Joeith Lynch completed sixth form at The Queen’s School in St Andrew in 2011 with eight passes and had her eyes set on studying medicine. By early July that year, according to a relative, the 18-year-old was in the middle of making plans for her...
Jurors in the so-called beheading murder trial have been asked to rely on a liar, the attorney for the last remaining accused has asserted. Lloyd McFarlane, the attorney for accused killer Kemar Riley was making reference to the main prosecution...
The attorney for the man who walked free yesterday in the so-called beheading murder trial has cautioned the public to “separate our emotions from facts”. Sanja Ducally, one of five men charged with the killing of a St Catherine woman and her...
A chorus of outrage and condemnation erupted five days before Christmas in 2013 after news broke that gunmen had shot and killed a district constable and wounded one of his colleagues, a female corporal, as they attempted to arrest a wanted man in...
One of the accused killers of a St Catherine mother and daughter, both of whom were decapitated, has sought to win his freedom by arguing that the evidence presented by prosecutors is insufficient to prove his guilt. Sanja Ducally is on trial,...
Weary residents of Bowden Hill in west rural St Andrew are facing more headaches after an alternative route, created after the collapse of the main bridge to their community in February, was flooded on the weekend. The alternative route, which runs...
The police investigator who led the probe into the beheading of two St Catherine women in 2011 has testified that cops were led to one of the severed heads by one of the men who confessed to being involved in the killing. The witness, a detective...
A witness yesterday detailed in court how an accused killer admitted, during a jailhouse conversation, that he shot a teenage girl because “she did a bawl out too loud” while she was being chopped by one of his cronies. The witness was giving...
An attorney for the three soldiers facing murder charges for the 2010 killing of businessman Keith Clarke has argued that even without a certificate of immunity, his clients would still be shielded from criminal prosecution once they could...
A jury got to watch yesterday as an assistant teacher recounted for police investigators how he walked in on the gruesome killing of a teenage girl who was later decapitated, along with her mother. It came after prosecutors played in court the...
A don gave the orders for a St Catherine woman and her teenage daughter to be decapitated because they were viewed as informers, according to the video-recorded confessions of three of the men convicted for the grisly crime. Transcripts of the...
Jamaica’s top prosecutor has disclosed that she will be seeking the death penalty for the five men who are set to go on trial for allegedly beheading a St Catherine woman and her teen daughter in a double murder that stirred national outrage. The...
The six-month security crackdown in western Jamaica has calmed jitters among international tour operators who were nervous about directing visitors to the island, a top hotel executive has revealed. Niurka Garcia-Linton, director of sales for the...
There are indications that the corruption charges filed against sacked Education Minister Ruel Reid and his co-accused will be prosecuted by private attorneys and not the prosecutorial arm of the State. Jamaica’s top prosecutor, Paula Llewellyn,...
Investigators have charged that nearly $50 million of public funds was diverted to the personal use of discarded Education Minister Ruel Reid and Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President, Professor Fritz Pinnock, through a number of schemes,...
The Holness administration has labelled as “troubling” a call by Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips for the Government to speak on the ongoing corruption investigations relating to the education ministry. In March, Education Minister Ruel Reid...
Jamaica’s top prosecutor has defended the decision by one of her deputies to withdraw rape charges against a man who was allegedly linked through DNA evidence to a string of sexual attacks in Red Hill, St Andrew, in 2015. Byron Tingling was...
Dr Peter Phillips has asked Jamaicans sceptical of his political promises to examine his “track record” and that of the People’s National Party (PNP) he leads. “Judge me on my record of what I have done in all the areas in which I have served,”...
The next People’s National Party (PNP) administration will revamp the National Housing Trust (NHT) to ensure that everyone who contributes realises a benefit, Dr Peter Phillips has vowed. Further, Phillips has promised that the PNP, if given state...
A parliamentary committee is demanding answers from the Education Ministry about the status of three multimillion-dollar contracts linked to allegations of irregularity at a number of agencies that fall under its remit. The contracts in question...
A police constable deployed to hotspot communities blanketed by the Government’s enhanced security measures has warned that long hours, substandard working conditions, and inadequate resources are threatening to undermine their effectiveness. The...
After a weekend of brazen gun attacks that left four people dead, St James, one of three western parishes blanketed by a state of emergency, is close to recording 100 murders this year. One murder was recorded last Friday, one on Sunday and two...
There are indications that Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts has been thrown into more turmoil following reports that Principal Dr Nicholeen DeGrasse Johnson has been suspended by the board of directors. There was no...
One lawmaker last week came face-to-face with the terror on the roadways caused by rowdy taxi drivers, and the incident has left her traumatised. Juliet Cuthbert Flynn, the celebrated Olympian and member of parliament (MP) for St Andrew West Rural...
Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips has indicated that his wife was seeking to protect her reputation and his when she complained about the Integrity Commission’s summary report of his 2018 statutory declaration, which was published in the Jamaica...
