The discolouration of a section of the Rio Cobre that triggered alarm among residents of Bog Walk on Monday has been downplayed by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA). The agency said a team of investigators responded to the...
Spanish Town Mayor Norman Scott has thrown his support behind the Government’s e-commerce National Delivery System (ENDS), and is now calling for the platform to be expanded to include corner shops, groceries and more small restaurants. Speaking at...
There has been an outpouring of grief among councillors in the Portmore Municipal Corporation following the death of the Greater Portmore East Division standard-bearer, Yvonne McCormack, last Friday. The passing of McCormack, who had been serving...
The 14-year-old girl who was slain in a jealous rage by a 20-year-old who obsessed over her had engaged in acts of self-mutilation and even went missing in an apparent cry for help. That is the account of Cooper’s stepfather Andre Stewart, who told...
Andre Stewart, stepfather of Danesha Cooper – a 14-year-old Jonathan Grant High student, who died in the Kingston Public Hospital from stab wounds on Monday – said he had tried to prevent the relationship she had with her alleged 21-year-old killer...
Looking to the clock and waiting for distances in the jumps and throws to be posted were once the picture-perfect frame of anxiety that captured an athlete’s wonder at placement. Now, athletes from dozens of schools are anxiously awaiting the...
After a horrific encounter in which he was forced down a 55-ft hole, 66-year-old George Smart said he has forgiven his abductors and is ready to spend the rest of his life serving God and preaching love for humanity. The Portmore cab driver related...
Melody Francis, the fiancée of 66-year-old George Smart,who was rescued after three days from a 55-foot pit in the Jones Avenue section of Spanish Town, St Catherine, is ready to tie the knot as soon as he recovers from an ordeal in which he dodged...
The pain was palpable for Dennis Carter as he mourned the loss of his beloved daughter. Incapacitated by a stroke earlier this year, Carter, who worked as a newspaper vendor, said it would have been better if they had killed him and spared his...
Johnross Morgan had been investing in a partner plan for weeks with dreams of starting a business to offer his family “a decent life”. But the very thing that was to be the route to the 29-year-old security guard’s independence cost him his life...
The parents of 16-year-old Damar Patterson of Tawes Pen, Spanish Town, have disputed police claims that their son was the driver of the Honda motor car that smashed into a concrete utility pole in Kingston and killed all four occupants in the...
The release of Christopher Linton from prison, an acquittal, of a largely accepted to be a guilty man, a mother has labelled her son a good person. The acquittal, and the mother’s comments have been met with derision from the public, who are...
“I feel like I am out in space, don’t know where I am.” That captured the free fall into which Bishop Beverly Miller Haynes was plunged on Sunday as she sat with senior members of her church processing the shock death of former Jamaica footballer...
The mysterious shooting death of Tacius Golding High student Joel Lawman has left his parents deeply troubled and heartbroken. They are still searching for answers about the circumstances under which the 16-year-old died. Moments before Joel’s...
The acquittal of Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton has brought joy to his family, who believes that he was innocent of the charges from the very outset. Linton’s 62-year-old mother, Claris Senior, who described herself as a “born-again Christian”,...
Something just didn’t feel right. That’s the sense that gnawed away at the mind of Derrick Pryce as he travelled from Balaclava to Kingston on a Toyota Hiace minibus on the fateful Monday morning that climaxed with a deadly crash that claimed five...
Moments before bodies were flung on to the asphalt in a macabre canvas of blood and gore, the driver of an ill-fated Toyota Hiace minibus had been warned of ominous sounds that foreshadowed the carnage that would unfold late Monday morning. The...
Monday’s killing of the main suspect in the murder of police Constable Jermaine Bennett of Gregory Park, Portmore, has been greeted as welcome news to the family of the slain cop, but they say the agony of their loss has not subsided. Eugene...
A massive inter-parish security operation comprising 75 soldiers and police failed to locate missing schoolteacher Nattalie Dawkins or a fleeing suspect during a search of the Bellas Gate and Connors communities of St Catherine on Sunday. The two-...
The family of Khanice Jackson said they will not accept any sentence less than the death penalty if the suspect who has reportedly confessed to the murder of the 20-year-old is found guilty. Speaking on behalf of the family, Kevon Williams,...
The story behind the disappearance and eventual surfacing of the body of Khanice Jackson, not just hurt a nation already under severe duress, but laid bare the nature of grief, as a mother cried for vengeance on the woman’s as yet unknown...
The boyfriend of Khanice Jackson, whose body was found near an old fishing village on March 26, had warned the 20-year-old Portmore woman against taking rides to work with the main suspect in her eventual murder. Kevon Williams disclosed to The...
The mother of 20-year-old Khanice Jackson, whose body was found near a Portmore fishing village days after she went missing, wants the book thrown at her daughter’s killer. A distraught Eunice Chambers disclosed that her daughter had told her that...
COVID-19 was the last thing on the mind of Verez Brown when she ventured out to the wake of a resident who had passed in January. Little did the woman of Fairfield district, St Catherine, know that the dreaded pandemic she had sought to evade would...
John Thomas of Brown’s Hall, St Catherine, has never had the luxury of a consistent supply of potable water to his home, even after attempts were made to regularise the network in his and adjoining communities by the late 1990s. Thomas, born in...
