Westmoreland Custos Hartley Perrin wants more Zones of Special Operations (ZOSOs) in the parish. Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday declared a ZOSO in southern Savanna-la-mar encompassing the communities of Russia, Dexter and Dalling streets......

A Portland man has been arrested and charged for the alleged assault of his sister. The police say on Saturday, Rushane Terlonge got into a heated argument with his sister during which he hit her on the left side of her body with a concrete block......

An operation by the police on Orange Bay Road in Hanover on Sunday, January 16, yielded a firearm and several rounds of ammunition. The Green Island Police reports that about 7:55 a.m., the police conducted a search of a premises in the area,...

Natasha Robinson, 29, of Wilmott Crescent, Drewsland in Kingston 20 has been missing since Tuesday, January 11. She is of brown complexion, medium build and is about 173 centimetres (5 feet 8 inches) tall. The police report that about 8:00 a.m.,...

Rival men in the Kingston Central Police Division could sit down with each other for peace talks as early as this week. Police commissioner Major General Antony Anderson said that the Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) that was recently declared......

After fighting for her life from a hospital bed for seven months, 16-year-old Kayanna Williams died at the University Hospital of the West Indies yesterday from injuries sustained in a June 2021 car accident in Hayes, Clarendon. Williams was...

A staggering 72 murders have been recorded in Jamaica in the first 15 days of the new year, statistics published by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has revealed. In addition to the murders, the police statistics show that 35 persons were...

Being part of a project that is helping to spruce up sections of downtown Kingston is a worthwhile feeling for Sheldon Blake, an artist who grew up in Southside, a tough inner-city community in the centre of the city's capital. Blake, 42, shared.....

When Peter Spencer left the gritty inner-city community of Waterhouse in St Andrew in 2013 to join his family in Pennsylvania in the United States of America, he had dreams of owning a trucking company. He appeared to be one step closer to...

Twenty-one-year-old Owen Curtis, otherwise called 'Ardon', of Savannah Cross in Clarendon, was charged with murder following an incident in Knapdale, Brown's Town, St Ann, on New Year's Day. Curtis has been charged with the murder of 37-year-old.....

A St Andrew man, who allegedly used an imitation firearm to commit a robbery, has been jailed. According to the police, Kevin White, 38, a labourer of Six Miles, robbed a man of his cell phone along the Mandela Highway last Wednesday. The...

Criminals wreaking havoc in the southern Savanna-la-Mar area of Westmoreland will soon be like "rats coming from their holes" and be easily identified and picked up by law-enforcement agents, who have been given the task to clear the communities......

A video of a woman pouring a flammable liquid on an automated teller machine (ATM) in downtown Kingston and then setting it ablaze, is the latest example of vandalism involving these machines. According Dane Nicholson, manager of National...

A fire destroyed three shops at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James this morning. Damage is estimated in $3 million. Preliminary information from the fire brigade is that the blaze started some time about 10:00 a.m. at a...

A Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) has been imposed in Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland. The parish has seen several shootings and murders since the start of the year. In making the announcement this morning, Holness said the security measure will......

Another key suspect linked to the assassination of former Haitian President Jovenel Moise has been captured in Jamaica. However, it is unclear where John Joel Joseph, a former Opposition Senator, was apprehended by Jamaican law...

Following 1,463 murders in 2021, the island continues to drown in blood. Yesterday nine-year-old Gabriel King was abducted and murdered in St James. Gabriel was among five persons murdered across western Jamaica between Wednesday and Thursday,...

Two Westmoreland women were shot and killed by armed men in King's district, White House, in the parish on Wednesday. The victims have been identified as 45-year-old shop owner Sophia Brown, and 58-year-old farmer Bernie Lewis, both of King's...

Jacqueline is now left to raise three children on her own after her husband, Marlon Madourie, was shot and killed during a drive-by in Bedrock, St Andrew. According to police, he was not the intended target. The 41-year-old landscaper was riding.....

A relative of Dejean Campbell, who is one of the two men who were killed Tuesday night in Nine Miles, Bull Bay, said for months she had warned him not to steal material from a construction site at which they worked. "Mi hear him with the...