Prison authorities have denied knowledge of reports that administrative action was recently taken against warders after tens of thousands of dollars allegedly confiscated from the cell of incarcerated entertainer Tommy Lee Sparta went missing. The...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has renewed its call for a full roll-out of body-worn cameras among the security forces even as it acknowledged the increased use of their own devices by some cops to record incidents and...
The police say they are aware of “deep issues” between an estranged couple that have been theorised to be the trigger for a rash of murders, shootings, and an abduction in Cassava Piece, Park Lane, and Red Hills Road. The domestic conflict has...
Arguing that the situation is worse than the authorities are admitting publicly, prisoners at three of the island’s correctional facilities are demanding that urgent attention be paid to COVID-19 outbreaks at the institutions. Inmates at two...
Two police divisional heads have vowed not to give up the fight in apprehending five escapees, three from Kingston Eastern and two from St Andrew South, the latter having been on the run for a month. Convicted criminals Roland Scully, 30, and...
Communities like Rose Town have been diagnosed as incubators for war-ready children in Kingston Western – one of the most blighted and violence-torn police divisions in Jamaica. Several streets in the community are littered with barricades – stark...
With the COVID-19 pandemic seeming to maintain its gloomy shadow over the usually busy Christmas season for a second year, retailers in downtown Kingston are not upbeat about their prospects of breaking the spell of losses and dismal sales they...
Jamaica’s homicide figures have increased by 9.7 per cent year on year, while the clear-up rate for 2021 is at a five-year low, 34.65 per cent. As of Saturday, August 28, Jamaica’s murder tally for 2021 had risen to 935, up from 852 for the...
Residents of Port Royal in Kingston were awakened yesterday to sirens and a heavy police deployment with a manhunt under way inland and along the shoreline for three prisoners who went missing before dawn. The men on the run have been identified...
Several authorised workers were miffed after being turned away from KFC locations on Sunday and were advised to use the E-commerce National Delivery Solution (ENDS) portal to facilitate quick-service food deliveries from registered businesses....
The darkest hour for a trying chicken farmer began at 12:53 a.m. on Monday, when she got a call that her happy-hour establishment in Cassava River, Glengoffe, which she opened six weeks ago, was allegedly set ablaze by arsonists. Tiffany Spence, a...
Isat Buchanan, attorney-at-law for incarcerated entertainer Vybz Kartel, has distanced himself from the Fox 5 NY exclusive two-part interview involving his client, which premiered on Wednesday night. The second part was scheduled to be aired...
Lawyers hired by a disgruntled mother have written to the Bustamante Hospital for Children to have an independent pathologist oversee the post-mortem of her two-month-old daughter who died suddenly after being admitted for a cough. The infant,...
Gunmen posing as potential buyers of an iPhone Pro 11 shot and killed the 17-year-old owner on Saturday just three days shy of his 18th birthday, plunging his family into mourning. The incident occurred along Gore Terrace in St Andrew about 12:50...
A Jamaican man currently appealing his deportation order from the United Kingdom is claiming that if he is returned to the island, his life will be in danger as notorious gangsters want him dead. The man is from a Corporate Area community within...
Investigators are probing the circumstances surrounding the early-morning discovery of two men suffering from gunshot wounds along the Sir Florizel Glasspole Highway in Harbour View, St Andrew, yesterday. They later succumbed to injuries at...
Fisherfolk at the Portmore fishing beach at Dyke Road in the St Catherine municipality are appealing to the security forces to help keep away unscrupulous individuals from the property following yesterday’s shooting of two men close to the seaside...
A Gregory Park family is mourning the loss of two relatives who were killed in separate incidents a day apart in the low-income St Catherine community, which has recorded three murders since Sunday. In the latest killing yesterday, unknown...
Residents of Ten Miles in Bull Bay, which borders two constituencies – East Rural St Andrew and Western St Thomas – say they feel slighted after years of neglect by their political representatives and the Caribbean Cement Company with the lack of...
Trench Town residents claim that their community will never return to the days of peaceful living and enjoyment following Thursday night’s senseless attack that left six persons, including a woman, nursing gunshot wounds after a drive-by shooting...
Two criminals awaiting sentencing at the Hunts Bay Police Station lock-up made a pre-Independence Day jailbreak and are still on the run. Yesterday, the leadership of the station held an emergency meeting to, among other things, ascertain how the...
A series of daring daylight killings in the usually stable community of Stony Hill, St Andrew, has placed residents and business interests on edge as they cower in fear. The citizens are appealing to the authorities to step in immediately to bring...
Freshly minted Assistant Commissioner of The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) Julian Davis-Buckle is beaming with pride and joy. The senior firefighter was also promoted to area officer for Area Two, comprising St Mary, Portland, Trelawny, and St Ann....
Nannyville Gardens in St Andrew is tense following the murder of a man who is said to have been the community leader for decades. Investigators are now piecing together possible evidence and information to land a clear motive behind the killing of...
Pressure is mounting on the Holness administration to respond to a surge in violent crimes, with murders rocketing by eight per cent year-on-year. The worrying trend comes as Opposition Spokesman on Crime Peter Bunting declared on Thursday that...
