Published:Friday | July 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND dollars for one hour and $100,000 for four and a half hours – this was part of the $225,000 awarded to a former delivery man for false imprisonment after a high court judge found last month that he was held in police...
Published:Wednesday | July 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Amid concerns about the worsening drought conditions, the National Water Commission (NWC) has signalled that it is ready to enforce the nationwide ban on the washing of cars and other non-essential use of the scare commodity.A week after the...
Published:Wednesday | July 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
FIFTY THREE per cent or approximately 108 million litres of the water produced for the Corporate Area daily by the National Water Commission (NWC) is either stolen or wasted through leaks.This disclosure by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller comes...
Amid the adverse drought conditions across the island, the government today signed a $4.5 billion contract that will seek to reduce by more than half, the amount of water produced by the National Water Commission (NWC) that is lost to leaks and...
Published:Tuesday | July 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
THE GREEN Nissan motor car heading north along Gold Street in downtown Kingston yesterday morning hardly caused a stir, not even when it drove past the police...
A police Constable was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Clarendon last evening. He has been identified as Rage Bennett, who was attached to the operational support team for the St Catherine North Division. Constable Bennett is the second...
Published:Friday | July 3, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A SENIOR government official has conceded that the nearly $100 million paid out to residents of west Kingston who were displaced during the May 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens was not compensation.Instead, Permanent Secretary in...
Four months after the May 2010 police-military operations in west Kingston, the government paid out just under $100 million to persons who were impacted, Permanent Secretary in the Social Security Ministry, Collette Roberts Risden, has testified....
Published:Thursday | July 2, 2015 | 6:56 PMLivern Barrett
The Office of the Public Defender (OPD) has signalled that it has evidence challenging the testimony of a senior military official that he saw a pile-up of decomposing bodies inside May Pen Cemetery in west Kingston one day after the start of the...
Attorneys for the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) today challenged the testimony of a high-ranking Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officer that he saw a pile of about 20 decomposing bodies inside the May Pen Cemetery one day after the start of the...
Lieutenant Colonel David Cummings, says an "elaborate and fully functional" surveillance system and a tunnel, were discovered in the Tivoli Gardens stronghold of drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke during the May 2010 operations...
The West Kingston Commission of Enquiry has heard evidence which suggests that the police cannot find documents related to the 2009 extradition request for drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke. The missing documents were found inside...
Published:Wednesday | July 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A high-ranking member of the Jamaican military has testified that one day into the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens, his unit stumbled upon a pile-up of decomposing bodies inside the May Pen Cemetery, located in west Kingston.Lieutenant Colonel...
A member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) this morning recounted how two blasts, minutes apart, caused the 27-ton front-end loader he was operating during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens to tilt to one side and the front wheels to...
Concerns about the fresh witness statements submitted to the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry has triggered a warning from chairman of the three-member panel Sir David Simmons that there could be legal and criminal consequences. Simmons, however...
Published:Tuesday | June 30, 2015 | 6:45 PMLivern Barrett
A high-ranking member of the Jamaican military has revealed that the army deployed two 50-calibre rifles during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens but could not recall if they were actually fired.While acknowledging that he knew where the...
A senior member of the Jamaican military today revealed that the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) deployed two 50 calibre rifles during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens. The...
A senior member of the Jamaican military today surmised that the May 2010 police-military operations in the west Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens would have been "very messy" if women and children were used by gunmen as human shield....
Published:Monday | June 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Fresh witness statements collected on the weekend and submitted to the west Kingston commission of enquiry yesterday have raised concerns that the three-member panel is being "manipulated in a manner that is dangerous".The statements came from...
Chairman of the west Kingston commission of enquiry Sir David Simmons has ruled that no new witness statements will be accepted after today. The ruling came after attorneys for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) raised concerns about a statement taken...
The Lloyd D’Aguilar-led Tivoli Committee still has standing at the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry. Last week the group, was given until today to provide witness statements to the committee or lose its standing at the commission. The...
A high-ranking member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has revealed that there was intelligence at the time which suggested that there were criminals armed with rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens....
Published:Thursday | June 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A former high-ranking member of the Jamaican military has admitted that members of the security forces might have roughed up residents of the west Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens during the May 2010 operations.The admission by retired...
A retired Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officer who served as one of the army's ground commanders during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens has revealed that he was extremely surprised when he heard of the number of persons who died in the...
Published:Wednesday | June 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A retired Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officer who commanded more than 500 military and police personnel during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens has indicated that he was out of the loop on a number of issues related to the operations....
