Western Bureau: Forty-nine-year-old Abraham Lawrence, one of several mentally challenged persons, who had been locked away in state custody for two decades, was granted bail in the St Elizabeth Parish Court in Black River yesterday. Lawrence,...
Annotto Bay, St Mary: Three sisters, along with a combined total of 12 children, who were living in squalor, are now the recipients of the Tenement Upgrade housing development project in Annotto Bay, St Mary, which is part of the Government’s...
Western Bureau: It is a massive show of goodwill. The Temple of Restoration Ministries, based in Brooklyn, New York, has been delivering care packages to the nation’s most needy across 12 parishes over the past eight weeks, which they hope is...
The Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) has received $3 million worth of equipment from MBJ Airports Limited (MBJ). Shane Munroe, chief executive officer of the MBJ, presented the beds to Dr Derrick Harvey, senior medical officer of the CRH, on...
Hard-hit by the drought and the COVID-19 pandemic, some rural women have resorted to planting more drought-resistant crops in an effort to continue eking out a living in the male-dominated field. According to president of the Jamaica Network of...
Two Greenwich Town, St Andrew sisters arrested and charged with firearm offences a week ago are still awaiting a date to appear in court. The St Andrew Southern community was on Wednesday declared a Zone of Special Operation amid increased gun...
Jamaica today recorded six more imported COVID cases pushing the overall tally to 721. All six patients – four males and two females – arrived on flights from the United States. Five are non-Jamaicans: three staying in...
Amid speculation that there could soon be a general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said his focus now is to restore the economy hard hit by the coronavirus. Holness was speaking in Annotto Bay, St Mary on Thursday during a...
Lisa Hanna, a legislator and spokesperson for the Opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP) election campaign, has escaped criminal charges but has been slammed for nepotism and cronyism in the award of millions of dollars in contracts in St Ann...
Embattled St Catherine South Central Member of Parliament Dr Andrew Wheatley on Wednesday denied “wrongdoing or dishonesty” in the wake of a damning report from the Integrity Commission that referred the former minister to the director of...
A recommendation has been made for greater focus to be placed on the psychological health of the victims and perpetrators of sexual harassment, with at least one professor calling for mandatory counselling of both. The suggestion was made by acting...
Days after the Integrity Commission released two hard-hitting reports on its investigations into the scandal-scarred Petrojam with some adverse findings, a parliamentary oversight committee has invited the agency’s executive director, Greg Christie...
Former Petrojam board member Richard Creary has ripped the recently released Integrity Commission report on Petrojam that detailed damning malpractice and corruption at the state-owned oil refinery. The report said that Creary was part of the panel...
High-ranking Portmore gangster Shane ‘Uno’ Facey has been convicted in the Corporate Area Gun Court for illegal possession of firearm and ammunition. Facey was convicted on Tuesday when he appeared before Justice Leighton Pusey in relation to a...
A trail of blood spanning more than 100 metres along Lawrence Drive in St Andrew painted a grim picture of a badly wounded man trying to escape his attacker while bleeding profusely and seeking refuge. Help never came in time for 40-year-old Damion...
Psychiatrist Dr Geoffrey Walcott says the problem of mentally ill persons being held in prisons for decades without sentence is rooted in a system that forces such persons to prove not only their innocence, but that they will not commit further...
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Good Samaritans at home and abroad have come to the assistance of a man living in squalor along Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew just over a week after The Gleaner highlighted his plight. Nigel Townsend, 59, had expressed fear to our news team last...
WESTERN BUREAU: A security guard is now battling for life in the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James after he was shot and seriously injured in a daring daylight robbery at a supermarket along Market Street in the parish capital....
The North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) has released a statement seeking to assure that it has the balance of a donation it received from the state-owned oil refinery Petrojam to buy an incubator. An Integrity Commission report...
Bahamian police are reporting that a notorious Jamaican gangster has been captured in Grand Bahama. According to the Bahamian authorities, shortly after 12 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a team of officers led an intelligence-...
Former Petrojam board member Richard Creary has taken issue with sections of the damning Integrity Commission report on malpractices and corruption at the state-owned oil refinery. The report claims that Creary was part of the panel that...
Former Energy Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley has denied that his appointment of several key persons to the scandal-scarred board of the Petrojam oil refinery was tantamount to collusion. Wheatley, who was roundly criticised as “dishonest” in a...
WESTERN BUREAU: A five-year-old child was killed and three other persons injured in Montego Bay on Wednesday afternoon when an out-of-control car crashed into a group of National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) employees along Claude...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has indicated that more analysis is needed in its probe into whether the bullet that killed August Town resident Susan Bogle was fired by a member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) or gunmen...
