A windshield wiper who had been in custody since June 2015 for gun murder, but was freed on Tuesday, said he will be turning over his life to Christ and will be getting baptised soon. Mark Curtis, 28, who was charged for murder, as well as making...
A St Andrew construction worker who reportedly confessed to the murder of his girlfriend, following an argument over his refusal to provide money for his child with another woman, was on Tuesday denied bail in the Home Circuit Court. Kevin Seymour...
THE HEAD of one of the island’s legal associations has described as inappropriate and concerning, utterances by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck expressing disappointment at rapist Davian Bryan’s 23-year sentence. The 32-year-old sex offender, who had...
Justice Vinette Graham-Allen yesterday again expressed frustration at the delay being experienced in the murder case surrounding the 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke. Corporal Odel Buckley, Lance Corporal Greg Tinglin, and Private...
The ATTORNEY for the alleged mastermind behind the $160-million fraud at Seprod Group of Companies yesterday complained that his client’s constitutional rights were being breached after the bail hearing was postponed and attempts by him to get an...
The plea and case management in relation to the 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke is to continue on June 5. The case was scheduled to resume yesterday in the Home Circuit Court but was postponed due to the unavailability of the...
The popular Chinese supermarket owner who was killed during a robbery at his business place in Porus, Manchester, last December, lost his life after his killers abandoned their original plan to rob a Brinks truck and instead targeted his...
A MANCHESTER security guard, who allegedly conspired with others to rob a man of a knapsack containing approximately $14 million, after assisting him at the bank, has been released on $900,000 bail following an unsuccessful attempt by the director...
FOREIGN AFFAIRS minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, is moving to have the lawsuit filed against her by a former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent thrown out of the Supreme Court. The lawsuit pertains to donations for her failed 2022 bid for...
Superintendent of Police Howard Chambers, commanding officer for St Catherine, is dismissing reports that 16 of the men who were freed in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial have either been killed or gone missing. “We patrol the communities from which...
Two policemen, who reportedly battered two detainees with a baton nine years ago, were freed Friday of unlawful wounding charges in the St Ann’s Bay Parish Court. Constables Jermaine Holmes and Gary Barrett walked free on two counts of the charges...
HIS JOB was to hire the alleged trigger man behind Tamara Geddes’ death, and for that, Owen Irving believed that his 20-year sentence was too harsh. The Court of Appeal, however, disagreed, noting that if he was indicted for murder under the...
A FORMER Shortwood Teachers’ College employee, who sustained back injuries during a fall on the job in 2011, had $1.5 million shaved off the $4 million in general damages she was seeking after the Supreme Court held that she exaggerated her...
The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has acknowledged that the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) erred in not taking custody of an abandoned day-old baby, dubbed Baby Sunshine, and transporting her to the Bustamante Hospital for Children...
A security guard implicated in last June’s seizure of an illegal weapon found in his stepdaughter’s schoolbag in Rockfort, Kingston, was yesterday freed of gun charges. The 38-year-old Kevin Lewis, of a Windward Road address in Kingston 16, was...
The defence team for former Sagicor executive Alysia Moulton White is still awaiting the video footage to determine who had deposited funds totalling $661,000 into her account as they seek to prove that she was not involved in a suspected $65-...
MUMBAI, India: A leading Indian conglomerate, which has thrown its hat into the ring for the multibillion-dollar contract to construct a new state-of-the-art Parliament in Jamaica, says the country’s workforce stands to benefit if it emerges as the...
A police constable accused of assaulting his girlfriend over several days after learning that she had been unfaithful to him is expected to have his matter transferred to the St Mary Circuit Court next month. The constable, whose identity is being...
Several local Christians are calling for Canadian Professor Richard Albert to be removed from the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) named last month, claiming he has a distinct pro-LGBT and pro-abortion bias. Albert, who is a law professor at...
While church leaders are divided on whether Easter has lost its religious significance in Jamaica, one clergyman believes that some Christians are to be blamed for the waning reverence and observation of the holy season. Easter is the most...
Popular veteran music selector Ricky Trooper was on Thursday left questioning God’s existence, hours after his daughter was found murdered at her home in Connecticut in the United States. “Mi used to hear dem thing yah happen to people and mi a say...
A security guard who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for raping a woman in a company vehicle while on duty has lost his appeal against his sentence and conviction. Oneil Forrest raped the victim in September 2015 after she and her father’s...
The Supreme Court has scheduled a May 7 date to start rehearing submissions in the judicial review hearing involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and former Caribbean Maritime University President Fritz Pinnock. Both accused are seeking the...
Romario Ewart was determined to break the cycle of poverty in his family and create a better life for himself and his family. The aspiring businessman, at 24, was a taxi driver, university student, newly certified truck driver, and soon-to-be...
NEW DELHI, India: With less than seven years remaining for United Nations (UN) member countries to realise their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), India is imploring developing countries in the Caribbean and Latin American to focus on...
