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Stories by Livern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Published:Sunday | March 17, 2024 | 6:39 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Amid fears that the decision to overturn the murder conviction of popular entertainer Vybz Kartel and co-accused has exposed a major defect in existing laws, Jamaican authorities are now moving to hastily plug the gap that could allow accused...

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2024 | 3:39 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

A legal challenge is looming for the release of some 300 mentally ill detainees languishing in prison, some for decades, awaiting trial for various crimes. A group of attorneys representing human rights advocates Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) and...

Published:Sunday | March 3, 2024 | 5:54 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) has awarded a former restaurant manager $5 million for her “unjustifiable” dismissal after its first decision in 2020 affirming her termination was overturned by the Supreme Court. The IDT is a quasi-judicial...

Published:Sunday | February 25, 2024 | 12:07 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

The main suspect being sought by the police in connection with a shipment of illegal guns that was intercepted at a warehouse in Montego Bay, St James, a few weeks ago is now in custody, law enforcement officials confirmed yesterday. He reportedly...

Published:Sunday | February 25, 2024 | 12:06 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

An internal disciplinary charge now hangs over the head of the enforcement inspector who first flagged breaches at a controversial housing development undertaken by a senior public officer and his wife. Rhyan Henry, the inspector employed to the...

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2024 | 12:14 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

The cache of 64 guns and nearly 1,000 bullets confiscated at the Kingston Wharves on Friday were shipped from Miami in the United States and were destined for a violent gang based in the Jamaican capital, law enforcement sources have disclosed. The...

Published:Sunday | February 11, 2024 | 12:13 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

A software engineer based in the United States (US) has been ordered to pay a Jamaican attorney over $12 million for allegedly causing the leak of photos and videos of their sexual encounter in what has been described as a landmark case of revenge...

Published:Sunday | February 11, 2024 | 12:12 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) appears to have backed away on its decision to slash 20 per cent from the salary of the enforcement inspector who first reported breaches detected at a housing development undertaken by a senior...

Published:Sunday | February 4, 2024 | 8:41 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Drivers in the public transportation sector who were compelled for 15 years to pay illegally imposed traffic fines are now lining up to file a wave of lawsuits against the Government that could cost taxpayers nearly $2 billion. And the looming...

Published:Sunday | February 4, 2024 | 12:17 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

A claim that banking giant Scotiabank Jamaica has failed to account for more than $3.5 million that was left in an account belonging to late restaurateur Gloria Harris Prawl has triggered a legal fight with one of her children. Prawl, who died in...

Published:Sunday | January 21, 2024 | 12:09 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

The building inspector who was the first to flag breaches detected at a controversial St Andrew housing development undertaken by a senior public officer has been suspended amid claims that it was his “gross misconduct” that resulted in the...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Amid wide public outrage over a “significant” increase in Internet scams and millions of dollars in losses, Jamaican commercial banks are getting ready to implement “tough” and “more robust” measures for some transactions. The measures are still...

Published:Sunday | December 24, 2023 | 8:01 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

A 2019 telephone call from the company that insured their motor car opened a Pandora’s Box for former couple Petrena Newland and Jim Hosang. The car, which was registered to Newland, was involved in a Christmas Eve crash along the Drax Hall main...

Published:Sunday | December 17, 2023 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Larry Reynolds* had just 15 minutes with his teenage son. Father and son had a lot to catch up on since their last physical interaction three years ago, so Reynolds had to use the 900 seconds wisely last Thursday. Reynolds is serving two life...

Published:Sunday | December 17, 2023 | 12:07 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Nearly three months of incarceration among hardened criminals at one of the country’s overcrowded and dilapidated prisons has convinced Steve Sanderson that he has already experienced “hell”. Sanderson, 47, who operates an aluminium fabrication...

Published:Sunday | December 10, 2023 | 12:09 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

There are indications that the country’s top prosecutor is close to delivering a legal opinion to investigators on whether additonal criminal charges should flow from one of the largest alleged fraudulent schemes in Jamaican history. Chief...

Published:Sunday | December 3, 2023 | 6:33 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Cops leaving the police force routinely flout a policy that requires them to return issued uniforms and equipment, and very often without any consequences, multiple ex-lawmen have disclosed. A recent incident involving criminals dressed as police...

Published:Sunday | December 3, 2023 | 12:09 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

An application has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to have businessman Rohan Marley sent to prison for failing to pay nearly $15 million in damages stemming from a 2016 motor vehicle crash. Rohan is the son of Jamaican music legend Bob...

Published:Sunday | November 26, 2023 | 12:10 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

A palatial house valued at US$1.55 million, or approximately J$230 million, is among the last remaining assets billionaire drug dealer Andrew Hamilton has been ordered to turn over to the Government. And, already, the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA)...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2023 | 12:12 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Cash totalling $4,007,800, which was found at the home of a controversial real estate developer, has been ordered forfeited to the Government under Jamaica’s proceeds of crime law. The cash was found in a suitcase at the St Catherine home of...

Published:Sunday | November 19, 2023 | 12:08 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Multiple fraudulent schemes uncovered in recent months have left a number of Jamaican banking institutions and their customers with losses or “potential exposure” amounting to nearly $1 billion, local authorities have confirmed. The sophisticated...

Published:Sunday | November 12, 2023 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

Randy Richards was standing with a group of men on Mint Road in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, on an October evening in 2019. About 5:30 p.m., he was surprised by a group of armed thugs who brazenly opened gunfire at him. Richards, 29, tried to run,...

Published:Sunday | October 29, 2023 | 12:12 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

WALLY WALTERS was quietly nervous about the reception he would receive as he got dressed for Jamaica’s 1996 World Cup qualifying football match against regional counterparts St Vincent and the Grenadines. The 35,000-seat National Stadium was sold...

Published:Sunday | October 29, 2023 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

MICHAEL RICKETTS, head of Jamaica’s football governing body, has largely failed to honour a Supreme Court order to pay nearly $9 million in damages to a Clarendon businessman arising from a lawsuit, which has come with some consequences. Last month...

Published:Sunday | October 15, 2023 | 12:10 AMLivern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

An off-duty policeman was standing outside his St Catherine home on a dark September night last year when Michael Smith and another man allegedly confronted him with loaded guns and an ominous order. Smith was carrying a shotgun, while the other...

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