The family of Donna-Lee Donaldson, the 24-year-old social media influencer who investigators believe has been murdered by her police boyfriend Constable Noel Maitland, is pleading with the accused to disclose where her body has been disposed of. �...

Lucretia Wilmot, the girlfriend of Hymnrancon ‘Bob’ Lewis, helped to push off a red and blue vessel from Yallahs Beach in St Thomas around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday and watched as her boyfriend and his co-worker, Franklin Campbell, set sail for White....

A mother is desperately calling for warring factions in Gregory Park, Portmore, to end a series of gunfights as her home narrowly missed ruination in a wave of arson attacks on Tuesday that destroyed three houses. In a prolonged gunfight which...

Decrying the sharp increase in road fatalities in the last four years, a senior opposition lawmaker in the Upper House has described the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch (PSTEB) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) as “an abject...

At least one cop has been reassigned over the unauthorised visit of murder accused Constable Noel Maitland by a popular dancehall entertainer and a former beauty queen. The visit, which was reportedly not documented in the station diary, occurred......

“We are not out of the woods.” That’s the warning from president-elect of the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), Dr Leslie Meade, as the nation on Tuesday recorded subvariants of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5. Omicron is a variant of SARS-CoV-2, ...

WESTERN BUREAU: AHEAD OF this weekend’s upcoming Jamaica 60 Grand Gala and other Independence celebrations, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is urging citizens to take responsibility for their safety and personal property. That caution was...

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...