The police in Hanover have charged 24-year-old decorator DeSean Hunt for sex crimes involving a teen girl. Hunt, who is from Pond Place in Hopewell, was charged on Tuesday with rape, grievous sexual assault, assault occasioning bodily harm, and...
A male suspect who shot two men, one fatally, during an attack on Market Street in Old Harbour, St Catherine this morning has been taken into custody. He was held during an operation in Old Harbour. The police report that about 8:30 a.m. armed men...
The Court of Appeal has told a man who wanted to abandon his appeal against his prison sentence for rape and gun convictions after waiting 17 years for a hearing that the sentence has already been served. Lincoln Hall pleaded guilty to the offences...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes this morning signalled his intent to dismiss the firearm evidence in relation to a gun that an ex-gangster helped the police to recover due to the shabby handling of the weapon by investigators. One of the prosecution'...
Proceedings at the St Catherine Parish Court were delayed today as the Jamaica Fire Brigade probes yesterday's fire on the roof of the administrative building. This was confirmed to The Gleaner by director of court administration Trisha Cameron...
An argument between two men at a shop in Williampiece, Hibernia district, Manchester last night turned deadly. A man identified by the alias Flups died after being chopped. His attack is being sought by the police. It is reported that both men were...
Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte and Opposition Leader Mark Golding on Tuesday clashed in Gordon House during a debate to extend the Zones of Special Operations (ZOSOs) across the country. In his contribution to...
Jamaican cop Shelian Allen who smuggled over 1,000 grams of cocaine into the United States will have to wait another six weeks to hear her punishment. Allen was scheduled to be sentenced today. However, the sentencing hearing was postponed until...
A policeman and his girlfriend, who were accused of the sexual assault of a woman at their apartment, were on Tuesday freed in the Home Circuit Court. The trial could not proceed as the woman did not turn up for court. The court was informed that...
Popular foreign exchange (forex) trader Chavez Allen, who goes by the moniker 'Pajama Billionaire', who the police said had illegally conducted a car raffle, was yesterday freed of breaching the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act. The case...
The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is expected to begin the cleaning of drains in communities across the municipality before the end of the month. Mayor of Kingston Delroy Williams said the undertaking is expected to cost...
The Ministry of Education, through its Student Assessment Unit, is seeking suitably qualified individuals to be markers for the first official electronic marking of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Grade Five assessment. Applicants must be trained...
Business development organisations (BDOs) attached to the technical assistance scheme at the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) have until the close of business on Wednesday to give a full account of their involvement in the programme. A letter...
Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean are now under the microscope of investors from the Middle East who are expected to visit the region in July to hold talks with business interests on regional tourism prospects. Minister of Tourism Edmund...
With the biannual diaspora conference currently under way, members of the diaspora with an interest in investing in their homeland want the process to be streamlined and focus placed on businesses with the potential to boost gross domestic product...
When Prince Hall’s We Believe Ministry delivered a house to Levy Neath of Harrison Town, Ocho Rios, St Ann, in November 2018, it was built in part from proceeds from his first gospel concert and marked the beginning of a journey that has seen seven...
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness says that Jamaica is ready to take advantage of potential upcoming investments in the Caribbean region, including those tied to the expansion of special economic zones that are expected to boost the...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE CORNWALL Bar Association (CBA) has strongly condemned recent remarks made by Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte that persons charged with murder will be denied bail under a new bail act that the...
Jamaica-born Justice Renatha Francis, who was nominated to be a judge in the Florida Supreme Court in 2020 but withdrew her nomination, is again nominated by Governor Ron DeSantis to sit in the state high court. Her renomination was announced on...
It was an evening of claims and refutations, agreements and disagreements, reflections and desires, and at points it got emotional and passionate. It could not be any other way, for it was the launch of long-standing social advocate Horace Levy’s...
Jamaicans in the Caribbean have mixed views about their role in diaspora matters as they try to come to terms with feelings of exclusion from the decision-making process, when compared with their counterparts in the United States, Canada and the...
CATEGORY: Sport Before the 2021 season, Elaine Thompson Herah was already among the elite in the pantheon of women’s sprinting. But last year she created history for herself and for Jamaica, with conversations now about her place among the best...
The police have imposed 48-hour curfews in some communities in Spanish Town, St Catherine, to thwart a spread of the deadly violence that gripped sections of Spanish Town in St Catherine this evening.
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Airports Authority of Jamaica, Audley Deidrick, says the aviation system needs to be keep pace with the increasing speed service delivery through e-commerce. He was addressing a panel discussion today at the eighth annual International Conference and Exhibition at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St James.
