Gwendoline Martinez* was at work when she got the telephone call every parent dreads. Her nine-year-old daughter, Chyelle Hernandez*, had lost sight in her right eye after an incident involving another student at Goshen Primary School in St Mary,...
Nearly 100 persons were killed or maimed with two dozen licensed guns that were reported lost or stolen and recovered by the security forces over the last three-plus years, new police data revealed. The police did not disclose details of the cases...
Demar Sparks, the proprietor of a start-up firm that collected millions of dollars in deposits for a failed housing development, has been jailed on fraud-related charges amid fresh complaints about a second residential project. Sparks, the chief...
Nearly seven months ago, one pro-accountability group had questions about expenditures totalling almost $1 billion by two public authorities. The expenditures by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) and the Department of...
Two of the three policemen who allegedly gunned down a businessman at a party in Chedwin Park, St Catherine, last month are to be charged with murder, law enforcement sources have revealed. Corporals Kurt Fraser and Ramone Scott will be ...
Jamaica's chief prosecutor Paula Llewellyn has made a ruling in the so-called Chedwin Park shooting incident in St Catherine. The decision has not been disclosed. Llewellyn, the director of public prosecutions (DPP), confirmed a short time...
Two men who took the law into their hands and exacted jungle justice on a man who sexually assaulted a girl in their rural community have been convicted of assault charges and could end up in prison. By a 5-1 majority verdict, a jury found Roger...
