Petrojam’s chief financial officer (CFO) testified on Thursday that his relationship with fraud accused Floyd Grindley broke down after the former general manager of the state-owned refinery asked him to do something that was not right. Delroy...
A couple who purchased land in St Catherine on which the Bethel Chapel Apostolic Church is sited is now locked in a legal tussle with the religious organisation over claims that it fraudulently obtained ownership of half-acre of the property by...
A 16-year-old boy who has been detained since September 2021 for possessing a knife will have to finish the rest of his two-year sentence in a correctional facility after the Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA) lost a legal challenge last week...
A Petrojam finance executive testified on Monday that former General Manager Floyd Grindley had instructed him to effect payments to the contractors for donation projects, but he refused as this would have breached board policy. During his...
While the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has wooed growing support from youthful electors, crime and violence top the list of issues they believe need to be urgently addressed by the ruling party. Several young party faithful, including many first-...
Despite recent outcry over his stewardship in Clarendon North Western, first-time Member of Parliament Phillip Henriques said he is not daunted because he has been doing tremendous work in the area and is well supported by the constituents. The...
Two alleged members of the Bobo Gang, who were convicted for the 2011 kidnapping and murder of a businessman in Russia, Westmoreland, were remanded this week for the completion of their sentencing on November 25 in the Home Circuit Court. One of...
The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has hailed Thursday’s ruling by the Privy Council, granting investigators access to material that predates the enactment of the Proceeds of Crime Act, as a major victory for law...
Attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman on Wednesday urged the court to immediately stay the charges against Antigua’s director of public prosecutions (DPP), Anthony Armstrong, in the real estate fraud case, contending that the police’s own handwriting expert...
In-limbo education ministry permanent secretary (PS) Dean-Roy Bernard testified on Monday that since his reassignment from his post in 2019, he has missed out on seven increments which would have bumped up his salary to almost $9 million. Bernard...
Dr Nicholeen DeGrasse-Johnson, who was suspended as principal of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in 2019 at the height of a sexual harassment scandal, has lost her bid to be reinstated and for disciplinary proceedings...
A travelling peddler, who is among eight persons left homeless after fire destroyed their homes at Fleet Street in Kingston on Friday, is pondering her next move after her goods and $16,000 – the last of her savings – were also lost in the blaze...
Lawyers representing Antigua’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Anthony Armstrong, who is facing fraud charges in relation to three land transactions, are threatening to take the issue before the Constitutional Court in a bid to have the...
An alleged player in a suspected phone-stealing ring, which was recently discovered and more than 200 devices recovered, will be seeking bail when he next appears before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on November 18. Shaunie Latchman, who...
A bartender, who is claiming that he suffered permanent injuries after a health practitioner at St Joseph’s Hospital in St Andrew wrongly injected a nerve in his buttocks, is suing the government and the health facility for negligence and breach of...
Attorney-at-law Michelle Thomas, who is representing Rushawn Patterson, the person of interest in the murder of social-media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is accusing the police of breaching due process after her client...
The police are probing whether the parents of the man held for the murder of former Portland Eastern Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield played a role in his disappearance yesterday ahead of the start of his trial in the Home Circuit Court....
A St Ann widow, who is blaming the death of her husband on mining activities in the parish, is among nine residents suing the Government, Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II and New Day Aluminum (Jamaica) Limited for alleged breaches of their...
A senior citizen who stole a portion of her friend’s property and later subdivided the land and gifted it to herself, her children, and ex-husband was on Friday taken into custody after her sentencing was postponed in the Home Circuit Court. The...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has hailed Friday’s historic verdict in her office’s first sentencing appeal as a victory for victims of crime. The Court of Appeal on Friday quashed a 12-year sentence that was imposed on...
A St Catherine man who was in 2016 convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl is challenging his 42-year sentence in the Court of Appeal. The 40-odd-year-old convict, whose identity The Gleaner is withholding to protect the victim’s...
A JAMAICAN living in the United States was forced to relinquish possession of a piece of land, which he claimed was a part of a plot of land that he had purchased in Hanover, after the Supreme Court found that he had fraudulently obtained the title...
Gwendolyn McKnight, the woman whose daughter and four grandchildren were brutally murdered in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, in June, says that convicted killer Rushane Barnett should remain behind bars, adding that she is “a little” pleased with his...
THE CASE involving three policemen accused of killing a St Andrew tiler after he had reported them for alleged bribery is expected to be transferred to the Home Circuit Court next Monday. Corporal Miguel Eubanks and Constables Kemar Dennis and...
Steer Town Academy in St Ann is being investigated by the education ministry for alleged academic misconduct in this year’s sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. Reports are that some students were given...
