William Knibb student gets 4 years, 10 months for killing schoolmate
The male William Knibb Memorial High School student who was charged with the March 21 stabbing death of 16-year-old fellow student Khamal Hall has been sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison.
WATCH: Fire Destroys Barber Shop In Black River
Fire destroyed a wooden building which included a barber shop in Black River Tuesday morning.
Gunmen Rob Manchester Gas station, held hostages !!
Police are probing the scene of an armed robbery at a gas station in Knockpatrick, Manchester, on Tuesday evening.
Preliminary reports are that about 6:00 pm, five gunmen held up the establishment. During the robbery, pump attendants were reportedly held hostage.
Two female students at the Muschett High School in Trelawny have been suspended after a fight in which one was stabbed and injured.
The incident happened on Monday and the police are to speak with the parent of both students later Wednesday.
One of the girls was stabbed in the face and arm during the fight. The other girl was taken into police custody and later released to her parents.
At approximately 2:25 pm this afternoon, a car travelling along the Michael Manley Boulevard in the direction of downtown Kingston overturned into the sea.
The incident occurred in the vicinity of the Manley Meadows housing scheme. OBSERVER ONLINE understands that four people, including two children, were in the ill-fated vehicle at the time of the accident.
They were rushed to hospital.
Their conditions are not known at this time.
There is a pall of gloom over the Christina Meadows community in Portmore, St Catherine following the brutal slaying of a couple, allegedly at the hands of their son, on Friday morning.
The incident is said to have occurred at 4 am. It is alleged that the son stabbed his parents to death.
Jamaica Labour Party supporters in St Ann North Eastern are now protesting at the constituency office of Member of Parliament Marsha Smith, demanding her removal. The protesters say they have had enough of Smith's continued absence from the constituency. Efforts to contact her have been unsuccessful.
#HappeningNow Thirteen firearms - 10 rifles, 2 sub-machine guns and a pistol - were seized in Florence Hall, Trelawny. One man was fatally shot during the incident. Updates soon.
one woman has been arrested by members of the Lottery Scam Taskforce in Cambridge, St. James following the seizure of several lead sheets and other lottery scamming paraphernalia during operations that are still ongoing in the parish.
"Poor people need protection middle class people need protection".
Displaying a seized AK-47 rifle at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson made the point that local criminals are well-equipped with “weapons of war”, and they are seeing progress as 88 guns was seize in January — the most seized over one month for a long time.
The 88 guns seized last month include 13 rifles and 59 pistols.
He said that, up to Tuesday, Jamaica had a six per cent decline in murders, a 20 per cent decline in shootings, a 14 per cent reduction in robberies, a 67 per cent reduction in rape, and an 11 per cent decline in break-ins since the start of the year.
However not everyone is of the views that enough is being done to control the climbing crime rate and beleives that more needs to be done. I am going to show a short clip of a gentleman giving is own opinion.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the country will not go back to lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19. Holness says Jamaicans should get vaccinated. On Friday, Jamaica recorded 1,593 #COVID cases.
The police thwarted an attempted robbery on Red Hills road this afternoon. Deputy Superintendent of the St Andrew North Division, Collin Millaneise says the short chase came to an end when the robber was knocked off his bike with a patrol car.
His attempt to escape into a nearby gully failed when he sustained injuries to his leg and was apprehended. Four cellphones were found on his person.
Residents of Text Lane in Central Kingston are grief-stricken over the untimely death of six -year-old T'mora McCallum in an accidental shooting on Monday.
Police investigators are processing crime scenes in Portmore, St Catherine after a man allegedly killed his mother and stole a motor vehicle before he was shot and killed by a security guard on Tuesday morning.
"The suspect used a stone to bludgeon his mother to death, and then tried to steal a car in Phoenix Boulevard before a security officer over there shot and killed him," a source close to the investigation.
The Constabulary Communication Unit confirmed the shooting but could not identify the deceased.
A female administrator at the Excelsior Community College in St Andrew is now in hospital after being shot yesterday afternoon. The police say some time after 3 o'clock, the administrator was called from her office by a man who came onto the compound.
Damoya Grant became the latest drowning victim in the Rio Cobre, which has proven to be a graveyard of dreams and a force of nature that has caused pain for many families.
"Rio Cobre! Yuh shouldn't tek mi pickney!" Amorel Wright shouted in resignation, while pleading with the police on the scene to allow her to touch her daughter's body.
JUST IN: Kevin Smith's body leaving Archer’s Funeral home in Spanish town
Autopsy results shows Kevin Smith died from multiple blunt force injuries.
The aunt of Constable Orlando Irons, who died in Monday morning's three-vehicle collision along the Bog Walk bypass in St Catherine, has expressed deep sadness at her nephew's tragic passing.
"He was a great person," Marcia Wilson told.
"Everybody have dem issues but you don't know his issues, because he is such a great person," she said, noting that the late cop was close to his family members.
Wilson explained that she had a look at her nephew at the Spanish Town Hospital before he was removed to the morgue.
Members of the Jamaica Fire Brigade cutting Kevin Smith, the pastor for the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries from the wreckage of a motor vehicle accident along the Bog Walk Bypass on Monday morning.
Smith is believed to have died alongside a policeman in the accident. Three other cops were injured in the incident.
Two policemen at the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay, St James raise a standard of the Jamaica Constabulary Force to half-mast following the death of Constable Oshane Irons.
Irons, who was assigned to the Montego Bay Fugitive Apprehension Team, died in a car crash in Bog Walk, St Catherine today while transporting religious leader Kevin O. Smith.
Smith was being transported to Kingston to face murder and other charges.
