A staggering 249 girls have been impregnated from rapes, carnal abuse and other sex crimes between January 2020 and March this year. This is just under eight per cent of the total 3,265 children sexually abused over the period, statistics from...

Jamaica is yet to start genome sequencing to identify variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which may be in the island. Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton told The Sunday Gleaner yesterday that the machine, which Prime Minister Andrew...

Winnifred Jackson’s house now sits precariously near the edge of a gully behind her property in the east Kingston community of Harbour View. The unpaved gully runs behind at least 25 other homes along Harbour Drive and was dug out over five years....

Yesterday’s announcement that embattled Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright had resigned from the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was not enough for former parliamentarians who have served the constituency, while Kevin O...

WESTERN BUREAU: Immediate past president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Owen Speid, believes the crippling effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – including closed borders and economic uncertainty – have helped the local education sect...

AS THIEVES continue to prey on local farmers, causing them great distress and frustration, the Government has signalled that steps are being made to amend two important pieces of legislation to increase the penalties for those who continue to...

A bit of apprehension hangs over Old Harbour Bay in St Catherine as residents keep their fingers crossed that no significant weather system will affect the area during the hurricane season. “We in these parts suffer a great deal as we are at the.....

Friday’s planting of 20 mangrove saplings at three islets along the Palisadoes strip leading to the Norman Manley International Airport within the Palisadoes-Port Royal Protected Area was a major step in the right direction for the country. That�...

Twenty alleged members of the St Catherine-based Clansman gang, who were among 50 individuals arrested and charged under the anti-gang legislation, have been freed as the evidence against them did not meet the threshold for prosecution. Thirty men....

The security forces have ceded ground in Southside, one of several communities in the Kingston Central Police Division, where rival gangs have unleashed a reign of terror this year. That is the view of a relative of 23-year-old Shedaine Richards,......

With less than 25,000 Jamaicans now fully vaccinated, health officials are hoping the more than 600 persons who took their jabs at the National Arena in a blitz on March 27 will come out today for their second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine....

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....