The past year bore witness to a myriad of courtroom dramas, legal intricacies, and precedent-setting decisions that collectively wove the tapestry of justice. From landmark trials that captured headlines to the subtle shifts in legal precedent, the...
A day before receiving the devastating and life-changing news that her mother had stabbed her father to death, seven-year-old Odette Reid sat imagining and drawing pictures of her parents killing each other, as she aimlessly captured her thoughts...
Faced with being bullied in primary school, Anna* contemplated suicide and eventually started self-harming by cutting her wrist. Anna, who continued to be bullied in high school, was being picked on for being the daughter of a “don”. She feared...
Lionel Francis is dreading reliving the memories of the tragic and brutal murder of his 14-year-old daughter, Yetanya Francis, who was raped, murdered and her body set on fire, almost five years ago. Francis, for the second year in a row, will be...
Oshane Briscoe completely freaked out on Wednesday morning when his friend alerted him to a newborn baby in a brown shopping bag hanging from a fence near his home in Vineyard Town, Kingston. Heart racing, he went to investigate and found a baby...
What should have been one of the happiest days for ex-inmate Orville Campbell morphed into a nightmare. With a broad smile and a cheerful heart, he was finally a free man after spending 11 years and three months at the St Catherine Adult...
Prison changed my life Despite spending 24 years behind bars, Leon Ivey has no regrets and sees himself as a changed man whose imprisonment has given him a new lease on life. “Me nuh shame of myself and me nuh regret going to prison because...
There is an urgent need for a public and private sector consensus on societal reintegration of ex-inmates, Carla Gullotta, executive director for Stand Up for Jamaica, believes. She said frustration is high among ex-inmates who have transformed...
A 68-year-old pensioner, who has been experiencing chronic knee pain for the past two years, is accusing Scotiabank Jamaica of withholding millions from her ScotiaMint account, which she desperately needs to pay for knee replacement surgery....
A legal battle is under way between business mogul Michael Lee-Chin-led AIC Barbados Limited and Medical Associates Limited over a million worth of shares that were to be transferred to the Caribbean company under a multimillion-dollar loan...
The Jamaica Society for Industrial Security (JSIS) says Jamaica should brace for at least a 50 per cent jump in the cost of private security services following Friday’s landmark ruling by the high court that security guards are employees and not...
The prosecution’s star witness on Friday elaborated on two more murders which he claimed have been ordered by the reputed leader of the One Don Gang, Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan. The self-confessed member of the gang, who has appeared very relaxed...
A St Catherine man who reportedly stabbed and killed his disabled father was offered $500,000 bail when he appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court yesterday. The accused, 24 year-old Shamar Edwards of Greater Portmore in St Catherine, was...
A female who was among three people arrested in relation to the murder of a couple in Manchioneal, Portland, on Wednesday, has been released. The other two suspects who remain in custody for further questioning have retained...
Before sentencing the getaway driver in the killing of banker Andrea Lowe-Garwood to seven years in prison yesterday, Justice Lorna Shelly Williams emphasised that she was not sentencing him in relation to the murder at this time. The 23-year-old...
