A St Catherine pastor is on the run after he allegedly raped an 11-year-old last Thursday. The victim had been residing with her aunt in the rural community since April to facilitate online classes. The aunt of the pre-teen told The Gleaner that.....

Always wary of living in penetrable board houses during upsurges in gun violence, Sherray Barr and her infant child had sought refuge away from their Sunlight Street, Kingston 13, home that is in the cross hairs of gang violence. Barr and the child....

A St Andrew family is heartbroken after 37-year-old Joseph ‘Jojo’ Smith was killed on Saturday, allegedly by his nephew. The distraught family is pleading with Germaine ‘Kareem’ Richards, 20, who has been identified as the suspect, to turn h...

David Bloomfield was just 10 years old when he went on his first fishing expedition, but despite being robbed on the high seas by gunmen and several frightening encounters with sharks, he says he still feels much safer in the ocean than he does on.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Deploying branches and boulders and seething with rage, protesters transformed the John’s Hall and Spring Mount roads in St James into an obstacle course on Monday, forcing police and soldiers to patrol the corridor as work crews.....

The judge-alone murder trial of the man charged with the murder of then Portland Eastern Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield suffered yet another delay and was on Monday pushed to April 20 next year in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston....

WESTERN BUREAU: Westmoreland’s shortage of medical doctors has been described as a crisis, with a vocal municipal councillor charging that the parish is short of 250 physicians. Citing that Westmoreland had a population of approximately 150,000,.....

Deadly gun violence that erupted in Hermitage, St Andrew, on the weekend, has driven fear into a grieving family and forced the abandonment of a peace march in August Town. Dadrian Shaye, 33, was reportedly shot in the head and his one-room wooden....

Twenty-year-old Whitney Sinclair just can’t wait for the next crisis to conquer. The Glengoffe, St Catherine, native has bounced back better from just about every adversity and is carving out niche global markets in Africa, Europe, and North...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Relief agencies in Portland are now bracing for an influx of Haitian boat people arriving in the northeastern parish following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise and fears that the political turmoil in the CARICOM.....

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has lamented the pace of investigations and prosecutions of alleged criminals, suggesting that institutional hurdles inside and outside the police force are to blame for trial delays and acquittals. Chang....

(Associated Press): Thousands of Cubans marched on Havana’s Malecon promenade and elsewhere on the island on Sunday to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis in one of biggest anti-government demonstrations in memory......

A multiagency search was still under way late Sunday for the Fallen Star fishing boat that set sail from Honduras but disappeared in the vicinity of the Pedro Cays. Fifteen Honduran fishermen were said to be on board. Roger Lyn, director of...

Head of the Kingston Eastern Police Division, Superintendent Tommie Lee Chambers, and a group of stakeholders will be visiting Jarrett Lane today following the shooting deaths of two men and the injury of three others on Saturday night. The...

Almost a week after the revelations, Jamaicans do not know which two of their lawmakers are subjects of a major corruption probe by the Integrity Commission, even as the two main political parties admit the allegations are “serious” and they w...

A businessman has been ordered by the Jamaican high court to remove a flock of exotic birds and other pets from his home in the upper-class Norbrook, St Andrew, area after one of his neighbours complained about the noise nuisance. Alexander Haber,.....

Thirty-five years ago, David Swanson, then a 26-year-old marketing executive, and his new boyfriend, Chris, decided to take their first holiday together in the Caribbean. They chose Jamaica. Barring the rainy weather over the first three days, the.....

Hundreds of Jamaican men are deeply scarred from forced sexual encounters during childhood, usually at the hands of older women who leave trails of psychological nightmares in their wake. That is the argument from experts as the island’s multi-......

Western Bureau: It would appear that the Government’s decision to ease the strict lockdown measures, which had been keeping the entertainment sector in check since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, could backfire as a result of the rampant...

The escaped prisoner, who says that it was never his intention to kill the policeman, after disarming and shooting the cop, yesterday apologised to the injured officer and begged him and his family for forgiveness. The 30-year-old convict, Ricardo....