Justice Brian Sykes yesterday made fun of himself minutes after it was revealed that he would succeed Chief Justice Zaila McCalla as head of the country's judiciary."I hope her successor will need to display the same tact and the same civility as...
The staffing situation for employees at the Supreme Court is one of several issues that needs to be addressed urgently, noted outgoing Chief Justice Zaila McCalla.She said that the employees had not been reviewed in decades, despite the fact that...
The St Ann woman convicted, along with her husband and three children, for chopping a mentally ill man to death, has revealed that she "feels bad" about the incident but remains adamant that she was not involved.The comments by Velma Dean were...
Chairman of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) Alexander Williams says that the decision by the Court of Appeal to toss out the latest legal action filed by the agency's former executive director was not surprising."I'm not surprised by the...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has admitted that he has concerns about the disparity in the punishment being handed down by High Court judges even as one of the country's top attorneys rushed to their defence.Chuck's admission comes as the judiciary...
Dozens of persons who were convicted for illegal possession of guns and ammunition in St James and three other western parishes last year got off easy, as High Court judges opted for suspended sentences and fines as low as $70,000, an explosive...
The "ridiculous" disparity in the sentence handed down by two High Court judges to four men who were held in Portland nearly five years ago with an arsenal of 18 illegal guns and a "bucketload" of ammunition has triggered demands for an explanation...
Lawyers for disbarred attorney Harold Brady have described the decision to file criminal charges againsthim for allegedly defrauding the state-owned Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) of more than $140 million as an abuse of process, and have...
Police Commissioner George Quallo has pointed the finger at Superintendent Robert Walker, commanding officer for the Kingston East Police Division, claiming that his "lack of diligence and proper management" was one of the reasons for the traffic...
Undaunted by criticisms, Chief Justice Zaila McCalla has unveiled plans to expand the controversial Sentence Reduction Day initiative to four other parishes during the first quarter of this year.Sentence Reduction Day allows accused persons to plead...
