A popular Manchester businessman, who offered another man $60,000 to kill the top executive at the People’s Cooperative Bank (PCB) in the parish so he could have easier access to loans, has been convicted for solicitation to murder. Marvin Morris,...
Deno Whyte arrived in The Bahamas on October 11 excited about his two-week vacation and plans to reconnect with an old friend. But almost immediately after the Jamaican disembarked Caribbean Airlines flight BW414 in Nassau, his trip took a sudden...
Jamaican motorists who were compelled for 15 years to pay traffic fines that were unlawfully imposed by the government will have to provide proof of payment to get a court-ordered refund, the Supreme Court has ruled. Acceptable forms of proof are...
The country’s top police investigator says the finding of an autopsy that late Gleaner sports journalist Job Nelson was killed by a metal object expelled from the airbag of his car, and not by a bullet, was not surprising. It was initially reported...
The main suspect in the disappearance of primary school teacher Danielle Anglin was cut loose in 2018 with a suspended sentence after he was convicted in the High Court on multiple counts of assault, law enforcement sources have revealed. The...
A former public official at a now shuttered government-owned company that was smeared by allegations of financial impropriety was sent to prison yesterday after he was convicted on corruption-related charges. Lawrence Pommels, a former acting...
The Jamaican Supreme Court has ordered that a mentally ill man who languished in prison for nearly 42 years without facing a trial for murder should be “temporarily” released to family members under strict conditions. His name and the names of the...
Whitehorses: Dalvarine Bruce felt “good” just being around to vote in yesterday’s local government elections in St Thomas. Two weeks ago Bruce, who is a supporter of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), lost her left leg in a gruesome accident...
Police investigators believe popular entertainer Medikk was the victim of a contract killing. However, the police have declined to comment further, citing the on-going investigations. The disclosure came yesterday, hours after the police reported...
There are mechanisms that can be put in place to effect court-ordered refunds of traffic fines, estimated at billions of dollars and collected from motorists over a 15-year period through an order that has been declared illegal, according to...
Criticisms in the British media of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle “hobnobbing” with Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday are “absolutely ridiculous”, one local cultural expert has opined. The exiled Duke and Duchess of Sussex...
The commanding officer for the police division where Jolyan Silvera is being housed has dismissed claims that the former lawmaker is getting preferential treatment. Several detainees at the Kingston Central police lockup threatened to stage a “riot...
A mobile phone attributed to businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald was communicating with a phone linked to one of his wife’s killers on the night and in the area she was stabbed to death, a police witness has testified. However, the witness...
Sandra Risden, the paralegal who was shot to death in a brazen early morning attack in St Andrew yesterday, has been described as an honest and diligent colleague as police investigators theorise that she was targeted by hired killers....
Six sections of the DNA Evidence Act are in breach of several constitutional rights guaranteed to citizens, but those infringements are “demonstrably justified”, Jamaica’s Full Court has ruled. The landmark decision was handed down yesterday,...
The country’s two main political parties should avoid trying to “weaponise” data about critical economic indicators, an economist has warned. However, if the two parties cannot resist the urge to cite economic data in their public squabbles amid...
The controversial St Andrew housing development undertaken by suspended National Water Commission (NWC) boss Mark Barnett and his wife is already the subject of an internal investigation by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC),...
One of the aspirants seeking to head the country’s football governing body has sought to publicly distance himself from a last-minute legal action that has placed its contentious presidential election on hold. The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF)...
It was the Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) that botched the potential criminal prosecution of suspended National Water Commission (NWC) boss Mark Barnett and his wife for breaches of a permit for their St Andrew housing development...
The police are defending their response to a daring early morning robbery at the entrance to Jamaica House yesterday during which two men, including the son of a prominent businessman, were shot and injured. Jamaica House is the office of the...
There has been a “discernible” rise in the number of children killed, maimed or sexually assaulted over the last decade as “deliberate collateral damage” in domestic violence cases, Jamaica’s prosecutorial authority has revealed. In particular,...
A recommendation, made over a decade ago for the creation of a new national honour called the Order of Jamaican Heritage, is now being “actively reviewed”, Culture Minister Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange has revealed. The disclosure comes amid a new...
Discontinuing the controversial multibillion-dollar annual drawdown from the National Housing Trust (NHT) for budgetary support would not be in Jamaica’s best interest at this time, two economists have suggested. Over the past two decades,...
Jamaica-born retired American special agent Wilfred Rattigan provided no “authority” from any Jamaican in the diaspora to file his failed lawsuit against Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith, a High Court judge has ruled. Justice Dale...
Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan has been found guilty of professional misconduct for offensive comments he directed at the country’s chief prosecutor, Paula Llewellyn. Buchanan pleaded guilty before a disciplinary panel of the General Legal Council (...
