Stories by Livern Barrett

A 14-year-old student yesterday recounted how he was shot three times during an altercation outside Calabar High School in St Andrew on Wednesday. He insisted that the shots were fired by a member of the police force.Damar Tennant, who attends...

Prosecutors yesterday detailed how a St Catherine man hired well-known attorney-at-law Patrick Bailey to handle a land transaction and joint venture housing project but ended up, several years later, without his 22-acre property and having to pay...

The Hilary term of the Home Circuit Court opened in January with a total of 626 cases listed for trial. However, when the term ended last Friday, after 88 days of sittings, only 83 of those cases, or 12 per cent, were disposed of, figures compiled...

Tears and anger permeated the main courtroom at the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston yesterday after police Corporal Dwayne Smart was freed of murder in the 2012 shooting death of a pregnant woman in St Thomas.Inside the prisoners' dock, Smart...

Before last month, the charge of using a computer for malicious communication was an obscure criminal offence included in Jamaica's Cybercrimes Act 2015 - the legal framework enacted by lawmakers two years ago to regulate activities in cyberspace....

Constable Collis Brown, one of the two policemen freed of murder in the so-called police death squad trial, has charged that he is being "punished" by the oversight body, the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), because of his refusal...

The credibility of the main prosecution witness in the so-called police death squad trial has been damaged beyond repair, the attorney for one of the policemen before the court has argued.At the same time, prosecutors also attempted to punch holes...

A judge has declared that wire fraud and mail fraud, two of the charges typically filed by American authorities in lottery scam-related cases, are offences for which a Jamaican citizen can be extradited to the United States.Parish Judge Vaughn Smith...

The so-called police death squad trial on Tuesday heard testimony that one of the policemen accused of killing a Clarendon man in 2010 refused to participate in an identification parade.Sergeant Roger Kelly, who was assigned to the Police Visual ID...

A police inspector yesterday testified during the so-called police death squad trial that he received "a document" from the oversight body, the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), "with pointers" for a second witness statement....

The main prosecution witness in the so-called 'police death squad' trial yesterday admitted that when he was questioned by investigators a day after he was shot and injured in 2010, he never mentioned that Constable Collis Brown was the shooter.The...

A Clarendon man was yesterday allowed time by a High Court judge to compose himself as he recounted, amid tears, the moment in 2010 when he said a police constable used a high-powered rifle to shoot him at close range in broad daylight.The man,...