A UC Rusal employee wrongfully fired two years ago, despite being cleared of intentionally taking scrap metal from his employer, has been awarded $3.5 million and will be reinstated after the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) ruled his dismissal...
A major fire on Ashenheim Road in St Andrew on Monday has left millions of dollars in damage, destroying 90 per cent of Pure Ice Factory’s assets and all of the inventory Azan’s Supercentre was storing for its Cross Road branch with the crucial...
Occupants of a structurally defective four-storey apartment in Torrington Park in St Andrew are on edge and calling for urgent intervention from the Government after one of the building’s staircases collapsed yesterday, injuring a woman. Althea...
With 320 lives already lost since the start of the year as a result of road accidents and more than 10,000 persons injured annually, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is appealing to citizens to show greater regard for road safety and work together to...
Although shocked at Friday’s Supreme Court ruling which found that Scotiabank Jamaica was within its right to charge customers a fee for encashing a cheque, Opposition lawmaker Fitz Jackson is claiming as a win a decision by the bank to terminate...
The Keith Clarke murder trial crumbled Thursday over the issue of identity, with the presiding judge asserting that it was “remarkable” that senior Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officials were unable to help identify the soldiers involved in the May...
A retired marine pilot, who had given 43 years of service to the country, was left disappointed after he lost his fight in the Supreme Court to challenge a decision by the Port Authority of Jamaica to not extend his pilot’s licence. The 66-year-old...
The three Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers charged in connection with the May 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke are to know this morning whether they have a case to answer. Lance corporals Greg Tingling and Odel Buckley, along...
A British woman who gave her brother $500,000 to help purchase a car from Rich and Wealthy Car Dealer is demanding a refund of her money after the vehicle was not forthcoming and the dealer stopped communicating with her. According to Jackee Hudson...
Former State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Leslie Campbell, has accused the Integrity Commission (IC) of misplacing some of the information for which the commission had charged him for failing to provide. The...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is to know on December 6 whether the Supreme Court will grant his request for a judicial review of the Integrity Commission (IC) report on his statutory declarations. The prime minister is seeking, among other things,...
The legal challenge brought by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to have an Integrity Commission (IC) report on his financial affairs invalidated will continue today in the Supreme Court. Holness, through his legal team, is seeking to convince Justice...
Manchester and St Elizabeth reported no flooding or any major incident arising from the passage of Tropical Storm Rafael yesterday. At the same time, things were also rather calm in St Mary, according to Port Maria Mayor Fitzroy Wilson. He told The...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is raising concerns about a massive 168 per cent surge in forced outages reported by the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), with numbers jumping from 49,243 in December 2019 to 132,226 in 2023. Of the 136,552...
A local human-rights organisation is bemoaning the “frustratingly slow progress” being made by the Government to improve the lives of persons living with disabilities. Carla Gullotta, executive director of Stand Up Jamaica, said that despite the...
Upset that seven years of relative calm have been broken with Saturday night’s mass shooting incident, which left three people dead on Bowen Road, Kingston 11, residents say they no longer have an interest in maintaining efforts at keeping the...
Expressing concerns over the protracted trial, defence lawyers in the Keith Clarke murder case on Thursday urged Justice Dale Palmer to use his authority to put an end to the frequent adjournments. “I note by way of Rule 36 of the Plea and Case...
A former investigator in the Keith Clarke murder case, who had certified photocopied pages from the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) ammunition book, yesterday struggled to figure out some of the data the document had captured. Taneish Wisdom,...
A witness from the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) disclosed on Tuesday that an ex-soldier, who is being sought to appear in the Keith Clarke murder trial as a witness, left the island in May and returned in July. Deputy...
Records pertaining to the distribution of guns and ammunition at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), for May 2010, cannot be located. The police are also having difficulty locating the former JDF soldier who was the recordkeeper during the same period...
Still overwhelmed by the pain and sorrow caused by last Monday night’s bloodbath in Rockfort, Kingston, during which five men were murdered, other men in the community on Friday wept openly during a walk-through led by Opposition Leader Mark...
The Government has been ordered to pay approximately $472 million plus interest to a private contractor over a botched school construction contract that had an original sum of $49 million when it was inked in 1998. Justice David Batts, last Friday...
A man who arrived in the island from the United States in 2018 with approximately $ 1.2 million in US dollars lost his appeal to recover the funds, which were forfeited after he was unable to clearly state the source and intended purpose of the...
The prosecution in the Keith Clarke murder trial has been granted a request for the head of the Jamaica Defence Force, Vice Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman, as well as the log books for gun and ammunition in May 2010 and its keeper, to be...
One of two men arrested and slapped with gun charges in August after they were reportedly held in the Cherry Tree Lane community, Clarendon, with an illegal gun, a day after the deadly mass shooting, is to remain in custody after the High Court...
