A motorcyclist was shot and killed along the Junction main road in Temple Hall, St Andrew early this morning. The incident happened about 1 o'clock while the man was heading to Brandon Hill, where he lived. It is also reported that the...

TORONTO: Although she has been working in her new position since January 9, D Karen Flynn, was formally invested as the Terrance...

NEW YORK: Stanley Campbell, who boasts Jamaican heritage, has tossed his hat into the ring to contest the United States senate seat currently held by Republican Rick Scott. Campbell, whose father is Jamaican, is among nine candidates running in...

RA Williams Distributors Limited has unveiled its latest expansion venture in St Catherine with the inauguration of a state-of-the-art office and temperature-controlled storage facility in the New Brunswick Village, Spanish Town. The new facility...

The power of love is life-changing, and love is what many people crave. Protection stirs up feelings of strength and positivity and it makes children feel safe and secure. But, did you know, when you show children how much you love them, it...

All public and private entities and institutions are required to develop and implement their respective sexual harassment policy by the end of June 2024. This was emphasised by Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia...

The St Elizabeth police have listed three individuals as wanted and several others have been listed as persons of interest in relation to various crimes in the division. Wanted 1. Ian Brown, otherwise called 'Boom June', of Huntley Castle...

The leadership of Glenmuir High School in Clarendon is dismissing criticisms of how the institution handled the situation of the assault of an autistic student by another at the school. A video of the incident has recently been making the...

One of the two men who were arrested and charged by the police in connection with a daring daylight double murder in downtown Montego Bay, St James, has been granted bail after nearly a year in custody. Richard Laoe, 33, was offered bail in the sum...

Two policemen who were charged with the 2012 murder of George Green inside a store in Christiana, Manchester, have been acquitted. Police Constable Eveneene Gallimore was found not guilty on Thursday by a seven-member jury following a trial which...

Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake has pleaded with students of Grange Hill High School in Westmoreland not to embrace the culture of crime and violence.  Blake was part of a high-level security and education team that visited the school on...

Brandon Brissett, a 28-year-old auto mechanic of Phoenix Park Village, Portmore, St Catherine, has been hit with several charges following allegations that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl.  Brissett has been charged with...

A St Catherine man charged for allegedly using a fictitious cheque to buy goods and to obtain cash at a supermarket was remanded when he appeared before the parish court today. Kevon Gray, 30, unemployed of Central Village, is...

The Trelawny Municipal Corporation is reporting that it collected $326 million in property taxes for the financial year 2023/2024. This information was disclosed to The Gleaner by Chief Executive Officer at the corporation, Wayne Palmer....

Jamaica has moved up eight places in the latest World Press Freedom Index and is now the number-one ranked country in the Caribbean. The country now ranks 24 out of 180 nations in the 2024 release of the World Press Freedom Index, with a score of...

Thirty-six-year-old Teino Carnegie, who suffered multiple injuries after he allegedly jumped from a hotel window after being discovered with an illegal gun, has been granted $300,000 bail. When the matter was mentioned in the St Catherine...

The police are now processing a crime scene at Innis Bay beach, at Long Road in Portland, where the body of a man was discovered with multiple chop wounds. The body, which has not yet been identified, was discovered shortly after 5 a.m. by a...

THE ST Elizabeth Health Department (SEHD) is strengthening its support for adolescents in the parish through the revival of adolescent health clinics for youths aged 10 to 19 years. The adolescent health programme was operational from as far back...

FOR SEVERAL years while he managed the Alexandria Police Station, then Sergeant Ricardo Beckford earned the trust of community members through innovative and tried and proven community outreach programmes. In the November 26, 2021 edition of The...

Digita Global Marketing Ltd (DGM) in collaboration with Smart Mobile Solutions (SMS) has committed to sponsor two years of internet service and technical support for Annie Dawson’s Home, valued at $300,000.00 as well as providing 15 Alcatel tablets...

WARD OF the State, Jehvoun Byfield, has been honoured for being the Top Performing Boy in the 2023 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination, by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA). The Kingston College (KC)...

TRELAWNY IS widely known for its yellow yam, and as the birth parish of track superstars Veronica Campbell and Usain Bolt. And Toni-Ann Williams, a strawberry farmer, might be another reason why this western Jamaica parish is world renowned. Yet,...

Omar Collymore today refuted the reports from his ex-mistress, claiming it was he who ended their three-year love affair two months before his wife was murdered but that the woman kept begging him to rekindle the romance because she could not...

Improved service delivery and the protection of consumer interest will remain a priority for the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) during 2024/25. Activities in the telecommunications sector will continue to be geared towards facilitating access...

A town hall meeting will be held in Portland next week, following Wednesday's 4.2 magnitude earthquake that rocked the island. The earthquake's epicentre was located approximately five kilometres south of Hope Bay in the parish. The...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Government of Canada and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) have reaffirmed their intended cooperation and collaboration to work jointly to respond when the impact of natural...

Former People's National Party Member of Parliament for Western St Mary, Jolyan Silvera, who is charged with the murder of his wife, will know on May 14 if he will be granted bail. The bail application was made today by King's Counsel Peter...

A police-military team today seized over 100 cartons of cigarettes during an operation in the community of March Pen Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The cigarettes were discovered at a premises. The police say the team went to the area in search of...

Proceedings at the St Catherine courthouse were today adjourned early due to flooding from heavy rains that lashed sections of Spanish Town. Corridors were left under water from the downpour, which saw persons, including attorneys, complainants...

A 23-year-old man has been charged for the fatal stabbing of his cousin during a dispute in St Elizabeth. He is Romane Deenwell, otherwise called 'Chineyman', a farmer of Donegal district in Brighton. He is accused of killing Onandi Bell,...

A police-military team today seized over 100 cartons of cigarettes during an operation in the community of March Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The cigarettes were discovered at a premises. The police say the team went to the area in search of...

The St James Parish Court today ordered that a request be made for Shamoya Green, the woman accused of throwing her infant daughter from a roof to her death, to get psychiatric care at the hospital where she is currently receiving treatment for...

Omar Collymore, a Barbados-born American citizen, is claiming that personnel from the United States had warned him to leave Jamaica shortly after his wife was gunned down on January 2, 2018. The admission was made by Collymore in response to...

A man has been charged in relation to last month's fatally shooting of a policeman and the injury of a female vendor in St Ann. Charged with murder, shooting with intent, possession of a prohibited weapon and unauthorized possession of...

The police in St Ann are probing a case of murder and arson in relation to the death of an 80-year-old woman in Spring Garden in Bamboo on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Sylvia Barrett. The police report that about 6:15 pm, fire was...