Slain veteran journalist Barbara Gayle impacted so many lives that a scholarship is being curated in her honour, spearheaded by her son, Neil Josephs, and daughter, Dr Allison Williams. The announcement was made yesterday during her thanksgiving...
The state of crime in Jamaica, was, yesterday, the focus of sharp rebuke from Pastor Dr Meric Walker, president of the East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, who likened the country to a “paradise that has gone bad”. Walker, who did not...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, a day after the arrival of 56 deportees on Jamaica’s shores, yesterday added his voice to the discussion around the looming influx of Jamaicans booted from the United States (US) as well as those seeking to return...
Courtney Wilson appeared lost as he stepped on home soil for the first time in 33 years on Thursday after he and 51 other Jamaicans landed at the Norman Manley International Airport after being deported from the United States. In fact, it was his...
A visitor to Jamaica is among two men who were killed in a brazen gun attack and robbery at a bar on Cameron Lane in Whitehall, St Andrew, yesterday. Another man was also shot and injured, about 3 p.m., when three men with guns in hand exited a...
Despite the imposition of enhanced security measures in the Corporate Area under a state of emergency (SOE), gangbangers on a motorcycle, armed with an assault rifle and a loaded pistol, carried out an attack on rival factions along a major roadway...
Fifty-five-year-old Eric Shakespeare, reported to be a former member of the United States military and deportee, became the latest fatality at the hands of the police along Mountain View Avenue in Kingston yesterday morning. The incident, which...
Investigators say they will leave no stone unturned as they probe the brazen early morning gun murder of a 12-year-old child and serious injury to his mother yesterday along Lindsay Crescent in St Andrew. The dead child is Kevaughn Fearon. His...
A grandmother and her grandchild narrowly escaped serious injuries after their two-bedroom board-and-concrete dwelling in the Downcastle area of Mount Ogle in St Andrew was set on fire early Tuesday morning, allegedly by the child’s mother. The...
The St Andrew South Police Division is leading the country in homicides following a double killing late Tuesday, one of the latest in a series of murders across the Corporate Area since the start of the year. The violence in the St Andrew South...
With a seven-day period low of nine murders during the week of Christmas, and a high of 44 during one week in November, Jamaica’s homicide numbers in 2024 averaged 22 murders per week throughout the year, leading to a reduction in homicides by 252...
Taking no chances amid a planned immigration crackdown by United States President Donald Trump as he begins his second term, a Jamaican family in Chicago has taken the precautionary step to enrol their children in private online schooling and are...
A Jamaican fugitive and illegal immigrant, wanted for his suspected involvement in a gruesome 2019 torture and arson case in Massachusetts, was arrested yesterday in a dramatic capture at Panama City Beach, Florida. Dushane Jerome Simon was located...
An expelled former member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is reportedly among the latest persons to be fatally shot during alleged confrontations with the police. Up to yesterday, civilians killed by lawmen totalled 12 since the start of the...
A probe has been launched into the stabbing and strangulation murder of a landlord, allegedly committed by his tenant, at the property where they lived on Allerdyce Road in St Andrew. The deceased man is 56-year-old Roger Evans, who was killed last...
A gun attack carried out Monday night by men on motorcycles against residents of 75 and 77 Lanes, off Waltham Park Road in St Andrew, has left the community on edge, with fears of escalating violence. The area, which falls within the St Andrew...
The police yesterday apprehended 29-year-old Keron ‘Piggy’ Mason, an alleged notorious serial housebreaker, following a car crash on Slipe Pen Road in Kingston. According to reports, Mason, wanted for multiple larceny and burglary offences in the...
An automatic Bluetooth connection between a used car’s radio system and a prospective buyer’s cellphone helped reunite a Corporate Area man with his stolen car. The 35-year-old man had parked his 2016 Toyota Aqua Hybrid, securely locking it and...
Some 2,500 residents of Port Royal and surrounding areas are set to benefit from an enhanced water supply and distribution system, following the commissioning of a new pipeline on Tuesday. The milestone comes almost two years after the project’s...
A serial housebreaker is now the main target of detectives assigned to the St Andrew North police as they seek to turn around the 25 per cent increase in break-ins the division recorded in 2024. The police say 29-year-old Kerron ‘Piggy’ Mason, of a...
Yesterday, 96 Jamaican farmworkers departed for Canada as part of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP), continuing a tradition that has lasted nearly 60 years. Over 80 per cent of the workers are returning participants, while the...
The family of a 17-year-old boy, who is currently hospitalised after being shot by the security forces, is rejecting claims that he was among the men who allegedly fired at police officers following an illegal gun salute in Grants Pen, St Andrew,...
An autopsy performed on the body of Lisa-Gay ‘Babes’ Cobre, the Glengoffe, St Catherine woman whose remains were recovered from a shallow grave after she went missing, has revealed that she was buried alive. Cobre’s mother, Sonia Beverley, told The...
Despite facing devastating losses amounting to millions, Kediesha Miller, who owned a shop in the fire-ravaged Constant Spring Arcade, remains determined to rebuild her business and ensure that her loyal customers are not left high and dry in the...
Prospect Primary School, located in deep rural Clarendon, is set to benefit from the installation of a fully functional, state-of-the-art computer lab as a result of a fundraising and empowerment symposium by hosted by Jamaican-Canadian charity...
