The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) says it expects to settle all outstanding payments owed to disgruntled members of the senior national women’s team by today. JFF general secretary Dennis Chung made the disclosure yesterday hours before members...
The woman charged with killing eight-year-old Danielle Rowe is disappointed that her application for bail was not heard yesterday, her attorney, Donnovan Collins, has disclosed. A judge at the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court was expected to...
THE WOMAN charged with killing eight-year-old Danielle Rowe is “very surprised” about the accusations levelled against her, according to her attorney Donnovan Collins. Kayodi Satchell, a 30-year-old dental assistant, is facing a charge of murder...
A teenage girl who was the victim of a string of sexual assaults, starting when she was nine years old, seemingly, has overcome her ordeal and is now doing well academically, her mother has revealed. The disclosure came yesterday, hours after an...
Nikita Noel, the nine-year-old girl whose body was found in bushes in Hanover earlier this year, died from “manual strangulation”, prosecutors disclosed in court yesterday, citing a post-mortem report. The post-mortem examination also found “recent...
American missionary Teri Nichols Hinds disclosed yesterday that she refused a request by police investigators to identify the body of her deceased husband, Harold. Sara Hentzel, another American missionary, also turned down a request to identify...
A DECISION by a disciplinary panel of the General Legal Council (GLC) to exonerate an attorney accused of misconduct in the sale of a property has been overturned by Jamaica’s second-highest court. Instead, the Court of Appeal, in a decision on...
A Jamaican man who was part of a crew that staged a string of armed robberies in the United States (US), then blamed his conduct on the violent culture in his homeland, has been sent to prison for 10 years. Alex Josephs, 23, was sentenced in a...
A rollback of the contentious wage hike for Cabinet ministers would have a “cascading negative effect” on the salaries of senior bureaucrats and other public sector workers, a senior government official has said. That assertion late yesterday by...
THE “POLITICAL class” in Jamaica has been treated with “schizophrenia and disdain” for many years, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said, pushing back at critics of the massive wage hike across the political directorate. The parliamentary...
A MAN who was jailed for over two years after a young child lied to police investigators that he sexually assaulted her has lost a claim in the Supreme Court for malicious prosecution. David Foster was, however, awarded damages totalling $950,000...
SERITA HOUSEN Blair had a tough childhood, often bouncing from one relative’s home to another, according to a close family friend. As an adult, she suffered mental and physical abuse at the hands of her now ex-husband. This assessment of Housen...
A seven year-old girl was the victim of a “savage” sexual attack after she was kidnapped for hours in the quiet rural community of Fellowship Hall in St Mary, on Tuesday, residents and police sources have disclosed. Bloodied and battered, she was...
THE SUBSTANTIAL pay rise announced yesterday for the top brass of the judiciary appears to be “enormous” because judges in Jamaica have been underpaid for decades, a top defence attorney has asserted. Linton Gordon, a former army colonel who has...
A St Andrew man who was shot seven times and pointed out his attacker to the police then went to court and changed his story has been arrested and charged, law enforcement sources have disclosed. Rameal Gentles was charged with attempting to...
Collette Anthony-Jackson wiped the tears from her face as she exited the courtroom where her stepdaughter’s killer was slapped with a long prison sentence on Thursday. Confessed killer Robert Fowler was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to...
Eunice Chambers’ only child, Khanice Jackson, had something she wanted them to discuss over lunch on March 24, 2021. But Chambers pushed back their lunch date to the next day because of work. That was the last time she would speak to her daughter,...
The state-owned Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) has filed an application in the Supreme Court to have disbarred attorney Harold Brady sent to prison for a debt that has ballooned to over $110 million. The application is scheduled to be heard...
Durvin Hayles agonised with the family of slain 16-year-old student Vanessa Kirkland even as he reflected on the “suffering and pain” he and his family endured in the 11 years since the controversial killing. Kirkland, who attended Immaculate...
A male teacher employed to a St Andrew-based high school is in police custody in connection with two investigations, one of which involves a 13-year-old female student, who was reported missing for several hours last week before she was found. The...
The attorney for one of the accused in the $222-million Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) fraud case has described his client’s arrest as “most curious”. Andrew Wright, former financial controller at INSPORTS, was arrested this week while the...
Almost two months after being jailed for her alleged role in the multibillion-dollar fraud uncovered at the investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), Jean-Ann Panton had a list of requests for prison administrators. Panton was given a...
The donation by “corporate Jamaica” towards Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed 2022 bid for the post of Commonwealth secretary general is now the subject of a lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court. Businessman Keith Duncan and...
A medical doctor who has examined accused fraudster Jean-Ann Panton testified on Wednesday that despite her claims, he saw nothing to indicate that she suffered a stroke while in custody. Dr Jermaine Whyte, a sessional medical officer employed to...
A former security guard, who was employed to the Guardsman Group, will have to spend two decades more behind bars for killing three of his ex-colleagues, including two women, in a gruesome triple murder that made national headlines over a decade...
