Two months before stabbing his father to death at their Petersfield District home in Westmoreland in July 2021, Garnett Foster Jr had researched ways to kill a parent. The now 18-year-old man had become wayward and believed that his parents,...

Despite showing no remorse for raping a nine-year-old girl, who he strangled while buggering, the mother of the child says she has forgiven the cold-hearted, young killer. The now-17-year-old convict was 13 when he committed the brutish and...

Several residents in the Crescent Road area of St Andrew were on Friday adamant that they would be heading to the United States-Mexico border after the latest explosion of violence which claimed two lives and left a third man injured. Jamaicans...

Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie is urging Jamaicans to exercise caution when using the roadways as the country remains under tropical storm watch. “I am urging residents, not just in this community but right across...

WESTERN BUREAU: Fifty-one-year-old Natalie Reid, operator of the Chances Rehabilitation Centre in Hanover, is to pay a fine of $150,000 or spend one month in prison at hard labour for operating a nursing home without the requisite licences. Reid,......

August 16 will forever be etched into Zenora Reynolds Davis’ memory after she suffered huge losses as a result of two devastating fires which ravaged farms in Flagaman, St Elizabeth, on that exact date in both 2019 and 2022. When the third...

Residents of Bannister and surrounding communities in St Catherine are praying that the forecast torrential rain from a weather system set to affect the island this weekend will not result in the infamous Big Pond heaping another round of flooding.....

Residents in at least two flood-prone areas in southeastern Clarendon believe they are prepared to withstand the snares of a tropical storm predicted to pass south of Jamaica by Sunday. The Meteorological Service said on Friday that Jamaica and its....

Recycling Partners of Jamaica Chairman Dr Damien King says the entity has been surprised by citizens’ enthusiasm to embrace plastic-bottle recycling. Speaking on Thursday as the RPJ signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tourism Product...

Twelve new residents of the Bell Rock neighbourhood off Olympic Way in St Andrew are thrilled to have a new place to call home that can adequately protect them from the approaching storm as Jamaica braces for severe weather this weekend. Michael...

Nearly a year ago, Rushane Barnett and his brother were unemployed and in a financial bind when they telephoned their aunt, Gwendolyn McKnight, for help. The brothers wanted to move to Clarendon, where McKnight and her family lived, to find jobs...

Tax debtors who were among 20 persons picked up across St Catherine during an early morning operation Thursday dug deep in their pockets to settle or part-pay property, education and income tax arrears. The delinquent taxpayers were taken into...

What was supposed to be a gathering of mourning relatives taking steps to prepare a final place for a senior family member dramatically turned into a machete-wielding and gunslinging bloodbath in Glengoffe, St Catherine, on Wednesday, leaving one......

What Chang claims Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has accused The Gleaner of “misleading editorialising” of his controversial remarks on police use-of-force when confronted by gunmen. In a press statement issued Thursday, Chang......

As a tropical wave sweeps westward over the southern Caribbean Sea threatening showers for Jamaica this weekend, residents of Waterford, St Catherine, are fearful of another episode of lamentable flooding. Blockages of the sewerage system were...

Leader of opposition business in the Senate, Peter Bunting, described as disgraceful and shameful the alleged denial by the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) of a personal gun permit to a policeman who has served in the Jamaica Constabulary Force......

Despite losing most of their belongings in a fire that gutted their homes on Thursday afternoon, the occupants at a family compound in Standpipe, St Andrew, are grateful that no lives were lost. District Officer Norris Munroe of the Jamaica Fire...

A second major fish kill within three months has brought a fresh wave of concern for fishermen at the Port Henderson fishing village and nearby residents as they ponder the source of the latest disaster. Hundreds of dead fish began washing up along....

More than 2,000 complaints of abuse or breaches of employment policies have been filed against employers under the Seasonal Agricultural Work Programme, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has said. But of that figure, only 43 per cent....

A frenetic hunt for a child which ended in a showdown between a mother and stepmother at a Corporate Area primary school last Thursday has reportedly resulted in emotional trauma for the grade three student whose father allegedly breached custodial....