Stories by Jason Cross

Residents of the Waterloo Road area in St Andrew greeted a team of health ministry officials with hostility on Tuesday night during a town hall meeting where proposals for the use of the nearby cholera cemetery were discussed.Among the officials in...

It was a dismal scene at 11, 13, and 15 Wild Street in Franklyn Town, Kingston, yesterday where three dwellings were ravaged by fire just seven days before Christmas.Up to yesterday evening, the cause of the fire, which started at around 1:18 p.m.,...

Efforts by senior members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to reassure downtown Kingston vendors and shoppers, especially those moving about, conducting business in and around the Coronation Market area, that they will be safe throughout the...

Christmas is fast app-roaching, but up to yesterday, there was little sign of increased economic activity in certain areas usually known to be busy with people trying to buy items for the season.The exception was Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, where...

Child psychologist and family therapist Dr Orlean Brown-Earle has made a firm recommendation that a 14-year-old girl, who was allegedly kidnapped in Kingston on Sunday, taken to Portmore in St Catherine then raped by two men, be psychologically...

In the wake of the early-morning killing of a policeman on Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew yesterday, superintendent in charge of the Corporate Communications Unit, Stephanie Lindsay, has reiterated that the threat level against members of the Jamaica...

Outgoing Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Antony Anderson, has moved to dispel a common belief that members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) do very little but sit around at Up Park Camp passing time while wasting taxpayers' money.The army...

"We'll be ready" was the affirmation Director of Elections Orrette Fisher confidently gave when asked by The Gleaner yesterday evening how prepared the Electoral Office of Jamaica was ahead of today's Local Government Elections.Fisher's message to...

Decades of war between the Crips and Bloods, two of America's most infamous gangs, operating in a country where law-enforcement officials possess some of the best equipment in crime-fighting, has convinced Commissioner of Police Dr Carl Williams...

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has encouraged more teachers and pastors to become justices of the peace in order to settle community disputes before they escalate.Chuck made the statement at a justice sensitisation drive last week, which was held at...

As violent killings continue to rock Spanish Town, St Catherine, the police are appealing to residents in and around the area not to shield gangsters in their communities, and encouraged them to steer their children away from a life of crime.The...