Likening the murder of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald by her husband and an accomplice to that of an animal being butchered, Justice Chester Stamp yesterday said the case was among “the worst of the worst”, for which there could be no other...
The family of Tonia McDonald is relieved that her 69-year-old husband, who orchestrated her brutal death, will spend the rest of his life in prison. “He will not be coming out back; that alone is closure for us. He will be locked away for life,”...
The island’s former chief forensic pathologist has supported the account given by relatives of businessmen Keith Clarke that he was shot and killed while climbing down from the closet with his back toward security forces personnel who had entered...
Persistent tears from the Keith Clarke’s daughter while his multiple gunshot wounds were being detailed in the Home Circuit Court on Tuesday rankled the defence, sparking an impromptu break after they complained that the jury was being unfairly...
Twenty of the 25 gunshot wounds received by businessman Keith Clarke, during the May 2010 security forces operation at his home in St Andrew, were fatal. Of the 13 injuries detailed by an expert witness so far, 10 of them were from gunshots to the...
More than 200 complaints have been lodged against a man who has been operating as a travel agent and who, reportedly, has been fleecing individuals and groups, including schools and churches, of funds amounting to as much as $3 million for hotel...
An elderly, retired couple from the United States is suing a local developer and his two companies for approximately US$465,000 in special damages, claiming that they abandoned the construction of their retirement home in St Thomas, leaving it only...
Faced with an alarmingly high number of recurring sex cases on the court list each term, Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Taylor, KC, believes policymakers are not paying sufficient attention to sexual offences. “We have...
One of the defence lawyers in the multimillion-dollar fraud racket uncovered at Sagicor Bank in 2022 says the prosecution has no chance of success as there is no evidence linking the four women to conspiracy and fraud charges. “I am extremely...
The Keith Clarke murder trial is set to resume tomorrow after issues with one of the jurors delayed its resumption yesterday in the Home Circuit Court. At the start of the Michaelmas Term, Justice Dale Palmer informed the court yesterday that one...
Restaurant Associates Limited (RAL) has faulted IGL, its gas supplier, for yesterday’s early morning blast, which left six of its workers nursing burn injuries at its New Kingston Burger King fast-food outlet. Up to last night, The Gleaner was told...
Well-known artiste manager and promoter, Sharon Burke, and her company are being sued by Hardware and Lumber for failing to settle an outstanding debt of $5.6 million (in addition to other sums) for supplies used in last year August’s staging of...
A senior citizen who was accused of attempting to ship nearly six ounces of cocaine in a gear box to England was yesterday freed of cocaine charges in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Elaine Young, a 65-year-old resident of Ocho Rios, St...
Shemoye Bowman was on the cusp of a promotion at a call centre when he experienced a mental breakdown. As he felt his world crumbling, he checked into the Portland Rehabilitation Management Centre (PRMC). A year and two months later, the 28-year-...
As the new school year commences, Kaysia Kerr, chief executive officer at the National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC), is urging parents to educate themselves about their children’s curriculum so that they can assist them in achieving their...
Close to 70 per cent of the 217 educational institutions across Manchester have been dubbed satisfactory, based on public health requirements, but the remaining schools have been struggling with issues including pest control, sewage leaks, and...
Britney Graham’s worst fears were realised yesterday when she found the headless decomposing body of a woman, who she strongly believes is her aunt, Suzette Clarke, who went missing last Thursday. “Me did in shock. Mi heart start race. Mi did a...
The Insurance Company of the West Indies (ICWI) is warning customers to be on the lookout for strange emails, texts and calls with suspicious requests, amid an ongoing investigation into a July cyberattack during which data may have been breached....
A conductor who was slapped with a life sentence for stabbing another conductor to death in a New Year’s Eve dispute over passengers had his sentence overturned by the Court Appeal and replaced with a 27-year, nine-month prison term. The appellant...
A former Ministry of Labour and Social Security employee, who swindled a little over $800,000 from one of the ministry’s social programmes, used it to fund tertiary education for herself and her son and then tried to get her tuition refunded, was...
An attempt by defence lawyers to have five men - implicated in an almost $12-billion cocaine bust in Havendale, St Andrew - brought back before the court next month for a bail application, was shut down by parish judge Maxine Ellis yesterday....
One of the alleged shooters in the Cherry Tree Lane mass killing in Clarendon, which left eight persons dead, was reportedly arrested and charged after initially being told he was not a person of interest when he went to the police to clear his...
A 72-year-old man is among five persons charged in the $11-billion cocaine bust in the upscale community in Havendale, St Andrew, earlier this month and who are currently in custody awaiting their first day in court. Kingston residents Clive Davis...
Family members and friends of firefighter Shamere Myrie were looking forward to his return on Wednesday, and the last thing they would have expected to hear was that he was killed in a stabbing incident as they knew him to be a peacemaker. The 33-...
