The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of reputed gang leader Uchence Wilson and his alleged 23 gang members, prompting an adjournment of the matter that has gripped the nation for months. The case is expected to resume on July 1. Chief...
An autopsy carried out on the body of Anthony ‘Toby’ Trought revealed that he was shot three times, causing injury to his heart, which ultimately resulted in his death. The doctor who did the examination said that Trought sustained one gunshot...
After 31 years behind bars without standing trial and having not entered a guilty plea for the murder charge levelled against him, 61-year-old Walter Blackstock is set to be a free man, following a declaration on Tuesday by Director of Public...
Hope among defence attorneys for a non-custodial sentence for the three cops found guilty of manslaughter in relation to the 2012 death of Immaculate Conception High School student Vanessa Kirkland was shattered yesterday as presiding judge Justice...
A DNA test has revealed that prominent Montego Bay businessman Patrick Chung is not the biological father of a woman who has accused him of allegedly having sex with her over a nine-year period beginning in 1976 when she was 13 years old. This...
Even as scores of people turned out at the Papine High School on Labour Day to make preparations for the construction of a perimeter fence to address the institution’s immediate security concerns, principal Leighton Christie, while expressing...
Yesterday’s sentencing of the man who confessed to killing Dexter Pottinger has not eased the minds of the fashion designer’s relatives, who say that the killer’s account of what transpired has left many questions unanswered. Twenty-three-year-old...
The People’s National Party (PNP) has welcomed the decision by the Government not to appeal the recent Constitutional Court ruling on the National Identification and Registration Act (NIRA), on which the National Identification System (NIDS) was to...
Constables Andrewain Smith, Durvin Hayles, and Anna-Kay Bailey will have to wait a few more days before they know if trial judge Justice Carol Lawrence-Beswick will grant them a non-custodial sentence, following submissions from defence attorneys...
An alleged member of the Uchence Wilson Gang, Lanworth ‘Zeeks’ Geohagen, attempted to flee police when they were about to conduct a search of his vehicle at the Bog Walk Police Station in St Catherine on December 2, 2017, the court was told...
Reputed gang leader Uchence Wilson was yesterday heard in an audio recording pleading with police personnel for his then girlfriend, accused Shantol Gordon, to not face criminal charges, claiming that she had no knowledge of alleged criminal...
Following a meeting with the Government last Friday, the University of Technology, Jamaica Academic Staff Union (UTASU) has accepted a proposal from the management of the university, putting an end to their long-standing salary-adjustment dispute....
A Crown witness yesterday admitted to not mentioning the name or giving a description of accused Constable Jerome Whyte in his statements to the police. However, he denied only making mention of the policeman at the preliminary enquiry held in...
A defence attorney yesterday quizzed a Crown witness on various aspects of his testimony ultimately suggesting that he was lying when he said that accused Detective Corporal Kevin Adams shot Anthony ‘Toby’ Trought in cold blood as the trial for two...
Although the bodies of businessman Curtis Martin and UTech student Mario Daley were never recovered, the three persons charged with their murder have pleaded guilty. Damian Lawrence, Dionne Mitchell and Evon Simmonds recently entered the plea in...
A Crown witness yesterday told the court that he saw when Detective Corporal Kevin Adams fired two shots, hitting his friend Anthony ‘Toby’ Trought, who later died. The allegations are that Adams and Constable Jerome Whyte murdered Trought in cold...
As the prosecution yesterday began mounting its case against two policemen accused of murder, a Clarendon resident testified that Detective Corporal Kevin Adams and Constable Jerome Whyte invaded his home on February 13, 2012, in search of Anthony...
A phone stolen from a robbery victim is said to have been found in the possession of accused Michael ‘Judge’ Lamont, the Home Circuit Court was yesterday told as the trial for reputed gang leader Uchence Wilson and 23 others continued. The...
Amid contending accounts of how two Rastafarian boys were fed meat and their hair cut after being carried to the Gordon Town Police Station in St Andrew, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says that the police personnel...
After more than 30 years of being at the helm of one of Jamaica’s leading marketing and advertising firms, Adrian Robinson, chairman and managing director of Marketing Counsellors Limited, is making his exit, having handed over the daily operations...
In an alleged case of abuse of power and violation of human rights, conscious reggae artiste JahDore, whose real name is Sean McDonald, said members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) forcibly took his Rastafarian children from their home,...
The trial of reputed gang leader Uchence Wilson and his 23 alleged cronies has been adjourned until Monday due to the inability of a defence attorney to attend today’s proceedings. Attorney-at-law Tamika Harris last Monday informed the court that...
Now-disbarred attorney-at-law Donovan Malcolm is said to have pleaded with complainant Cecille Thomas to not take legal action against him after she found out that only a portion of the money that she had given him had been paid over to the law...
A day used to celebrate the nation’s teachers turned from joy to sorrow as the school community mourned the shooting death of educator Clevon Campbell at his Portmore, St Catherine, home in the wee hours of Teachers’ Day yesterday. Campbell was at...
