Richard Pandohie, chief executive officer of the Seprod Group, could not conceal the hurt and betrayal he felt after the police confirmed on Thursday that 17 current and former employees were arrested for orchestrating an elaborate scheme that...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has poured cold water on a suggestion that the law be amended to widen the pool of citizens available for jury duty. Schedule A of the Jury Act, which came into effect over 40 years ago, exempts several categories of...
An American advocacy group has sought the intervention of the United States (US) government in the case of an American citizen who was convicted in Jamaica for having sex with an underage girl. Robert Benoit was found guilty by a jury in the St...
Jamaica’s second-highest court has left in place a near-$50 million payout to a west Kingston woman, who was blinded in both eyes by a bullet believed to have been fired by members of the security forces. However, a $2-million award for the woman’s...
A Jamaican man residing in the United States, who sexually abused two of his foster children over a two-year period, has been ordered to serve 50 years in prison. Eric Norman Stewart, 66, of Missouri City, Texas, will have to serve his sentence “...
Jamaica’s parliamentary Opposition has filed a lawsuit in the High Court challenging the legality of the Government’s repeated use of states of emergency (SOEs) as a routine crime-fighting tool. Opposition Leader Mark Golding disclosed, too, that...
A Manchester teacher, whose body was found in bushes a week after he went missing, was beaten and shot execution style by four men, including one he had travelled to Clarendon to meet up with, police investigators believe. Details of the gruesome...
A woman who poured gasolene on her spouse while he slept then set him on fire because she suspected that he was cheating has been convicted of murder. Serita Housen Blair, also known as ‘Tasha’ and ‘Aunty’, pleaded guilty in the Home Circuit Court...
A Jamaican man described as the “brains” who used his apartment to manufacture ghost guns that were sold on the streets of Connecticut is going to prison for 18 months. Audley Reeves, 31, was sentenced in a United States District Court on Thursday...
A gun for which the licence expired 17 years ago is among five pistols that were handed over to the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) on Monday, the first working day of a gun amnesty imposed by the Government. The guns contained a total of 10...
Nearly a year ago, Rushane Barnett and his brother were unemployed and in a financial bind when they telephoned their aunt, Gwendolyn McKnight, for help. The brothers wanted to move to Clarendon, where McKnight and her family lived, to find jobs...
An “organised” band of criminals who stole nearly $50 million from an account at JMMB gained access to sensitive personal data through a cyber scheme, law-enforcement authorities have charged. “We can confirm that there is an act of fraud that is...
A Jamaican lecturer has been linked by scientific evidence to sexual and other criminal offences in the United States (US), according to American authorities who have requested his extradition. Russell McLean, a behavioural and social sciences...
Corporal Conrad Martin was inside his office at the May Pen Police Station when another cop alerted him to a young man who wanted to talk with a counsellor. Martin, a peer counsellor assigned to the Clarendon Police Division, is one of the ‘prayer...
Some things are “more clearer” for authorities in the Netherlands who are investigating the controversial $31-million payment by Trafigura Beheer to the People’s National Party (PNP) in 2006, a Dutch prosecutor has revealed. Ronald Steen, a...
The People’s National Party (PNP) bank account into which the bulk of a controversial $31-million payment from the Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer was lodged in 2006 was opened a day after the first tranche of the funds was wired to another Jamaican...
Member of Parliament Phillip Paulwell has denied supplying an invoice to former top executives of the Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer related to a controversial $31-million payment made to the People’s National Party (PNP) around the time they were in...
Businessman Norton Hinds helped to set up the political fundraising entity that was used to funnel a controversial $31-million donation to the People’s National Party (PNP), but knew very little about its operations, according to his evidence. The...
A teenage killer has described for police investigators how he fired a bullet into the body of a former associate in a brazen daylight double-murder, then blamed his action on pressure from other members of their gang. Eighteen-year-old Michael...
While he was in Jamaica, Colombian fugitive Mario Antonio Palacios voluntarily gave statements to United States (US) law-enforcement authorities about his involvement in the plot to assassinate former Haitian President Jovenel Moϊse, a senior...
A Jamaican man has been convicted in the United States (US) for leading a drug syndicate that operated in several American cities. Oneil Wilks, 42, was also found guilty of money laundering and identity fraud by a federal jury in Connecticut after...
The lottery and other spin-off scams continue to be a lucrative feeding tree for Jamaica’s underworld, with criminal actors forging wider alliances with multiple gangs to expand their empire, a senior police official has disclosed. And the police...
The former gangster who pleaded guilty on Wednesday for his role in 11 murders was the man who ensured that contract killings ordered by the leaders of the Clarendon-based Bloods Gang were carried out. Travis Gilman’s roles included hiring hitmen,...
Jermaine Chamberlain was charged by the police on September 21 last year for using an illegal gun to rob a young woman in east Kingston. But 10 months later, after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court,...
A Jamaican woman who arranged more than two dozen sham marriages as part of an elaborate scheme to obtain green cards for herself and other non-American citizens is heading to prison in the United States (US). Between 2011 and 2017, Jodian...
