The prosecution in the trial of the men accused of murdering two United States missionaries in St Mary yesterday urged the jury to find Andre Thomas was not just an innocent bystander who had begged for their lives to be spared. Thomas, a 22-year-...
A St Mary labourer accused of killing the two US missionaries in 2016 has suggested that he was charged because the lead investigator had a personal grudge against him and had threatened to have him imprisoned or killed. Twenty-two-year-old Andre...
Young people on the island are calling for emphasis to be placed on youth inclusion and for that to be entrenched in the Constitution when it is reformed. The youths are also advocating for the country’s supreme laws to be presented in a manner...
AMOI LEON Issa, the mother of nine-year-old Gabriel King who was viciously murdered last January, wants the Supreme Court to find that the State breached her rights to privacy when the parish court judge granted permission to the police to search...
The country is to know by July 31 whether an extension granted to the island’s chief prosecutor, Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn, for her to remain in her post, was legal. Double-murder convict Mervin Cameron, who filed a suit in...
The St Mary farmer who had admitted to killing one of the two United States missionaries murdered in St Mary in 2016 has rejected the suggestion that he changed his story about killing the two missionaries because he wanted a lesser sentence. The...
ONE OF the two United States missionaries killed in 2016 in bushes in St Mary was chopped six times in the head after being shot in the chest. Harold Nichols, 53, the court heard, died as a result of the multiple chop wounds. The wounds, which...
ONE OF the two American missionaries who were murdered in St Mary in 2016 was reportedly found in a sitting position in a gutter with what appeared to be the sign of a cross written in blood on his forehead. The missionary’s eyes were also...
Controversy continues to dog Friday’s restocking of fish in the Rio Cobre in St Catherine, with the People’s National Party (PNP) insisting that it played a role in the exercise. On Friday, bauxite company UC Rusal (WINDALCO), which was issued a...
THE FATHER of one of two men shot and killed by policemen yesterday following a brazen deadly attack on a labourer on Orange Street, in downtown Kingston, said he will not be shedding any tears over his demise, as he had warned him daily to be...
A FORMER manager at the Sugar Company of Jamaica Holdings (SCJH), who is contending that he was unjustly dismissed in 2020, is to have his matter heard by the Dispute Tribunal after the SCJH failed to have it aborted. The hearing is set for July 22...
WHILE EMPHASISING that politicians are afraid of making difficult decisions, counsel for gay rights activist Maurice Tomlinson yesterday urged the Supreme Court judges to be fearless and find that the Savings Law clause does not shield the buggery...
GAY RIGHTS activist Maurice Tomlinson is using a “strained interpretation” of legislative changes to argue for Jamaica’s colonial-era buggery law to be struck down as unconstitutional, government lawyers are claiming. Lisa White, who is...
CHARGING THAT Jamaica is “failing” its children, Governor General Sir Patrick Allen yesterday called for the country to urgently address the factors driving the violent attacks on the young ones who are generally referenced as the nation’s future...
Convicted fraudster Garcia Perez, who had conned more than 100 people in a multimillion-dollar motor vehicle scam, on Tuesday gave the State the green light for the forfeiture of seven cars and close to $3 million. The cash and the vehicles were...
THE CASE involving Matthew Hyde, the university student who reportedly held his girlfriend captive in his dorm room and tortured her with a hot clothes iron, has been transferred to the Home Circuit Court for mention on September 14 after a parish...
Anti-corruption lobby National Integrity Action (NIA) has accused Cabinet minister Aubyn Hill of being “arrogant” and seeking to downplay the widely held view that many Jamaican politicians are corrupt. At a post-Cabinet press briefing yesterday,...
One of the alleged masterminds behind the $160 million fraud at Seprod Group of Companies has been granted bail in the sum of $500,000. On Monday, Parish Court Judge Leighton Morris granted Jason Grant bail in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish...
Investigators from the Fraud Squad are widening their probe to snag the mastermind and other players believed to be behind a nearly $2-million payroll fraud that was recently uncovered at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). Sums...
JUSTICE VINETTE Graham-Allen yesterday warned that she will not be changing the September 18 trial date for the Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, who is to be tried for the murder of one of his two wives, who he is alleged to...
A bail application for the police constable implicated in the alleged rape and robbery of a woman in St Elizabeth following a traffic stop in January was yesterday postponed to November 23. Constable Alwayne Hill is also accused of making purchases...
AMID PUBLIC outrage over the brutal and callous throat-slashing murder of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe, members of the entertainment fraternity yesterday supported a call for the Government to resume hanging to punish child killers. The Braeton...
The Full Court is to deliver its ruling on July 28, following a judicial review of Parish Judge Chester Crooks’ decision that former Education Minister Ruel Reid, former Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President Fritz Pinnock, and their co-...
The St Andrew woman and her brother who admitted to murdering a mother and her two young children, amid a tragic love triangle in 2018, believe their sentences of 36 years in prison before parole were too harsh and are seeking a reduction. At the...
The lone female defendant who is alleged to be a member of the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang, reportedly headed by a police constable, is to know today whether she will be admitted to bail. Jassett Brown is among 11 individuals, including four police...
