After a week-long strike that saw members of the University of Technology Academic Staff Union (UTASU) staying off the job, the union has temporarily halted industrial action, having accepted an invitation from the management of the university to...
Three men barged into a St Ann residence on the morning of April 25, 2017, holding a five-member family at gunpoint, tying them up and robbing them of cell phones and other items, including a Toyota bus, which was driven away from the scene,...
The strike by members of the University of Technology, Jamaica Academic Staff Union (UTASU), which began last week, will continue if the salary adjustments set out in the 2015-2017 heads of agreement are not implemented, says union President Lebert...
Reputed gang leader Uchence Wilson is said to have fired several shots at a policeman who attempted to apprehend him during an August 9, 2017, operation at his Maryland, St Andrew, home, the court was told yesterday. The detective sergeant told...
Fighting to hold back tears, the mother of 14-year-old Yetanya Francis, whose burnt body was found metres away from her home last August, yesterday joined other grieving parents to lay wreaths at the Crying Child monument at Secret Gardens in...
With the Constitutional Court formally adopting the position that the burden of proof now lies in the hands of lawmakers and not citizens, one member of the local Bar believes that the court’s affirmation of that premise by rejecting the National...
The series of events leading up to the arrest of several alleged members of the Uchence Wilson Gang was yesterday recounted by a detective sergeant as he testified in the trial for the reputed gang leader and his 23 cronies at the Home Circuit...
An alleged member of the Uchence Wilson Gang who is said to have played an integral role in setting up the robbery of his former workplace reported the incident to the police, the court was told yesterday. This came to light as the statement for...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has warned that there will be serious consequences for police personnel who continue to facilitate the smoking of ganja by detainees inside holding cells at the Supreme Court building in downtown Kingston. For days, there...
An account of how two gangsters held a family at gunpoint, tied them up, and robbed them at their Clarendon home on July 28, 2017, was yesterday related in the trial for reputed gang leader Uchence Wilson and his 23 alleged cronies at the Home...
With embattled telecommunications provider Symbiote Investments Limited, which operates as Caricel, pledging to take its grouse to the United Kingdom-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the Jamaican Court of Appeal has unequivocally...
As details of the alleged activities of the Uchence Wilson Gang continue to emerge, the Home Circuit Court was yesterday told that accused Fitzroy Scott paid more than $2 million for the rental of motor vehicles during the period December 2015 to...
With the defence attorneys trying to poke holes in her credibility yesterday, an assistant superintendent of police insisted she was not changing her story in relation to the details of her evidence about the arrest of alleged members of the...
A senior member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force yesterday testified that Odeen ‘Brinks’ Smith made incriminating statements while he was being transported to Kingston after being arrested in Crofts Hill, Clarendon, on December 2, 2017. “Mi know...
With the Corporate Area’s two main reservoirs falling to a third of capacity, the Meteorological Service of Jamaica says no significant increase in rainfall across the island is expected before June. “The prediction that we have for the next couple...
Corroborating evidence given previously, a detective corporal yesterday testified to accompanying a former gangster-turned-witness and two other members of the police force to various sites where the Uchence Wilson Gang allegedly carried out...
With the nation’s courts still hobbled by severe backlog, 1,024 cases have been traversed into the new Easter Term of the downtown Kingston-based Home Circuit Court as only 91 cases were disposed of in the previous term, much to the dismay of...
The scorched ground, charred wood and sheets of zinc scattered about are all that remain of the Ray Ray Ground Market in downtown Kingston, which was devastated by an inferno in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, a mere eight months after it was...
Given emerging trends in other parts of the world, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is calling on the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica, to lead the charge in integrating technology into the local tourism sector. “So I want you to make that...
With the number of recorded gun and ammunition seizures during the states of emergency (SOEs) falling below those of the previous years when no such enhanced security measures was imposed, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has...
Eight residents of Kingston and St Andrew have taken legal action against three government entities for what they claim are breaches of their constitutional rights after they suffered a range of illness related to the March 2015 fire that scorched...
Environmentalists have raised concerns over the planned construction of an 8,000-room hotel in Stewart Castle, Trelawny, citing that the developer, Amaterra Group, was awarded permits based on environmental impact assessments (EIA) done more than a...
Love permeated the air yesterday as hundreds of mourners turned out at the University Chapel at The University of the West Indies, Mona, to bid farewell to Dorraine Samuels, who is often described as the doyenne of broadcasting in Jamaica. One...
A key plank of legislation championed by the Holness administration was yesterday struck down as unconstitutional, delivering a body blow to the Government’s identity law and offering vindication to critics who deemed it illegal and an overreach of...
The trial of reputed gang leader Uchence Wilson and his 23 alleged cronies has been adjourned until April 25. This comes as the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston takes its customary break as the Hilary term ends today. The Easter Term begins...
