Government officials have pledged to apprehend those responsible for the largest illegal shipment of firearms and ammunition ever intercepted in Jamaica. Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang and the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) confirmed...
United States (US) authorities have signalled to the Jamaican Government that they have almost 4,000 Jamaicans to be deported, as part of the sweeping immigration crackdown by President Donald Trump, a top official in the Dr Andrew Holness-led...
A police constable has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle marijuana and other contraband to a detainee at the problem-plagued Central Police Station lock-up in downtown Kingston, officials have confirmed. He is one of two lawmen who were...
The time has come for Jamaica to explore an overhaul of the office of member of parliament (MP), which should include providing them with additional taxpayer-funded resources to help with national development, the country’s two main political...
A scheme that exploited a since-discarded emergency feature of point-of-sale (POS) terminals was used to defraud two Jamaican financial institutions of nearly $400 million, law enforcement and banking industry insiders have disclosed. One...
Scotiabank Jamaica has been ordered by the Supreme Court to repay more than $3.5 million it claimed was transferred to the public purse from a dormant account belonging to the late proprietor of Gloria’s Seafood Restaurant. Gloria Harris-Prawl,...
A 12-year-old boy is alleged to have been jailed overnight by cops in Trelawny after he refused to comply with their demand for the password to his cell phone. That’s the claim from the attorney for the child’s family. The series of incidents began...
A chemical used during routine preventative maintenance at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) last Friday inadvertently entered the Accident and Emergency (A...
A group of legal experts has suggested that the Government rethink punitive legislative trends and pursue comprehensive, evidence-based strategies to reduce violent crime. The suggestion by the Advocates Association of Jamaica (AAJ) comes days...
More than 150 children under age 17 were murdered while just over 4,000 were sexually assaulted in Jamaica over the five-year period that ended last year, the national coordinator for Child Month activities has disclosed. May is celebrated every...
Amid wide public debate sparked by an increase in police fatal shootings, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says his administration will never allow state forces to act in ways that “wantonly abuse” the human rights of citizens. Holness was speaking...
Jamaica could take advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) to help plug the significant shortage of human capital across the healthcare sector, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has suggested. The proposal was made yesterday at the launch of...
Just around 10 per cent of the approximately 200 facilities being operated across Jamaica as nursing homes are formally registered, the Ministry of Health and Wellness has disclosed. The estimate was derived primarily from data gathered by public...
The Easter season in Jamaica may pass without the release of a single non-violent inmate through Food For The Poor’s (FFTP) long-running prison ministry – a stark departure from a tradition that has reunited hundreds of families and offered hope to...
The group that represents used-car dealers in Jamaica has said that it has no evidence of members misusing demonstration licence plates and has challenged the Government to provide proof of abuse. Demonstration plates are issued to new and used-car...
A child molester who raped his six-year-old niece months after he committed a sex act on the child has had his 36-year prison sentence slashed in half by the Court of Appeal. The Gleaner has taken the decision not to publish his name, so as to...
Retired Jamaican police official Fitz Bailey says his appointment as police chief for the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) should be seen as part of a broader mission to enhance public safety and security throughout the Caribbean region. On Thursday...
When Heidi-Ann Williams and her teen daughter struck up a conversation while they made dinner at the family’s Clarendon home last Sunday, there was no sign of the looming heartache. Zaynah Shaw, 13, a grade-eight student at Glenmuir High School,...
The fine imposed on Leslie Campbell, the former junior foreign minister, for breaches of Jamaica’s anti-corruption laws took into account his plea in mitigation that the offences were “procedural in nature”, his attorney has asserted. Campbell, who...
A Jamaican man residing in Georgia is facing criminal charges for allegedly operating a multistate sweepstakes scam that fleeced four elderly women of thousands of dollars, United States (US) authorities have disclosed. Jimmy Smith, 30, is charged...
Two police constables accused of collecting $10,000 for not prosecuting a motorist who was allegedly driving without a licence have been arrested on corruption-related charges. Georgian Hunter and Reul Masters, both assigned to the Discovery Bay...
A Mark Golding-led People’s National Party (PNP) administration would immediately conduct a “line-by-line” examination of the programme to be funded by approximately $360 billion set aside in the 2025-2026 Budget for what has been described as “...
It was a bloody weekend on the nation’s roadways as a one-year-old child, a Canadian citizen, and two motorcyclists were killed in three separate motor vehicle crashes, according to a police report. The names of the victims were not released up to...
The Jamaican police have an outstanding warrant for the arrest of international dancehall star Mavado, a police official and the entertainer’s attorney have confirmed to The Gleaner. Mavado, whose real name is David Brooks, is wanted for assault...
Sixty-four-year-old John Bailey* is drowning in debt. The Industrial Dispute Tribunal (IDT) concluded in 2016 that Bailey, along with eight others, was “unjustifiably dismissed” by their employer, Private Power Operators Limited, in 2013. The IDT...
