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...
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...
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...
Police investigators believe that the bodies of Sarayah Paulwell, the infant daughter of opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Phillip Paulwell, and her mother, Toshyna Patterson, were discarded at a “crime scene” that has been located in east...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding and his family raked in over $56 million in real estate income last year, a massive increase on the $800,000 earned under the same heading the previous year, his latest statutory declaration has revealed. “I believe...
While government gave up almost $9 billion in revenues over the last four fiscal years through motor vehicle duty concessions for public sector workers, widescale corruption and abuse have reportedly allowed some to use the fringe benefit to line...
The Government has offered to pay $6 million as compensation to George Williams, who spent 50 years – or “his entire working life” – in prison without a trial before his release in 2020. Williams, whose health has deteriorated because of his...
A fisherman whose boat was forfeited to the Government in 2005 by order of a lower court judge has been forced to wait 16 years to appeal that ruling. That’s because the legal challenge he filed on January 17, 2007 in the Kingston and St Andrew...
With her throat slashed and blood oozing from her neck, eight-year-old Danielle Rowe seemingly made a bid to escape her killer before collapsing on to a busy roadway, according to the accounts of two eyewitnesses. Their accounts were among nearly a...
Students who show up at Jonathan Grant High School tomorrow carrying backpacks with the word ‘Dunce’ printed on them will be barred from classes, a defiant Principal Dr O’Neil Ankle has warned. “If a child shows up with it on Monday, he will have...
Two boys, ages 12 and 13 years old, have come forward with horrific accounts of how they were shocked with tasers, trampled on by adults and beaten with plastic pipes at a popular annual camp aimed at curbing behavioural issues in so-called...
The Government has conceded that it will have to return a substantial portion of traffic ticket fines that were collected over a 15-year period because of legislative missteps uncovered by one motorist. It marks the latest development in a landmark...
Andre Knight and Fabian Davy were among a group of men who buried two bodies in a shallow grave in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on an October night in 2013 and were about to use the cover of darkness to get away with murder. That was until a chance...
A policeman in western Jamaica is under investigation amid claims that he fleeced a charity based in the United States (US) that was sending money to assist an American man who was convicted here on child sex charges. The US Embassy has taken an...
For nearly 20 years, the State-owned oil refinery Petrojam has been paying out millions of dollars in golf fees for its chief executive. The payments, which began in 2004, cover annual membership fees for Petrojam General Manager Winston Watson at...
The Petroleum Company of Jamaica (Petcom) has sought the urgent intervention of the Supreme Court to put a gag on a former employee who it claims copied reams of “highly confidential” company data that could cause “severe financial losses” if they are leaked to competitors.
Four years ago, a pro-accountability lobby used one of the country’s main transparency laws to request from all members of parliament (MPs) annual reports showing how they spend the $1.2 billion split between them each year to enhance the lives of...
The attack by armed thugs on guests and workers at a Jamaican resort hotel on Friday has drawn the outrage of one local private sector lobby. By comparison, officials and industry leaders opted on Saturday to remain silent about reports that a...
The police have broadened their investigation of two policemen implicated in a multimillion-dollar home invasion robbery amid claims that they are part of a band of rogue cops who are behind a string of high-stakes heists. Already, police...
A man who was convicted for shooting two people has been set free because his seven-year wait for the transcript of his trial violated his constitutional rights, Jamaica’s second-highest court has ordered. A transcript is the official record of a...
Jamaican-born retired United States law enforcement agent Wilfred Rattigan does not have the legal standing to file a lawsuit over private donations to Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed bid for the post of Commonwealth...
Andrea Gordon made two cash transfers totalling $8.3 million in November and December 2017 from the coffers of her employer, the National Commercial Bank (NCB), to a car dealer for the purchase of a brand-new motor vehicle. One month later, in...
A businessman who authored a book critical of the Jamaican judicial system that has been widely circulated locally and internationally has been ordered to pay a retired High Court judge over $80 million for defamation. The order was made in the...
Geraldine Chin* began noticing in late 2021 that her then two-year-old son had developed a persistent cough. Around the same time, a multibillion-dollar road and infrastructure upgrade project spanning several parishes was making its way through...
Another “unjustifiable” dismissal by a Government-owned company is set to cost taxpayers a multimillion-dollar payout. Agro-Investment Corporation (AIC), which falls under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, has been ordered by...
