The detective sergeant who led the One Don Gang investigation has defended the police’s decision not to charge the former top-tier gang member who had outed his alleged ex-cronies, claiming he was never wanted in the St Catherine North Police...

Winston Burrowes has been left heartbroken after the mother of his one-year-old son disappeared with the infant just over a year ago from their St Catherine home. He claims to have only successfully contacted her by telephone once. She vowed never.....

Government lawyers have signalled that remedies under contract law for the breaches triggered by mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies may not be sufficient to compensate affected employees, raising the possibility for constitutional redress. On....

Senior statesman and former head of government, P.J. Patterson, has issued an impassioned plea to Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding to transcend partisan borders and capture a historic landmark by relinquishing......

Tears flowed from Shamoya Smith’s eyes midsmile as she walked the stage last Thursday during the International University of the Caribbean (IUC) graduation ceremony at Hope United Church in St Andrew. It was a moment of immense gratitude when she....

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the existence of established smuggling routes in which guns and drugs are trafficked between Haiti and Jamaica, the Holness administration is in no rush to forge an extradition treaty with its French-speaking neighbour. The.....

Even if businessman Delroy Dyah had a crystal ball, he could not have forecast the myriad of hardships that overtook him since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020. But failure was never an outcome that Dyah was prepared to accept, as he drew on...

Some 180 at-risk youth living in hotspot communities within Kingston, St Catherine, Clarendon and St James are now being targeted under an initiative geared at improving their social, educational and economic opportunities. The FHI 360’s Local...

A high-level corruption probe has been launched into the mysterious disappearance from police custody of a Jamaican fugitive wanted in St Lucia for murder and gun crimes, with preliminary indications that lawmen might have been complicit in the...

Jamaica’s public-health system may open doors to its only burn unit by 2023, closing a yawning deficit in burn wound care that is too costly for most patients. The upshot of the game-changing investment will offer a lifeline to hundreds of...

Nineteen days after the gun murder of his son, a distraught father claims investigators have not acted on useful information and he agrees with Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ hyperbolic advocacy for the death penalty for persons convicted of...

A targeted man who escaped the wrath of gunmen during a drive-by shooting in Kintyre, St Andrew, last Friday was shot and killed by a lone gunman in the community on Monday afternoon. The deceased is 28-year-old Darren ‘Percy’ Cousins, a reside...

The lead investigator in the One Don Gang case yesterday revealed that it took the police about a year to bring anti-gang charges against the reputed leader of the gang, Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, after he was detained in a predawn raid at his St....

“Public distraction” – according to Prime Minister Andrew Holness – over the high-end Ruthven Towers apartment complex in New Kingston has forced the Government to put on hold a planned Phase Two of the National Housing Trust (NHT) developme...

One of the country’s two main telecommunications companies has said it has honoured requests by the Jamaica Constabulary Force in relation to the investigation of the Clansman-One Don Gang. “We have, to date, fulfilled all requests received,”...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: The Portland police have stepped up surveillance in the northeastern Jamaica parish after 27-year-old Orville Purnell, a fugitive who fled St Lucian authorities, escaped custody from the Kingston Central police lock-up on...

Police personnel from the St Catherine North Police Division yesterday took several persons into custody following a fracas at the Meadowrest Memorial Gardens in St Catherine. The cops were called about 2:30 p.m. after a dispute developed between......

WESTERN BUREAU: While acknowledging that there is a need for a fire station in eastern Westmoreland, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie, who has portfolio responsibility for the Jamaica Fire Brigade, says that the Government had not signed.....

Police personnel from the St Catherine North division have detained several persons following a fracas at the Meadowrest cemetery this afternoon. During a tussle, a security guard was wounded in a knife attack. 

Hours after Eastern Caribbean neighbours Barbados declared republic status and swore in its first president, a veteran politician has criticised Jamaican lawmakers’ inertia in severing the country’s links to the British monarchy. Fitz Jackson,.....