Spanish Town

A man who attempted to rob a taxi driver and passengers in Clarendon last night was disarmed by the cabbie and fatally shot during a struggle ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240425/man-fatally-shot-during-attempted-robbery-taxi-clarendon   #GLNRToday

A reputed enforcer within the Clansman gang, 'Termite', was reportedly killed in a shootout with the police on Friday night. 'Termite' ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240419/reputed-clansman-enforcer-termite-killed-st-catherine   #GLNRToday

An uneasy calm hung over sections of the Old Capital on Friday night after Clansman enforcer Sheldon Lennox Walters, more popularly known as Termite ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240421/chaos-spanish-town   #GLNRToday

Another man has been shot and killed in an alleged confrontation with the police in Spanish Town, St Catherine. He has been identified as Charles McDonald ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240420/another-man-killed-alleged-shootout-police-spanish-town   #GLNRToday

Senior Superintendent Christopher Phillips has dismissed criticisms that the Jamaica Constabulary Force is not applying the heat evenly to the two main gangs ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240424/police-pan-idea-bias-treatment-clansman-one-order-gangs   #GLNRToday

Sheldon Lennox Walters, the gang leader known as Termite whose shooting death on Friday night by police sparked tension in Spanish Town, St Catherine ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/21/terrible-termite/

Following the killing of Clansman gang enforcer Sheldon Walters, otherwise known as Termite, head of the St Catherine North Police Division Superintendent ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240422/normalcy-returns-spanish-town-following-killing-clansman-enforcer   #GLNRToday

There was calm in Spanish Town on Monday as police maintained a high presence to ensure public order and continued safety of citizens ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/23/calm-returns-old-capital-schools-reopen-today/

While some businesses have closed their shutters amid tension following the police killing of a reputed Clansman enforcer on Friday ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240420/businesses-worried-amid-tension-spanish-town-following-killing-alleged   #GLNRToday

🔊SOUND ON🔊 Head of the St Catherine North Police Division, Superintendent Hopeton Nicholson, says 22 people were taken into custody during operations in ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240420/22-detained-following-protests-spanish-town   #GLNRToday

A popular medical doctor in Spanish Town, St Catherine has been arrested by the police as part of its ongoing investigation into the Clansman Gang ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240417/medical-doctor-arrested-part-clansman-gang-police-probe   #GLNRToday

Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles has signalled for the first time that rate cuts could be on the horizon, and before the end of this year. www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/21/rate-cuts-year/

Investigators in the St Catherine North Police Division have launched a murder probe following the fatal shooting of a man along St John's Road in Spanish Town ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240421/police-probing-mans-murder-along-st-johns-road   #GLNRToday

A curfew that was imposed in sections of St Catherine North has been extended for another 24 hours. The curfew began at 6:00 p.m ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240421/curfew-sections-st-catherine-north-extended   #GLNRToday

Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Alando Terrelonge says a member of his team was responsible for posting a photo to his Instagram account with images of former ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

President of the St Catherine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Dennis Robotham says the business community in Spanish Town is reeling from the effects of the ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240425/spanish-town-business-community-experiencing-downturn-says-chamber-president-0   #GLNRToday

The St Catherine police have launched an investigation into the murder of a businesswoman in Spanish Town on Tuesday. Dead is Opal Bennett ... Show more   #GLNRToday

National Solid Waste Management Authority Executive Director Audley Gordon has pushed back at an attempt by Mayor of Spanish Town Norman Scott to shift the ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/16/rubbish-20240416-0455-479728/

A man was killed and his brother hospitalised after two board dwellings on Jones Avenue in Spanish Town, St Catherine, were razed in a suspected arson this ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240412/man-killed-brother-hospitalised-suspected-arson-attack   #GLNRToday

A total of nineteen 9mm and six 12 Gauge cartridges were seized by the St Catherine North police during an operation on Manchester Street in Spanish Town on ... Show more   #GLNRToday

With the words, “Yuh a di rice, we a di peas” running across the beautiful structure of the new Island Grill in Spanish Town ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/food/20240411/island-grill-set-satisfy-palates-new-brunswick-village-location   #GLNRFood

The Spanish Town police are probing a gun attack on a man in his home in the community of Lauriston early this morning. Residents reported hearing explosion ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240408/man-shot-lauriston-spanish-town   #GLNRToday

