Criminal defence lawyers weary of Parliament granting powers of appeal to the country’s main prosecutorial body need to “grow up” and enter the 21st century, Paula Llewellyn, the state’s chief prosecutor, has argued. “The pendulum of just...

A 54-year-old Clarendon woman who bears the scars of maternal love may be at death’s door if she doesn’t get her schizophrenic son readmitted to rehab. The cry comes as the mother says she was beaten within an inch of her life on Monday by her ...

The image of a bloodied five-year-old with his pants torn off, shirt soaked in blood, and flesh torn from his arm and head shook Jamaicans on November 16 last year, when The Gleaner broke the story of Mickele Allen being mauled by dogs in St D’Acr...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has laid the blame for some of the ills that now characterise everyday life in the country on the poor quality of education being delivered in schools. Giving the keynote address at a ceremony to officially rename the.....

While the number of tips to the National Crime Prevention Fund (Crime Stop) fell by roughly a third last year as the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the island, the administrators of the effort to help the police crack cases and retrieve illegal weapons.....

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) is urging lawmakers to create a stand-alone offence under the Cyber Crimes Act, 2015, which would criminalise the rising incidence of revenge porn. A senior prosecutor in the ODPP told a...

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewelyn has blamed careless parenting and an increasing consumption of pornography as triggers for many of the graphic cases of child-on-child sexual abuse coming before her office. Llewellyn, who has......

Politicians had to fork out more money to buy votes in the September 3 general election last year as electors increased the price for ballots because of the risks associated with the throes of a second wave of coronavirus spread, a new report...

Justice Vinette Graham Allen warned on Wednesday that the murder of a witness will not stop a criminal case from being tried. The judge gave the caution in the Home Circuit Court as she refused the bail application for Portland businessman Everton....

WESTERN BUREAU: Jermaine ‘Crabby’ Morris has vowed to claw his way back to establishing an even more successful enterprise after thieves raided his crab pen on Tuesday night, making off with the vast majority of his male crabs. Despite being...

With its critical role of assessing development projects to reduce the likelihood of disasters that can impact the economy and well-being of Jamaicans, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) was strongly criticised on.....

The Jamaican economy is expected to grow by between 7.0 per cent and 9.0 per cent for the April-June 2021 quarter, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has projected. The positive outlook reflects recovery from heavy declines a year ago when.....

Director of investigation at the Integrity Commission, Kevon Stephenson, says the anti-corruption body has made significant strides in reducing the backlog of cases involving alleged acts of corruption in the public sector. In a Gleaner interview......

Profanity-laced rants from two senior lawmakers have sparked concern from former Court of Appeal Justice Seymour Panton, who has questioned, in at least one instance, whether the police will charge a government minister for an offence. The no-...

As vehicles slowed to descend into yawning craters along Spanish Town Road on Tuesday, fumes seemed to billow not only from mufflers but from the snorting nostrils of motorists. Sections of the corridor, which channels eastbound traffic into...

WESTERN BUREAU: A male nursing assistant who was charged last week after he allegedly molested a 15-year-old girl at the Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, Hanover, was denied bail when he appeared in the Hanover Parish Court Thursday. Damion Bigby,...

Weeks after ratcheting up pressure on the Government about perceived inequity in the domestic wedding market, planners on Tuesday welcomed the more than tripling of attendance quotas for June, a traditional high-traffic month for nuptials. Prime...

WESTERN BUREAU: Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has redeployed its ship that was booked to homeport in Montego Bay, Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has confirmed. NCL’s Breakaway was set to begin service in the tourism capital on Augus...

A senior lecturer at The University of the West Indies has criticised women parliamentarians for their response to the epidemic of gender-based violence in Jamaica and wants the society to build pressure on them to represent the interests of women.....

President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA), Richard Pandohie, says the tweak in COVID-19 curfew hours is positive for commerce and will lead to a reduction in congestion as people carry out their business during the...