THE UPTICK in multimillion-dollar robberies on financial institutions and businesses that handle large sums of money has triggered a call among stakeholders for legislation to make it mandatory for these businesses to install a standard security...
Beset by problems of unemployment and the lack of basic skills to create economic independence youths in the small farming community of Troja in the northeastern section of St Catherine are crying out for attention. President of the Troja Citizens...
Delegates of the People’s National party (PNP) in the St Catherine South Eastern constituency are fuming at the proposed new selection process the party will adopt to select a candidate for the constituency. The party’s National Executive Council...
As armed gangsters step up their attacks on businesses that handle large sums of money in St Catherine, the police are appealing to operators to build out their security systems to prevent or repel such attacks. Noting that there is a visible lack...
A police officer who has expressed intolerance for law breakers believes community policing and youth empowerment must be employed to help the security forces and the nation to solve the expanding crime problem. Subofficer in charge at the...
Marlene Smith left work early last Wednesday after promising her daughters, who attend a high school in St Catherine, that she would be at their netball game to cheer them on. The girls were conscious that Smith was not among the parents and...
A cab driver and his female passenger were killed in the Railway Lane area of Spanish Town, St Catherine on Wednesday, after gunmen chased the vehicle in which they were travelling and opened fire at them. The deceased have been identified as 31-...
Angry Windalco bauxite workers disrupted the smooth flow of traffic along the busy Ewarton main road in St Catherine by mounting a massive roadblock on Tuesday as they continued their industrial action. Motorists who were being impeded watched in...
Trade and production workers at UC Rusal's Windalco, Port Esquivel and Kirkvine bauxite plants have vowed not to return to work until the company addresses claims that were awarded by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT). The workers took strike...
Ear-piercing wails shattered the atmosphere as a thin thread of hope turned to inconsolable grief in the bushes near Naseberry Grove in Kitson Town, St Catherine, on Monday when a search party looking for a missing woman and her boyfriend stumbled...
Two homeless St Elizabeth brothers have been sleeping rough in Braes River, taking up residence in a dilapidated building. The brothers, 53-year-old Alvin Hyde and 52-year-old Perry Hyde, told The Gleaner they were evicted from a three-bedroom...
AN AGREEMENT was reached between the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) and the University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU) late Thursday evening for bus drivers to return to work. The drivers had taken strike action to press their demands for...
Residents in the communities of Wilton, Braes River, Balaclava, and surrounding districts have expressed concerns about the integrity of the 114-year-old Grossmond Bridge in St Elizabeth, constructed in 1909, and are fearful that it could collapse...
Without breathing room to recover from a mystery disease that has been ravaging their watermelon crops over the last two years, several St Elizabeth fruit and vegetable farmers are yet again tallying huge losses as a prolonged drought deals them...
THE ST Catherine South Police will be deploying quick response teams to widen their coverage as part of their business watch plan aimed at arresting the dangerous, daring, and deadly robberies recently experienced in the Portmore municipality. That...
A suspected land scam in which hundreds of persons are believed to have lost millions of dollars has been uncovered in Naseberry Villa, an informal development near Kitson Town, St Catherine. The Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) has been conducting...
As Sunday’s multimillion-dollar armed robbery continues to send shockwaves throughout the country, a number of security guards have indicated that they are considering ditching the profession, citing inadequate training and resources as they argued...
The president of the Jamaica Society for Industrial Security (JSIS) believes no amount of planning could have prevented a bloody case of déjà vu in which criminals outgunned a Beryllium courier team on Sunday, leaving four injured as they made off...
Despite the Supreme Court granting an injunction sparing them from eviction until the matter is heard, some 65 families in Pleasant Hill in Lluidas Vale, St Catherine remain on edge. The injunction was handed down in February, following a lawsuit...
Member of Parliament for St Catherine South East Robert Miller has accused the Portmore Municipal Council of frustrating efforts to rebrand the New Forum Fishing Village where last April, 14 shops were destroyed by fire leaving millions of dollars...
Avis Harvey can be considered an archivist in her own right. Even without subscribing to the conventional ways of storing cultural artifacts, she has been able to store and preserve important relics, some dating back to the 18th century. Born in...
The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) on Monday ramped up protest action and critique of the Holness-led administration as members of the party hierarchy and supporters took to the streets of Spanish Town, St Catherine. In addition to the...
“Bullyism and badmanism” was how People’s National Party (PNP) councillors attending last Thursday’s general meeting of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation described the Government’s approach to the public-sector compensation review. Last week,...
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie is warning truckers contracted by municipal corporations to distribute water in drought-hit communities to desist from charging residents for the commodity. “We do not sell water...
Forty-nine-year-old Judith McLean wept uncontrollably as she sat on a makeshift seat in her front yard in the Zambia area of Central Village, St Catherine, on Saturday, a day after her nine-year-old son was found hanging by his neck at their home....
