After spending five years and five months in prison in connection with his alleged involvement in the Clansman-One Don Gang, Damaine Elliston’s main wish as a free man is to reunite with his six-year-old daughter. “Mi wah send fi her ‘cause a from...
A former senior manager at the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), who was convicted of indecent assault after forcibly kissing a junior female employee in the elevator at work, has lost his battle to have his 12-month suspended...
Two Jamaicans who reportedly acted as money couriers in a “sophisticated” international scam that laundered more than US$6 million in drug-trafficking proceeds from Colombian cartels are to be extradited to the United States (US), while a third...
The alleged robbery-turned-murder plot mastermind, whose girlfriend and uncle were convicted in the same scheme for the murder of businessman Roger Chang, is to return to the St Mary Circuit Court on July 14. The accused, Gaveen Hurd, who hails...
The fraud trial involving two former Petrojam executives was prematurely adjourned in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday after an administrative assistant who had worked with Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh, who was expected to take the...
Carol Palmer, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science, Energy, and Technology, said Thursday that permanent secretaries are not at liberty to vary the ministry guidelines on how taxpayers’ money should be spent and are obliged to follow all...
A legal officer at Petrojam yesterday recalled that before being appointed board chairman, Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh was a part of a board meeting in July 2016 where it was communicated that the board would only be responsible for covering the...
A manager at Petrojam testified Wednesday that, while on a leadership trip in London in February 2018, he was informed that then board chairman Perceval Bahado-Singh would be joining the delegation but he never turned up. The one-week trip (...
An alleged member of the Clansman-One Don Gang was heard in one of the secret records boasting how the gang had struck at Fisheries in St Catherine where a couple was shot and killed and their house set ablaze. “Chargie, a mash we mash up Fisheries...
A communication analyst who had presented evidence of numerous phone calls among accused members of the Clansman-One Dong Gang, including its two top alleged leaders who were behind bars, yesterday dismissed efforts by the defence to discredit his...
The prosecution’s expert witness, who is giving evidence about the data including the secret recordings of conversations among alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang contained on three cell phones, was yesterday accused of being clueless by...
An expert witness in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial testified on Monday that he had not detected any evidence of tampering with the data stored on three phones, including secretly recorded conversations of defendants. That testimony could be key...
A 66-year-old man who was sent to prison for 14 years in 2017 for sexually molesting a 10-year-old girl is seeking to have his conviction overturned in the Court of Appeal, primarily on grounds that he has had to be waiting for almost five years to...
The taxi man who is at the centre of an alleged case of misconduct and corruption by three policemen broke down in tears on Tuesday and retracted his statements in which he had accused the cops of recording him in a compromising position with a...
A local businessman who had kept his son out of school since 2019, except for two months of summer classes while reportedly pretending he was enrolled at the American International School of Kingston (AISK), was recently ordered by the Supreme...
A 63-year-old ex-convict shocked persons in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Monday after he revealed that he was sentenced 20 times for removing bodies from the cemetery. The accused, Donovan Butler, also told the court that he had just...
The trial of three policemen accused of extorting a taxi man of $50,000 after allegedly videotaping him engaging in what appeared to be a sexual act with a male sex worker started on Monday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The accused,...
A 25-year-old construction worker, who had maintained from the outset that he was being framed, could not hold back his tears of relief on Thursday in the Gun Court after he was freed of charges of shooting with intent and illegal possession of...
Human rights advocates are urging the Government to revisit its policy ban on the employment of ex-convicts in the public sector if it is serious about rehabilitation and reintegration. The call is being made against the backdrop of the recent...
A man who robbed his ex-girlfriend of a little more than half a million dollars, which included her tuition fee, was further remanded yesterday after he lost his freedom on Tuesday when he turned up in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court empty-...
The wife and children of former Haitian Senator Joseph Joel John, who has been linked to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, have been denied asylum in Jamaica but will be appealing to National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang to have...
A senior attorney-at-law on Wednesday blasted the Government for giving lip service to the justice system and instituting measures, such as longer sentences, that continue to add to the inefficiencies in the system while calling for much more to be...
A lawyer employed to the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) who claimed he was overlooked for promotion for 10 years is challenging the decision of the Public Service Commission (PSC) to dismiss his appeal after he was denied being elevated in 2020...
A man who locked his ex-girlfriend in his house and raped her, despite a warning from his father that he could end up in prison, has lost his fight to have his 25 years of imprisonment overturned by the Court of Appeal. Jermaine Burke, who was...
Principal of Dunrobin Primary, Sacheel Grant-Henry, has walked back the contents of a warning letter issued last Wednesday to a grade five student for an offending hairstyle, saying the threat was not meant to bar him from school but to be a note...
