MANCHESTER, Jamaica — A police corporal sustained wounds after he was shot in the chest during a gun battle with armed men in Spalding on Wednesday.
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An investigation has been launched into the murder of a man and the injury of another outside a Corporate Area nightclub on Saturday morning. The deceased has been identified as Kashawn Young, 26 years old, of Hope Avenue, Land Settlement in...
A businessman was reportedly shot and injured on Tuesday morning during an attempted robbery at Oakland Apartments on Constant Spring Road in Kingston. Reports are that about 8:45am, men travelling in a Toyota Probox motor car entered the apartment complex. It is alleged that one of the men alighted from the car and entered the building in which the now-injured man lives. Shortly after, gunshots were heard. Police were summoned...
A major police investigation is now under way into the fatal shooting of 63-year-old Sandra Annette Risden, a senior paralegal at Nunes, Scholefield, DeLeon and Company, on Washington Boulevard in St Andrew early Thursday morning. Police sources told the Jamaica Observer that it was clear that the attack was a hit on Risden, but up to press time investigators had not established a motive for the killing that plunged the...
An elderly man who was on the public records as a justice of the peace for St Catherine, may be struck from the roll as he admitted to collecting monies from members of the public to verify documents. Aaron Francis pleaded guilty to two counts of...
Tomorrow’s sixth anniversary of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Day is being celebrated under the theme, ‘Brewed Perfection’, and continues throughout the month with several special events, both locally and internationally. Jamaica Blue Mountain...
The sixth anniversary of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Day on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 will coincide with the 70th year when the first direct shipment of Jamaica’s world renowned luxury coffee was made...
WITH millions figuratively down the drain from paying National Water Commission (NWC) sewerage costs, despite not being connected to its system, and simultaneously juggling payments for private se...
The Forestry Department has paid tribute to Roy Jones, the former conservator of forests, and before that, deputy director, and director of the Department of Forestry and Soil Conservation in the ...