Politics

A former member of the security forces trained as an explosive expert is the suspected mastermind behind the elaborate defence system established around Tivoli Gardens last week. He was supported by other persons who had […] […]

POLICE officers claim they have been banned from wearing wristbands showing support for soldiers’ charity Help for Heroes. Furious Avon and Somerset officers contacted the Evening Post to say they had been told the items […] […]

The fledgling coalition Government is counting the cost after the minister charged with slashing public spending quit over expenses abuses. Treasury Chief Secretary David Laws became the coalition’s first casualty after it emerged he had […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—All but a handful of the roughly 980 Jamaicans detained during raids by security forces in gang-heavy Kingston slums have been released in recent days, police said Saturday. Detainees had been held at the […] […]

HONG KONG—Hong Kong police on Saturday confiscated a statue mourning victims of China’s 1989 crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square and arrested 13 activists, a participant said, in what critics called an escalation in political […] […]

SHANGHAI — When blogger Isaac Mao recently announced online an upcoming talk by a Beijing writer whose work is banned by the government, police showed up at his door at night to “convince” him to […] […]

In the situation that has emerged in the nation over the past two weeks, the state of public emergency imposed on the island’s capital was inevitable. It was not possible that the nation could tolerate […] […]

Relatives of Derron Bartlett (right) attempt to talk him out of jumping from the roof of a shed at the Mobile Reserve Headquarters in Kingston, yesterday. Bartlett, who hails from Oxford Street in West Kingston, […] […]

NINETEEN of the 20 children, who were being held by the police at a temporary detention centre at the National Arena, were claimed by members of their families yesterday. The boys, whose ages ranged from […] […]

Deepest condolences to all Jamaicans now mourning the deaths of their loved ones, especially the security forces and citizens in Tivoli Gardens, Spanish Town, Portmore and elsewhere. On the face of it, these deaths are […] […]