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Published:Thursday | March 28, 2024 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

TWO CHRISTIAN advocacy groups have welcomed the move by the United States to ban the flying of the Pride flag at its embassies, with one dubbing it a global win for democracy. Reacting to the development, President of the Love March Movement, Dr...

Published:Monday | March 25, 2024 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Member of Parliament for Manchester Southern Robert Chin is expected to meet with the Integrity Commission today to iron out issues that he says concern outstanding financial statements for companies in which he is a director. On Sunday, the...

Published:Monday | March 25, 2024 | 12:07 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

SEVEN MARKETS, including the Cross Roads and Coronation markets, are to be renovated by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Council at a cost of $25 million. Newly appointed Mayor of Kingston and St Andrew Andrew Swaby made the announcement on...

Published:Saturday | March 23, 2024 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

AMID ACCUSATIONS that there might be a deliberate cover-up in the Stocks...

Published:Friday | March 22, 2024 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A new trial date is to be fixed in the judge-alone hearing of the $222-million fraud uncovered at the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS). A trial date was previously scheduled for April 3 in the Home Circuit Court; however, the court was informed last...

Published:Friday | March 22, 2024 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

THE THREE policemen implicated in the July 2022 murder of a St Andrew tiler, who had reported them for alleged bribery, are scheduled to return to the Home Circuit Court on July 23 for the continuation of a case-management hearing on Tuesday....

Published:Wednesday | March 20, 2024 | 12:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The alleged contract killer in the murder of businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore had reportedly told police that her husband, Omar Collymore, was responsible for organising her murder but wanted him to take the fall. “A him set up him wife and...

Published:Saturday | March 16, 2024 | 12:05 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

ONE OF the lawyers who represented Rushelle Foster believes she would have been acquitted of manslaughter arising from the 2019 stabbing death of 23-year-old Reggae Girl Tarania Clarke if the jury was given adequate directions by the presiding...

Published:Thursday | March 14, 2024 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

JAMAICANS AND global fans of incarcerated dancehall star Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer will tune in today to the Privy Council as they wait with bated breath to hear the fate of the popular entertainer, who is hoping to have his murder conviction...

Published:Tuesday | March 12, 2024 | 12:08 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A DAY before businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore was gunned down at her gate, her husband Omar Collymore reportedly told his ex-mistress that he was leaving his wife and that they would be together soon. The defendant, who is accused of...

Published:Friday | March 8, 2024 | 12:12 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Reputed leader of the Clansman Gang Tesha Miller is to be examined by a doctor on a report submitted to the registrar following allegations that he was beaten by the police after he reportedly refused to attend a hearing at the Supreme Court....

Published:Thursday | February 29, 2024 | 12:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A claim has been made that Omar Collymore approached one of his wife’s killers in jail and told him to tell the court that it was his wife who had ordered a hit on him, but it backfired, resulting in her death. The shocking revelation was made by a...

Published:Wednesday | February 28, 2024 | 12:10 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A security guard, who identified one of the shooters in the murder of businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore, on Tuesday admitted that he was mistaken. The witness, after seeing still images from a recording of the shooting, indicated that the man...

Published:Tuesday | February 27, 2024 | 3:17 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Despite switching allegiance to represent the People’s National Party (PNP) in Mocho, Clarendon, incumbent councillor Romaine Morris snatched a historic win, putting the PNP in charge after decades of being in the wilderness. The triumphant...

Published:Monday | February 26, 2024 | 12:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The nation’s electoral system is all set to accommodate a little over two million Jamaicans eligible to cast their vote in today’s long-awaited local government elections. A total of 6,726 polling stations in 2,148 locations across the island will...

Published:Monday | February 26, 2024 | 12:06 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A Trelawny cook who suffered severe injuries to her neck and back after she fell on a wet floor at her workplace, nearly 11 years ago, has been awarded more than $10 million in damages. The claimant, Elaine Allwood-Palmer, who was diagnosed with...

Published:Saturday | February 24, 2024 | 12:10 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Defence attorneys representing Oscar Barnes on Friday reiterated that there was “absolutely” no evidence presented in the trial connecting him to Tonia McDonald’s murder, while imploring the jury to return a not-guilty verdict. Attorney-at-law...

Published:Thursday | February 22, 2024 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

One of the hit men in the daring daylight murder of businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore had snatched her handbag after, along with his crony, pumping multiple gunshots into her taxi. In a video recording of the January 2, 2018, shooting, shown...

Published:Saturday | February 17, 2024 | 12:08 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The taxi driver who was killed in the shooting attack on Simone Campbell-Collymore had expressed reservations about working that day, but he brushed aside a sense of foreboding because he had to provide for his children. Winston Walters was shot...

Published:Friday | February 16, 2024 | 12:13 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The operator of a car-rental company yesterday testified that one of the alleged accomplices in Simone Campbell-Collymore’s murder rented a vehicle from him two days before her murder and days later mentioned the incident when they met to return it...

Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2024 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Businessman Omar Collymore, who had reportedly threatened that he was going to see his wife’s family “crumbled”, was in tears yesterday as he watched her father crying while recalling the dreadful moment when he learnt of her death. Simone Campbell...

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2024 | 12:11 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Matthew Hyde, the university student who reportedly held his girlfriend captive in a dorm room and tortured her a year ago, is to undergo a forensic psychiatric evaluation as part of considerations for a possible plea deal. Both the defence and...

Published:Thursday | February 8, 2024 | 12:10 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A former girlfriend of Oscar Barnes’ said reports that he was the man behind the killing of Portland businesswoman, Tonia McDonald, was the last news she expected to hear as she did not know him to be a killer. “I was very surprised as I don’t know...

Published:Wednesday | February 7, 2024 | 12:12 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, who is on trial for allegedly orchestrating the murder of his wife, was yesterday painted as a Good Samaritan in the parish who was quick to help everyone including the police at the Port...

Published:Friday | February 2, 2024 | 12:12 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The contract killer in the murder of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald on Thursday broke down in tears and refused to answer questions about his son’s whereabouts. Denvalyn Minott, the prosecution’s key witness, who claimed he was hired by...

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