Political psychologist and university lecturer Dr Christopher Charles has blasted local politicians, saying that they are complicit in the smuggling of illegal guns across Jamaican borders, and insists that the United States (US) has no obligation...
Some of the 17 CCTV systems installed to watch over the volatile May Pen square in Clarendon are out of order, limiting one of the strategies implemented to catch criminals and deter lawlessness in the parish capital. The cameras were set up across...
May Pen has become a prime battleground for criminals who use the bustling commercial hub as an OK Corral to carry out brazen daylight attacks like the Hollywood-style heist near Guinep Tree two Sundays ago. Many shoppers and sellers are avoiding...
Police in the Corporate Area had their hands full yesterday, following two shooting incidents since Tuesday that left a man dead and another injured, with Old Hope Road and Maxfield Avenue communities engulfed in fear. Onlookers at the Old Hope...
Jamaican surgeons were yesterday urged to be more socially accountable and to embrace new technology in order to support the continued evolution of their profession. The directive was made by senior surgeons at the 61st Annual Clinical Conference...
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is steadily improving its human and technical resources, and part of its efforts include bolstering academic training and accreditation through local and international partnerships. Last Tuesday, the military signed...
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard’s capacity to collar smugglers and carry out search-and-rescue operations was further bolstered yesterday with the handover of two additional vessels from the United States (US). The vessels – a Boston...
Patrons at a bar near South Camp Road in Kingston were left in mourning yesterday as news surfaced about the death of Constable Toddmar Allen, who was assigned to the Mobile Reserve located nearby. Allen was among patrons at another bar in...
There is disquiet within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) that three cops involved in last week’s controversial high-speed chase and shooting in Spanish Town, St Catherine, are being used as scapegoats to shield unorthodox policing methods...
There are renewed calls for more police duties to be outsourced to private security companies as the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) continues its drive to bolster its boots on the ground. The JCF says there are just over 11,000 policemen and...
Public sensitisation should consume the bulk of a $500,000 donation to the National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons (NATFATIP) by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA). Meanwhile, the JHTA donated...
Raindrops poured down on the zinc roof of the Open Bible Church in Port Antonio yesterday, as if offering empathy to the hundreds grieving the passing of Dr Lynvale George Bloomfield, member of parliament (MP) for East Portland. Bloomfield was laid...
When newly married Mary Samuels and her husband, Winston, found out they could not have children of their own, the couple opted to become foster parents – a decision they would make again 56 years later if they are given the opportunity. Mary...
Work has resumed at Caribbean Cement Company quarries in the hills of Bull Bay, even as a major police-military operation in the St Andrew East Rural constituency has failed to nab anyone involved in at least five murders in the community since...
The high number of domestic violence cases reported in some affluent communities in upper St Andrew is being quietly reported as the reason the police have decided to base the island’s second Domestic Violence Intervention (ICARE) Centre at...
Member of Parliament for St Andrew Southern Mark Golding yesterday urged residents protesting Sunday’s fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in the Maxfield community to do so peacefully and to refrain from blocking the major thoroughfare. There...
A Jamaica-born politician in the United States is urging the State to pump more resources into impoverished war-torn communities such as her hometown, Bull Bay, St Andrew. Marcia Ranglin-Vassell, a Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of...
Plagued by an influx of homeless persons to the capital city, the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Council (KSAMC) yesterday reiterated its resolve to find solutions for the problem this year.Mayor of Kingston Delroy Williams gave the reassurance...
A motorist who survived a crash, which left two persons dead last year, is calling for new legislation to require mandatory periodic refresher courses for drivers.The motorist, whose name is being withheld as the deadly crash is still being...
Almost one year to the day after a fire ravaged the property they called home, killing an elderly woman and leaving dozens homeless, residents of a tenement yard on Slipdock Road in east Kingston say they will be in no hurry to go to sleep tonight."...
It is a scourge for many inner-city communities across the island: perverts taking aim at children and demanding or coercing them into sex.But in the section of the west Kingston community of Fletcher's Land, known as 'Diplomats' Corner', residents...
Faulty electrical cords and problematic toys are among the main items that the National Compliance Regulation Authority (NCRA) has rejected in recent months in the lead-up to the traditional heavy spending for the Christmas season. NCRA was formed...
For more than a decade, residents of Davidson Avenue and surrounding areas in the section of Drewsland which houses the football field, have lived without a justice of the peace (JP) in their midst. Now they say this is making their lives miserable...
Residents of several communities within the St Andrew South Police Division are breathing a sigh of relief following the fatal shootings of two high-profile gangsters who the police say have been terrorising the area in recent years.The police said...
Dr Clover Baker-Brown, spokesperson for the Montego Bay, St James-based advocacy group Sarah's Children, has described as outrageous and frightening reports of the almost 13,000 cases of child abuse reported to the Child Protection and Family...
