Persons who are implicated in gun crimes will not be allowed to enter into plea-bargain arrangements unless they provide information in relation to other illegal firearms under proposed amendments to the Criminal Justice (Plea Negotiation and...
Protestors in St Thomas have threatened to continue pressing for action if nothing is done to bring immediate relief after mounting a series of roadblocks over bumpy under-construction roads on Monday. Taxi and bus operators, who also withdrew...
More Jamaican teenagers are dabbling in dangerous drugs such as Molly and edibles and engaging in vaping but are unaware of the grave risks. A risk assessment study carried out by the National Council on Drug Abuse in May in 13 parishes and high...
Several high-school principals are reporting that they are ready for the start of the new academic year come next Monday, replacing nearly all the teachers who have resigned from their respective institutions. Some administrators have, over summer...
The Crime Monitoring Oversight Committee (CMOC) is pushing for the Government to provide a timeline on when the draft for the Enhanced Security Measures Act will be completed or be tabled. The proposed law is being touted as a major tool to...
The family of a Kingston courier who was fatally shot on Marcus Garvey Drive Friday is accusing the police of killing the 21-year-old in cold blood and is demanding justice. Shamar Stewart, of Allman Town, Kingston 4, was killed a day before a big...
In its drive to make more housing solutions available, the Government is committing to complete all the housing projects which have been lagging on for years without being actualised. “We have made a commitment that all the projects that have been...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said that the Government will be moving to put an end to squatting and the illegal capture of public lands. While admitting that there are challenges in accessing affordable homes, Holness said that there are...
A defence lawyer in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial yesterday raised questions about the whereabouts of the extortion money that one of the prosecution’s witnesses had testified he had safeguarded for the gang. The witness, who said he was the...
The death penalty, which was being sought for the man guilty of the Clarendon massacre of a woman and her four children, may no longer be on the table. That is despite Rushane Barnett, the 23-year-old who pleaded guilty Thursday, having inflicted...
“Lines of enquiry have opened up” around several persons of interest beyond the police boyfriend of missing social-media influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson who has been arrested by law enforcers in a dramatic twist in the high-profile case that has...
While labelling the prosecution’s two main witnesses as “bad” and “unreliable” attestors, the lead attorney for reputed Clansman-One Don Gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan asked the judge on Tuesday to reject the self-confessed ex-gangsters’...
Defence lawyers on Monday ripped into the credibility of one of the prosecution’s main witnesses in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial for placing their clients at various locations, including murder scenes, while they were behind bars. Drawing on the...
A St Andrew construction worker accused of shooting at his ex-girl and her boyfriend has been freed of gun charges. The charges of illegal possession of firearm and illegal possession of ammunition against Sheldon Robinson were dropped in the Gun...
Fifty-year-old Anthony Daniels and 60-year-old Hugh Fraser, who were among four men held in a major police operation this week, have been accused of being players in a drug-trafficking network operating out of Jamaica and the United States. Daniels...
One of the three Jamaicans implicated in an alleged “sophisticated” international scheme that laundered more than US$6 million in drug-trafficking yesterday abandoned his plans to contest his extradition to the United States. Seivwright Affleck, of...
Government lawyers have filed an application to strike out the lawsuit being pursued by Maroon Chief Richard Currie, who is seeking an order from the Supreme Court declaring that ownership of the lands in the Cockpit Country be given to the Maroons...
One of the alleged Clansman-One Don gangsters who assaulted a police constable during a brawl on the Supreme Court compound in February is to be sentenced in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on December 14. Twenty-two-year-old Tareek ‘CJ’...
Bignall Law has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay a wasted cost award of $356,500 by July 29 to a woman who was sued twice in relation to a motor vehicle incident in which the firm’s client was injured. The law firm, which was acting on...
State records pertaining to the arrest and detention of three defendants in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial have shown that they were, in fact, in jail during the periods in which they are accused of committing various murders. The trio, Tareek...
The mother of a woman who was killed by her lover in 2017 and buried inside their Westmoreland home says she is disappointed that the confessed killer has shed no light on the whereabouts of her beloved granddaughter, who went missing around the...
The prosecution in the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) corruption case involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and ex-CMU President Professor Fritz Pinnock wants the matter to proceed to trial and will be seeking permission to appeal the...
While agreeing that customer service across the public sector is of a lower-than-desirable standard, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday encouraged workers in the government service to always empathise with Jamaicans and strive to meet or...
FIVE MEMBERS of the All Island Banana Growers’ Association Limited (AIBGAL), who are among nine former and present board directors who were being sued by the organisation over their appointment, have succeeded in getting the lawsuit thrown out....
After falling in love with her teacher’s command of the classroom, Angela McKenzie knew from she was in grade five that she, too, wanted to become a teacher. The Manchester resident’s passion resulted in her dedicating 34 years of her life to...
