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Published:Monday | May 29, 2023 | 1:22 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Superintendent of Police Howard Chambers, commanding officer for St Catherine, is dismissing reports that 16 of the men who were freed in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial have either been killed or gone missing. “We patrol the communities from which...

Published:Monday | May 29, 2023 | 12:10 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Two policemen, who reportedly battered two detainees with a baton nine years ago, were freed Friday of unlawful wounding charges in the St Ann’s Bay Parish Court. Constables Jermaine Holmes and Gary Barrett walked free on two counts of the charges...

Published:Saturday | May 27, 2023 | 12:13 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

HIS JOB was to hire the alleged trigger man behind Tamara Geddes’ death, and for that, Owen Irving believed that his 20-year sentence was too harsh. The Court of Appeal, however, disagreed, noting that if he was indicted for murder under the...

Published:Wednesday | May 10, 2023 | 12:05 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A FORMER Shortwood Teachers’ College employee, who sustained back injuries during a fall on the job in 2011, had $1.5 million shaved off the $4 million in general damages she was seeking after the Supreme Court held that she exaggerated her...

Published:Tuesday | May 9, 2023 | 1:15 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has acknowledged that the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) erred in not taking custody of an abandoned day-old baby, dubbed Baby Sunshine, and transporting her to the Bustamante Hospital for Children...

Published:Thursday | May 4, 2023 | 1:15 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A security guard implicated in last June’s seizure of an illegal weapon found in his stepdaughter’s schoolbag in Rockfort, Kingston, was yesterday freed of gun charges. The 38-year-old Kevin Lewis, of a Windward Road address in Kingston 16, was...

Published:Friday | April 28, 2023 | 12:28 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The defence team for former Sagicor executive Alysia Moulton White is still awaiting the video footage to determine who had deposited funds totalling $661,000 into her account as they seek to prove that she was not involved in a suspected $65-...

Published:Wednesday | April 12, 2023 | 1:28 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

MUMBAI, India: A leading Indian conglomerate, which has thrown its hat into the ring for the multibillion-dollar contract to construct a new state-of-the-art Parliament in Jamaica, says the country’s workforce stands to benefit if it emerges as the...

Published:Tuesday | April 11, 2023 | 12:37 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A police constable accused of assaulting his girlfriend over several days after learning that she had been unfaithful to him is expected to have his matter transferred to the St Mary Circuit Court next month. The constable, whose identity is being...

Published:Monday | April 10, 2023 | 1:07 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Several local Christians are calling for Canadian Professor Richard Albert to be removed from the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) named last month, claiming he has a distinct pro-LGBT and pro-abortion bias. Albert, who is a law professor at...

Published:Monday | April 10, 2023 | 12:53 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

While church leaders are divided on whether Easter has lost its religious significance in Jamaica, one clergyman believes that some Christians are to be blamed for the waning reverence and observation of the holy season. Easter is the most...

Published:Saturday | April 8, 2023 | 1:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Popular veteran music selector Ricky Trooper was on Thursday left questioning God’s existence, hours after his daughter was found murdered at her home in Connecticut in the United States. “Mi used to hear dem thing yah happen to people and mi a say...

Published:Thursday | April 6, 2023 | 12:44 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A security guard who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for raping a woman in a company vehicle while on duty has lost his appeal against his sentence and conviction. Oneil Forrest raped the victim in September 2015 after she and her father’s...

Published:Tuesday | April 4, 2023 | 1:22 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The Supreme Court has scheduled a May 7 date to start rehearing submissions in the judicial review hearing involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and former Caribbean Maritime University President Fritz Pinnock. Both accused are seeking the...

Published:Tuesday | April 4, 2023 | 1:21 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Romario Ewart was determined to break the cycle of poverty in his family and create a better life for himself and his family. The aspiring businessman, at 24, was a taxi driver, university student, newly certified truck driver, and soon-to-be...

Published:Monday | March 27, 2023 | 12:30 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, India: With less than seven years remaining for United Nations (UN) member countries to realise their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), India is imploring developing countries in the Caribbean and Latin American to focus on...

Published:Friday | March 24, 2023 | 12:46 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A parish court judge is to rule next Wednesday whether bail will be granted to a St Andrew businessman who is challenging his extradition to the United States on drugs charges. Fifty-year-old Anthony Daniels is accused of being a major player in a...

Published:Thursday | March 23, 2023 | 12:45 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A Kingston man was given a stern warning by a parish court judge to keep out of trouble and avoid the courts after he was freed of murder and gun charges. Thirty-four-year-old Rayon Williams was arrested and charged with the murder of 19-year-old...

Published:Tuesday | March 21, 2023 | 1:09 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A police constable, who was convicted of false imprisonment for arresting a female motorist for driving with one headlight, was last month freed by the Court of Appeal. Ronald Davis was found guilty of false imprisonment in April 2019, following...

Published:Friday | March 17, 2023 | 1:04 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

With tears in her eyes, Shanakay Williams recalled being comforted by her son, who, at one year and six months, prayed for her, asking God to give her a better life as he looked at the terrible condition in which they were living. At that time, a...

Published:Thursday | March 16, 2023 | 1:12 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

The Commercial Court on Wednesday extended an order freezing all of the assets of the former Stocks...

Published:Wednesday | March 15, 2023 | 1:41 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

In a landmark ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court declared that a company by itself can bring a constitutional claim and dismissed the Government’s application for an anti-mining case brought by an environmental entity to be struck out. The...

Published:Tuesday | March 14, 2023 | 1:32 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

A man – who was awarded nearly $5 million plus interest after he was falsely imprisoned and beaten by inmates after cops labelled him a homosexual – had his award slashed by more than half on appeal by the State. The respondent, Clifford James, was...

Published:Friday | March 10, 2023 | 1:33 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

King’s Counsel Valerie Neita-Robertson, who is representing the convicted ex-juror who tried to bribe the jury foreman in the Vybz Kartel murder trial, is of the view that the evidence used to convict her client was unreliable and she would be...

Published:Friday | March 10, 2023 | 1:22 AMTanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter

Less than a month before the September 2021 start of what was touted as the largest gang trial in the English-speaking Caribbean, one of the prosecution’s star witnesses had bought his ticket to Jamaica and was ready to abandon the case. Troubled...

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