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Stories by Livern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Published:Tuesday | February 27, 2024 | 3:15 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Whitehorses: Dalvarine Bruce felt “good” just being around to vote in yesterday’s local government elections in St Thomas. Two weeks ago Bruce, who is a supporter of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), lost her left leg in a gruesome accident...

Published:Friday | February 16, 2024 | 12:14 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Police investigators believe popular entertainer Medikk was the victim of a contract killing. However, the police have declined to comment further, citing the on-going investigations. The disclosure came yesterday, hours after the police reported...

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2024 | 12:07 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

There are mechanisms that can be put in place to effect court-ordered refunds of traffic fines, estimated at billions of dollars and collected from motorists over a 15-year period through an order that has been declared illegal, according to...

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 4:05 PMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Criticisms in the British media of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle “hobnobbing” with Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday are “absolutely ridiculous”, one local cultural expert has opined. The exiled Duke and Duchess of Sussex...

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

The commanding officer for the police division where Jolyan Silvera is being housed has dismissed claims that the former lawmaker is getting preferential treatment. Several detainees at the Kingston Central police lockup threatened to stage a “riot...

Published:Saturday | January 20, 2024 | 12:09 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

A mobile phone attributed to businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald was communicating with a phone linked to one of his wife’s killers on the night and in the area she was stabbed to death, a police witness has testified. However, the witness...

Published:Friday | January 19, 2024 | 12:07 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Sandra Risden, the paralegal who was shot to death in a brazen early morning attack in St Andrew yesterday, has been described as an honest and diligent colleague as police investigators theorise that she was targeted by hired killers....

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Six sections of the DNA Evidence Act are in breach of several constitutional rights guaranteed to citizens, but those infringements are “demonstrably justified”, Jamaica’s Full Court has ruled. The landmark decision was handed down yesterday,...

Published:Wednesday | January 17, 2024 | 12:13 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

The country’s two main political parties should avoid trying to “weaponise” data about critical economic indicators, an economist has warned. However, if the two parties cannot resist the urge to cite economic data in their public squabbles amid...

Published:Saturday | January 13, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

The controversial St Andrew housing development undertaken by suspended National Water Commission (NWC) boss Mark Barnett and his wife is already the subject of an internal investigation by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC),...

Published:Saturday | January 13, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

One of the aspirants seeking to head the country’s football governing body has sought to publicly distance himself from a last-minute legal action that has placed its contentious presidential election on hold. The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF)...

Published:Friday | January 12, 2024 | 8:27 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

It was the Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) that botched the potential criminal prosecution of suspended National Water Commission (NWC) boss Mark Barnett and his wife for breaches of a permit for their St Andrew housing development...

Published:Thursday | January 11, 2024 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

The police are defending their response to a daring early morning robbery at the entrance to Jamaica House yesterday during which two men, including the son of a prominent businessman, were shot and injured. Jamaica House is the office of the...

Published:Wednesday | January 10, 2024 | 12:07 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

There has been a “discernible” rise in the number of children killed, maimed or sexually assaulted over the last decade as “deliberate collateral damage” in domestic violence cases, Jamaica’s prosecutorial authority has revealed. In particular,...

Published:Saturday | January 6, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

A recommendation, made over a decade ago for the creation of a new national honour called the Order of Jamaican Heritage, is now being “actively reviewed”, Culture Minister Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange has revealed. The disclosure comes amid a new...

Published:Wednesday | January 3, 2024 | 12:12 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Discontinuing the controversial multibillion-dollar annual drawdown from the National Housing Trust (NHT) for budgetary support would not be in Jamaica’s best interest at this time, two economists have suggested. Over the past two decades,...

Published:Thursday | November 9, 2023 | 12:33 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Jamaica-born retired American special agent Wilfred Rattigan provided no “authority” from any Jamaican in the diaspora to file his failed lawsuit against Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith, a High Court judge has ruled. Justice Dale...

Published:Tuesday | November 7, 2023 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan has been found guilty of professional misconduct for offensive comments he directed at the country’s chief prosecutor, Paula Llewellyn. Buchanan pleaded guilty before a disciplinary panel of the General Legal Council (...

Published:Thursday | November 2, 2023 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

CRAIG BUTLER, head coach of Mona High School, says no other team in this year’s ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup football competition “has the quality” to match his team. “I expect this team to go all the way,” Butler said yesterday after his team...

Published:Wednesday | November 1, 2023 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

XAVIER GILBERT, interim head coach of Jamaica’s senior women’s football team, has received high marks for his and the team’s performance over the two Concacaf Gold Cup qualification games he was in charge of. The Jamaica Football Federation’s (JFF...

Published:Wednesday | November 1, 2023 | 12:10 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

ST CATHERINE High School’s quest for their first ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup football title face a tough hurdle today when they visit many-time champions Wolmer’s Boys’ School for a second-round return-leg clash. The Anthony Patrick-coached St...

Published:Tuesday | October 31, 2023 | 12:10 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Arnett Gardens’ big 4-0 win over Molynes United Football Club in the Wray...

Published:Monday | October 30, 2023 | 12:10 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Wasted chances overshadowed a gutsy display by Jamaica’s make-shift senior women’s football team in their second Concacaf Gold Cup qualifying contest against Guatemala on Sunday. When Mexican referee Diana Perez sounded the final whistle at the...

Published:Saturday | October 28, 2023 | 12:07 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

THE JAMAICA Football Federation (JFF) says no member of the women’s World Cup team has complained about any discrepancy with the payments it said was made to them on Friday. “No, none,” said JFF general secretary Dennis Chung when asked if he was...

Published:Friday | October 27, 2023 | 12:11 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) says it expects to settle all outstanding payments owed to disgruntled members of the senior national women’s team by today. JFF general secretary Dennis Chung made the disclosure yesterday hours before members...

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