A man who used a fake taxi to lure a woman into a sexual assault will have to serve almost 20 years in prison for his crime. Dwayne Edwards was sentenced yesterday to 26 years and eight months in prison for rape, 10 years for robbery with...
The use of guns by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to quell confrontations with citizens is the fault of successive governments that have failed to appropriately equip and train the police to handle such situations, National...
Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, the lawmaker whose parliamentary motion reignited a fresh round of debate on the charged issue of abortion, has disclosed that she terminated a pregnancy as a teenager. Cuthbert-Flynn’s revelation came after anti-abortion...
Former St Ann South West Member of Parliament (MP) Ernest Smith has admitted that there was “some delay” in completing his declaration of assets and liabilities to the Integrity Commission in 2012 but insists that the issues have been resolved. “I’...
The Andrew Holness administration is now crafting a programme through which $500 million will be spent to build "reasonable" housing solutions for the poor and indigent across the island.Further, Holness, the prime minister, signalled yesterday that...
The Andrew Holness administration has announced that it is now laying the groundwork to roll out its signature anti-crime measure, the zone of special operations (ZOSO), in at least 20 crime hotspot communities.Holness, the prime minister, said...
Some fisherfolk will end up in prison because they are unable to afford the "unreasonable" fines included in the revised Fisheries Act passed by the Senate yesterday, one opposition senator has warned.The amended Fisheries Act, which was unanimously...
A "high priority" probe is now under way into the disappearance of a Portland man whose female companion has reportedly told investigators that he was last seen two weeks ago in the company of a police constable.Jeffrey Campbell, a 26-year-old taxi...
Seeming confusion between four state entities allowed drivers to ignore close to 90 per cent of the more than 65,000 traffic tickets issued by the police in the first half of this year without any consequences.Justice Minister Delroy Chuck disclosed...
Opposition Senator K.D. Knight is suggesting that the Andrew Holness administration give consideration to compensating operators of public passenger vehicles (PPV) who, for nearly three decades, were being forced to pay fees that were illegally...
Soldiers and police personnel operating in communities blanketed by the ongoing state of public emergency (SOE) and zones of special operations (ZOSO) have earned high commendation from the agency established to monitor the conduct of members of the...
Law-abiding Jamaicans have been left at the mercy of criminals because critical state resources are being diverted to support the government's two main anti-crime measures, the zones of special operations (ZOSO) and the State of Public Emergency,...
The leadership of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) has balked at a suggestion that the salary paid to teachers should be tied to the educational outcomes of their students.The leaders of the 25,000-member union underscored the urgent need...
Errol Cliff Richards, the once-feared Jamaican policeman popularly known as 'Schoolboy Richie', is now serving a 10-year prison sentence in the United States (US) after he admitted before a judge that he was part of a syndicate that attempted to...
A St Mary man who was found guilty of raping a six-year-old girl has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal because of errors by the judge who presided over the trial.Further, the Court of Appeal has set aside the 23-year prison sentence...
Forty-three per cent of the cases that were disposed of in the Home Circuit Court during the just-concluded Easter term ended with a conviction.That's according to the latest figures released by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (...
Jamaica's second-highest court has slashed by more than half the 25-year prison sentence that was imposed on a St Mary man who used a piece of stick to beat his infant grandniece to death. This occurred 16 months after he was released from prison...
The parliamentary Opposition is questioning whether the state of public emergency imposed in St James since January is providing value for money.Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips, who raised the issue yesterday, stressed that taxpayers were paying...
The credibility of the main witness in the murder trial of Vybz Kartel and Shawn Storm came under scrutiny yesterday as lawyers for the imprisoned entertainers successfully argued that they should be allowed to introduce fresh evidence in their...
Lawyers for popular entertainer Vybz Kartel are contending that the judge who presided over his murder trial erred when he allowed prosecutors to use text messages and video evidence collected from his cell phone.The assertions are among 16 grounds...
Top attorney Patrick Bailey has revealed that he was hurt by the actions of the elderly St Catherine man who accused him of fraud.Less than a month after he was acquitted of fraud charges, Bailey has filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against his...
Embattled minister of Science and Technology Dr Andrew Wheatley yesterday insisted that no agreement had been signed and no money spent on the planned multimillion-dollar upgrade of the vacuum distillation unit (VDU) at the state-owned oil refinery...
The Supreme Court has ordered the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries to immediately reinstate a senior official who was sent on 'retirement' four years early. The order was made by Justice Georgianna Fraser in the Supreme...
The common-law spouse of the Clarendon woman who received a suspended sentence for using a piece of board to beat her two-year-old daughter to death because the child defecated on herself has been freed of murder.Dingwall Green was acquitted in the...
A Supreme Court judge has ordered the immediate and unconditional release of a man who has spent more than two decades in prison after he was convicted for fatally stabbing another man during a robbery.Elvis Thomas, who was 17 years old when he...
