Published:Monday | June 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A doctor testified yesterday that former university lecturer Dr Peter Vogel was strangled inside his St Andrew home, and suggested that his death was the work of more than one person.Forensic pathologist Dr S.N. Prasad Kadiyala testified, too, that...
Published:Saturday | June 17, 2017 | 6:28 PMLivern Barrett
The Meteorological Service has extended the flood alert issued for all parishes until 5 o’clock Sunday morning. This as a broad area of low pressure has now formed over the western Caribbean while a Tropical Wave remains across Jamaica. The...
Published:Saturday | June 17, 2017 | 6:09 PMLivern Barrett
The National Works Agency (NWA) is reporting that a number of roadways in at least four parishes have been impacted by flooding, land slippages and fallen trees. According to Communications Manager at the NWA, Stephen Shaw, Clarendon has again seen...
Published:Saturday | June 17, 2017 | 5:40 PMLivern Barrett
Cuba has denounced the decision taken by United States President Donald Trump to re-impose some travel and trade restrictions between the two countries. Despite this, Cuba says it is willing to continue what it describes as the respectful dialogue...
Published:Thursday | June 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Three times yesterday, businessman Patrick Powell insisted that he did not refuse a request by police investigators in 2007 to hand over his licensed Glock pistol and ammunition for inspection.Instead, Powell said that when the request was made of...
Published:Tuesday | June 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
George Quallo, Jamaica's police chief, has signalled that the security forces will be moving to take control of some of the most volatile communities across the island as part of the short-term measures to help stem the wave of murders that left a...
Published:Tuesday | June 13, 2017 | 7:17 PMLivern Barrett
A total of 1,251 persons were arrested and charged with murder since January last year, but Police Commissioner George Quallo has raised concerns that the majority of them may not see the inside of a prison cell because of the snail's pace at which...
Published:Monday | June 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The tearful widow of former University of the West Indies lecturer, Dr Peter Vogel, testified yesterday that two days before his death, she told the family housekeeper accused of killing him that she was going to be fired....
Published:Monday | June 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The trial of the couple charged with the murder of former University of the West Indies, Mona, lecturer, Dr Peter Vogel, got underway in the Home Circuit Court today, almost ten years after his death. Yanika Scott, who was Vogel's helper at the...
Published:Wednesday | June 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Two weeks after former Cash Plus boss Carlos Hill was freed of fraud charges, the state agency handling the liquidation of his failed unregulated investment scheme has signalled that depositors should not expect a full refund anytime soon.The Office...
The agriculture ministry on Monday confirmed that it has not suspended the operations of a multimillion-dollar hay production project financed by taxpayers, despite a damning audit that found that lax oversight had resulted in millions of dollars in...
Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A 65-year-old Jamaican woman residing in the United States (US) who was getting ready to return to her homeland with her sick husband has lost her entire life savings of US$28,000, or approximately J$3.6 million, to a pair of con artists, the New...
Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The People's National Party (PNP) is in the process of crafting a sexual harassment policy, but top party officials are split on what has triggered the move.PNP insiders who attended yesterday's private session of the party's Region Three executive...
Published:Wednesday | May 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Whether the police were in breach of Jamaica Constabulary Force regulations in St Ann yesterday when a man who they were in the process of searching was pounced upon and allegedly stabbed to death by a woman is being investigated. It happened after...
Published:Wednesday | May 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Locksley Comrie, a former Jamaican football administrator, was furious yesterday as he watched Carlos Hill, founder of the Cash Plus scheme in which he had invested US$10 million, walk out of the Home Circuit Court a free man. "I invested ten million...
Published:Wednesday | May 24, 2017 | 4:54 PMLivern Barrett
A woman is now in police custody on accusations of stabbing a man to death while he was being searched by police personnel in St Ann this morning. The dead man has not yet been identified and the name of his alleged killer is being withheld. The...
Published:Monday | May 22, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Accused persons in the nearly 700 criminal cases that are before the Home Circuit Court yesterday turned their backs on an initiative implemented by court administrators that guaranteed significantly discounted sentences in exchange for pleading...
Published:Friday | May 19, 2017 | 11:21 AMLivern Barrett
The financial mismanage-ment and lax oversight uncovered in the Government's $20-million hay production project resulted in lost revenues totalling millions of dollars, a damning audit report has found.The Hay Commercialisation Project designed and...
An audit by the Ministry of Agriculture has revealed that the Hay Commercialisation Project failed to deliver on any of its objectives outlined in the project document.According to the findings, the production levels have been significantly low and...
Published:Monday | May 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A multimillion-dollar project touted by the Ministry of Agriculture as the future model for hay production in Jamaica has descended into a train wreck of financial mismanagement, according to the findings of a damning audit report.The audit of the...
Published:Wednesday | May 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The first attempt by Jamaican authorities to prosecute a citizen under a controversial amendment to the Cyber Crimes Act, which criminalises the use of a computer for malicious communication, collapsed yesterday before a trial date was set,...
Published:Wednesday | May 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke has been moved to a low-security prison with "no bars, towers, or locks" to complete his 23-year prison sentence in the United States (US).The US Bureau of Prisons confirmed yesterday that Coke had been...
A judge in the United States (US) has ordered that seven of the eight Jamaicans who were extradited last week for their alleged role in a lottery scam scheme that raked in more than US$5.6 million should remain in custody until their trial.The order...
Published:Thursday | April 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A number of Jamaican attorneys who United States (US) authorities believe are helping lottery scammers hide their ill-gotten gains could be swept up in the wave of extradition requests that American prosecutors are preparing to unleash on the...
Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
PROSECUTORS in several cities across the United States (US) are getting ready to unleash a wave of up to 500 extradition requests for Jamaicans they believe are involved in the deadly lottery scam.Joshua Polacheck, counsellor for public affairs at...
