Published:Friday | January 4, 2019 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
The mother of two teenage boys who were fatally shot by gunmen during a robbery at their house in Rollington Town, east Kingston, on November 14 last year, is still struggling to deal with the tragedy, while worrying about where she is going to find...
Published:Friday | November 30, 2018 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Acting Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Sharon Milwood-Moore is making a plea for parents and guardians to exercise greater vigilance in the lives of their children in the wake of the recent conviction of a man who pretended to be a...
Published:Thursday | October 4, 2018 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
The slow pace of Jamaica's justice system could cause the Government to pay out millions of dollars in compensation to persons who have had their cases take years in the courts.Already one person has indicated that he will be seeking $30 million in...
Published:Friday | July 20, 2018 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
A woman wept uncontrollably outside the Supreme Court building in downtown Kingston recently after her lawyer told her that the first available date for the trial of her lawsuit would be in 2022."How can that be?" the woman queried, as she threw her...
Published:Friday | June 1, 2018 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Several persons who have served as jurors in the Home Circuit Court are demanding justice over what they describe as the shoddy treatment meted out to them.The jurors, who answered summonses to appear in the downtown Kingston-based court, say they...
Published:Friday | January 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Veteran attorney Maurice Long has come out in defence of the nation's judges, who he says are being criticised about the delays in delivering judgments but are not given the tools to do the job."Give the judges the tools to work and stop talking...
Published:Friday | December 22, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Judges in the Supreme Court are far from satisfied with the conditions under which they have to work. The judges are also concerned about a shortage of office space and what they still believe is inadequate remuneration for their heavy...
Published:Friday | December 22, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
People strolling through Justice Square on King Street in downtown Kingston, often pause to admire the eye-catching architecture of the building which houses the Supreme Court. But what most Jamaicans don’t know is that sections of the...
Published:Saturday | December 23, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Several of Jamaica's judges want the Matrimonial Causes Act amended to make it easier for them to grant divorces.According to the judges, who spoke to The Sunday Gleaner on condition of anonymity, the law should be changed so that divorce petitions...
Published:Thursday | December 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Thirty-two-year-old Omar Fear and 24-year-old Dwayne Donaldson, both from St Elizabeth, have been freed by the Court of Appeal after spending nearly five years in prison. In freeing the men, The court quashed their convictions for illegal...
Published:Tuesday | December 5, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
The Supreme Court has granted an order barring the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Works from conducting a hearing with a view to dismissing chief inspector of the motor vehicle licensing authority in St...
Published:Thursday | November 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Having already waited more than 12 years for the Government to accept liability for medical negligence which left her daughter, Tashi Turner, with the mental capacity of a baby, 36-year-old Alisha Coleman will have to wait another two weeks to find...
Published:Sunday | October 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Prominent attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie has expressed concern that no action is being taken against cops who manufacture evidence against accused persons to secure convictions.Champagnie made his comments last Friday following the acquittal of an...
Published:Friday | October 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Last week, Anthony 'Bugussu' Powell, a 56-year-old higgler, was smiling broadly as he peddled his goods on the streets of downtown Kingston, but his customers could never know the injustice he suffered for the last seven years.Powell spent four of...
Published:Friday | September 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Wrongfully extradited alleged former Shower Posse leader Richard 'Storyteller' Morrison has rejected a compensation offer from the Government because he believes the money put on the table is too meagre.While not disclosing the amount offered,...
Published:Friday | August 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Haulage contractor Osbourne Smith of Portmore, St Catherine, is demanding millions of dollars in compensation from the Jamaican government after waiting over the last six years for the return of a Leyland truck which was wrongfully seized by the...
Published:Thursday | June 22, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
One of the major shortcomings in Jamaica's justice system was highlighted last week, when Keith Nichol was freed by the Court of Appeal after spending two years in prison while waiting for the notes of evidence from his trial to be completed.In...
Published:Friday | June 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Peeved over the failure of the Government to pay them outstanding salaries and emoluments, the island's judges have written to Prime Minister Andrew Holness, demanding immediate action.The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that in the letter to Holness, the...
Published:Friday | May 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
With a series of deadly shootings in and around Spanish Town, St Catherine, in 2013 being linked to a rift in the notorious Clansman Gang, law-enforcement officials set their sights on the reputed leader of the gang, Tesha Miller, who it was...
Published:Friday | May 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
He has been dubbed Jamaica's most infamous gang leader since Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was extradited to the United States, but Tesha Miller is adamant that he is being falsely labelled.In an exclusive interview with The...
Published:Friday | May 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
A $400 million award by the courts is proving little comfort for 46-year-old Janet Edwards, who is adamant that the money will not compensate for her health and happiness.According to Edwards, she had dreams and goals and most of all she wanted to...
Published:Thursday | May 11, 2017 | 10:19 AMBarbara Gayle
The Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) has been granted an expedited hearing of its appeal of the Constitutional Court's decision to throw out its challenge to the 2013 amendments to the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA).The appeal is scheduled to start on...
