Deputy Commissioner Fitz Bailey has shot down a state minister’s suggestion for the Police High Command to negotiate with gangsters amid a 6.3 per cent increase in murders. Bailey, who heads the crime portfolio in the Jamaica Constabulary Force,...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has made contact with the mother of five-year-old Malaisha ‘Million’ Miller and multinational efforts are being made to ascertain the whereabouts of the young Jamaican. Miller, who will turn six...

Lawrence Smith relocated from Guyana 20 years ago and settled in the Williams Lane area of Spanish Town, St Catherine. Over that time, he watched the community disintegrate into gang conflicts. However, he did everything to keep his wife, four...

In the wake of criticism over last week’s fire at the Negril Great Morass, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has disclosed that costing and recruitment woes have stalled the rehydration project for the ecologically sensitive...

WESTERN BUREAU: Councillors at the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) are lamenting the continued garbage-collection issues affecting the parish despite being able to haul in nearly a third of the $526-million property tax target for the 2022....

Desmond and Terry Howitt are desperate for their two tertiary-level children to complete their education. Terry’s 20-year-old daughter, Shenae Simpson, is in her first year at the Caribbean Maritime University, while 22-year-old Shemoe Collash...

An ex-hotel worker who was robbed of four years of his life after he was wrongfully convicted on gun and wounding charges has rubbished the proposed amendments to the Bail Act, barring persons on murder and gun charges from getting bail as “...

WESTERN BUREAU: Private and public contractors in Westmoreland who distribute water by way of trucking will now be required to have a food handler’s permits. That decision, according to the Westmoreland Public Health Services, is to become...

The alleged bribery case against dancehall producer Shab Don, who is accused of offering $2 million to a policeman in a gun matter, was on Thursday scheduled for mention on July 12 in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Shab Don, whose real...

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.....