Livern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

The Norman Manley High School in St Andrew.
February 2, 2026 by Livern Barrett

School flunks at caring for Child

A teacher’s failure to intervene in a verbal dispute between two Norman Manley High School (NMHS) students, before it turned physical and left one of them bloodied and missing a tooth, is a “clear…
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January 27, 2026 by Livern Barrett

DPP fast-tracks SSL case to Home Circuit Court

The attorney for one of the founders of Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL), the investment firm that collapsed amid allegations of a $4-billion fraud, has cautioned that the criminal charges laid…
Noel Maitland.
January 21, 2026 by Livern Barrett

‘Don’t let anybody tek you fi a fool’

The attorney for the policeman accused of killing popular social media personality and entrepreneur Donna-Lee Donaldson argued yesterday that several pieces of evidence in the case were “unreliable”…
Noel Maitland.
January 20, 2026 by Livern Barrett

Prosecutors urge verdict that ‘aligns with evidence’

Prosecutors recounted yesterday how the policeman accused of killing popular social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson “put on a performance” while she was still only a missing person, before…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness (right) greets Kate Forbes (left), president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, while looking on are Dionne Jennings, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security,
January 16, 2026 by Livern Barrett

‘NOT FOR THE GREEDY’

A new state programme to assist some of the most vulnerable families who were displaced by Hurricane Melissa is geared towards the needy and “not the greedy”, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has…
Johnson Smith
January 15, 2026 by Livern Barrett

Embassy in Kingston awaits ‘further guidance’ on visa edict

The United States Embassy in Kingston is awaiting “further guidance” from Washington following the decision by the American government to suspend the processing of immigrant visas in Jamaica and 74…
January 13, 2026 by Livern Barrett

Bullets bonanza

More than 4,000 bullets were allegedly found inside a St James home that was searched by the security forces last month as part of coordinated operations to arrest key figures in the alleged…
Stocks and Securities Limited founder Hugh Croskery (left), his daughter Sarah Meany (centre), and former CEO Zachary Harding.
December 29, 2025 by Livern Barrett

SSL ‘execs’ face court Jan 26

Law-enforcement officials are seeking to quell public criticisms of the near three-year investigation into the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud at collapsed investment firm Stocks & Securities…
US President Donald Trump.
December 18, 2025 by Livern Barrett

‘worst of the worst’

Eighty-four Jamaicans are among hundreds of “criminal aliens”, described by United States (US) authorities as the “worst of the worst”, who were arrested across several American states last weekend as…