The killing of two women and a man in Bounty Hall, Trelawny, yesterday morning has been described by the police as an unfortunate case of mistaken identity. Twenty-four-year-old Daniel Williams, otherwise called ‘Alkaline’ of Bounty Hall; 25-yea...

Western Bureau: The Gleaner understands that the 20 handguns and 40 magazines that were found at the Sangster International Airport cargo on Friday were intended for a gun shop in another jurisdiction. The guns were reportedly shipped to Jamaica.....

A grieving father yesterday lamented that Jamaica’s crime problem turned up at his doorstep snatching his beloved daughter who was killed at the hand of a gunman inside a shop at Royale Plaza, St John’s Road, in St Catherine. The victim, 24-ye...

Lenworth Fulton, president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), is warning consumers to brace for an increase in the price of chicken from small farmers across the island beginning month-end. This follows the announcement by Jamaica Broilers.....

Investigators probing the killing of nine-year-old Gabriel King who was recently murdered in St James are reportedly struggling to make a breakthrough in the case. Deputy Commissioner of Police in Charge of Crime, Fitz Bailey, indicated that...

Despite the threat from strong economic headwinds with global inflation rates also a major factor to contend with in 2022, the Jamaican economy is on a solid platform to withstand these challenges, according to Don Wehby, government senator and...

The roll-out of digital birth certificates is the next on the agenda as the Government gears up towards implementing the National Identification System (NIDS) that will see bedside birth registrations done electronically, and millions of records...

It was a historic change of command parade as outgoing Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Lieutenant General Rocky Meade, passed the baton to the first woman CDS, Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman yesterday. The military tradition represents a...

WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Court denied an application to vary the bail conditions for Kadisha Thomas-Jackson, a British resident who allegedly tried to smuggle one pound of cocaine through the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay....

WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie has announced the deployment of additional technical support to the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), on the basis that it is performing at an unacceptable.....

Dismissing sporadic calls for the disbandment of the army, Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman has described the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) as the backbone of the State and the axis of major disaster-response operations, including the coronavirus...

When storm-like conditions years ago threatened to capsize the vessel a young Antonette Wemyss Gorman was commanding, a verbal lashing from the feisty captain caused panicky crew members to regroup and steady the ship. The crew had left the...

Maureen Dwyer, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education and Youth, has acknowledged the concerns of disgruntled staff of the Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) but said that she could not give a timeline for their...

The nation’s leaders are being urged to put aside “juvenile” partisan politics in order to move the country forward as it looks to celebrate 60 years of Independence this August. Amid a spiralling crime problem and challenges from the COVID-19...

The wife of the ex-Haitian opposition senator linked to the assassination of then President Jovenel Moïse wept on Thursday as she was being led away from the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court after she and her husband and their two sons were...

Well-known St Andrew businessman Craig ‘Sprinta’ Gooden became the latest murder victim of the violence gripping the Plum Lane, Whitehall Avenue area of St Andrew yesterday morning, days after three persons were shot, one fatally. Head of the S...

Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, chief medical officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, has reported that there is an increase in the number of pregnant women hospitalised with COVID-19 as the island experiences a fourth wave of the...

The history-making incoming leader of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has backed the use of states of emergency (SOEs) as a crime-fighting tool but acknowledges concerns about the increased deployment of the military in civilian security operations....

Accused assassination plotter John Joel Joseph and his family are believed to have surreptitiously moved into a house in Warminster, St Elizabeth, less than 48 hours before their arrest last Friday. Joseph, a Haitian, his ex-wife, and his two...

While the Ministry of Education and Youth struggles to iron out lingering policy issues that have left two critical training institutions in limbo, lawmakers turned up the heat Wednesday on a senior ministry official for allegedly misleading a...