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Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:09:17 -0500
Murder machines
The One Don Gang, a faction of the feared St Catherine-based Clansman Gang, was painted on Monday as a well-organised and ruthless criminal enterprise that carried out a slew of murders and arson attacks across the parish. Prosecutors pressed home.....

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:09:50 -0500
Educators optimistic as Pfizer favourable for under-12s
News that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been found to induce a robust immune response in children between five and 11 years old in a clinical trial has triggered a weary sigh of relief among educators hopeful that this latest victory...

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:10:08 -0500
Golding blames COVID for ratings slump
The People’s National Party (PNP) continues to sink deeper into the political wilderness, taking a severe hit to its positive performance rating over a one-year period. An RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll showed the Opposition party...

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:08:34 -0500
Father traumatised at sight of badly beaten 3-y-o son
When Dewayne Cameron received a call on Saturday that his three-year-old son, Jamarie, was allegedly badly injured in a domestic dispute in St Catherine, he became so angry that he had to discontinue his participation in a video shoot under way....

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:10:15 -0500
Residents, villa clash over access to Bluefields Beach
WESTERN BUREAU: A group calling itself Friends of Bluefields Beach in Westmoreland has threatened to take civil action against a prominent business operator in the community if a chain-link fence erected last week is not removed, claiming that it.....

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:08:41 -0500
‘Comfort is better than this’
Having been born and raised in Comfort, Manchester, Lisa Thomas has witnessed the decline in the unity among residents, who once made the area lively with an enviable community spirit, and yearns for a return to those days. In May 2014, her brother....

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:10:22 -0500
Jakes Hotel marks 100% vaccination
WESTERN BUREAU: Throwing hesitancy out the door and embracing the COVID-19 vaccines, Treasure Beach’s Jakes Hotel and its Jack Sprat restaurant are the country’s first resort to fully vaccinate all their employees. Some 120 people are employed t...

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:10:04 -0500
As civil servants OK 4% hike, JTA wary of inflation
With the Government’s inflation target at risk of breaching the upper limit of six per cent over the next year, the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) is sounding a note of caution that a four per cent salary increase for its membership is a no...

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:09:58 -0500
Vax drive for St James lock-ups delayed
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Health Department’s planned COVID-19 vaccination campaign for prisoners in the parish’s police lock-ups has been pushed back by a month to allow for completion of an ongoing education drive. Lennox Wallace, the paris...

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:11:32 -0500
CLANSMAN COMES TO COURT
With the slim success that the Jamaican authorities have scored over the last three years with the prosecution of four criminal organisations, much rides on the ability of the much-touted anti-gang legislation to secure convictions against 33...

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:09:27 -0500
PM takes flak as investors pull out of billion-dollar downtown project
Fatigued by dithering across political administrations for almost a decade, a coalition of deep-pocketed investors has pulled out of a multibillion-dollar commercial project that was targeted as the axis of the redevelopment of downtown Kingston.......

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:11:48 -0500
UK vaccine snub
The United Kingdom does not recognise the vaccine code for Jamaica, causing locals who are fully inoculated against COVID-19 to be designated unvaccinated on arrival in that European country. The majority of Jamaicans have been vaccinated with the.....

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:11:06 -0500
Slain Comfort mom of two warned to flee after house firebombed twice
A grieving Ean Richards is still wishing that his daughter, 32-year-old Annakaye Richards, had heeded his agonising plea to flee for her life from Comfort, Manchester. About an hour after warming Annakaye’s dinner and bidding her farewell on...

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:09:19 -0500
Bloody borderlines
On Tuesday, September 7, a coronavirus no-movement day, heavily armed gangsters from Stevens Lane traded bullets in the Chinese Cemetery on Waltham Park Road with rival gunmen from Pretoria Road affiliated with the Spade Corner Gang. The fury was a....

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:10:43 -0500
Cops on high alert after sergeant gunned down
The National Intelligence Bureau has warned police personnel in the St Catherine North Division to be on the alert in the wake of a fatal attack on a cop in Gregory Park, St Catherine, early Sunday. The advisory coincides with today’s start of the...

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:10:03 -0500
Gang violence cripples vaccination blitz
Gang violence in the St Andrew South Western constituency is crippling efforts to drive up vaccination against COVID-19 in several communities there, increasing concerns that the most vulnerable may be left behind. The constituency, represented by.....

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 16:36:05 -0500
Masking a struggle
Although most Jamaicans believe mask-wearing – not vaccines – is the most effective tool to fight the deadly COVID-19, it is also the one the majority of people admit they struggle to comply with, an RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll has...

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 16:35:24 -0500
Good Samaritan left disabled after machete attack
A father of four young children cannot come to terms with how he was chopped several times, resulting in the loss of use of both hands while doing a good deed for one of his co-workers on June 13, 2019. Christopher Perkins, 34, shook his head and.....

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 16:35:07 -0500
Portmore’s dark side
There is a dark side of the Sunshine City that often goes unseen – a side woven by egregious criminals bent on turning the municipality into a bloodfest. For some 300,000 Jamaicans facing the challenges of COVID-19, the dormitory coastal...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:11:57 -0500
‘DOUBLE STANDARD’
There is a “very obvious double standard” in the police’s handling of an investigation into alleged breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) by fallen Agriculture Minister Floyd Green and others connected to the governing Jamaica L...



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