The ongoing trial into the murder of St Andrew accountant Keith Clarke will resume on Tuesday after the matter was adjourned yesterday due to the unavailability of witnesses. Lead prosecutor Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy...
Kerry-Ann Folkes, the supervisor at the New Kingston branch of the local Burger King franchise and who had suffered serious injuries in an explosion at the fast food outlet, has been transferred from the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to the...
Lawyers for the People National Party (PNP) yesterday rubbished the argument of the government and the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Paula Llewellyn that a provision in the amendment to the Constitution last July was to enable her to opt...
The prosecution is pushing for a retrial despite the likelihood that two of the accused who are charged with the murder along with entertainer Vybz Kartel would have finished their sentence if convicted again. “We are accepting that by the time we...
Just like Humpty Dumpty, defence lawyer John Clarke yesterday charged that there are no common-law safeguards available that can fix the post-trial damage caused by the bribery issue, which unfolded in the murder trial of Vybz Kartel and his three...
Barbados-born businessman Omar Collymore, who is on trial for reportedly masterminding the murder of his wife for her multimillion life insurance policies, insisted yesterday that he did not know the value of her policies and that he would have...
Phone data evidence showed that there was continuous communication between Barbados-born businessman Omar Collymore and the alleged contract killer in the days leading up to his wife’s murder. The data also showed a pattern where Collymore would...
Attorneys for Adidja 'Vybz Kartel' Palmer and his co-defendants in the Clive Williams murder case have come out swinging in defence of the men, declaring that they had nothing to do with the attempts to taint the jury. Responding to suggestions and...
Barbados-born businessman Omar Collymore had been communicating non-stop with a man in the days leading up to his wife’s murder and, in one of the texts sent two days before her death, was urging the person “to hurry up” and to “ do it this morning...
Slain businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore had pleaded with her husband, Omar Collymore, to give their marriage a second chance and to resume living with her and their children, two months before she was murdered in a contract-style killing...
Barbados-born businessman Omar ‘Best’ Collymore reportedly gave the alleged contract killer a hoverboard as part payment for the murder of his wife. The revelation was made yesterday by the investigator during his evidence-in-chief in the Home...
Omar 'Best' Collymore, the alleged mastermind behind the January 2018 murder of his wife, had burst into tears when he saw his wife at their gate gasping for air after she was shot multiple times. The businessman had also told police a day after...
Ahead of his April 11 bail hearing, defence lawyers for former St Mary Western Member of Parliament (MP) Jolyan Silvera, who is implicated in his wife’s murder, said their client is “anxious to be vindicated and have his day in court”. The 52-year-...
The lead investigator in the Tonia McDonald murder case yesterday denied that he had deliberately hidden information from the defence about the existence of a cellular phone which allegedly contained secretly recorded conversations between Everton...
While charging that the Andrew Holness-led administration is bankrupt of ideas to bring crime and violence, under control, Opposition Senator Peter Bunting has highlighted that 2,300 more Jamaicans have been killed in the last eight years since...
The murder trial involving Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald has been adjourned until January 9 next year. McDonald, 68, and his co-accused, 33-year-old St Mary fisherman Oscar Barnes, are currently on trial for the murder of...
On the heels of Sunday’s daring daylight robbery at the KFC Restaurant King Street branch in downtown Kingston, business owners are being warned to review their security arrangements, especially over the Christmas season, to ensure the safety of...
A senior manager at Flow Jamaica has said that the National Works Agency (NWA) failed to provide the company with funds to assist in relocating its infrastructure during the Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP) in 2016 along several...
A policeman who was allegedly having an affair with the second wife of Portland businessman Everton 'Beachy Stout' McDonald had reportedly posted a picture on Facebook of himself inside the businessman's bedroom. The policeman was also reportedly...
Defence lawyer Leroy Equiano has accused the investigating officer in the 2016 murder of two United States missionaries in St Mary of using a sexual offence charge to bribe his client, accused killer Andre Thomas, for information about the murder....
Embattled attorney-at-law Harold Brady, while declaring that he has no means to pay a $116 million-plus interest debt to the Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ), claims that his rented Kingston apartment costs $350,000 monthly. However, the...
Another version of the details around the 2016 murder of the two American missionaries in St Mary emerged yesterday during the trial, with reports that the murder accused had reportedly told police that he had no knowledge about how one of the men...
The St Mary farmer, who is claiming that he and his cousin murdered the two United States missionaries in St Mary in 2016, said they had no reason for killing the men and had described the crime as a mistake. The convicted killer, Dwight Henry, 33...
