to the teacher's office to discuss her School-Based Assessment when he kissed her then had sex with her. The matter was reported to the police by the child's mother. His DNA was collected and the result had...
‘Why, Javead? Why?’ Teachers, peers reeling in shock after student’s tragic death 15 Feb 2022 /Cecelia Campbell-Livingston/ Gleaner Writer – Olivia Brown contributed to this story. cecelia.livingston@gleanerjm.com...
Chief of staff, Jamaica Defence Force, Brigadier David Smith, and the Commissioner of Police A. G. Langdon have been putting things in place to ensure that adequate systems are in place for the general election. Both police as well as soldiers will...
William R. Tolbert arrived in Jamaica as a part of his Caribbean tour to meet as many Baptists as possible. He met with the prime minister and is scheduled to address a service at the East Queen Street Baptist Church, and other official functions....
More than 4,000 persons were in attendance at the historic instalment of Princess Alice as Chancellor of the University College of the West Indies. The Princess was very convincing in her oath as she pledged to loyally and "faithfully uphold...
Secretary General U Thant's five-day visit to Jamaica was filled with meetings with dignitaries and courtesy calls. He was, however, very happy to finally arrive in Jamaica after being delayed due to a situation in Congo. Published Saturday,...
U Thant, secretary-general of the United Nations, spent five glorious days in Jamaica. He met with several dignitaries at functions that were kept in his honour. For feedback: contact the Editorial Department at ...
Wildlife officials managed to assist the woodland creature, help get him “freed” from the bucket and send him on his merry way with help from the Utah Department of Natural Resources. It is believed that the deer was helping herself to...
Adams County animal rescuers at Wildlife Works were unsure if the animal brought to their attention was merely a pooch needing shelter from the cold or something else, like a wild coyote. After being treated for mange, breaking free from its cage...
Perdasdefogu, a village on the Italian island of Sardinia, will host a party of an expected 1,765 guests to mark the 100th birthdays of Vittorio Lai and Piuccia Lai this month, taking the total of centenarians in the town to ten. Luisa Salaris,...
Nikola – who was built to replicate a small boy – has been put together by researchers at the RIKEN Guardian Robot Project and through the ‘muscles’ – controlled by 29 pneumatic actuators – he can display anger,...
The Washington State Patrol caught a driver using the high-occupancy lane on the highway with a model skeleton – decked out in a fluorescent hoodie – as his qualifier. To be able to legally drive in that lane, drivers need to have a...
DUBLIN – It has been 30 years since world leaders gathered in Rio de Janeiro and agreed on a set of measures to start the global mobilisation against human-caused climate change and to meet the imperative of a more sustainable development...
MOUNTAIN VIEW: A few years ago, I was in Lagos to see Alphabet’s digital skills programmes at work. There was excitement for the future of technology in Africa and all the jobs and opportunities it could bring. From jobseekers learning new...
LOS ANGELES: Russia’s large-scale military mobilisation on Ukraine’s border has grim historic precedents. But should the Kremlin pull the trigger, it will encounter a hazard that no invading army has ever faced before: 15 nuclear power...
NEW DELHI: The main factor limiting the global recovery is not the much-discussed increase in inflation in advanced economies, which is likely to be transient, but rather the massive inequalities between most rich countries and the rest of the...
KUALA LUMPUR: The 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite attracted a global audience for its arresting portrayal of South Korea’s stark income inequality. The movie’s rendering of a low-income household’s acute sense of alienation...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist's pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past's line-up of cartoons as...
JFF grossly incompetent Jamaica Gleaner 10 Feb 2022 IF, INDEED, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) filed a complaint with world football’s governing body, FIFA, over its allegation that Costa Rica wrongfully used COVID-19-positive players...
Seven-year-old Gabrielle Baker has been fighting cancer for the last three years. She has also lost her hearing and is suffering from another rare illness but remains a cheerful and spirited child. 7-y-o fights cancer, deafness, flesh-eating...
A CHILD KILLER’S CONFESSION Jilted ex details chilling plot to murder 8-y-o boy to hurt mom Jamaica Gleaner 13 Feb 2022 Livern Barrett Senior Staff Reporter livern.barrett@gleanerjm.com He insisted that he did not want to harm his former...
