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Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:16:40 -0500
Firearm seized in St James, three in custody
Three people are in police custody following the seizure of a firearm and ammunition in Tucker, Irwin, St. James on Wednesday, December 15. Reports are that about 6:30 a.m., a police team executed a search warrant at a premises during which an...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:12:08 -0500
Firearm and ammunition seized on August Town Road
A 17-year-old boy and two others were taken into custody following the seizure of a firearm and six rounds of ammunition at a house on August Town Road, Kingston 7 on Wednesday, December 15. Reports from the August Town Police are that...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:01:28 -0500
Man saves five bodies from fire
A St Catherine man yesterday risked smoke inhalation, injury and death to pull the bodies of five persons from Archer's Funeral Home on Young Street, Spanish Town, during a raging fire that damaged a section of the facility. Kirk Valentine said......

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:01:19 -0500
Security guard murdered over cell phone
Twenty-year-old Jevaughnte 'Shawn' Fletcher loved life and had plans of joining the Jamaica Constabulary Force. The security guard was a favourite of his grandfather Gentle Borrows, and as such the two would converse almost daily. When they saw.....

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:01:26 -0500
Cops receive phone data from Digicel for gang trial
The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial yesterday indicated that the police have now received the long-awaited telephone data from telecommunications provider Digicel in relation to the case. The prosecutor advised Chief Justice Bryan.....

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:01:23 -0500
Laila Bennett flies high with dream job
Laila Bennett's desire to become a flight attendant was inspired by seeing her aunt, Christine Steel, who was a purser with now defunct Air Jamaica. "I used to spend summers with my aunt and I used to see her transform into, I call it a goddess,.....

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:01:22 -0500
Salvation Army goodwill brings elder to tears
For the past 18 years, George Dixon, 83, has been a beneficiary of the Salvation Army's Christmas treat. Dixon, a tradesman, anticipates collecting well-needed food items, as his salary may not be enough to cover a well-desired Christmas meal.......

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:01:21 -0500
Grange opens shelter for battered women
A second government shelter for women has been opened in Jamaica as part of a move by the state to provide housing to "very high-risk victims". "I'm so happy we have a second shelter that is ready," said the Minister of Culture, Gender,...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:01:20 -0500
Shaw wants justice for murdered goat farmers
Agriculture Minister Audley Shaw has called on the police to leave no stones unturned in bringing justice to the families of two goat herders who were murdered in Westmoreland this week. The bodies of Henry 'Maas Hen' Jones, 65, and Brian 'Fowlie....

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:01:19 -0500
Jamaican in Argentina misses spending Christmas back home
For 31-year-old Jamaican Kriston Bell, Christmases in Argentina cannot compare to those in her native land. Bell hails from Norwood in St James and has been studying dentistry at the La Universidad Nacional de Rosario. She has been living in...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:01:15 -0500
Man pays dearly for destroying girlfriend’s TV
For the second time in two weeks, a Kingston man will have to shell out more than $100,000 to purchase a television set for his girlfriend. The man, Irvine Edwards, found himself in hot water after he broke his girlfriend's television following a....

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 05:01:12 -0500
New life for old tyres
More than two million hazardous used tyres are to be removed from the Riverton City disposal site in St Andrew under a 10-year project, which will eventually extend to other garbage disposal facilities across the island. Already, more than 8,700.....

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:26:01 -0500
Four family members shot in Havannah Heights, Clarendon, father succumbs
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,...

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:12:25 -0500
Persons of interest listed by St Andrew South Police
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...

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:01:40 -0500
Men steal bikes from police station
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...

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:01:34 -0500
Murdered pregnant woman longed to be a mom
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,.....

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:01:38 -0500
Goat farmers killed
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.....

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:01:23 -0500
Bikers warned - Motorcyclists on cops’ radar as road deaths near 450
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...

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:01:20 -0500
Family puzzled as elderly man and caregiver go missing
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.....

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:01:39 -0500
Cop said she smelled burnt flesh at crime scene
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.....



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