Bloodshed, bullet holes and doubts Residents question account of deadly Sligoville main road shooting; second cop succumbs to injuries Questions are being raised about the circumstances surrounding Friday’s deadly confrontation between police and men at a house off the Sligoville main road in Six Miles, St Catherine, with residents offering accounts that challenge aspects of the police version of events. The police have described the incident as a fierce gun battle involving three men whom they said were associates of a well-known high-risk target in St Andrew North.
Their parents wore the badge, they chose the stethoscope WESTERN BUREAU: When 24-year-old Ashli McCarthy arrived in Guyana four years ago, she knew almost nobody, had no local currency, and carried little more than her ambition to become a doctor. “All I had was my Scotiabank card and a dream,” she recalled. Today, the Montego Bay native is in her fifth and final year at the University of Guyana, having navigated homesickness, financial challenges and the demands of medical school with the support of her parents and a close-knit community of Jamaican students.
Access granted A tribunal has ordered the government’s principal training agency to hand over the full, unredacted and authenticated minutes of all board meetings held between 2020 and 2023 to the attorneys for a senior manager facing disciplinary charges.
DEADLY TRAP A 10-year-old child was allegedly used as bait by gunmen on Friday morning to lure police officers into a deadly ambush during an operation in the Five Miles area of St Catherine. According to reports, the confrontation began about 5:15 a.m. in Mount Moreland, a hilly community off the Sligoville main road, where a Special Operations Branch team was searching for wanted men. The officers reportedly came under gunfire from three men who had barricaded themselves inside a house with other occupants, including the child, a six-month-old infant, and their mother.
Court fight - Clarendon power struggle set for legal showdown as injunction blocks leadership shake-up The People’s National Party (PNP) caucus in the Clarendon Municipal Corporation (CMC) has described a court injunction barring motions of no confidence against May Pen Mayor Joel Williams and Deputy Mayor Clive Mundle as a “threat on democracy”, questioning the manner in which the document was presented during a special meeting on Friday.
Senator calls for targeted pension plan for farmers Drawing on a 2024 Financial Services Commission (FSC) report, opposition senator Ramon Small-Ferguson has highlighted the low participation of Jamaican farmers in private pension schemes, with fewer than one in every 100 enrolled. In his contribution to the debate on the Pensions (Superannuation Funds and Retirement Schemes) (Investment) (Amendment) Regulations, 2026, Ferguson said the Government and private sector should join forces to address the issue.
British high commissioner opens line of cooperation with HMC WESTERN BUREAU: British High Commissioner Alicia Herbert has opened a line of cooperation with the administrators and staff at the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC). Herbert, who began her tour of duty just over a year ago, has outlined plans to visit all the municipalities across the islands as a way of developing an understanding of the local government bodies operate and to see what avenues exist for collaboration.
When gossip protects coworkers – and when it backfires NEW YORK (AP): Stephanie Joseph was working at a television station when someone started a false rumour claiming she and a married colleague were romantically involved. Joseph, then 20, barely knew the man in question and didn’t hear the gossip until a producer told her it was circulating. “I’m thinking to myself, this is crazy,” she recalled. “This particular male co-worker, although he was young, he was married with a family. So that made it even more insulting because I thought, ‘I’m friendly with these people. Don’t they know my character?’”
HIV CARE GAP - AHF calls for strategy to get thousands more on treatment; ministry says social barriers keeping patients away The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Jamaica is calling for urgent action to reach the thousands of people living with HIV in Jamaica who are not receiving treatment. In a statement yesterday, the AHF, which works to expand access to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment, sexual and reproductive health services, advocacy, and community-based health education, pointed to national data showing that Jamaica has an estimated 28,000 people living with HIV, approximately 26,500 of whom have been diagnosed. However, only 14,716 – or 53 per cent – are documented as receiving treatment.
19-y-o charged with Kidd Lane triple murder A 19-year-old man has been charged with three counts of murder in connection with last Friday’s deadly attack on Kidd Lane, off Spanish Town Road in St Andrew, which claimed the lives of two women and a one-year-old boy. The accused, Dante Davis, who has addresses on Spanish Town Road and Kidd Lane in Kingston 13, is also facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder, arson, conspiracy to commit arson, possession of a prohibited weapon, unauthorised possession of ammunition and using a firearm to commit a felony.