Carson Barrett News Today

Schools should be safe protective spaces – an escape from the world and all its challenges while learning about the world and its challenges. I join all well-thinking Jamaicans in condemning the violence which plagues our schools, including the...

‘We are going to find him’

Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake has pleaded with students of Grange Hill High School in Westmoreland not to embrace the culture of crime and violence.  Blake was part of a high-level security and education team that visited the school on...

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica – Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang and Commissioner of Police Dr Kevin Blake are leading a tour of Grange Hill in Westmore...

WESTERN BUREAU: RICHARD TROUPE, director of safety and security in the Ministry of Education and Youth (MOEY), says April has been the most difficult month with regard to violence in schools. Troupe, who was part of the education and youth ministry...

Counselling sessions were this morning held with students and staff at Grange Hill High School in Westmoreland following the brutal killing of 16-year-old Carson Barrett last Thursday. Barrett, who was preparing to sit Social Studies at the...

WESTERN BUREAU The mother of schoolboy Jahmiel Richardson has been taken into police custody after the eight-year-old perished in a fire at his Top Lincoln home in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, on the weekend. Sherone McDonald is expected to remain...

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — The family of 16-year-old Carson Barrett is refuting claims made by the Westmoreland police that their relative could have been invol...

WESTERN BUREAU: RELATIVES OF Carson Barrett, the 16-year-old Grange Hill High School student who was shot dead on Thursday, believe that his death stemmed from a relationship he had with a female who lives in the community. That relationship...

KINGSTON, Jamaica— Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday condemned the brutal killing of Carson Barrett, a 16-year-old student of Grange Hill High in Westm...