Detectives assigned to the St Catherine North Police Division are searching for men who reportedly posed as passengers and robbed a taxi operator in Spanish ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240331/cabbie-robbed-thrown-vehicle-spanish-town   #GLNRToday

Motorists travelling along Highway 2000 East-West are now able to use their debit and credit cards to pay the toll. Managing Director of TransJamaican Highway ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240305/credit-and-debit-cards-now-accepted-highway-2000-east-west   #GLNRToday

🚀 Sagicor Bank Jamaica is bringing the future of banking to Spanish Town! 🌟 With its groundbreaking ‘phygital’ branch at New Brunswick Village ... Show more   #Sagicor   #SagicorBank   #DigitalTransformation   #Iabms   #BankingRevolution   #JamaicaObserver   #AlwaysAhead

A scrap metal collector who was hit by a taxi three weeks ago along Old Harbour Road in St Catherine today succumbed in hospital ...  jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240318/scrap-metal-collector-hit-taxi-st-catherine-dies-hospital   #GLNRToday

A number of houses have been destroyed after a fire broke out on Cumberland Boulevard, in Spanish Town St Catherine, Wednesday afternoon ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/03/13/watch-multiple-houses-destroyed-fire-broke-cumberland-boulevard-spanish-town/

The Spanish Town police are searching for the persons who shot and killed a man in a drive-by shooting in Cromarty, St Catherine, on Monday night ... Show more   #GLNRToday

A 60-year-old man who is accused of stabbing another to death in Spanish Town, St Catherine has been further remanded until May 22 ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240327/st-catherine-60-year-old-man-murder-charge-further-remanded   #GLNRToday

A former cashier at a pharmacy in Spanish Town, St Catherine accused of swindling more than $400,000 from her job had her bail extended in the parish court ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240322/bail-extended-ex-cashier-spanish-town-pharmacy-accused-fraud   #GLNRToday

Plans for a swearing-in ceremony today at the St Catherine Municipal Corporation have been abruptly brought to a halt. The Peoples National Party caucus of ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240304/swearing-spanish-town-mayor-hold   #GLNRToday

A St Catherine woman was today fined $100,000 or 90 days' imprisonment for stealing electricity. Forty-year-old Phillis Gordon, a labourer of Spanish Town ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240312/st-catherine-woman-fined-100000-stealing-electricity   #GLNRToday

The police in St Catherine have charged a man for stealing a Toyota Coaster bus and for attacking persons, including the owner ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240308/spanish-town-man-charged-stealing-toyota-coaster-bus   #GLNRToday

The St Catherine North police on Saturday recovered a gun following a shoot-out at a bar in Spanish Town. A man who was found suffering from gunshot wounds ... Show more   #GLNRToday

A bus conductor accused of larceny was freed in the St Catherine Parish Court on Tuesday following a no-case submission by his attorney ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240319/bus-conductor-accused-stealing-343000-womans-bank-account-freed   #GLNRToday

Runkus and Royal Blu represent Portmore and Spanish Town on the New Wave stage at #LostInTime Festival at Hope Gardens in St Andrew. #GLNREnt

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that a section of the westbound carriageway of Spanish Town Road, in the vicinity of Callaloo Mews Housing Scheme ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240301/section-spanish-town-road-be-closed-weekend   #GLNRToday

The Rt Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Jamaica-born Bishop of Dover, will address the Festal Evensong at the Cathedral of St Jago de la Vega in Spanish Town ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240210/ja-born-bishop-dover-preach-spanish-town   #GLNRToday

Incumbent mayor of Spanish Town Norman Scott claims "the Jamaican people have had enough of the Andrew Holness administration" and that his PNP is ... Show more   #GLNRToday   #LocalGovernmentElections   #JamaicaVotes

The St Catherine North police are seeking the driver of a Toyota Coaster bus following the death of a man two days ago, from injuries sustained during a ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240213/police-seeking-bus-driver-following-mans-death-linked-political-motorcade   #GLNRToday

As the local government election campaign reaches fever pitch, political flags and posters are being mounted in public spaces in sections of the island in ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240213/flagging-code   #GLNRToday

A man who escaped police custody to attend his mother's funeral was sentenced to three months' imprisonment when he appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240207/man-gets-three-months-prison-escaping-police-custody   #GLNRToday

A 35-year-old woman who is charged in relation to alleged fraudulent land sales was granted bail in the sum of $400,000 when she appeared in the St Catherine ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240220/woman-accused-land-sale-scam-granted-bail   #GLNRToday

