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...
A St Andrew woman said she expected to get answers when the police brass announced in 2020 that a “high-level” investigation was under way to find out why cops turned her away from a police station in the middle of the night after she showed up to...
When Desmond McKenzie boarded a flight for New York City last December, he harboured doubts about how the final chapter of his over four-year legal fight to be reunited with his young son would end. McKenzie was heading to New York with a final...
The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) would find itself in a dogfight with the People’s National Party (PNP) to hold on to state power if national elections were called now, according to the findings of a new national poll. The public opinion...
A mobile phone belonging to Amoi Leon Issa has “communication” that could help untangle the mystery surrounding the barbaric murder of her nine-year-old son, Gabriel King, a high-ranking police investigator has disclosed. The nature of the...
An offer from an overseas developer spurred Steadman Bailey to go in and pay his property tax arrears spanning the last eight years. But a visit to the tax office in Old Harbour, St Catherine, on February 9 left the veteran cop in stunned disbelief...
A businessman was left baffled after the card machine, or point-of-sale (POS) terminal, at his retail shop kept rejecting payment. His apprehension worsened when the absence of a unique mark on the underside of the machine confirmed that it was not...
A “majority” of the stash of firearms seized in Montego Bay, St James, on Friday are homemade untraceable ‘ghost guns’, a fast-growing phenomenon in which they have become the weapons of choice for violent criminals and gunrunners. These so-called...
More than $500 million has been returned to victims of fraud over the past decade, local authorities disclosed on Friday. The revelation comes amid fears that the alleged $3 billion fraud uncovered at the firm Stocks...
Colombian drug lords appear to have ramped up their use of Jamaica’s territorial waters as they seek to get record levels of cocaine to lucrative international markets, local law enforcement operatives have theorised. The suggestion comes as...
The Government’s repeated use of 14-day states of emergency (SOEs) will make it easier to convince a judge that it is being used as a “device” to circumvent the Jamaican Parliament, legal experts have asserted. The legal opinion by the attorneys...
The best Christmas Camelia Miller enjoyed as a child was in 2015. Four months before that, the then 14-year-old with a turbulent childhood was among 40 children housed at a government-run facility. That’s when Leonie McLean, a caregiver at the...
His first victims over a 12-year span were two men, ages 20 and 26 years old, who were shot dead in an incident in St Catherine in 2010. Since then, this cop has been involved in 14 shooting incidents across seven parishes that ended with the...
More than 7,000 guns are currently in circulation for which the permits have lapsed, Jamaica’s firearms regulator has disclosed. The Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) revealed, too, that 299 legally registered guns have been reported lost or stolen...
Cybercriminals used an Internet protocol (IP) address based in Jamaica last Thursday to distribute some 1,160 malware attacks per hour to devices here and overseas, the agency that monitors the country’s cybersecurity space has disclosed. This...
Jamaica’s second-highest court has turned away a last-gasp attempt by a convicted drug boss to hold on to his portfolio of assets worth over $500 million. The Court of Appeal, on Friday, refused an application by lawyers for Andrew Hamilton for...
A move by two government lawmakers to sit with independent legislator George Wright while he made a presentation in Parliament last week is not an indication that the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has softened its position on his banishment...
Andrew Hamilton, the Jamaican drug boss who was ordered by the court to turn over a portfolio of assets valued at more than $500 million to the Government, has made a last-gasp attempt to hold on to them. Lawyers for Hamilton and members of his...
The top brass of the Jamaican army “protected” a senior officer after he was accused in 2006 of sexually assaulting a female colleague, multiple sources have charged. The claim comes as a senior officer is now at the centre of sex assault...
Isat Buchanan, the attorney who has two convictions for drug-related crimes, was appointed as a justice of the peace (JP) by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, court documents have revealed. The appointment is dated May 29, 2019, according to the...
A “final” order issued last week by the Jamaican Supreme Court has kindled renewed optimism for a father locked in a four-year international tussle to regain custody of his minor son. Desmond McKenzie, who resides in Portland, has not spoken to his...
The public was kept in the dark about a 2020 data breach of a Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) billing platform that left confidential customer information wide open on the Internet, a whistleblower has revealed. The platform was developed by...
The fallout from the “massive” ransomware attack on Massy Jamaica Distribution Limited could be “catastrophic” for swathes of Jamaican consumers and companies, particularly those who are still unaware that their confidential data were left wide...
A Jamaican drug boss who amassed a $1-billion portfolio of assets that included more than two dozen luxury homes and cars has lost half of it to the Government. And financial investigators have already gone to court and obtained a restraint order...
