Murder only serious crime moving up

August 26, 2016 in Regional

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has reported a 2.4 per cent increase in Jamaica’s murder rate for the first six months of the year, when compared to the corresponding period in 2015. Outside of murder, the country, however, had a 22.8 per cent decline in...

Five homeless after early morning blaze

August 25, 2016 in Regional

A mother, father and three children were rushed to the Mount St John’s Medical Centre after a fire gutted their Jennings home yesterday in the wee hours of the morning. Forty-one-year-old Gaiann Williams and three young children — her seven-year-old step-daughter, her three-year-old and eight-month-old sons-along...

‘Yuh cyaan get mi out; a kill mi a go kill yuh’

August 24, 2016 in Regional

Family members of the senior citizen who was allegedly chopped to death by his 17-year-old grandson in St Thomas, last weekend, say the man had been awaiting the intervention of the Child Development Agency (CDA) after reporting that the teen had threatened to kill him. Seventy-two-year-old...