Henry Morant, the man who was appointed chairman of Central High School and to the board of Glenmuir High School even as he awaits a trial for murder, has stepped down from both positions, the Ministry of Education has confirmed. The...
Stephen Fray, the Jamaican man who was sentenced to more than 70 years in prison for hijacking a commercial airline at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, nearly a decade ago, is back with his family."He is safe and in good...
One first-time lawmaker yesterday made it public that he was not impressed with the "quality" of the discourse he has seen in the nation's Parliament.Further, Alando Terrelonge, member of parliament for St Catherine East Central, believes the time...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck believes that the reasonable time guarantee set out in the Jamaican Constitution for accused persons to have their cases determined by the court should be three years.The suggestion comes in the wake of a number of...
Nearly $100 million in cash, including $68 million taken from two suspected South African 'money mules', was turned over to the Government's coffers in the first five months of the current fiscal year.During the same period, the Financial...
Jamaica's Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has revealed that he is aiming to make the country's judicial system, crippled for decades by chronic under-resourcing and a backlog of civil and criminal cases, the best in the Caribbean in three years.Sykes...
The St Andrew man who used a fraudulently obtained land title to secure bail for a convicted killer who is still on the loose is to serve two years in prison for his crime.James Alphonso Bailey, 49, has been sentenced to two years in prison at hard...
The number of persons killed on Jamaica's roadways since Sunday climbed to nine yesterday following a two-vehicle collision on the Sir Florizel Glasspole Highway in east Kingston.One person died in the crash, which involved a Jamaica Urban Transit...
A JAMAICAN man who is facing a long prison sentence in the United States (US) for leading a drug syndicate that paid a flight attendant and former Jamaican beauty queen to transport kilograms of cocaine has filed a legal motion seeking to have his...
Jamaica's second-highest court has ruled that it is not desirable, in the interest of the public, for the disciplinary committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) to retain or exercise jurisdiction over an attorney following his/her appointment to...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has put on hold plans to enforce a court order authorising its investigators to search the army's Up Park Camp headquarters and question top military commanders about the use of mortars during...
Nearly a week ago, business executive Arnie Francis was leading praise and worship at the St Andrew church where he was the co-pastor when he led members of the congregation into a song."He was singing 'I shall not die, but live and declare the...
A St Andrew man who ambushed a beloved police corporal and sprayed him with bullets then twice dodged murder convictions has finally been put away.The Court of Appeal, in a decision handed down on Tuesday, confirmed the murder conviction of...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) indicated late yesterday that it was too early to determine its next move after receiving the go-ahead from the Supreme Court to execute a search warrant at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Up...
The Court of Appeal was yesterday directed to two other dates when the damning text message at the centre of the Vybz Kartel appeal could have been created.The assertion came as legal arguments ended in the appeal filed by Kartel, his protege, Shawn...
A prosecutor yesterday urged a panel of Court of Appeal judges to treat a damning text message lifted from the mobile phone of popular entertainer Vybz Kartel as an "admission to murder"."Between me and you a chop wi chop up di bwoy Lizard fine fine...
Justice Lennox Campbell's summation of the evidence in the Vybz Kartel murder trial was "defective in form and substance", one attorney has charged.According to Oswest Senior-Smith, the attorney for Andre St John - one of the three men convicted of...
The Court of Appeal has given residents of Hope Pastures in St Andrew permission to challenge a decision by the Supreme Court that the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) cannot be compelled to provide electricity to their community through...
Retired High Court judge, Justice Lennox Campbell, made prejudicial and improper comments and engaged in "imaginative storytelling" when he delivered his summation of the evidence in the Vybz Kartel murder trial, the attorney for the incarcerated...
More than 2,500 people have been rounded up and taken into custody in St James in the six months since the parish was blanketed by a state of public emergency, but only about five per cent of those detainees were charged -mainly with minor criminal...
Prison boss Ina Hunter has been freed of a criminal charge related to the longstanding problem of sewage flowing from the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre on to the roadway.Hunter, commissioner of corrections at the Department of Correctional...
An engineer at the government-owned company National Energy Solutions Limited (NESOL) is one of two persons facing corruption-related charges following a multiagency investigation that culminated with the seizure of more than $30 million in cash and...
At least 10 more persons have come forward with claims that they, too, have been defrauded by prominent attorney Jennifer Messado, a clerk of court and police investigators have revealed.Clerk of court Hansurd Lawson has revealed, too, that the...
Over $30 million in cash and a number of high-end motor vehicles were seized during a marathon police operation yesterday, marking the culmination of a high-level, multiagency money-laundering investigation that is pointing to a political figure,...
A seven-member jury was empanelled late Monday and was expected to begin hearing evidence in the retrial of Kimarley Cooper, Carlos Howard and Leslie Nugent on the charge of murder when lead prosecutor Kathy Pyke revealed in the Home Circuit Court...
