Residents in Rocky Point, Clarendon, are now on edge as water from the sea has flooded the community. This morning residents woke up to flooded streets and yards as high tides caused huge volumes of water to flood the entire Shearer Heights area....
Four months after the May 2010 police-military operations in west Kingston, the government paid out just under $100 million to persons who were impacted, Permanent Secretary in the Social Security Ministry, Collette Roberts Risden, has testified....
Attorneys for the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) today challenged the testimony of a high-ranking Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officer that he saw a pile of about 20 decomposing bodies inside the May Pen Cemetery one day after the start of the...
The National Water Commission (NWC) says the water in its storage facilities would only last for another 15 days at most if it did not implement restrictions. The NWC’s acting president, Mark Barnett, made the disclosure on the soon to be...
Lieutenant Colonel David Cummings, says an "elaborate and fully functional" surveillance system and a tunnel, were discovered in the Tivoli Gardens stronghold of drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke during the May 2010 operations...
The West Kingston Commission of Enquiry has heard evidence which suggests that the police cannot find documents related to the 2009 extradition request for drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke. The missing documents were found inside...
A member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) this morning recounted how two blasts, minutes apart, caused the 27-ton front-end loader he was operating during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens to tilt to one side and the front wheels to...
Concerns about the fresh witness statements submitted to the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry has triggered a warning from chairman of the three-member panel Sir David Simmons that there could be legal and criminal consequences. Simmons, however...
A senior member of the Jamaican military today revealed that the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) deployed two 50 calibre rifles during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens. The...
A senior member of the Jamaican military today surmised that the May 2010 police-military operations in the west Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens would have been "very messy" if women and children were used by gunmen as human shield....
Chairman of the west Kingston commission of enquiry Sir David Simmons has ruled that no new witness statements will be accepted after today. The ruling came after attorneys for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) raised concerns about a statement taken...
The Lloyd D’Aguilar-led Tivoli Committee still has standing at the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry. Last week the group, was given until today to provide witness statements to the committee or lose its standing at the commission. The...
A high-ranking member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has revealed that there was intelligence at the time which suggested that there were criminals armed with rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens....
Published:Saturday | June 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
The reported raping of a woman in front of her daughter yesterday afternoon and the shooting of a policeman by criminals who invaded the Longville Park community in Clarendon has left residents fuming. This morning the angry residents came out to...
Members of the police force spent a big portion of this morning trying to control large crowds that gathered at various Digicel outlets in the Corporate Area. This comes after the telecommunications company sent text messages informing customers that they would be ...
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Asafa Powell were at their best on the second day of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA)/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championship inside the National Stadium with impressive wins. Fraser-Pryce...
National Security Minister, Peter Bunting, is insisting that there is no attempt to weaken the power of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM). A parliamentary committee is reviewing INDECOM and Bunting and Justice Minister, Senator...
A retired Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officer who served as one of the army's ground commanders during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens has revealed that he was extremely surprised when he heard of the number of persons who died in the...
The Opposition says Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, Anthony Hylton, should be fired over what it calls his embarrassing handling of a proposed US$5 billion logistics hub investment. Today, the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) informed...
The Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) says it will be moving to address the problem of the stagnant water with an overbearing stench in a section of downtown Kingston. For more than two weeks, the water, which has settled at...
A retired army officer has revealed that the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) used "explosives" to clear a roadblock leading into Tivoli Gardens during the May 2010 operations. However, retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Sewell, who was in...
A retired Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) colonel has given evidence before the west Kingston commission of enquiry that appears to contradict aspects of the testimony given by Assistant Commissioner of Police Leon Rose. Lieutenant Colonel Andrew...
Former Jamaica Defence Force chief, Major General Stewart Saunders, has described the May 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens as successful. That description came as Saunders testified during cross-examination before the...
Former Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Chief of Defence Staff Major General Stewart Saunders has testified that he has no idea who may have tipped off drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke about a pending extradition request from United States...
Jamaica's men’s Olympic football team departed the island yesterday to participate in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) qualifiers in the Dominican Republic intent on a historic berth in the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. The under-23...
