Published:Tuesday | September 10, 2019 | 4:15 PMLivern Barrett
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has revealed that 21 Jamaicans have been evacuated from Abaco Islands in the Bahamas, which was hit by Hurricane Dorian. Holness, who was speaking in parliament this afternoon, said they are being housed by...
Published:Tuesday | September 10, 2019 | 3:12 PMLivern Barrett
Leader of Government Business in the House of Representatives Karl Samuda says the life and work of late Deputy Prime Minister Dr Kenneth Baugh stands as an example to all who seek to give public service. Samuda was speaking in Gordon House this...
Published:Monday | September 9, 2019 | 11:05 AMLivern Barrett
Another prominent member of the Rise United campaign team has signalled his intention to resign from the opposition shadow cabinet. Mark Golding told The Gleaner today that he wrote to People’s National Party (PNP) president Dr Peter...
Published:Tuesday | February 26, 2019 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A total of 20 illegal firearms were intercepted at the wharf earlier today. Law enforcement officials confirmed, too, that a large quantity of assorted ammunition was seized. The cache of weapons include four rifles, one sub-machine gun and 15...
Published:Thursday | January 31, 2019 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A respected medical doctor, citing local and international experts, has estimated that between 6,000 and 22,000 abortions are performed in Jamaica each year and warned lawmakers that those numbers could soar with “attendant consequences...
Published:Friday | December 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
ADS Global Limited, a business process outsourcing (BPO) company based in St James, has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay Fly Jamaica US$4.28 million or a little more than J$500 million, marking the end of a four-year legal battle.The court...
Published:Saturday | December 1, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Donald Trump, the polarising president of the United States, has been described as a "modern-day Michael Manley" by Leonard 'Gerry' Grindley, a Jamaican who has been acknowledged by the Republican Party in the US for his "dedication to the...
Published:Friday | October 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
An opposition senator, citing official documents, has revealed that close to 11,000 persons have been detained by the security forces since the first state of public emergency was imposed in St James in January.Additionally, according to Donna Scott...
Published:Friday | October 12, 2018 | 1:01 PMLivern Barrett
The Senate is now debating proposed changes to the Fisheries Act that will make it mandatory for persons fishing in Jamaican waters to have a valid licence issued by the state. However, Government Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, who is piloting the...
Published:Thursday | October 11, 2018 | 1:01 PMLivern Barrett
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has announced plans to increase the $4,000 fee charged for marriage licences, which are issued largely to foreigners, suggesting that it makes Jamaica look like a “banana republic.” However...
Published:Friday | September 21, 2018 | 12:26 PMLivern Barrett
Government Senator Kamina Johnson Smith says the brazen killing of Pastor James Johnson inside his St Catherine church yesterday afternoon is a clear sign that criminals no longer subscribe to the unwritten code that violence against some...
Published:Wednesday | September 19, 2018 | 4:10 PMLivern Barrett
Murders and shootings have declined by 68 per cent in the six months since a State of Public Emergency was imposed in the St Catherine North Police Division, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has reported. Holness, speaking in Parliament this...
Published:Saturday | September 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Ernest 'Ernie' Smith, a former member of parliament for South West St Ann on a Jamaica Labour Party ticket, is among three attorneys who have gone to court seeking an order for the Government to pay them $143.5 million for breaches of their...
Published:Tuesday | September 11, 2018 | 12:03 PMLivern Barrett
The leadership of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) is to be summoned to appear before a committee of Parliament that is seeking to examine the operations of the agency. The decision by the Internal and External Affairs Committee of Parliament...
Published:Tuesday | September 4, 2018 | 1:43 PMLivern Barrett
The Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) says it has identified the two policemen involved in an incident caught on video in which one of them appears to body slam a female motorcyclist to the ground. The oversight body has,...
Published:Wednesday | May 30, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Four men who have waited over a decade to face a second murder trial for allegedly shooting an east Kingston man to death 17 years ago can still receive a fair trial, a High Court judge has ruled.
Published:Saturday | May 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
It took a jury 40 minutes to find a St Catherine man guilty of killing four people, including a man who was shot after it was discovered that he tried to hide his mobile phone during a robbery.The seven-member jury voted unanimously to convict...
Published:Wednesday | April 11, 2018 | 1:54 PMLivern Barrett
Bailiffs are now evicting disbarred attorney Harold Brady from his rental home in Cherry Gardens, St Andrew. This comes more than eight months after lawyers for the owners of the four-bedroom property went to court and obtained an eviction order...
Published:Wednesday | February 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Prosecutors yesterday sought to portray St Thomas businessman Michael McLean as a cold, calculating killer who slashed the throats of three children and two women as a “blood sacrifice". But attorney-at-law Carlton Colman, who is...
Published:Wednesday | February 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The attorney for the St Ann couple, who, along with their three adult sons, were sentenced yesterday to a total of 110 years in prison for stoning, then chopping a mentally-ill man to death, has taken issue with the punishment. “The sentences...
Published:Monday | February 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Cabinet is expected to give consent shortly for the release of funds to pay legal fees owed to lawyers for police personnel facing murder charges arising from the so-called death squad cases. The cases, which involve about nine policemen, have...
Published:Thursday | February 8, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The St James policeman who stole a motorcycle that was being held as evidence at the Barnett Street Police Station is to be sentenced on Tuesday, April 10 after pleading guilty in the St James Parish Court. Constable Jhanoye ...
Published:Friday | January 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Outgoing Chief Justice Zaila McCalla says the staffing situation for employees at the Supreme Court is one of several issues that needs to be addressed urgently. McCalla says the employees have not been reviewed in decades. She says this is despite...
Published:Monday | January 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The murder trial of a cop linked to the so-called police death squad cases failed to get underway today because of the government's failure to pay his legal fees. Constable Collis 'Chucky' Brown was scheduled to go on trial for...
Published:Friday | January 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The nation's outgoing chief justice yesterday delivered a parting shot to prosecutors and defence attorneys, warning that the days of the long, drawn-out trials with "excessive, irrelevant, and unnecessary cross-examinations" must become a thing of...
