The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is raising concerns about a massive 168 per cent surge in forced outages reported by the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), with numbers jumping from 49,243 in December 2019 to 132,226 in 2023. Of the 136,552...
A local human-rights organisation is bemoaning the “frustratingly slow progress” being made by the Government to improve the lives of persons living with disabilities. Carla Gullotta, executive director of Stand Up Jamaica, said that despite the...
Upset that seven years of relative calm have been broken with Saturday night’s mass shooting incident, which left three people dead on Bowen Road, Kingston 11, residents say they no longer have an interest in maintaining efforts at keeping the...
Expressing concerns over the protracted trial, defence lawyers in the Keith Clarke murder case on Thursday urged Justice Dale Palmer to use his authority to put an end to the frequent adjournments. “I note by way of Rule 36 of the Plea and Case...
A former investigator in the Keith Clarke murder case, who had certified photocopied pages from the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) ammunition book, yesterday struggled to figure out some of the data the document had captured. Taneish Wisdom,...
A witness from the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) disclosed on Tuesday that an ex-soldier, who is being sought to appear in the Keith Clarke murder trial as a witness, left the island in May and returned in July. Deputy...
Records pertaining to the distribution of guns and ammunition at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), for May 2010, cannot be located. The police are also having difficulty locating the former JDF soldier who was the recordkeeper during the same period...
Still overwhelmed by the pain and sorrow caused by last Monday night’s bloodbath in Rockfort, Kingston, during which five men were murdered, other men in the community on Friday wept openly during a walk-through led by Opposition Leader Mark...
The Government has been ordered to pay approximately $472 million plus interest to a private contractor over a botched school construction contract that had an original sum of $49 million when it was inked in 1998. Justice David Batts, last Friday...
A man who arrived in the island from the United States in 2018 with approximately $ 1.2 million in US dollars lost his appeal to recover the funds, which were forfeited after he was unable to clearly state the source and intended purpose of the...
The prosecution in the Keith Clarke murder trial has been granted a request for the head of the Jamaica Defence Force, Vice Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman, as well as the log books for gun and ammunition in May 2010 and its keeper, to be...
One of two men arrested and slapped with gun charges in August after they were reportedly held in the Cherry Tree Lane community, Clarendon, with an illegal gun, a day after the deadly mass shooting, is to remain in custody after the High Court...
As a child, Bishop Professor Dr Randolph Henry loved helping others, and, having saved about four lives so far, it’s no surprise that he is being nationally recognised for helping a man who was shot multiple times and left for dead along Red Hills...
A former senior investigator at the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) yesterday admitted that she did not exercise any independent judgment in her investigation of the Keith Clarke murder case. The witness, Taneish Wisdom-Banton,...
The trial against the three Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers charged with the murder of Keith Clarke was yesterday forced to adjourn until tomorrow, because of a medical emergency impacting one of the defence lawyers. Lance corporals Greg...
Likening the murder of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald by her husband and an accomplice to that of an animal being butchered, Justice Chester Stamp yesterday said the case was among “the worst of the worst”, for which there could be no other...
The family of Tonia McDonald is relieved that her 69-year-old husband, who orchestrated her brutal death, will spend the rest of his life in prison. “He will not be coming out back; that alone is closure for us. He will be locked away for life,”...
The island’s former chief forensic pathologist has supported the account given by relatives of businessmen Keith Clarke that he was shot and killed while climbing down from the closet with his back toward security forces personnel who had entered...
Persistent tears from the Keith Clarke’s daughter while his multiple gunshot wounds were being detailed in the Home Circuit Court on Tuesday rankled the defence, sparking an impromptu break after they complained that the jury was being unfairly...
Twenty of the 25 gunshot wounds received by businessman Keith Clarke, during the May 2010 security forces operation at his home in St Andrew, were fatal. Of the 13 injuries detailed by an expert witness so far, 10 of them were from gunshots to the...
More than 200 complaints have been lodged against a man who has been operating as a travel agent and who, reportedly, has been fleecing individuals and groups, including schools and churches, of funds amounting to as much as $3 million for hotel...
An elderly, retired couple from the United States is suing a local developer and his two companies for approximately US$465,000 in special damages, claiming that they abandoned the construction of their retirement home in St Thomas, leaving it only...
Faced with an alarmingly high number of recurring sex cases on the court list each term, Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Taylor, KC, believes policymakers are not paying sufficient attention to sexual offences. “We have...
One of the defence lawyers in the multimillion-dollar fraud racket uncovered at Sagicor Bank in 2022 says the prosecution has no chance of success as there is no evidence linking the four women to conspiracy and fraud charges. “I am extremely...
The Keith Clarke murder trial is set to resume tomorrow after issues with one of the jurors delayed its resumption yesterday in the Home Circuit Court. At the start of the Michaelmas Term, Justice Dale Palmer informed the court yesterday that one...
