It was extremely emotional for a mother who reportedly had not seen her son for “years now” as she positively identified him in a body bag at a gruesome scene on Maxfield Avenue on Monday. Her son and another man were killed execution style in ...

Amid a row over vandalism claims and political sabotage in Waterford, Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas has declared as graffiti any unauthorised paintings on public property, even if they are for the promotion of Jamaican culture. Fenley Douglas,...

The Bahamas is courting Jamaican farmers and producers to help boost the archipelagic state’s food security, noting that the CARICOM nation imports almost 90 per cent of its food supply. The call was made on Sunday by Leroy Major, executive...

Keith Slayter made the Emancipation Day celebrations in Top Hill, St Catherine, a family affair as he brought his nine- and 15-year-old sons to see donkeys race for the very first time in their lives. Slayter, who travelled from Kingston for the...

Outgoing Clarendon Custos William Shagoury on Sunday poured scorn on the popular Parish Pavilion Competition at the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show, suggesting that dishonesty has resulted in the essence of the contest being lost....

WESTERN BUREAU: Three men were held and two others are being sought after more than $2 million worth of gadgets stolen from partygoers in Negril on the weekend were recovered when a smartphone tracking feature led police to the gang of suspected...

A mother of five and her common-law husband were among three persons shot dead by gunmen in Hanover on Emancipation Day. The victims have been identified as 35-year-old shopkeeper Venesha ‘Lisa’ Oreggio and her partner, Miguel ‘Elder’ Wilmot...

WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden expressed hope on Monday that the killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri brings “one more measure of closure” to families of the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Biden mad...

The thousands of mourners who swarmed Chapelton on Sunday to bid a sombre farewell to the butchered Cocoa Piece family of five offered an outsize national rebuke to Jamaica’s crisis of domestic crime. But for six-year-old Beulah All-Age student....

A day after residents protested against a chemical spill that killed hundreds of fish in the Rio Cobre, de facto Environment Minister Matthew Samuda has threatened to hit bauxite mining company Windalco with financial penalties. The Government has.....

As the relatives of the Cocoa Piece five sought closure with the final rites at Sunday’s funeral, organisers and mourners were engaged in a battle of wills as Clarendon College convulsed with emotion. A sea of humanity flooded the school compound....

President of the People’s National Party, Mark Golding, has dismissed suggestions that the lawsuit filed by anti-fee crusader Fitz Jackson against Scotiabank could trigger a fallout in campaign funding. Jackson, opposition member of parliament for...

Shereka Bryan held her eight-year-old son closer to her as she pondered the plight of what had happened to her friend, 31-year-old Kemesha Wright. Trying to make sense of the carnage that led to Sunday’s funeral of Wright and her four children in...

As Jamaica’s Court of Appeal celebrates its 60th anniversary, Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck has reaffirmed his belief that the body is capable of serving as the island’s final appellate court. Currently, the Judicial Committee of the Privy.....

The Government is having difficulty selling millions of dollars’ worth of real estate forfeited under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) as buyers shy away from purchasing a former gangster’s paradise. “We have well over a billion dollars’ wor...

Looking at the country’s current murder rate, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has admitted that in hindsight, he would have cautioned Prime Minister Andrew Holness against promising Jamaicans that they would be able to sleep with their....

Preparing the bodies of a slain mother and her four young children for burial today has been the most difficult task veteran mortician Trevor Witter has faced in his life. It has left him very emotional and heartbroken. “The process was lengthy,....

Chantal Blake McCalla vanished almost seven months ago, leaving four young children without a mother. Similar to the case of missing social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson, her last known contact was with her husband, businessman Shane...

His résumé could cause one to believe that Danville Walker has had nomadic tendencies since returning to Jamaica in May 1997 to head the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ). But truth be told, he does not believe in hanging around once his expertise...

Sandra Gipson stands today as a resilient woman who survived trafficking and child sexual abuse at the hands of relatives. With hopes for a better life, the then-14-year-old left Jamaica on a three-month visa for Florida in January 1979 to live...