Police are now conducting a search in an area of Central Village in Spanish Town, St Catherine after two bodies were discovered in shallow graves.www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/01/30/two-bodies-found-shallow-grave-central-village/

The National Works Agency is advising the public that a section of the westbound carriageway of Spanish Town Road, in the vicinity of Callaloo Mews ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240202/section-spanish-town-road-be-closed-weekend-road-works   #GLNRToday

A 36-year-old St Catherine man has been arrested and charged for gunning down a man in bushes on Windsor Road in Spanish Town in December 2018. Lorenzo Harvey ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240131/st-catherine-man-charged-2018-murder   #GLNRToday

The police in St Catherine are probing a robbery at the Jamaica Archives building in Emancipation Square in Spanish Town. Employees turned up for work this ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Forty-year-old jerk chicken vendor, Richard Roache, was shot and killed along Old Harbour Road, Spanish Town, St Catherine on Saturday night ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240121/jerk-chicken-vendor-shot-and-killed-home   #GLNRToday

Spanish Town resident Courtney Lee was fined $800,000 or five months' imprisonment for possession of identity information in the St Catherine Circuit Court on ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240127/spanish-town-resident-fined-800000-lottery-scamming   #GLNRToday

A truck driver charged for the deaths of two people following a collision in Angels, Spanish Town, St Catherine is to go on trial on April 8 ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240202/truck-driver-charged-vehicular-manslaughter-go-trial   #GLNRToday

It did not require last October’s 5.6-magnitude earthquake to reveal that Jamaica’s maximum security prisons were foul, crumbling places ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20240206/editorial-decent-prison-crucial   #GLNROped

Two men accused of stealing a motor car were granted bail when they appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court on Tuesday. They are 33-year-old Ramone Williams ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240130/alleged-car-thieves-granted-bail   #GLNRToday

St Catherine resident Ronald Williams, who was allegedly held with ganja, is scheduled to reappear in court on February 12 after his bail was extended ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240131/bail-extended-st-catherine-man-allegedly-held-ganja   #GLNRToday

The Spanish Town police in St Catherine are searching for a man who slapped a parish councillor today, leaving her face bloody and causing her to seek medical ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240117/st-catherine-councillor-assaulted-man-over-parking-probe-launched-police   #GLNRToday

The Spanish Town police in St Catherine are searching for a man who slapped the Councillor for the Angels Division Patricia Harris today ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday warned against extortion on the multibillion-dollar Spanish Town Hospital redevelopment project … The Child Protection ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

The Spanish Town police are probing the circumstances surrounding a fire which resulted in the deaths of a couple on Monday ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240110/couple-dies-following-spanish-town-fire   #GLNRToday

Three of the six persons charged in relation to the kidnapping of a businessman in Tawes Pen, Spanish Town, St Catherine were today each granted $500,000 bail ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240110/three-six-charged-spanish-town-kidnapping-offered-500000-bail   #GLNRToday

A 21-year-old Spanish Town woman accused of fraud in a motor vehicle deal was on Tuesday granted $400,000 bail in the St Catherine Parish Court ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240117/21-y-o-accused-fraud-car-deal-offered-400000-bail   #GLNRToday

A 17-year-old boy is among two persons charged in connection with the kidnapping of a businessman in Spanish Town, St Catherine ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240106/teen-man-charged-over-spanish-town-kidnapping-businessman   #GLNRToday

The police are seeking to locate a St Catherine mother and her 3-year-old daughter who have been missing since New Year's Day ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240105/st-catherine-mother-and-3-y-o-daughter-reported-missing   #GLNRToday

A St Catherine man facing buggery and grievous sexual assault charges was on Friday granted $500,000 bail in the parish court ... Show more   #GLNRToday

In a dramatic turn of events, the St Catherine North Police rescued a Spanish Town businessman who had been kidnapped by gunmen ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20231230/kidnap-foiled   #GLNRToday

When members of the Greater GIVE Foundation based in Spanish Town, St Catherine, visited Vevine Street at her home off March Pen Road on Thursday ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20231222/wheelchair-donation-brightens-season-st-catherine-woman   #GLNRToday

An alleged gunman was this morning fatally shot in a reported confrontation with the police in Ellerslie Pen, Spanish Town, St Catherine ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20231228/man-fatally-shot-spanish-town-police-operation-three-guns-seized   #GLNRToday