A St Catherine woman is beside herself in grief after her two-year-old daughter perished in a blaze on Friday morning after falling from her arms as she fled their burning house, moments after gunmen invaded the dwelling and killed her partner...

Two days ago, Phillip ‘Dolphus’ Bennett was having a party with his relatives in the Walkers Hill area of Red Hills, St Andrew, celebrating the visit of a brother from overseas. Today, the family is planning his funeral. Described as a quiet and...

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has launched a probe into an incident where a police officer allegedly pushed a man from a wall in Red Hills, St Andrew, on Friday. INDECOM Assistant Commissioner Hamish Campbell told The...

The 34-year-old man who was convicted for the gruesome 2019 murder of a Negril businessman and his Italian wife yesterday angrily chastised the judge, labelling him as “bias” and “poppy show” before he was slapped with two life sentences. �...

Residents of the Hope River Bridge area, Constitution Hill, Dallas, and other communities in St Andrew East Rural are calling for urgent road repairs in their districts, especially along thoroughfares they traverse daily to get into the capital...

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is expected to present two pivotal resolutions to its annual conference on Sunday which, if approved, will change the way the leadership corps of the 84-year-old organisation is selected. The Mark...

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton and PAHO representative Ian Stein have raised concern about the declining rate of vaccination in the Americas at a time when New York in the United States has announced a state of emergency in the.....

Cheers filled the air in the deep rural St Elizabeth community of Quickstep last week Friday as international charity Pencils4Kids and students cut the ribbons to open a newly built basic school. It was bright smiles all around as parents,...

Investigators probing the murder and disappearance of social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson are to collect more statements within a week and a half. The disclosure was made when Constable Noel Maitland, the policeman accused of killing...

A police investigation has been launched into the death of 15-year-old Jordan Gibson, a fifth-form student at Campion College. Police reports are that Gibson was attending water polo try-outs at the St Andrew-based secondary school on Thursday,...

Lieutenant General Rocky Meade’s decision to officially decline the appointment of Cabinet secretary is an indictment on the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Government, a civil-society advocate and the parliamentary Opposition have...

General secretary of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Dayton Campbell, has declared that poll numbers showing the party well behind the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will change once its election machinery is launched. “W...

President of the Police Federation, Corporal Rohan James, says rank-and-file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force are “getting restless” over the snail’s pace at which the Government’s compensation review process is moving. In a Gleaner...

WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is urging members of the security forces to shoot to kill when confronted by armed gunmen, noting that the country was spending too much to treat criminals at public-health facilities....

The police have launched an investigation into the discovery of a newborn’s corpse in the Rio Cobre and are also trying to locate the mother. The discovery of the baby girl in the vicinity of Nugent Street, popularly known as Buck Town in Spanish....

Attorney and privacy practitioner Chukwuemeka Cameron has criticised Jamaican banks for “focusing too much on going digital” and not placing sufficient emphasis on data privacy and data-processing standards that are mandated by law. Cameron was....

As school administrators and parents continue to draw battle lines in the long-running clash over students’ grooming policy, Minister of Education Fayval Williams said she is choosing to stand on the “side of discipline”. The tumultuous clash...

Cocoa Piece killer hit with assault, contraband charges Rushane Barnett, the 23-year-old who pleaded guilty to the murder of a mother and her four children in Clarendon, has been charged following an alleged confrontation with cops at the Half-......

WESTERN BUREAU: A 54-year-old man who returned to the island from England just over three weeks ago to bury his mother was shot dead by a lone gunman in Green Island, Hanover, on Wednesday night, just hours after participating in the grave-digging....

People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding says the party made several offers to St Ann South Eastern Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna prior to her announcement not to seek re-election when the current political cycle ends. Those offers....