Jennifer Hayles and her family used much of Monday cleaning what was left of the Lincoln Crescent home that was gutted by a fire that tragically claimed the life of her 71-year-old father on Saturday. The inferno, which reportedly started due to a...
THE ST James police are monitoring the United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention of dancehall artiste Andre ‘Squash’ Whittaker, as it may have security implications for the already troublesome western division, which is...
FOR THE second day, strike action by teachers and public school administrators sent rippling effects across other industries with transport and food stakeholders also praying for a ‘fix’. The Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) intervened...
“GET UP, stand up,” the popular Bob Marley and The Wailers song blared from speakers of a town crier, as protesters waved banners during yesterday’s lunch hour, as they demanded a roll back of salary for the political directorate. The large group,...
THE JOY of living the American dream as a legal immigrant became a nightmare after a young teen found out the man he called daddy was not his father, following a DNA test as part of the filing process. More than a week after the results were...
DESPITE A 16.4 per cent reduction in murders year on year, with 409 reports as at April 30, this brings little comfort to families whose loved ones have fallen victim at the hands of cold- blooded killers. Among the latest to be plunged into...
Until a few months ago, Victor Andrews* had spent the last 40 years of his life living on less than $100 a day in a gritty St Andrew community. The last person from his immediate family who had been left in Jamaica, he had struggled with basic...
The management at Pavilion Jewellers is heaping praise on a member of staff who, despite her emotional state, did not comply with repeated instructions of armed thugs to open a vault during a robbery yesterday. Speaking with The Gleaner on...
After almost a decade of working to modernise the deep rural township of Quickstep in St Elizabeth with Internet connectivity, residents can now breathe a sigh of relief. Complete access was initiated last week by the Universal Service Fund (USF),...
Investigators in New York City are still searching for two men who killed a Jamaican man outside a St Albans nightclub in Queens on Saturday. The murder was caught on closed circuit television. Footage of the incident is being circulated on social...
The usually quiet school zone was reduced to the scene of a shooting, which unfolded in full view of students and parents at the entrance to Meadowbrook Preparatory School on Tuesday afternoon. Reports are that just as the St Andrew-based school...
A 30-year-old woman who was shot in her buttocks and arm yesterday is the lone survivor of an invasion by heavily armed thugs on Malvern Avenue, Kingston, which left two men dead. The dead men have been identified as 26-year-old carpenter Malcolm...
The police in the Kingston West and St Andrew South divisions are monitoring an upsurge in violence along Maxfield Avenue and in surrounding communities that border the troublesome divisions, which recorded 33 murders combined at the end of...
There was fright and anxiety among travellers of Swoop Flight WO646 from Toronto, Canada, en route to Kingston, Jamaica, on Tuesday as a fuel leak caused an emergency landing in Cuba. The flight was scheduled to land at the Norman Manley...
Thousands of dollars and cell phones reportedly stolen from the five victims in Sunday’s deadly crash along the Temple Hall main road in St Andrew have not gone unnoticed by their relatives, who are now stricken by grief as they prepare to face the...
Cuba has expressed no issue with Jamaica’s decision to end a special arrangement for visa-free transit for Cuban nationals come March 13. The travel exemption allowed Cubans a 72-hour window to be in Jamaica for transit to a third country. Rolando...
Cash deposits totalling $661,000 at Sagicor Bank’s Liguanea branch in St Andrew on September 21 and 30 last year to the account of Alysia Moulton White have proven so puzzling that her attorney, Matthew Hyatt, has requested of the court video...
Disgruntled students at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, have vowed to continue protesting as they press for Dr Nadeen Spence, student services and development manager for Mary Seacole Hall, to be placed on leave as a probe continues...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that the issue of corruption has now been made a political weapon. His comments come against the background of calls by the parliamentary Opposition for him to step aside from his role as prime minister prior...
Some landowners along Lady Musgrave Road are on edge following the issue of property acquisition notices for a government project geared at widening the thoroughfare as part of the $8-billion Capital Expenditure Programme (CAPEX). Notices were...
It was a dream that pulled former Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas from continuing in his first job as a teacher and enlisting in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), where he climbed through the ranks to land the top job in 2005. Thomas, who...
Maternal instinct drove 65-year-old Barbara Walters to brave sporadic gunfire Friday night to check on loved ones who were believed to be in harm’s way. A daughter was outside playing bingo. A grandchild was reportedly milling about. Little did...
Attorneys representing the Financial Investigations Division (FID) and Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks accused Hugh Wildman, lawyer for Ruel Reid and Professor Fritz Pinnock, of using delay tactics and misrepresentation in challenging Crooks’...
Paul Anderson, the father of Andreen McDonald, is pleading with his friends and the public not to take vengeance on any member of Andre McDonald’s family shortly after the United States army major was sentenced for killing his daughter. Both...
