A 15-year-old girl who was allegedly molested at a western Jamaica hospital by a nursing assistant last Friday was reportedly being overwhelmed by demons she was silently battling due to sexual assault by a relative in 2017, driving her to the...

A man accused of being abusive and threatening was shot dead, allegedly by his cop brother, as a bubbling family dispute reached a fatal crescendo in Lionel Town, Clarendon, yesterday. Dead is 29-year-old Alrick Williams, a labourer of Lionel Town.....

Spurred by recent gun attacks on infants as young as one year old, child-rights advocate Betty-Ann Blaine is calling on Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holness to make a bold and uncompromising statement that the nation will take a zero-tolerance stance....

A Portland carpenter who says he was framed twice and ended up spending eight months in prison 30 years ago is now seeking to have his records cleared, but is lamenting the near year-long wait for a response to his expungement application. David......

The family of 90-year-old Maud Brown is alleging that neglect by staff at the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital ultimately led to her death on May 16 at the institution. Chief executive officer (CEO) at the hospital, Dennis Morgan, declined to...

A coronavirus-linked order might have prohibited movement on Labour Day, but Stacy-Ann Donaldson and her army of child recruits just couldn’t stand by and watch for one more day as rogue residents and passers-by transform the entrance to her...

When a vendor set out to ply her wares in the Christiana Market two Saturdays ago, she had no idea that the truck in which she was travelling would have become the target of gunmen in a high-speed chase through the countryside. The random pickup......

The Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) initial plan to press ahead with the June sitting for its flagship examinations has faced backlash by the powerful United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The international organisation is urging the....

Imagine helplessly witnessing your four-year-old child being shot a few steps away from you and having to crawl on her belly to escape her heartless attackers after being shot in both legs, with the impact breaking her right foot. The child's 29-....

The recruitment chief of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has expressed grave concern at the willingness of police hopefuls to try to beat its vetting systems with bogus academic qualifications. Deputy Superintendent Dian Bartley was in the...

Spanish Town resident Annaleise Steen was hoping to make her father proud by getting recruited into the police force, but although she has the academic qualifications, her height has crushed that dream. The 20-year-old was among scores of...

With rising food prices on one front and shrinking revenues on the other precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, one of Jamaica's most senior labour experts is predicting tougher-than-usual wage negotiations ahead for public-sector workers....

That lingering disunity is cause for concern in Craig Town, one of the gritty and dense communities of the capital that could become a powder keg in the blink of an eye. Residents said that they were still in the dark about whether any suspect has....

Keith Clarke did not have a familial relationship with drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, nor did he know him, the widow of the slain businessman has revealed. Dr Claudette Clarke, who, for over a decade, has heard “a number of rumours” lin...

The HEART/NSTA Trust could be facing millions in liabilities to hundreds of current and former employees it has questionably taxed for nearly two decades under an unauthorised fuel policy, which the finance ministry has ordered to be halted. It is....

The huge boulders on the sides of the Palisadoes main road leading to the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) are supposed to be covered over with sand and storm-repelling mangroves planted on either side to fortify Kingston’s primary...

While Ryan ‘Ratty’ Peterkin and his one-time second in command, Delano ‘Prekeh’ Wilmot, the chief architects of the bloodletting and chaos along the once-vibrant agricultural belt in Cambridge, St James, have been eliminated over the past t...

Garth Herron, principal of Retrieve All-Age, has vowed to be a counterforce, doing all in his power to pull all the males in his school away from the lure of gangs and a lifestyle of crime. The multi-grade educational institution was oftentimes...

Ten months after the death of her son, Beverly Brown-Wilmot, the mother of Delano Wilmot, aka ‘Prekeh’, says she is satisfied that she did all she could to raise a law-abiding child, but despite her efforts, she could not influence his decisions...

A manhunt is underway to locate a group of men who opened gunfire on the makeshift Franklyn Town Police Station located at Cumberland Avenue in Kingston East, Thursday night. The police believe this was an act of reprisal for a fatal shooting in......