Keith Clarke did not have a familial relationship with drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, nor did he know him, the widow of the slain businessman has revealed. Dr Claudette Clarke, who, for over a decade, has heard “a number of rumours” lin...

The HEART/NSTA Trust could be facing millions in liabilities to hundreds of current and former employees it has questionably taxed for nearly two decades under an unauthorised fuel policy, which the finance ministry has ordered to be halted. It is....

The huge boulders on the sides of the Palisadoes main road leading to the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) are supposed to be covered over with sand and storm-repelling mangroves planted on either side to fortify Kingston’s primary...

While Ryan ‘Ratty’ Peterkin and his one-time second in command, Delano ‘Prekeh’ Wilmot, the chief architects of the bloodletting and chaos along the once-vibrant agricultural belt in Cambridge, St James, have been eliminated over the past t...

Garth Herron, principal of Retrieve All-Age, has vowed to be a counterforce, doing all in his power to pull all the males in his school away from the lure of gangs and a lifestyle of crime. The multi-grade educational institution was oftentimes...

Ten months after the death of her son, Beverly Brown-Wilmot, the mother of Delano Wilmot, aka ‘Prekeh’, says she is satisfied that she did all she could to raise a law-abiding child, but despite her efforts, she could not influence his decisions...

A manhunt is underway to locate a group of men who opened gunfire on the makeshift Franklyn Town Police Station located at Cumberland Avenue in Kingston East, Thursday night. The police believe this was an act of reprisal for a fatal shooting in......

A gun feud between rival gangs in west Kingston and members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), just metres away from the Zone of Operations’ checkpoint at the intersection of Beeston and Oxford streets in Denham Town, left a one-year-old nursing....

WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness says some 30,000 housing solutions are to be established on government-owned lands across the island as part of efforts to reduce the decades-long issue of squatting. “We have identified several...

Western Bureau: The 15-year-old boy, who allegedly shot and killed his six-year-old cousin on Monday in a bizarre shooting incident in a yard on Dalling Street, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, was formally slapped with a murder charge late Thursday......

WESTERN BUREAU: The Government is to spend a further $328 million this year to continue the protection of the Montego Bay coastline by building more groynes and protective structures, particularly for lands dumped up years ago. The money...

WESTERN BUREAU: Thirty students at the Salt Spring Primary School in St James became happy recipients of their own tablets yesterday, courtesy of Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ Positive Jamaica Foundation. In addition to the tablets presented to.....

The Nest Children’s Home in Kingston has been equipped with a vegetable garden of cucumber and pak choi, as part of national Child Month activities. More than 1,200 children are housed in 52 residential childcare facilities across Jamaica. The.....

Commonwealth health ministers on Friday called for swift and equal access to COVID-19 vaccines for everyone around the world, particularly poorer countries. In a joint statement after their annual meeting, health ministers representing 54...

WASHINGTON,DC: Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States (US) Audrey Marks has argued that industry has a fundamental role to play in driving the green economy and charting the way towards a carbon neutral and sustainable future. She pointed out.....

A probe is under way by investigators to locate a taxi driver who abducted an 11-year-old girl on Monday and allegedly took her to Seaview Gardens, where she was raped. Reports reaching The Gleaner are that the Corporate Area student took a taxi......

That was the simple but profound appeal from Prime Minister Andrew Holness to Jamaican road users on Thursday amid the grim forecast that between 435 and an unprecedented high of 472 commuters could be killed by year end. Holness, chairman of the.....

A high court judge has refused an application by managing director of Guardsman Group, Robert Epstein, to amend his defence and to file a counterclaim in the consequential case involving the National Housing Trust and the security company as the...

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is urging health ministries across the region to heed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) advice on the use of Ivermectin regardless of the severity of COVID-19 or duration of symptoms. That warning......

WESTERN BUREAU: Twenty-one-year-old Soniman ‘Shortman’ Walker, who was wanted by the St James police in connection with the murder of an American tourist, was captured in Clarendon last Wednesday by detectives attached to the Major Investigation...