Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon has praised the smooth start to the new academic year, citing early disbursement of funds and strong parental turnout – particularly from fathers – as encouraging signs of progress in Jamaica’s education...
The St Thomas police and the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) are investigating the circumstances surrounding a shooting incident involving a woman and her partner, a police corporal assigned to the Seaforth Police Station. Sources...
Cordel Hylton is counting his blessings after he was spared the worst of a late-evening fire that engulfed a building along East Street in downtown Kingston that houses his headstone business. At least one other occupant of the building, who was...
A pall of gloom fell over the afternoon in the rustic community of Mount James in St Andrew yesterday as the bodies of two men, one on the ground and the other in a stream, lay lifeless. They were killed hours apart in an apparent murder and...
A nationwide manhunt is under way to recapture eight prisoners who escaped custody early Tuesday morning from the Constant Spring Police Station lock-up in St Andrew. As at press time last night, none of the fugitives had surrendered to authorities...
With police fatal shootings increasing by 111 per cent for the first seven months of 2025 compared to last year, the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is continuing to express grave concern about the non-use of body-worn cameras (...
The St Andrew North police have recorded a 225 per cent increase in seizure of illegal firearms since the start of the year. The latest gun seizure occurred Sunday at a dance along Mannings Hill Road. Superintendent Randy Sweeney, head of the St...
Educator and coach Tamara Williams-Gayle was the surprise star of Merl Grove High School’s graduation ceremony last Thursday when she was unexpectedly recognised for the life-changing impact she had on a student who once struggled to find her...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing the fatal shooting of a man in the wee hours Thursday at the Sun Coast Beach Club residential complex in Bull Bay, St Thomas. Information reaching The Gleaner is that the police...
Investigators assigned to the Major Investigation Division (MID) are probing, among other matters, whether stolen illegal firearms are the motive behind a double murder on Tuesday night in Mount Salus, St Andrew. The Gleaner understands that one...
School principal Zonett Smith is hoping the Guidance Building at Ferguson Primary and Infant School in deep rural Manchester will get the support it needs to refurbish the roof that was destroyed during Hurricane Beryl. The school has been...
As Euon Douglas-Graham yesterday clutched a framed picture of her daughter, 20-year-old D’Johnnay ‘Moya’ Graham, who was killed hours earlier at their home during a domestic violence incident, the grieving mother questioned whether she was in a...
Operations along the industrial corridor of Spanish Town Road in St Andrew came to a standstill yesterday after a massive fire, believed to have been sparked by a gas tanker, quickly spread to nearby premises. The blaze, which raged for nearly...
Veteran entertainer Sheron ‘Ruffian’ Peterkin, who is now a little over a week into her near 14-year prison sentence for firearm-related charges, has been revealed to have come on the police radar following a major Beryllium robbery in Portmore, St...
Some five decades after its predecessor was destroyed by fire, Jamaica’s state-of-the-art government forensic pathology autopsy suite was reopened on Thursday, aiming to tackle a mounting backlog of more than 300 autopsies. However, while plans are...
Several parents, whose children either still, or formerly attended, the Phoenix Academy Jamaica, have retained attorneys and filed a complaint with the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) over an investment programme being run...
It was no ordinary homecoming for at least two Jamaican deportees who returned on a United States deportation flight yesterday. One deportee, overcome with emotion, wept as he reunited with about 15 relatives who had gathered, eagerly awaiting his...
Prudence Griffiths could barely stand, her body trembling with grief as she left the scene on Melvin Avenue in Gregory Park, St Catherine on Thursday. It was there, inside a long-abandoned vehicle, that her worst fears were confirmed – the badly...
Two women died from gunshot wounds while a third was injured by gunmen in separate incidents between last Saturday and Thursday. One man was also killed in one of the incidents. Brittanya ‘Tashna’ Ranike, mother of three, succumbed to gunshot...
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says Jamaicans can expect a flood of surveillance cameras as the Government ramps up its technology-driven approach to crime fighting. Responding to repeated public questions about the JamaicaEye programme and...
It was a moment deserving of high fives on Saturday as police personnel of varying ranks within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) lay down their weapons and put their athletic prowess on display, working together for a common goal outside of...
The family of 20-year-old Shamar Riley joined Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) in a protest against police violence in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, on Tuesday, armed with secretly recorded video footage they claim shows the moments before his fatal...
Fatal police shootings have now surpassed 100 since the start of the year, with April alone accounting for 24 incidents so far, according to data published by the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM). As of April 25, a total of 105...
The normalisation of violence and glorification of guns in the Jamaican culture are sending a dangerous message to children, warns Richard Troupe, director of Safety and Security at the Ministry of Education and Youth. Speaking on Thursday at the...
