One of the lawyers representing Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald has suggested that the police manufactured phone evidence to establish that there were secretly recorded conversations between the businessman and a contract...
The man fingered as the trigger-man in the murder and abduction of Opposition lawmaker Phillip Paulwell’s infant daughter Sarayah and her mother, Toshyna Patterson, was charged earlier this month and is to make his second appearance in the Home...
Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald was heard in one of the secretly recorded conversations telling the man who he allegedly contracted to murder his wife that he should not execute the ‘hit’ on a Saturday as his helper would not...
The murder trial of popular Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald will today start hearing secretly recorded conversations that he reportedly had with the man whom he had allegedly contracted to murder his wife. The partially burnt...
Vincent Wellesley, defence lawyer for the man alleged to have killed Tonia McDonald, has suggested that the chief investigator has withheld some of the video evidence from the prosecution pertaining to the arrest and identification of his client....
A credit card belonging to missing social media influencer Donna Lee Donaldson was reportedly used at a popular hotel in Portland late last year by a female. Donaldson, 24, went missing on July 13, 2022, after she was last seen at the home of her...
Twenty-five transcripts of the secretly recorded conversations between contract killer Denvalyn ‘Bubbla’ Minott and Portland business Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald were yesterday tendered into evidence. The documents were tendered into evidence...
Relatives of the Portland farmer who went missing almost nine years ago amid a court case with Denvalyn ‘Bubbla’ Minott, the convicted contract killer in the murder of businesswoman Tonia McDonald, want the police to relaunch an investigation into...
Armed with what it describes as a favourable internal poll showing the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) with a “strong lead” in most of the local seats, the Andrew Holness-led administration yesterday announced that its machinery was ready for the local...
The defence team for Oscar Barnes, Tonia McDonald’s alleged killer, yesterday suggested that the police ignored a confession from the original contract killer that his son was also involved in the murder. They further said the son was later freed...
The detective sergeant who led the investigation into Tonia’s McDonald’s murder yesterday disclosed that the police have no physical evidence linking the alleged killer to the woman’s murder. The policeman also disclosed that nothing was found at...
Despite significant increases in infrastructural development in the country over the last decade, less than half of the population is convinced that the infrastructure has got better. Approximately 45 per cent of the 1,015 respondents in the Don...
Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has charged members of the security force to give of their best at all times to ensure a better police force and ultimately a better Jamaica, as he assured them of his support and appreciation of...
A fifth person has been taken into custody in connection with the murder and abduction of opposition lawmaker Phillip Paulwell’s infant daughter and her mother. The male suspect was arrested on Wednesday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Fitz...
A Jamaican businessman who tried to deny his Trinidadian ex-wife a 50 per cent interest in a St Andrew family home they had purchased together and who also sought a court order for her to pay him occupational rent from 2016, claiming she had put...
The seven detainees who escaped from the Oracabessa police lockup last Thursday, just ahead of the Christmas holidays, were up to yesterday evening still on the run. Senior Superintendent of Police Stephanie Lindsay, head of the Jamaica...
Jamaicans are being urged this Christmas season to practise safety and security, especially if they are transporting large amounts of cash. National Neighbourhood Watch President Dr Asha Mwendo, while underscoring the need for Jamaicans to be safe...
Gay rights activist Maurice Tomlinson has changed his mind about ending his legal fight with the State over the constitutionality of the buggery law and is now determined to take this fight all the way to the country’s highest court, the Privy...
Constable Vaughn Daley, who shot and killed a man who was reportedly trying to rape a woman in St Thomas in 2009, has been acquitted of murder. The lawman, who was assigned to the Special Branch unit, was freed on Thursday after a seven-member jury...
The cellular phone used to secretly record conversations between contracted killer Denvalyn Minott and Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald was on Friday admitted into evidence, paving the way for the tapes to be heard. The 48-year-...
Oscar Barnes, the alleged killer of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald, reportedly told the police in a caution statement that he could have saved the woman’s life. “Mi could a save ‘Sassy’ life. Mi know somebody a go dead,” he reportedly said...
Cable and Wireless Jamaica, operating as FLOW, has abandoned pursuit of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) and the Government for damage allegedly done to its infrastructure during the Major...
One of the investigators into the July 2020 murder of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald has admitted that the police never ascertained a description of her alleged killer before he was apprehended. The witness, a detective corporal, while...
Jamaica and the region have lost a distinguished son, literary icon, author, and public orator in Professor Edward Baugh, who died on Sunday morning. News of the death of the renowned and well-loved educator, with the velvet voice, whose artistry...
