POLICE ARE describing the man at the centre of Thursday’s big gun find in Trelawny as a known “violence producer” who has strong links with criminal gangs in western Jamaica. The man, 36-year-old Kevin Carpenter, was shot fatally after alleged...

Ethical hackers who find vulnerabilities on government or private websites in Jamaica could face a $3-million fine and three-year prison sentence if a provision in the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, remains and receives the nod from Parliament. That...

Placard-bearing supporters of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in St Ann North Eastern protested against incumbent Member of Parliament Marsha Smith on Thursday, calling for their party’s leader, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, to remove her a...

Illegal cabbies who ply the St Mary to Half-Way Tree route have lamented being locked out of regularisation as hackney taxi operators for the last 30 years. That shutout has been partly blamed for the prosecution of their colleague, 26-year-old...

Residents of Parade Gardens in Kingston Central are looking forward to restoring a long-lasting peace in their community with several social-development partners lined up to execute the ‘clear, hold, build’ ethos of the zone of special operation...

General secretary of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Dayton Campbell, has reportedly apologised for his characterisation of Jamaica Labour Party Chairman Robert Montague “as the leader of the black section of the JLP”. Political Ombudsma...

WESTERN BUREAU: CITING THURSDAY’S big firearm bust and lottery-scamming arrest, plus the capture of several wanted men in recent days across western Jamaica, Senior Superintendent Vernon Ellis, head of the St James Police Division, said the...

Residents of Buxton Town, Wakefield, are mourning the brutal predawn attack on a couple in which a woman was hacked to death and her partner wounded. Dead is Madeline O’Sullivan, otherwise called ‘Mumus’, a 63-year-old labourer of the St Cathe...

Slamming the Government’s thrust to establish Portmore into a parish as “nonsensical”, the municipality’s mayor, Leon Thomas, says the move is merely an attempt to gain control of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation. But government membe...

The heroics of 30-year-old Kemar ‘Doggie’ Campbell Wednesday have led to him being hailed as a hero after he mounted a utility pole to the rescue of a Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) contractor electrocuted by power lines in his Arnett Gar...

President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, Winston Smith, is cautioning the Ministry of Education and Youth not to use fees for the licensing of teachers to help fund the operations of the proposed Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC). His comments...

PORT MARIA, St Mary: The return of sunshine Wednesday only served to reveal that dark times were not yet over for Port Maria after three days of torrential rainfall, which triggered widespread devastation and floods, left sections of the St Mary...

Twenty-two-year-old Malika Allen is determined to blaze a trail of her own, despite loss, financial challenges, and other hurdles. Come August, she will commence PhD studies in neuroscience in the United States. Allen grew up in Meadowbrook, St...

The Office of the Supervisor of Insolvency (OSI) has reported that since the COVID-19 pandemic, 44 individuals and companies have sought protection under its regime. The OSI is a department under the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: HEALTH AND Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has announced that the Government will soon launch an official calendar of events for which persons fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be eligible to attend. Tufton made the...

Gunmen firing indiscriminately inside a shop along Featherbed Lane in Spanish Town Tuesday night killed one man and injured two others, including a 15-year-old Ascot High schoolboy who is hospitalised in serious condition. The incident, which...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE TRELAWNY police have confirmed the arrest of one of the main suspects in the murder of an elderly farmer, whose charred remains were discovered in Clark’s Town about 1 p.m. on Monday. “We have managed to apprehend one of the....

WESTERN BUREAU: American Airlines has added Austin, Texas, to its United States-Montego Bay (MBJ) route and will commence flights between the cities as at June 11. The airline, the number-one carrier into the island, already operates a service to......

Three of Jamaica’s top investigative bodies have turned their searchlights on the real estate market where ill-gotten money is being channelled to fund construction projects. Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang told his parliamentary...

The unlicensed taxi operator nabbed after taking several passengers on a daredevil ride Monday in a bid to elude the police is reportedly a repeat traffic offender who had more than a dozen unpaid tickets. Jamoy ‘Massive’ Pusey, 26, was cornered...