A family of four including a three-year-old boy and his nine-year-old sibling were shot in Havannah Heights, Clarendon last night. The children's parents were also shot. The children's father 43-year-old Mark Ricketts,...

Investigators assigned to the St. Andrew South Police Division have listed several men as persons of interest. The men are urged to report to the Hunts Bay Police Station by 6:00 p.m., on Thursday, December 16. They are: 1. Lennox Dunkley of a...

Two men who allegedly steal motorcycles from a police station in the Corporate Area were remanded in custody when they appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Matthew Black and Winston Samuels are charged with simple...

If onlookers had rushed Shantiva Griffiths to hospital after she was shot by gunmen yesterday, could that have saved her unborn child? This is one of the questions that loved ones are asking after the 26-year-old, who was seven months pregnant,.....

The Westmorland police have theorised that praedial larceny is the motive surrounding the killing of two goat farmers. The victims have been identified as Henry 'Maas Hen' Jones, 65, and Brian 'Fowlie' Chambers, 44, both of Crowder district, in.....

Assistant Commissioner of Police Gary McKenzie has sounded a warning to motorcyclists who he says continue to breach the Road Traffic Act. McKenzie, who heads the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch (PSTEB) of the Jamaica Constabulary...

It has been close to nine months since Roxanne Herbert heard or saw her father, Barrington Herbert. The elder Herbert, who hails from Hampton Drive in Spanish Town, St Catherine, was last seen at home on March 27. Roxanne said she believes her.....

A detective corporal yesterday testified in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial that she saw two charred remains huddled together at a horrific scene in New Nursery, St Catherine. A man and a woman were reportedly shot and killed and their premises.....

The judge hearing the case brought against president of the United Independent Congress, Joseph Patterson, and his co-defendants, yesterday expressed surprise that the case files for two of the men have gone missing. Patterson, Abbey Gayle...

A senior citizen was one of four persons who were shot and injured on Fitzgerald Avenue, close to Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew yesterday afternoon. The incident occurred about 2 p.m. According to a resident, the man had just collected his...

Snake found in Christmas tree A family got a festive shock when they discovered a deadly snake under their Christmas tree. Rob and Marcela Wild, originally from Britain before they moved to South Africa, had just finished putting the...

Chairman of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation Norman Scott has requested urgent intervention from the St Catherine Health Department to prevent vendors from allegedly urinating and defecating close to where they sell. "I am told that some of....

A baby boy never got the chance to bond with his mother, Stacy-Ann Bissick, 35, as she died at the Spanish Town Hospital nine days after giving birth. Bissick's mother, Monica Bryan, is accusing the hospital's medical staff of negligence. "I...

Every Christmas Trisan Johnson's nieces and nephews look forward to receiving gifts from their favourite aunt, but this year, there will be no wrapped packages under the tree. Johnson's prized cow was stolen on Saturday in Grove Mount, Mandeville.....

As their strength wanes and the resources needed to care for their autistic son become harder to acquire, Sharon Allen and her partner, Gladstone Palmer, are hoping for a breakthrough. Their seven-year-old son, Ramel, requires round-the-clock...

The St James police say they are now on the verge of identifying a man whose skeletal remains were discovered in a burnt-out motor vehicle in the Torado Heights area of the parish on Sunday. Investigators say about 7:30 a.m., a farmer discovered.....

Organiser and director of the Tiny Yet Mighty graduation programme at the Spanish Town Hospital, Nurse Stacy Ann Burnett-Brissett, says she is hopeful that her premature babies will benefit from the redevelopment of the institution. Burnett-......

A 26-year-old pregnant woman was yesterday shot and killed in downtown Kingston by a lone gunman who, according to well-placed police source, carried out the hit after several threats made to the victim. The deceased woman, Shantiva Griffiths,...

An investigator in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial yesterday brushed aside questions from a defence lawyer about omissions in his statement, claiming he had only recorded what was "dominant" and "readily came to mind". Among the omissions agreed....

A five-week-old girl mysteriously suffered second-degree burns in and around her mouth at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) in Kingston. The incident, according to the newborn's mother, Ayesha Brown, 23, took place last Thursday shortly.....