A nine-year-old student and a policeman are now in hospital after they were both stabbed in the head during an incident in downtown Kingston a short while ago. Their attacker - described as a man of unsound mind - managed to elude the police and is...
Published:Sunday | March 15, 2015 | 6:42 PMLivern Barrett
Cabinet is to decide today whether the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), scheduled for this week, will be postponed as the fire at the Riverton City disposal site in St Andrew continues to wreak havoc across much of the Corporate Area and St...
Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2015 | 5:43 PMLivern Barrett
JAMAICANS HAVE chosen to remain silent rather than use whistle-blower legislation to report improper conduct, whether in the public or private sector.Almost three years after the legislation - properly called the Protected Disclosures Act - was...
Published:Friday | March 6, 2015 | 2:21 PMLivern Barrett
Lawyers for well-known attorney Harold Brady have revealed that the $37 million at the centre of the fraud case brought against him is being held by a commercial bank to ensure that the transaction was not in breach of the Proceeds of Crime Act (...
Published:Thursday | March 5, 2015 | 6:45 PMLivern Barrett
Harold Brady yesterday became the second high-profile attorney to be slapped with fraud-related charges this week, as the Police Fraud Squad revealed that since the start of the year, it has received several reports from persons complaining of being...
Well-known attorney-at-law Harold Brady has been arrested and charged by investigators at the police Fraud Squad. Attorney Raymond Clough, who attended the question-and-answer session held this afternoon, says Brady has been charged in relation to...
The prominent attorney who was being sought by fraud investigators has turned himself in. He walked into the office of the Fraud Squad in downtown Kingston shortly before 2 o’clock this afternoon. The attorney is now being questioned by Fraud...
Police investigators have confirmed that a stop order has been placed at the ports for a prominent lawyer and senior member of the Jamaica Labour Party. The lawyer is the subject of a multimillion-dollar fraud probe. The attorney was expected to...
Published:Wednesday | March 4, 2015 | 2:33 PMLivern Barrett
A High Court judge has ordered that the State pay damages totalling more than $17 million to the estate of slain Negril businessman Frederick 'Mickey' Hill.The award was made in the Supreme Court last December after the Attorney General's Department...
Published:Wednesday | March 4, 2015 | 6:48 PMLivern Barrett
Prominent criminal defence attorney Michael Lorne last night maintained his innocence, hours after he was arrested by the police on fraud-related charges."They really were not doing any investigations or anything like that. They just wanted to...
Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2015 | 12:24 AMLivern Barrett
The carnage on the nation's roadways is causing drivers under 30 years old to dig deeper into their pockets to pay, on average, as much as 80 per cent more for motor vehicle insurance than their counterparts...
Published:Thursday | February 26, 2015 | 5:13 PMLivern Barrett
Nearly 150 years after the historic Morant Bay Rebellion, there are concerns that a feeling of hopelessness has taken root among residents in the eastern parish of St Thomas.Lorian Peart-Roberts, parish manager for the St Thomas branch of the Social...
Published:Tuesday | February 24, 2015 | 5:29 PMLivern Barrett
A week after more than 50 public sector employees pleaded guilty to not filing statutory declarations for various periods in the last three years, the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (CPC) has warned that another crackdown is imminent....
Published:Friday | February 20, 2015 | 3:04 PMLivern Barrett
Former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has revealed that up to mid-2011 when three-quarters of the firearms used by the security forces during the 2010 Tivoli Gardens incursion were put through ballistics tests, none of them matched any of the...
Published:Friday | February 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The cache of illegal firearms seized following the 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens were not placed there by members of the security forces, retired Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has testified. He was responding, during...
Published:Friday | February 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
How 'Dudus' escaped Tivoli Retired Police Commissioner Owen Ellington says then fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke may have used tunnels in his Tivoli Gardens stronghold to evade the security forces when they went there to apprehend...
Published:Thursday | February 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
ARMED WITH never-before-seen video footage and photographs, retired Police Commissioner Owen Ellington yesterday recounted how thugs carrying high-powered weapons, night-vision goggles and clad in ballistics vests similar to those used by the police...
Published:Thursday | February 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Retired Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has revealed that he heard like the rest of the country through a public broadcast that the government would green light the extradition request for drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke. The...
Published:Thursday | February 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Retired Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has revealed that the security forces began making plans to apprehend drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke from November 2009 after word of an impending extradition request leaked. Ellington...
Published:Wednesday | February 18, 2015 | 3:35 PMLivern Barrett
A senior official at the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is among more than 70 public-sector employees expected to be hauled before the court today in a fresh crackdown by the Corruption Prevention Commission (CPC) on public servants accused ignoring their...
Published:Tuesday | February 17, 2015 | 3:10 PMLivern Barrett
Former Justice Minister and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne has revealed that she thought the 2010 incursion into the West Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens to capture then-fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke would be a "simple operation"....
Published:Tuesday | February 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Former Justice Minister and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne has testified that she did not give anyone in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) documents relating to the pending extradition request for then fugitive Christopher 'Dudus'...
Published:Monday | February 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Former Justice Minister and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne has revealed that she was in the dark when her administration discussed the issue of compensation for residents of west Kingston whose properties were destroyed...
Published:Thursday | February 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
RETIRED ARMY chief Major General Stewart Saunders has revealed that he got reports that during the 2010 nationwide manhunt, then fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke had "found safe haven in a government house in St Ann".
Published:Wednesday | February 11, 2015 | 6:10 PMLivern Barrett
FORMER PRIME Minister Bruce Golding yesterday pointed to differences between information given to him by then army chief Major General Stewart Saunders and a statement later released by the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) on the use of mortars during the 2010 police-military operation in Tivoli Gardens.
