After spending five years and five months in prison in connection with his alleged involvement in the Clansman-One Don Gang, Damaine Elliston’s main wish as a free man is to reunite with his six-year-old daughter. “Mi wah send fi her ‘cause a ...

WESTERN BUREAU: As intra-gang warfare deepens in St James, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers has admitted that it has been difficult to break criminals’ stronghold in a grinding war of attrition. That grim analysis came hours afte...

Members of a joint select committee reviewing the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, placed the microscope Thursday on the various forms of online fraud, like those perpetrated against National Commercial Bank (NCB) customers in the last two weeks, to ensure......

Disappointed at being overlooked after several attempts to acquire the iconic Catherine Hall Entertainment Centre in Montego Bay, businessman Richard Lake is calling for greater transparency in deals involving government properties. Lake’s firm,.....

Homeowner Emmanuel Yisa is hoping that a tour by officials yesterday will spur much-needed action to address a long-standing flooding problem in Harbour Drive, where an unfinished gully channels floodwaters on to properties even as it erodes them,.....

WESTERN BUREAU: On the heels of a Gleaner report that a 14-year-old ward of the St Catherine-based Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre has been suffering abuse at the hands of staff members, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has...

A high-level probe is under way to determine the motive behind the gun murder of Lennox Hines, Jamaica Labour Party councillor-caretaker for the Southboro division in St Catherine. The incident occurred shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday along the busy....

Two persons were gunned down in St James on Thursday as bullets continue to rain in the northwestern parish. The latest incident occurred shortly after 4 p.m., inside People’s Arcade, located in downtown Montego Bay. The Barnett Street police...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has warned against what he termed a “dangerous disconnect” by people in the society who view resources provided by the State for the public good as theirs to vandalise, simply because it is seen as free. Holness, wh...

WESTERN BUREAU: A chilling threat by her 14-year-old son that he will kill himself if she does not get him out of the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre has been causing a Westmoreland woman great anguish as her twin sons allege they are being.....

About 12 customers of National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCB) have lost approximately $18 million in a smishing and vishing fraud attack over the last 10 days. Dane Nicholson, NCB’s manager of special investigations in its Fraud Prevention Unit,.....

A Jamaican lecturer has been linked by scientific evidence to sexual and other criminal offences in the United States (US), according to American authorities who have requested his extradition. Russell McLean, a behavioural and social sciences...

Two sentences of life imprisonment were handed down on Wednesday to a Clarendon gangster who committed a double murder at age 16 and who was involved in a million-dollar heist at 17. Justice Ann-Marie Lawrence-Grainger hopes the confessed killer,.....

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie has signalled that persons who believe that dumping garbage in the nation’s drains and gullies will generate more jobs will be left sorely disappointed. “Not over my dead body...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr has said that a lack of adequate storage and transportation facilities have been causing Jamaica to lose almost a third of domestic food produced annually, valued at some $7 billion. He made the....

With 44 per cent of Jamaicans residing outside of urban centres, Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie says stronger focus will be placed on these areas to boost economic growth and generate more jobs. Through the...

Jamaica Zoo, where a lion recently ripped off the finger of a taunting employee, does not have a licence to operate as an attraction, the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has confirmed. In fact, the state agency said that zoo owner Paul....

Two Jamaicans who reportedly acted as money couriers in a “sophisticated” international scam that laundered more than US$6 million in drug-trafficking proceeds from Colombian cartels are to be extradited to the United States (US), while a third....

If Nicole Williams could turn back the hands of time, she said she would not have engaged in daredevil driving that sparked a police chase across the Corporate Area last month which was captured in a viral video. Faced with humiliation and an...

WESTERN BUREAU: She was poised to ace all nine Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams and would have sat the first of them today. But Shevanae Besley drowned last Friday, days ahead of her 18th birthday. The 17-year-old Green Island High......