A Westmoreland gang believed to be heavily linked to lottery scamming is at the centre of Monday’s major cocaine bust in Kingston. A senior lawman with impeccable knowledge of the investigation told The Gleaner on Tuesday that the 140 parcels of....

Opposition Spokesman on Energy Phillip Paulwell is suggesting that Jamaica should prepare to carry out a diplomatic dance and re-engage Venezuela at a time when oil-importing countries could soon be scrambling to find new sources of fuel as...

The mother of the two-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted, allegedly by her own brother at their home in Negril, Westmoreland, wants retribution for the 29-year-old when he is caught. The attacker is also accused of molesting a five-year-old.....

While many residents and farmers in the rural township of Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, welcome the rain, the darkening clouds and roll of thunder drive fear into 70-year-old Howard Williams. The family is left to battle a leaky roof in the ramshackle...

The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has passed a resolution calling for the National Water Commission (NWC) to repair all outstanding damaged roads across the Corporate Area within the next three months. That declaration is...

WESTERN BUREAU: Principal of Corinaldi Avenue Primary, Deon Anglin, said her staff are fearful of a repeat of the violence that resulted in the injury to a security guard who was involved in a bust-up with a student’s step-parent on Monday. Classe...

A Hanover car parts manager who is wanted by the United States (US) for allegedly fleecing Americans out of millions of dollars in the fraudulent lottery scheme was on Tuesday remanded when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court....

Two men who were charged with the execution-style killing of a two-year-old boy in downtown Kingston in 2016 were recently freed of murder after the two main witnesses, including the boy’s father, opted to end the matter, claiming it took too long...

The Ministry of Education and Youth’s ‘Yard-to-Yard Find the Child Initiative’ is gaining momentum, with 87,446 students now re-engaged from the 120,000 that could not be accounted for during the earlier part of the coronavirus pandemic. The.....

When heavily armed attackers began firing indiscriminately at a party in Franklyn Town, Kingston, on Sunday night, many thought men from the community were engaging in an illegal gun salute as Aidonia’s Badman Salute (Real Killa) blared through th...

Principal of Dunrobin Primary, Sacheel Grant-Henry, has walked back the contents of a warning letter issued last Wednesday to a grade five student for an offending hairstyle, saying the threat was not meant to bar him from school but to be a note......

Debate has intensified about plans by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service to discontinue the 20 per cent duty concession on motor vehicles and weave it into travelling officers’ salaries, with one major union expressing concern about th...

Ever since she was a student at Solid Base Preparatory School, Jhaneille Esson’s responsible demeanor and go-getter attitude always made her a favourite for youth leadership roles. So it came as no surprise to her, or her parents, Jhann-Marie and ...

Grocers in Portmore, St Catherine, are embracing the new multimillion-dollar PriceSmart club set to open today, bringing an enhanced home-shopping experience to the largest residential city in the Caribbean. Despite the expected competition...

WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has raised concern that nearly half of the island’s 9,600 justices of the peace (JPs) seem to be missing in action. Their disappearance has come at a critical juncture when their services are needed fo...

Senior Parish Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque is expected to rule today on whether one of the policemen linked to the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang will be released. Attorney-at-law Richard Lynch, who is representing the detainee, made a habeas corpus.....

An imminent transatlantic knowledge-sharing agreement will lay the design groundwork for the revival of the railroad from downtown Kingston to Three Miles, which could soon be woven into the fabric of everyday life for a modern commute to work,...

After years of battling eviction threats and desperately seeking a new home, the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA) is gearing up to engage in “creative accounting” and to “beg, borrow, and plead” as it prepares...

In one of the biggest housing development projects to be announced for local shores by foreign investors, the London-based Wots Hot Energy is to pump $4.5 billion into the Mahogany Hill development in Chester, St Ann. Founder of Wots Hot, Craig...

David Stimpson was attacked and stabbed nine times in his back while working at the Institute of Jamaica in downtown Kingston. He is now unable to walk and needs assistance to carry out normal human activities that were second nature to him for his....