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...
While hailing the conviction of 15 members of the Clansman-One Don Gang as a win for Jamaica, Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn lauded the two ex-gangsters for putting Jamaica first by helping the State to put the hoodlums behind...
After spending the last four years and four months in custody on allegations that he was a member of the Clansman-One Don Gang and the don of Waterloo, Pete Miller was all smiles as he sauntered from the Home Circuit Court on Tuesday after...
Twenty-five of the remaining alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang are to know today whether they will be convicted of being a part of a criminal organisation. Reputed leader of the St Catherine-based gang, Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, will also...
Family members of 73-year-old Mabel Lawrence, who was killed after she was hit by a car on Saturday outside her home in St Thomas, have been left fuming over the manner in which they were robbed of her presence. The bubbly social butterfly and...
Two men implicated in last June’s murder of a Kingston salesman who was reportedly shot and robbed of his motorcar in St Mary, by three men who he had taken to the parish, were freed of murder and gun charges in the St Mary Parish Court. Nicholas...
A brag about pumping eight shots into a man who was ordered killed by the Clansman-One Don Gang led to the conviction one alleged gangster on Thursday when the judge, in finding him guilty of facilitating the murder, accepted his boastful admission...
The defence by an alleged Clansman-One Don gang member that there were multiple entrances to a furniture shop occupied by him, where an illegal rifle was found in 2019, was on Wednesday dismissed as “absolute rubbish” by the presiding judge....
