WESTERN BUREAU: Anika Lowe, senior forensic science officer at the Forensic Institute’s DNA Unit, testified in the Westmoreland Circuit Court on Monday that blood samples collected from several items and areas outside the prison cell where Mario...
WESTERN BUREAU: Courtney Cole, chief technical director in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, says farmers must be willing to organise themselves into groups so they can better access the resources they need to thrive in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The prosecution in the trial of the three police personnel charged in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane failed, on two occasions, in their bid to show the denim trousers that Deane was believed to have been wearing on the day he...
WESTERN BUREAU: Forensic scientist Nadia Whyte testified on Monday that two exhibits submitted in the trial of three police officers accused in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane did not match the descriptions on the evidence bags. Whyte, from...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James farmer Nadesha Campbell, who has faced several hurdles while seeking to launch her own coconut cassava bread, thought she had a breakthrough earlier this year after showing her product to businessman Michael Lee-Chin, but...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mercia Fraser, the mother of Mario Deane, struggled to contain her emotions yesterday as she testified about receiving a pair of bloodstained pants, which she believes belonged to her son. Fraser, who was the first witness in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sagicor Bank CEO Chorvelle Johnson-Cunningham is calling on women in leadership to actively support other women’s growth as a strategy to aid Jamaica’s development. She made this appeal at Thursday’s launch of the Women of Western...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the eight-year, multibillion-dollar rehabilitation of Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) nears completion, the Government is touting progress while the Opposition voices deep frustration over delays and ballooning costs. Speaking...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mercia Fraser, the mother of Mario Deane, is expected to retake the witness stand tomorrow when the trial of three police personnel charged in relation to her son’s death resumes in the Westmoreland Circuit Court. Presiding High...
WESTERN BUREAU: A former inmate at the lock-up where Mario Deane was beaten on August 3, 2014, told the court yesterday that he did not review his statement to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) when its investigators met with...
WESTERN BUREAU: Attorney-at-law Martyn Thomas, who is representing two of the three police personnel on trial for Mario Deane’s death in 2014, yesterday challenged the prosecution’s eighth witness about apparent discrepancies between his current...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Francine Phillips-Kelly, medical officer of health for St James, says the parish remains vigilant in detecting mosquito-borne diseases such as yellow fever, even as Jamaica continues to battle a dengue outbreak. Addressing the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A former inmate at the Barnett Street Police Station lock-up has testified that the three cops now facing charges instructed him not to tell investigators what he saw on the day Mario Deane was beaten. The witness, currently in...
WESTERN BUREAU: A former inmate at the Barnett Street Police Station lock-up told the Westmoreland Circuit Court on Monday that he saw the three cops being tried for Mario Deane’s death, on duty at the facility, on the day Deane was beaten. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Pastor Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), has commended Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness for the Jamaican government’s stance on upholding the country’s reputation for religious...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following the looting of a refrigerated container of chicken that washed ashore in Hellshire, St Catherine, earlier this month, acting chief public health inspector for St James, Sherika Lewis, is urging residents in the western...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tempers flared at Thursday’s St James Municipal Corporation meeting after Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon shot down attempts by People’s National Party (PNP) councillors to challenge his authority to remove political banners and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Forensic investigator Detective Constable Rickardo Evans yesterday concluded his evidence-in-chief in the Mario Deane trial, which is ongoing in the Westmoreland Circuit Court, by showing the court photographs he took of the cell...
WESTERN BUREAU: The crime scene investigator who examined the Barnett Street Police Station cell where Mario Deane was beaten in August 2014 told the Westmoreland Circuit Court on Tuesday that he saw water on the floor and a blood-like substance in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Detective Constable Rickardo Evans of the Area One Scene-of-Crime Unit testified yesterday in the Westmoreland Circuit Court that he was escorted to the cell where Mario Deane was fatally beaten in 2014 by one of the officers now...
WESTERN BUREAU: A forensic examiner from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) admitted on Thursday that he could not confirm whether the Barnett Street Police Station cell, where Mario Deane was beaten on August 3, 2014, had been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dwayne Vaz, the former member of parliament for Westmoreland Central, is calling for a revamp of the Government’s procurement processes, saying it will result in a smoother flow of transactions. He suggested the implementation of e-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Economist Dr Andre Haughton, the Opposition’s spokesman on science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship, says that Jamaica must acknowledge the importance of technology in national development in order to avoid repeating...
WESTERN BUREAU: The trial of three cops charged in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane was yesterday adjourned until Thursday to give the defence lawyers time to review photos and videos submitted as evidence by the Independent Commission of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The trial of 16 members of the controversial Montego Bay-based Qahal Yahweh religious group was delayed once again in the St James Parish Court on Friday due to the absence of both the defendants’ lawyer and the trial judge. As a...
