Published:Sunday | May 8, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Attorney-at-law Nancy Anderson, who has represented many death row inmates and had their sentences commuted to life following changes to the law, says murder cases have not been attracting the death penalty because they do not fall into the...
Published:Friday | April 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Days after the top United States diplomat in Jamaica, Ambassador Luis G. Moreno, gave the country kudos for its efforts to fight human trafficking, the cop leading that fight has vowed that there will be no let-up.Assistant Commissioner of Police...
Published:Wednesday | May 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
President of The Court of Appeal Justice C Dennis Morrison has added his voice to those calling for more resources for the justice system, particularly at the appellate level."I have been frustrated from time to time by the inadequate resources,"...
Published:Saturday | May 7, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Today is a special day in Jamaica when mothers are honoured, pampered, and showered with love and gifts, but 46-year-old Lorraine Peralto of Gibraltar Housing Scheme, St Mary, will not be celebrating Mother's Day with her children.Instead, Peralto...
Published:Thursday | April 21, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
The release last week of a prisoner who was detained at the court's pleasure for more than 20 years because he was a juvenile when he and two men were charged with murdering three persons in 1993 has highlighted the need for a system to be put in...
Published:Friday | April 15, 2016 | 3:04 PMBarbara Gayle
The cries for justice to be administered in a timely manner will have caught the attention of the newly elected president of the Jamaican Bar Association, Sherry Ann McGregor, who has vowed to do her part to ensure that the wheels of justice turn...
Published:Saturday | April 2, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has added his voice to the thousands of other Jamaicans expressing concerns about the slow pace at which judgments are being delivered in the Supreme Court."I think the delays in the justice system are bringing it into...
Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
St Ann businessman Bertram Clarke and his co-accused, Arthur Robinson, are to be sentenced on April 21 for the murder of Clarke's wife.They were convicted yesterday by a 12-member jury in the Home Circuit Court. The jury retired for almost three...
Published:Friday | March 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn is facing heavy flak over her decision to stop a trial shortly before a judge was scheduled to give a ruling on a no-case submission.Llewellyn's decision has been met with sharp criticisms in...
Published:Wednesday | March 9, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
The Court of Appeal has overturned a Supreme Court ruling that it is a mandatory requirement to file an acknowledgment of service in order for the court to entertain an application to set aside a default judgment.Frank I. Lee Distributors Ltd had...
Published:Saturday | March 5, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
With eight human-trafficking cases on the list of matters outstanding to be tried, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has welcomed the completion of the trial into one such matter.In the completed case, a woman who forced a 12-...
Published:Monday | February 29, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
The Court of Appeal has overturned a Supreme Court ruling that favoured a former director of customs in the contraband enforcement department, Omar Guyah, who has been fighting the seizure by customs officials of a 2007 Suzuki motor car.The upper...
Fifty-year-old Donna Davis and her two daughters, who are charged with the murder of 48-year-old Cassandra Burke, have each been granted bail in the sum of $300,000 with sureties. Davis and her daughters 21-year-old Peach Jolly and 18-year-old...
There was reportedly intense debate during the magisterial recount for the St Mary South Eastern constituency over the acceptance of a dot placed beside the symbol of the bell as a valid vote. The bell is the symbol used by the Jamaica Labour Party...
Attorney-at-law Patrick Foster is to continue his submission in the Court of Appeal this morning at the hearing into the injunction which has halted operations at the Appleton Estates in St Elizabeth. The order, which was granted to fish producer,...
Published:Thursday | March 3, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
The Supreme Court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Construction Developers Association (CDA) against Jamaica Mortgage Bank (JMB) seeking $36 million...
Published:Wednesday | March 2, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Steps are currently being taken for 15-year-old Meadowbrook High School student Phillip Mitchell, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour in October last year, to get medical treatment overseas. Angella Mitchell, a teacher, said that her son requires...
Thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor, Mark Gray, today appeared in the Mandeville Resident Magistrate’s Court on a charge of sexually molesting a 12-year-old girl. The girl was reportedly a patient at the hospital where he works. Resident...
Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Juliet Holness, wife of Opposition Leader Andrew Holness, has filed a defamation suit against Minister of Finance Dr Peter Phillips accusing him of breaching the rights of Jamaican citizens to a free and fair election by allegedly making false...
The wife of the Leader of the Opposition Juliet Holness and her brother Stephen Landell have filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips and four others arising from...
Published:Tuesday | February 16, 2016 | 3:38 PMBarbara Gayle
The United Kingdom Privy Council has directed that 48-year-old Richard Brown, who was convicted in 2003 of murder, must be resentenced because it was not clear that the judge took into account the time he spent in custody because he was unfit to...
Dancehall entertainer Elephant Man was this morning freed of rape charges after the prosecution offered no evidence against him. The entertainer, whose given name is Oneil Bryan, appeared in the Home Circuit Court on charges of rape, buggery and...
Published:Saturday | February 6, 2016 | 10:30 AMBarbara Gayle
A policeman who admitted that he regularly detained homeless persons not suspected of any crime was recently given a ticking-off by Supreme Court judge Justice David Batts, and the State ordered to pay almost $3 million with interest to one of his...
Thirteen cops are accusing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), candidate, Dennis Meadows of defamation and have threatened court action if he does not meet their demands for compensation. Dennis Meadows is a Justice of the Peace and the JLP's...
