When crashing sounds jolted some residents of Christian Meadows in Portmore, St Catherine, out of their sleep about 4:30 yesterday morning, they could not fathom the ghastly reality which would greet them after two members of their community were......

A St Mary man who was convicted for having sexual intercourse with his 12-year-old cousin when he was 29 years old had his prison sentence halved to nine years yesterday by the Court of Appeal as a result of a trial judge’s error. The sex offender...

Government Senator Charles Sinclair is batting for the holding of local government and general elections at the same time in order to channel scarce resources to help the country recover from the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. His...

Residents of Cherry and surrounding communities in St Catherine West Central are frustrated that there seems to be no end in sight to their decades-long struggle to access water, with a planned initiative still yet to get off the ground. With...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr on Wednesday disclosed that the Government has been engaging in talks with overseas investors to shake up the agricultural sector and make it more competitive. Addressing fish farmers in...

Police officers were left in wonderment yesterday after dancehall entertainer Rytikal, who was arrested for an illegal gun found in his rented car, was freed of gun charges. “I am puzzled,” a senior officer, who seemed lost for word after the ca...

With a plethora of challenges ranging from climate change, diseases and a constantly dwindling youthful workforce to stiffer competition on the world markets affecting the local coffee industry, John O. Minott, general manager of Jamaica Standard......

A day after 13 guns, including 10 high-powered rifles, were seized by cops in Florence Hall, Trelawny, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has appealed to Jamaicans to support the Government’s latest ‘Operation Get Every Illegal Gun’ campaign. Speak...

The Government is still working to determine how many, if any, Jamaicans are among the close to 40 persons presumed dead after a suspected human-smuggling boat heading from The Bahamas to Florida in the United States capsized two weekends ago....

WESTERN BUREAU: AFTER living in less-than-ideal conditions for decades as neglect, poverty and gang feuds held their community in a chokehod, some residents in sections of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, are set to benefit from the Government’s...

The Kingston labourer charged for the murder of 10-year-old Jezariah Tyrell has been remanded for a bail application on February 25 in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The 22-year-old accused, Tommy Powell, otherwise called ‘Red Head’,...

POLICE ARE describing the man at the centre of Thursday’s big gun find in Trelawny as a known “violence producer” who has strong links with criminal gangs in western Jamaica. The man, 36-year-old Kevin Carpenter, was shot fatally after alleged...

Ethical hackers who find vulnerabilities on government or private websites in Jamaica could face a $3-million fine and three-year prison sentence if a provision in the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, remains and receives the nod from Parliament. That...

Placard-bearing supporters of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in St Ann North Eastern protested against incumbent Member of Parliament Marsha Smith on Thursday, calling for their party’s leader, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, to remove her a...

Illegal cabbies who ply the St Mary to Half-Way Tree route have lamented being locked out of regularisation as hackney taxi operators for the last 30 years. That shutout has been partly blamed for the prosecution of their colleague, 26-year-old...

Residents of Parade Gardens in Kingston Central are looking forward to restoring a long-lasting peace in their community with several social-development partners lined up to execute the ‘clear, hold, build’ ethos of the zone of special operation...

General secretary of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Dayton Campbell, has reportedly apologised for his characterisation of Jamaica Labour Party Chairman Robert Montague “as the leader of the black section of the JLP”. Political Ombudsma...

WESTERN BUREAU: CITING THURSDAY’S big firearm bust and lottery-scamming arrest, plus the capture of several wanted men in recent days across western Jamaica, Senior Superintendent Vernon Ellis, head of the St James Police Division, said the...

Residents of Buxton Town, Wakefield, are mourning the brutal predawn attack on a couple in which a woman was hacked to death and her partner wounded. Dead is Madeline O’Sullivan, otherwise called ‘Mumus’, a 63-year-old labourer of the St Cathe...

Slamming the Government’s thrust to establish Portmore into a parish as “nonsensical”, the municipality’s mayor, Leon Thomas, says the move is merely an attempt to gain control of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation. But government membe...