Despite the Government’s pledge in 2018 to create a First World, high-tech court system, many members of the Supreme Court staff said this week that they were working in inhumane conditions. The staff outlined in detail some of the problems they...
The Full Court has ruled that the fact that members of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) are appointed by a government minister, does not equate to a finding that in any matter involving government and its officials, the members are unable to...
Senior citizen Cynthia Brivit was rejoicing yesterday and praising the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) for releasing her from the threat of being left homeless as a result of an unpaid loan for which she stood as guarantor in 2007. “They have released...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, as the minister of economic growth and job creation, who was the defendant in a claim, has been ordered by the Supreme Court to hear and determine an appeal brought by Charley’s Windsor House Limited challenging a...
It has been sleepless nights for senior citizen Cynthia Brivit since a law firm sent a letter to her this month indicating that legal action is to be taken against her to have her house in Greater Portmore, St Catherine sold in order to recover a $...
The Supreme Court has denied an application by David Stewart to compel the National Commercial Bank to remove the freeze on his company’s current account because of allegations that it felt insecure with respect to the business. In his claim,...
A concerned citizen has complained that he was chased away when he went to a police station in the Corporate Area on Monday afternoon to report that a 10-year-old child was left unsupervised at home on several occasions. “I thought I was doing a...
Cynthia Brivit is breathing a sigh of relief after two paraplegic brothers she cares for in Clifton, St Catherine, have been diagnosed with a hereditary condition and are set to start receiving treatment shortly. Days after being featured in a...
Farmer Andrew Martin, of Coolshade district near Linstead, St Catherine, was excited and grateful yesterday when representatives from Hi-Pro Chicks, a division of Jamaica Broilers Group, turned up at his home with 100 chickens, bags of feed,...
Farmer Andrew Martin of Coolshade district near Linstead, St Catherine, has fallen on hard times since he lost two of his toes to diabetes. He says he used to plant cassava, plantain and banana to make a living but, because of his illness, he...
Rutair Limited, which operates an air transport business, is seeking an order from the Judicial Review Court to quash a June 2018 decision, by then Minister of Transport and Mining Robert Montague, appointing Christopher Raleigh Bickford as the...
Almost a decade after Jamaica made legal history with the passage of the Administrator General’s (Amendment) Act of 2015, the benefits of the changes are now being felt. The amendments put the government in a position to earn tens of millions of...
A St Andrew vendor, who spent almost four months in custody before he was freed last week of a robbery charge, is making a special plea to the police “not to tell lies” on innocent persons. Kimani Pusey, 43, is also imploring the police to...
Prominent attorney-at-law Arnaldo Brown is challenging a Supreme Court ruling which found he had a good prospect of winning a lawsuit filed against him but refused to grant his application to set aside a default judgment because of a three-year-...
The conditions under which a newborn baby and her parents are living are so deplorable that some residents of Seaview Gardens in St Andrew this week threatened to call a government agency to intervene in the situation. Mario Wallace, founder of non...
Paula Llewellyn, the long-standing director of public prosecutions (DPP), has decided to “step aside” in wake of the controversy over the various interpretations of Friday’s Constitutional Court ruling on the validity of her extended tenure. With...
The Real Estate Board has been ordered by the Court of Appeal to conduct a hearing for a real estate salesman whose application was rejected in December 2020 because he has three previous convictions. Michael Reid, the applicant, had pursued a real...
A security guard who was sentenced seven years ago to a total of eight months’ imprisonment for shooting and wounding a customer has lost his appeal against his convictions and sentences. The shooting incident took place at the office of the...
One month after the Supreme Court dismissed the claim brought against him by Jamaica College (JC) acting Principal Wayne Robinson, former JC Old Boys’ Association (JCOBA) President Major Basil Jarrett is defending another lawsuit filed by Robinson...
The Jamaica Association of Composers Authors and Publishers (JACAP) will not be compensated for the millions of dollars being sought from Restaurants of Jamaica, trading as KFC, for alleged infringement of copyright. Last week, the Court of Appeal...
THE FIRST person whose sentence was challenged by the director of public prosecutions (DPP) because he did not receive the mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment under the 2022 Amendment to the Firearms Act is to face a retrial. He is...
THE INDUSTRIAL Disputes Tribunal has ruled that B. D. Dadlani (Jamaica) Limited is to reinstate Raj Kumar Khurana to his post as chief financial officer by March 18 and pay him US$74,000 because he was unjustifiably terminated. Failure to reinstate...
THE COURT of Appeal has ruled that, because of the prevalence of gun crimes in Jamaica, 15 years’ imprisonment at hard labour, imposed on the getaway driver in a robbery, was not manifestly excessive or unreasonable. Appellant 44-year-old Germaine...
TWO MEN, one of whom had his DNA samples forcibly taken from him when a policeman handcuffed him after he was arrested, have lost their claim in the Full Court to get declarations for alleged constitutional breaches under the DNA Evidence Act. “In...
The mother of 19-year-old police trainee Rayandre Pike, who drowned in July last year while trying to rescue his colleague, says no senior officer from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has reached out to her since the incident. “All I get is...
