Senior defence lawyers have expressed mixed views about prosecutors’ plans to seek the death penalty for the 23-year-old man accused of the throat-slashing murder of a mother and four children in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, last week. Rushane Barnett,...

The business community in St Catherine has criticised the Government’s decision not to seek an extension of the state of emergency (SOE), challenging that the 14-day respite is not enough to repel criminals wreaking havoc in the Old Capital....

When entrepreneur David Bowen saw the roll-out plan for the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project, the Grants Pen resident said he predicted the St Thomas fishing village would soon lose its economic value. But some residents jeered him and.....

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago, 18-year-old Justeena Rhone grasped the opportunity to make money selling newspapers, shooting for her dream of saving towards becoming a cardiothoracic surgeon. Every...

A retired St Catherine shopkeeper and neighbour of an alleged Clansman-One Don gangster disclosed Wednesday that the accused once attended prayer meetings at her home, causing her to disbelieve the State’s claims he was involved in organised crime...

United States (US) Ambassador to Jamaica, Nick Perry, says volunteers from the US Peace Corps will return to Jamaica in September. The volunteers, who have been working with Jamaicans since 1962, were absent in the last two years owing to the COVID....

Concessionaires of Highway 2000 have said that they will not defer this year’s rate increases after losing millions of dollars in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Toll Authority of Jamaica CEO Lerone Laing made the disclosure on......

The chief public servant Jamaicans depend on to watch over the public purse, Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis, has won the 2021 RG Platinum Award. Monroe Ellis earned the top RJRGLEANER Honour Award for her exemplary leadership in the public...

The mother of one of the alleged Clansman-One Don gangsters yesterday testified that she was devastated by the news of his arrest and that he is “not capable of being in a gang”. The St Catherine woman described her son, Brian ‘Rooster’ Morr...

Denham Town resident Veron Nelson lost his 17-year-old sister Devonise Nelson to a vicious gun attack on Sunday, breaking a special bond between them, having shared both parents, unlike the rest of their siblings. Devonise, a student and mother......

WESTERN BUREAU: DR ANTHONY Taylor, chairman of the St James Festival Queen Committee, believes that avenues should be opened for a wider pool of venues to host the annual Miss Jamaica Festival Queen finals outside of Kingston to provide a greater......

WESTERN BUREAU: Several pieces of clothing, including the underwear belonging to a nine-year-old schoolgirl who was raped and killed in 2018, were tendered into evidence on Monday in a case against a 17-year-old boy accused of rape, buggery and...

A Jamaican fisherman traumatised by the loss of his right arm in a shark attack on the weekend has recounted the harrowing brush with death in what seemed like a 15-minute battle. Michael Simpson, who spoke with The Gleaner at May Pen Hospital...

She is 96 years old and just graduated with an associate degree in science and liberal arts. Jamaica-born Violet Edwards, who put her education on hold for years as she put her daughter through medical school and raised...

Jamaicans domiciled abroad will soon get the chance to become members of the People’s National Party (PNP) as the organisation bids to expand its footprint with a beefed-up registration drive. That decision was ratified during Sunday’s National...

The revised Emergency Powers Regulations governing the state of emergency (SOE) in St Catherine has broadened the circumstances under which an individual may be arrested and detained or may be asked to leave their communities because of perceived.....

Councillor for the Papine division, Venesha Phillips, has pledged not to leverage influence among her supporters to interfere with the political ambitions of People’s National Party (PNP) prospective candidate Peta-Gay Ferguson....

One of the seven persons shot in a drive-by gun attack at Greenwich Park Road in Kingston on Friday evening is fearful he may have to undergo an orchiectomy because he was shot in his testicles. The shooting victim had just undergone surgery on...

A fraudulent ‘SIM-swap’ scheme, which allows cybercriminals to “hijack” cellular phones and gain access to sensitive personal information, has been used to swipe nearly $100 million from more than two dozen bank accounts over the last 18 mon...