The multibillion-dollar fraud and irregularities uncovered at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) have ballooned past US$30 million with more than 200 accounts impacted. The Financial Investigations Division (FID) shared the update in a statement...
Valerie Neita-Robertson, King’s Counsel (KC), believes the two-year suspension handed to her client, attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan, for offensive comments about the country’s chief prosecutor, Paula Llewellyn, is excessive. She is contemplating...
A preliminary hearing date to determine the validity of the “good-faith certificates” in the Keith Clarke murder case has been set for February 22, next year, amid a stern warning from Justice Vinette Graham-Allen that nothing barring an act of God...
Citing high levels of sexual and domestic violence in the island, 13 civil society groups and 16 advocates are hastening parliamentarians to fast-track amendments to the Domestic Violence Act to include an increase of the fines to a maximum of $1...
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) says it will be vigorously opposing any attempts to release sealed information about the plea deals and transcripts of the accompanying hearings for two convicts recently sentenced in...
The woman charged with the gruesome killing of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe was yesterday remanded in custody until February 1 next year. Kayodi Satchell, a 30-year-old dental assistant, is facing a charge of murder for Rowe’s gruesome slaying,...
trial date for April 3 of next year has been set for a judge-alone hearing of the $222-million fraud uncovered at the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS). The case, which was initially set for mention on January 18 of next year, was yesterday brought...
An employee of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, who was fired from his job six years ago, has lost his bid to have his dismissal referred to the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT). Donovan Brown, who had been fired from his job in...
THE DEFENCE and the prosecution in the matter involving Andre Ruddock, accused of slashing the throat of a woman during an alleged church ritual in St James nearly two years ago, have discussed and agreed on a date and the mode for the trial....
Sanja Elliott, the former deputy superintendent in charge of roads and works, who masterminded a close to $49-million scheme at the Manchester Parish Council, is to serve his five-year prison sentence after the Court of Appeal found no reason to...
An American businessman, who allegedly purchased five of the weapons that were discovered in a massive gun find in a warehouse at the wharf in Kingston in March last year, has been offered bail in the sum of $500,000. The 32-year-old defendant,...
A Manchester man who murdered an 11-year-old with the help of his girlfriend, the boy’s sister, has lost his appeal against his conviction and also failed to have his 26-year pre-parole sentence reduced. The killer, Kayode Garwood, who claimed his...
The Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) has so far racked up more than $14 million in legal and associated costs in its fight to recover a $100-million judgment debt plus interest from disbarred attorney-at-law Harold Brady, who handled a land...
A FORMER police constable accused of shooting a man in an alleged dispute over $2.3 million and other items reportedly stolen from scammers in 2009 was on Thursday freed of wounding with intent charges in the Home Circuit Court. The 38-year-old ex-...
Former Financial Controller at INSPORTS, Andrew Wright, and five former employees implicated in a suspected $222-million fraud at the government agency, are scheduled to return to the Home Circuit Court on January 18. Wright, the promoter of the...
The People’s National Party (PNP) says Parliament had usurped the executive arm of the government by passing a bill to extend the tenure of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn. “What has happened in this case is a parliamentary...
Government lawyers have labelled the reasons proffered by the People’s National Party (PNP) in its objection to the recent amendments to the Jamaican Constitution, allowing Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn to remain in office...
A 21-year-old man, who killed a man and a woman and wounded two others in separate shooting incidents between last December and July this year, is to be sentenced on December 7. The defendant, Deandre Grant, a construction worker of Bellefield...
Fishermen at the Greenwich Town Fishing Village in St Andrew were taken by surprise by heavy rainfalls which flooded several of their vessels on Thursday night, with one sinking after taking in a huge volume of water. Despite being aware that the...
A SOFTWARE engineer who sued the State for alleged breaches of his constitutional rights after he was reportedly issued several alleged illegal traffic tickets over a 15-year period is requesting damages in the sum of $1 million. The Constitutional...
One of the foot soldiers in the shocking murder of politician Phillip Paulwell’s infant daughter and her mother is hoping that Jamaicans will find it in their hearts to forgive him. Toshyna Patterson, 27, and 10-month-old Sarayah Paulwell were...
THE THREE policemen accused of killing a St Andrew tiler, after he had reported them for alleged bribery, on Tuesday had their bail extended to March 21 in the Home Circuit Court. Corporal Miguel Eubanks and Constables Kemar Dennis and Purcell...
An American businessman, who allegedly purchased five of the weapons that were found in a massive gun find in a warehouse at the wharf in Kingston in March last year, is to make a bail application on November 23 in the Gun Court. The 32-year-old...
The Chinese contractor, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), which executed the Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP) in 2016, has suggested that FLOW Jamaica used the project as a cover to change out its old infrastructure. The...
A former policeman who was convicted of raping and buggering a woman, including sexually assaulting her with his gun, has lost his bid to have his 35-year sentence and conviction overturned. Kevin Taylor was convicted of rape, buggery, four counts...
