Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry is to retire this week after serving for seven years in the post. But the woman who was appointed in January 2015 – following the 2014 retirement of Earl Witter – is not yet ready to step back from the field to...
A Kingston man placed on probation for a year for illegal possession of firearm is relieved that his ordeal took place before the amendment to the Firearms Act, which proposes a mandatory minimum of 15 years imprisonment for illegal...
Despite being a stalwart and fearless advocate for the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ), its former president, Edith Allwood Anderson, had to fight towards the end of her days to be fairly compensated by the organisation. Allwood Anderson died...
A man who spent a year in custody on false charges brought against him by the police wept in court last week when the judge told him he was free to go. “Unno don’t know what I went through,” was all 34-year-old barber Xavier Thompson, of a Kingston...
After spending 22 years in prison in the United States because he was wrongfully extradited in 1991, Richard ‘Storyteller’ Morrison says that since his return home, he has been facing “a whole heap” of injustice. “Right now, I am basically...
