Published:Thursday | December 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
With fraudsters making off with more than J$500 million each over the past two years, the police are warning citizens and business operators to be wary of tricksters this Christmas season.Assistant Commissioner of Police Devon Watkis, head of the...
Some 700 additional police personnel are to be deployed across the island for the Christmas season. Deputy Commissioner in charge of operations Clifford Blake, who made the announcement this morning, says the additional personnel will be taken from...
Published:Friday | December 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
RETIRED HEAD of the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) Assistant Commissioner Granville Gause has admitted that five months after the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens, his unit did not have certain "basic information" about bodies that were...
Published:Thursday | December 3, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) mortar expert has conceded that use of the explosives during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens would have caused "a measure of shaking" to buildings in the community.Major Warrenton Dixon testified before the...
The use of mortars during the May 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens saved lives. That was the assertion made this morning by Major Warrenton Dixon, the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officer tasked with supervising the use of the...
Published:Wednesday | December 2, 2015 | 6:15 PMLivern Barrett
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officer charged with supervising the use of mortars during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens has dismissed claims by residents that the explosives caused damage to several buildings in their community.Major...
Chairman of the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry Sir David Simmons is to rule shortly on whether the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) must produce the after-action report on the use of mortars during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens. This...
A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officer has revealed that only two mortar rounds were fired into Tivoli Gardens during the May 2010 operations. This assertion by Major Warrenton Dixon came this morning as he sought to dismiss claims by residents of...
Published:Tuesday | December 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
FORMER POLITICAL Ombudsman Bishop Herro Blair has suggested that future administrations must commit to disconnect government and party resources from area dons as a first step towards diminishing their power and influence.Blair's suggestion came...
Bishop Herro Blair has testified that drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was unarmed when they met at his Tivoli Gardens office in May 2010. When asked how he knew that, the popular elicited laughter at the west Kingston commission of...
Published:Friday | November 27, 2015 | 2:26 PMLivern Barrett
A HIGH-RANKING member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has testified that police crime scene investigators were not dispatched to Tivoli Gardens until 11 days after the start of the May 2010 operation in the west Kingston community.Crime...
A senior police officer giving testimony at the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry today sought to explain errors in his witness statements. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Winchroy Budhoo yesterday admitted to making four errors in the...
Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
RIDICULOUS and absolutely insignificant. Those were just some of the words used by private-sector leaders and one government watchdog group to describe the maximum penalty of $1,000 and/or three months in prison for persons found guilty of breaching...
Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 5:11 PMLivern Barrett
FORMER PUBLIC Defender Earl Witter has asserted that the deaths of more than 70 civilians and one member of the Jamaica Defence Force during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens would not have happened if the extradition request for drug...
Former Public Defender Earl Witter has again described the May 2010 police-military operation in the west Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens as a "siege". It came as Witter, who is testifying before the west Kingston commission of...
Published:Monday | November 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
FORMER PUBLIC Defender Earl Witter yesterday recounted how news that 72 persons had been killed in the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens but only four illegal firearms seized was described by retired army chief Major General Stewart Saunders and...
Former Public Defender Earl Witter this morning recounted how he was harassed by one of several police personnel he saw wearing ski masks in Tivoli Gardens, a day after the start of the May 2010 operations. Witter, who is now testifying before the...
Convener of the Tivoli Committee Lloyd D'Aguilar will not face criminal charges for discrepancies uncovered in witness statements submitted to the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry. This after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions...
Published:Thursday | November 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Jamaica's law-enforce-ment apparatus has received a strong vote of confidence from the top American diplomat on the island.At the same time, United States Ambassador Luis G. Moreno slammed a controversial local Muslim cleric for what he described as...
Published:Thursday | November 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The Government has ramped up security at the nation's borders, one week after the deadly terrorist attacks in France and two days after five Syrian nationals were detained in the Central American country of Honduras.As part of the increased security...
Published:Wednesday | November 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Less than a week after a series of deadly terrorist attacks in France, Mark Shields, the British counterterrorism expert, who served for several years as Jamaica's crime chief, is warning Jamaicans against thinking that a similar attack could not...
Published:Sunday | November 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
THE FAMILIES of eight preterm babies who died during an infection outbreak at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) now want the health facility to write off the remainder of their bills, which run into millions of dollars.One parent...
Published:Thursday | November 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A high-ranking police officer has testified that 13 of the persons whose bodies were found in west Kingston following the May 2010 operation had criminal convictions.That assertion by Superintendent Gladys Brown Ellis came yesterday as the West...
A police Superintendent has testified that one of the bodies found in west Kingston during the May 2010 operation was that of a man who reportedly served as a sniper. Gladys Brown Ellis told the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry this morning that...
Published:Wednesday | November 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A high-ranking member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has dismissed suggestions that some of the illegal firearms recovered during the May 2010 operation had been planted by police personnel.Superintendent Michael Phipps told the West...
