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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...