BARBADOS-BORN business-man Omar Collymore and his three alleged accomplices implicated in the murder of his wife will now each have to answer to a count of conspiracy to murder after Justice Leighton Pusey granted the Crown permission to amend the...
Former St Mary Western Member of Parliament (MP) Jolyan Silvera, who is charged with his wife Melissa’s murder, will have to wait for another three weeks to find out whether he will be admitted to bail. The 52-year-old one-term People’s National...
Phone data records showed that businessman Omar Collymore had called his wife for minutes, half hour before she was murdered and immediately after, he made another minute-long call to the man whom he allegedly contracted to have her killed....
ALLIANCE INVESTMENTS Management Limited (AIML) has been freed of charges over alleged breaches of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA). Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks on Thursday dismissed 17 POCA charges against the company after he upheld a no-...
Senior Deputy Director of Prosecutions Andrea Martin-Swaby is reminding the public, specifically offenders in gun crimes, that they can obtain a sentence below the mandatory minimum of 15 to 20 years, if they assist the police in a “meaningful way...
King’s Counsel (KC) Valerie Neita Robertson has indicated that the defence lawyers representing the three soldiers implicated in the 2010 shooting death of Keith Clarke will be appealing yesterday’s ruling by the Court of Appeal for the matter to...
The trial of four employees accused of defrauding Tropical Battery of $3 million failed to start in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. The matter was rescheduled to July 18. Christopher Robinson, Jamel Reid, Carl Love, and Hartel...
LEADERS OF of two of the island’s transport groups in Kingston have declared they will not be supporting any form of industrial action against the Government’s deferment of the 16 per cent increase in taxi fare, which was slated to take effect...
TWO CHRISTIAN advocacy groups have welcomed the move by the United States to ban the flying of the Pride flag at its embassies, with one dubbing it a global win for democracy. Reacting to the development, President of the Love March Movement, Dr...
Member of Parliament for Manchester Southern Robert Chin is expected to meet with the Integrity Commission today to iron out issues that he says concern outstanding financial statements for companies in which he is a director. On Sunday, the...
SEVEN MARKETS, including the Cross Roads and Coronation markets, are to be renovated by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Council at a cost of $25 million. Newly appointed Mayor of Kingston and St Andrew Andrew Swaby made the announcement on...
A new trial date is to be fixed in the judge-alone hearing of the $222-million fraud uncovered at the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS). A trial date was previously scheduled for April 3 in the Home Circuit Court; however, the court was informed last...
THE THREE policemen implicated in the July 2022 murder of a St Andrew tiler, who had reported them for alleged bribery, are scheduled to return to the Home Circuit Court on July 23 for the continuation of a case-management hearing on Tuesday....
The alleged contract killer in the murder of businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore had reportedly told police that her husband, Omar Collymore, was responsible for organising her murder but wanted him to take the fall. “A him set up him wife and...
ONE OF the lawyers who represented Rushelle Foster believes she would have been acquitted of manslaughter arising from the 2019 stabbing death of 23-year-old Reggae Girl Tarania Clarke if the jury was given adequate directions by the presiding...
JAMAICANS AND global fans of incarcerated dancehall star Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer will tune in today to the Privy Council as they wait with bated breath to hear the fate of the popular entertainer, who is hoping to have his murder conviction...
A DAY before businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore was gunned down at her gate, her husband Omar Collymore reportedly told his ex-mistress that he was leaving his wife and that they would be together soon. The defendant, who is accused of...
Reputed leader of the Clansman Gang Tesha Miller is to be examined by a doctor on a report submitted to the registrar following allegations that he was beaten by the police after he reportedly refused to attend a hearing at the Supreme Court....
A claim has been made that Omar Collymore approached one of his wife’s killers in jail and told him to tell the court that it was his wife who had ordered a hit on him, but it backfired, resulting in her death. The shocking revelation was made by a...
A security guard, who identified one of the shooters in the murder of businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore, on Tuesday admitted that he was mistaken. The witness, after seeing still images from a recording of the shooting, indicated that the man...
Despite switching allegiance to represent the People’s National Party (PNP) in Mocho, Clarendon, incumbent councillor Romaine Morris snatched a historic win, putting the PNP in charge after decades of being in the wilderness. The triumphant...
The nation’s electoral system is all set to accommodate a little over two million Jamaicans eligible to cast their vote in today’s long-awaited local government elections. A total of 6,726 polling stations in 2,148 locations across the island will...
A Trelawny cook who suffered severe injuries to her neck and back after she fell on a wet floor at her workplace, nearly 11 years ago, has been awarded more than $10 million in damages. The claimant, Elaine Allwood-Palmer, who was diagnosed with...
Defence attorneys representing Oscar Barnes on Friday reiterated that there was “absolutely” no evidence presented in the trial connecting him to Tonia McDonald’s murder, while imploring the jury to return a not-guilty verdict. Attorney-at-law...
