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...
Senior Parish Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque is expected to rule today on whether one of the policemen linked to the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang will be released. Attorney-at-law Richard Lynch, who is representing the detainee, made a habeas corpus...
An accounts coordinator, who admitted to stealing approximately $3.2 million over a three-month period from a credit union to which he was employed, claimed he is unable to start making restitution as he has spent the funds. Forty-seven-year-old...
One of two foreigners implicated in the seizure of 21 firearms and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition at a warehouse at the wharf in Kingston last month was denied bail when he appeared in the Gun Court yesterday. The judge refused the bail...
The police have found the firearm of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) sergeant who had failed to hand over the weapon, claiming it was stolen, after a prostitute was found dead in his car. The weapon will now be subjected to ballistic testing. The...
Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry is recommending that the police corporal who was accused of cutting Nzinga King’s hair be charged with assault after an investigation by her office found that the woman cut the teenager’s locks out of revenge...
Lawyers for ex-constable Lescene Edwards, whose murder conviction was overturned by the Privy Council Monday, say they are pleased that their client has been vindicated in the death of his children’s mother and will be seeking compensation for...
Imagine seeing the body of your beloved eight-year-old son sinking underwater with his hands bound every time you shower. That has been the grim reality for Dudley Buchanan since his son, Galen, was killed in a devilish and callous manner by his...
Founder and chairman of the Guardsman Group of Companies, Kenneth Benjamin, yesterday disagreed that it was unreasonable for his firms to continue to treat security guards as contract workers based on advice he had received from the income tax...
More than 60 per cent of the island’s security companies, accounting for 28 of the larger firms, have been ignoring the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) demands for them to pay over the employer’s portion of Trust contribution for their workers....
Eight men who were reportedly among 16 accused of gang-raping a woman at gunpoint in Kingston four years ago were acquitted last Wednesday in the Home Circuit Court. The defendants were found not guilty of illegal possession of a firearm, rape and...
Charging that numerous members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force are involved in the island’s underworld today, former Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams said he is not surprised by yesterday’s arrest of four members of the force, alleged...
Defence lawyers in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial are fuming over its seven-week adjournment for which they will not be paid although they have a mountain of work to do, and are calling for the intervention of Justice Minister Delroy Chuck. The...
Joseph Joel John, the former Haitian senator linked to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, has one wish before he is whisked off to America on an extradition request: for his family to remain in Jamaica. An application for refugee status...
A Jamaican prisoner is believed to be the mastermind of a recently discovered overseas job scam in which about 30 persons from several parishes who were promised customer-service jobs in The Cayman Islands were scammed of nearly $1 million. The...
While expressing joy yesterday that the Court of Appeal had found that she had not acted dishonestly or had stolen any money from businessman Kaon Northover, disbarred attorney-at-law Minette Palmer-Lawrence criticised the appellate court for “...
A man accused of being one of three persons who attempted to break into a popular patty shop on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew reportedly told the police when he was held that he was hungry. “Mi did hungry. Weh mi did fi do, officer? Stay home...
A detective constable found guilty of perverting the course of justice for requesting $30,000 from a murder victim’s relative to pay a potential witness in the case is now awaiting a decision from the Court of Appeal on whether his conviction will...
The Clansman-One Don Gang trial in the Home Circuit Court was on Wednesday adjourned until March 23 after the prosecution requested time to peruse digital evidence, including the call-data records, which the Crown will be using to support its main...
A retired inspector and gang investigator who had testified that an alleged member of the Clansman-One Don Gang had offered him $100,000 to free reputed gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan was on Monday labelled a liar by the alleged don’s lead...
A man who posed as an employee of Jamaica Customs Agency and Kingston Wharves and conned several car buyers out of more than $15 million was yesterday remanded for sentencing in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on April 25. The confessed...
A retired gang investigator recalled on Wednesday how he had visited alleged Clansman-One Don Gang deputy leader ‘City Puss’ in prison under the guise that he was a gangster and spent an hour chatting with him before surprising him with criminal...
The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial failed on Tuesday in their effort to have a retired gang investigator give evidence as an expert witness. The police inspector, a 31-year-old veteran who has mainly investigated the St Catherine-...
Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey testified on Monday that he made a judgement call not to charge a former top-tier member of the Clansman-One Don Gang as he was of the view that the ex-gangster would not have cooperated with the police and...
