Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has urged the St Ann police to prosecute the owners of two pit bulls that mauled a 61-year-old woman after they wandered through an open gate on Saturday afternoon. The case offers the first major opportunity to test......

The Ministry of Education has launched an investigation into Monday’s shutout of students at Wolmer’s Boys’ School for grooming breaches, delivering a stern rebuke to administrators that pupils should not be barred from sitting exams because o...

It was only last December that Damoya Hall was a picture of happiness as she celebrated her sweet sixteenth birthday. On Sunday evening, about 6:40, she lay lifeless on the ground with a bullet in her head. Also killed on Third Street in Trench...

On December 23, 2020, Omare Brown had the “worst experience of my life” as he lost everything in a fire that consumed his home and those of more than 20 other families at Church Street and Love Lane in downtown Kingston. “The fire didn’t sta...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), Robert Hill, is expected to explain to members of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) why almost 90 per cent of the 630 contracts the corporation.....

Detectives say no motive has yet been determined in the death of retired businessman Gerald Wight Sr, who was found at his Beverly Hills home face down in a pool of blood. The 86-year-old was reportedly discovered by his son last Thursday. Blood......

WESTERN BUREAU: A man who reportedly chased and fired several shots at a tour bus operator in Blenheim, Hanover, on Monday was cornered and chopped to death by angry residents. The dead man has been identified by the police as Adrian ‘Killy Killy�...

Legislative changes have been proposed to modernise the extradition process in Jamaica. Justice Minister Delroy Chuck gave notice last week that he would table a bill to amend aspects of the current Extradition Act. Chuck is expected to move for...

WESTERN BUREAU: An upper-sixth form student at the Mount Alvernia High School in Montego Bay topped the island in last year’s CAPE law (Unit One) and landed second position in the regional exams. Manila Cunningham, renowned as a high achiever, is....

Administrators of Merl Grove High School have been cited and warned for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act when it hosted a valedictory service for its sixth-form cohort in contravention of gathering limits and social-distancing laws last......

Devon Ramcharran’s 16-year-old daughter Carmelita’s future hung in the balance as he grappled with an emergency call from doctors on Sunday evening for her to be transferred to the Kingston Public Hospital for further treatment. The Garvey Mace...

A shadow now looms over the African Martyrs of Uganda Roman Catholic Church in Bull Bay, St Andrew, which is slated to be steamrolled by the Government’s highway project in what congregants and clergy view as a crude casualty of progress. Salt was...

WESTERN BUREAU: A part-time farmer of Haddington-New Mills in eastern Hanover is suspected to have been killed by one of his cows on Sunday. Relatives found the body of Audley Walker, alias Maxwell, on the ground near the cow. Hoofprints were...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: His smile could easily be mistaken for joy, but the bouts of laughter and happy disposition are a veneer that masks the agony of Pastor Eversley Brooks, whose wife of 47 years died from COVID-19 in October 2020. Brooks is...

The police are reporting that none of the men killed during a crash and subsequent shooting in Clarendon last night received gunshot injuries.Protesting residents in the community of Hayes had claimed that the car was shot up by cops and that the.....

CONFIDENT that he still enjoys the “full” support of the people of Westmoreland Central and declaring that his work there is far from over, embattled member of parliament George Wright says he is staying put in representational politics. In fac...

Only a resignation as an elected representative can remove George Wright from his new seat on the Opposition benches in George William Gordon House, despite how unwelcome his presence may be for members on that side. The Westmoreland Central member...

A police constable believed to be a high-ranking member of a violent criminal gang is now in custody facing serious charges, police officials have disclosed. His arrest, according to senior law-enforcement sources, is just the tip of the iceberg as....

After more than half a billion dollars in expenses and four years past its deadline, there’s no end in sight for a project to transform the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) into a paperless institution, a Sunday Gleaner investigation...

George Campbell can still hear his mother’s screams for help as she and his father disappeared beneath the raging Hope River in St Andrew during the passing of Hurricane Gustav in 2008. The death wails, he said, are chilling, and similar to those....