The mother of one of the alleged Clansman-One Don gangsters yesterday testified that she was devastated by the news of his arrest and that he is “not capable of being in a gang”. The St Catherine woman described her son, Brian ‘Rooster’ Morris, as...
The mother of Shanoya Wray, the 13-year-old-old girl who was viciously killed in 2018 and her body almost completely dissolved in caustic acid, said she never believed for a minute that the teacher held for her murder would walk away and is happy...
The majority of the alleged Clansman-One Don gangsters who remain on trial Wednesday sought to paint themselves as productive law-abiding citizens who had been steadfastly focused on their families, businesses or jobs before their arrest. While...
The two former Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers who were dismissed in disgrace over the disappearance of two high-powered weapons are accusing the army of torturing and intimidating them with death and rape threats. Lascelles Gardener and...
Reputed One Don Gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan on Monday distanced himself from being the head of the feared St Catherine criminal outfit while accusing two of his alleged ex-cronies of fabricating lies against him. The 38-year-old is accused...
Government lawyers are planning to review the Emergency Powers Regulations governing the newly declared state of emergency (SOE) in St Catherine to ensure that they are within the confines of the Constitution. This comes in the wake of the Full...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes is to rule Monday on the no-case submissions made for 24 of the 28 remaining alleged gangsters in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial, including reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan. While the majority of defence lawyers...
While lambasting prosecutors for their persistent failure to provide supporting evidence in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes also accused the police of taking too many shortcuts in the high-profile case. The tough-talking...
An ex-hotel worker who was robbed of four years of his life after he was wrongfully convicted on gun and wounding charges has rubbished the proposed amendments to the Bail Act, barring persons on murder and gun charges from getting bail as “...
Just last month, Marva Vernon-Jackson celebrated her fifth wedding anniversary and was looking forward to many more years of bliss. But her happily-ever-after was cut short after gunmen invaded Pleasant View Lane in Eight Miles, Bull Bay, Sunday...
The Jamaica Police Federation (JPF) says it will not be backing down with its demand for the Government to pay what it claims are billions of dollars owed to cops for actual overtime work since 2008 after the Full Court failed to grant the...
A former police constable, who was charged for a sexual offence involving a minor and suspended from the force for two years, has lost his case in which he was challenging his non-re-enlistment in 2014 and was instead saddled with a $90,000 court...
Family members of the late reggae icon Fredrick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, who have been embroiled in a legal battle with his road manager over a hard drive containing several of the artiste’s songs that were re-recorded by another entertainer for an album,...
The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial will today continue its bid to convince Chief Justice Bryan Sykes to reject the no-case submissions for 24 of the remaining 28 alleged gangsters, including reputed gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’...
Before shooting down a last-minute attempt by the prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial to keep one of the defendants in the case, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes emphasised on Tuesday that the fate of an accused must be determined by current...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes put defence lawyers in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial on notice that the argument that the Crown had failed to establish their clients’ criminal antecedents under the anti-gang legislation would not wash and was...
The fraud trial involving two former Petrojam executives was yesterday adjourned and will resume on November 21 for three weeks in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Dr Perceval Singh, the state refinery’s former chairman, and former General...
After spending five years and five months in prison in connection with his alleged involvement in the Clansman-One Don Gang, Damaine Elliston’s main wish as a free man is to reunite with his six-year-old daughter. “Mi wah send fi her ‘cause a from...
A former senior manager at the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), who was convicted of indecent assault after forcibly kissing a junior female employee in the elevator at work, has lost his battle to have his 12-month suspended...
Two Jamaicans who reportedly acted as money couriers in a “sophisticated” international scam that laundered more than US$6 million in drug-trafficking proceeds from Colombian cartels are to be extradited to the United States (US), while a third...
The alleged robbery-turned-murder plot mastermind, whose girlfriend and uncle were convicted in the same scheme for the murder of businessman Roger Chang, is to return to the St Mary Circuit Court on July 14. The accused, Gaveen Hurd, who hails...
The fraud trial involving two former Petrojam executives was prematurely adjourned in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday after an administrative assistant who had worked with Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh, who was expected to take the...
Carol Palmer, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science, Energy, and Technology, said Thursday that permanent secretaries are not at liberty to vary the ministry guidelines on how taxpayers’ money should be spent and are obliged to follow all...
A legal officer at Petrojam yesterday recalled that before being appointed board chairman, Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh was a part of a board meeting in July 2016 where it was communicated that the board would only be responsible for covering the...
A manager at Petrojam testified Wednesday that, while on a leadership trip in London in February 2018, he was informed that then board chairman Perceval Bahado-Singh would be joining the delegation but he never turned up. The one-week trip (...
