An 80-year-old woman whose accounts at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) were reportedly defrauded of US$830,000 has filed a lawsuit against the investment firm, its former Client Relationship Manager Jean-Ann Panton, founder Hugh Croskery, and...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday stopped short of disagreeing with a proposal from the Government to increase mandatory minimum sentences, noting that the move threatens to reverse the gains made by the court in terms of its significant...
The most popular response in the latest Don Anderson opinion poll has indicated that Jamaicans do not believe the Holness administration deserves re-election when the next parliamentary polls take place. Of the 1,002 Jamaicans who participated in...
More than 50 per cent of Jamaicans have indicated that things are moving in the wrong direction, with 62 per cent noting that it costs too much to live on the island. The findings are the results of a People’s National Party-commissioned opinion...
Crime and violence continue to be the Holness administration’s Achilles heel with almost half of those polled in the latest Don Anderson opinion survey indicating that it is the single-most significant issue facing the country. A total of 1,002...
Nearly half of the Jamaicans quizzed in an islandwide survey have indicated that they are better off now than three years ago, even as global inflation soared to an all-time high in two decades, geopolitical conflicts persist, and the coronavirus...
An overwhelming number of Jamaicans believe that both the Government and Opposition are underperforming in their respective capacities, the latest Don Anderson opinion poll have revealed. The Holness administration has seen a 14.3-percentage point...
The Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) restoration bill continues to balloon, with latest government estimates putting the price tag at $10.5 billion, doubling the initial cost for completion. Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and...
Jamaica’s “exceedingly high” murder rate of 45 per 100,000 people has triggered a review of sentences under two key pieces of legislation, which the Holness administration believes will “treat with the scourge of crime in a decisive manner”. The...
At least one member of the oversight committee of the Integrity Commission has said that the commissioners have questions to answer following the delayed release of a ruling that exonerated Prime Minister Andrew Holness from conflict-of-interest...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness late Wednesday denied influencing the 2006 procurement process for Christmas work in his St Andrew West Central constituency, which resulted in the award of millions of dollars in government contracts to a business...
Graduates of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) are fuming after the Portland school belatedly applied miscellaneous fees to their accounts and threatened to withhold their bachelor’s degree certificates until the balances are...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has admitted that the St Catherine man handed a four-year sentence for illegal possession of firearm and ammunition last Friday was indicted under the wrong section of the Firearms Prohibition...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) is open to discussions that could assist in the closing of the gender wage gap across the private sector, Managing Director Dr Marlene Street Forrest has said. Those talks are expected to include a recommendation...
A mother whose daughter was among seven children sexually assaulted by 40-year-old Sheridan Shepherd on Friday expressed anger and disappointment after he was given a 17-year sentence with the eligibility for parole after 12 years. The woman, who...
Lawyers representing Noel Maitland, the police constable accused of murdering his girlfriend, Donna-Lee Donaldson, say their client is “frustrated” with the delays and have argued that “justice delayed is justice denied”. Attorney Chadwick Berry...
The Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) has called for easier public access to government salary scales and for publicly listed companies to disclose their own wage bands. That move, the think tank says, would help bridge the pay gap...
Four months after a monster drug bust at Ian Fleming International Airport in St Mary, Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey says there are “legal issues” being ironed out ahead of expected arrests. The police seized $3.7 billion worth of...
The Financial Services Commission’s (FSC) request for Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) to commission an independent audit of its on- and off-balance sheet portfolios in 2019 would not have been enough to uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud, a...
Directors of embattled investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) said that the company was in a position to pay “in full” its debts when it applied for a voluntary wind-up last month, documents obtained by The Gleaner have revealed. On...
Founder of scandal-scarred Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), Hugh Croskery, has declined to comment on the Financial Services Commission’s (FSC) securing of a court order Wednesday blocking attempts by directors of the investment firm to...
Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke is expected to announce changes today to the Financial Services Commission’s (FSC) board, days after sprint legend Usain Bolt accused the regulatory body of negligence in the $3-billion fraud at Stocks and...
Just over a week after the revelation that dozens of account holders at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) had been defrauded of billions of dollars, the Reverend Dr Devon Dick has disclosed that he counselled a woman in December who had defrauded...
