The Tivoli Gardens High student charged with assault after a classroom brawl with a 56-year-old teacher on Monday has claimed that he acted in self-defence. Speaking with The Gleaner on Wednesday with the consent of his mother, Debraly Coleman,...

Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has hinted at a pact between Secretary General Patricia Scotland and some African countries within the Commonwealth that could derail Jamaican Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s...

Goat farmers in Rock River, Clarendon, are crying for help amid a wave of deadly dog attacks on their livestock, with some interests warning that they might exit the industry. Boswell Bonner, who has now turned to planting peanuts and sorrel, said....

Residents of Dalling Street in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, are expressing joy at the restoration of electricity to their community but are demanding answers from the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) regarding compensation for lost livelihoods....

The Hanover police have made a breakthrough into the identities of the three alleged gunmen who lost their lives in a motor vehicle collision along the Barbican main road in Hanover on Sunday. The dead men have been identified as 27-year-old...

Investigators are probing two multimillion-dollar robberies in as many days in the Kingston Eastern and St Mary police divisions. In the latest incident, detectives are probing a daring multimillion-dollar daylight robbery of a Beryllium Limited...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange has warned men who are sexually abusing children and women to halt the heinous crime, declaring that they will be found and prosecuted. The warning came Wednesday after the minister....

Colombian cartels are believed to have reduced their leverage of Jamaica as a trans-shipment hub for illicit drugs into the United States, but that development has not pushed the partnership off the radar of the police, Major General Antony...

Once a highlight of Independence celebrations, the song competition had long lost its lustre, falling off the tongues of the public with waning interest. The Festival Song Competition, a decades-long staple of Jamaica’s annual Independence...

A local family is praying that Jamaican and international authorities will expedite the search for a missing five-year-old girl who has been separated from her mother while crossing the dangerous United States (US) border through Mexico. The past.....

Communications surveillance is being used by the police and their international partners to intercept organised crime, including the shipment of illegal guns, but Jamaica’s police chief has sought to downplay the scale of its use in intelligence.....

A day after a widely circulated video featuring a classroom bust-up sparked national outrage, a high-ranking police commander has warned of a wave of student indiscipline and violence taking over the city. Senior Superintendent Michael Phipps,...

One small victory for a Christian school family can serve as inspiration for an entire nation. That’s the message from principal of Emmanuel Christian Academy, Adjoa Dawes, following Saturday’s resounding victory after two gruelling days of...

Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan has said that judges are the best persons to determine bail, which is a constitutional right. He was responding to an announcement on Tuesday by Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte that......

The Holness administration has signalled that the journey to break ties with the British monarchy and establish Jamaica as a republic will be completed by the time voters go to the polls to elect a new government. This is the first time that the...

Days into the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, residents of Weise Road in Bull Bay, St Andrew, are reiterating desperate pleas for the repair of a damaged culvert and the shoring up of the Chalky River with gabion baskets. They insist that the...

WESTERN BUREAU: A man is in custody and three AR-15 rifles and two Smith...

One of the six alleged members of the Westmoreland-based King Valley Gang who were freed in July 2020 was on Tuesday shot to death during an alleged gun battle with criminals in Grange Hill. Copeland Sankey, otherwise called ‘Tupac’, met his......

Forecasting “a very turbulent and rocky economic time” for Jamaica, former Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips has said that the Government and Opposition must put aside political posturing to prevent an already crisis-weary economy from collapsi...

When a familiar car pulled up to the emergency unit at the Spanish Town Hospital on Sunday night, Kirk Barrett’s sister did not anticipate that she would be in for the shock of her life as her 21-year-old brother was among four men killed in a...