King’s Counsel Douglas Leys, who has been retained by incumbent Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn, says she has not stepped down from her post. “I can say affirmatively that she has not resigned, and it would not be advisable for her...
JAMAICA’S CREDIBILITY and reputation have taken a blow from the massive Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) fraud orchestrated at Steer Town Academy in St Ann, in 2022, coupled with last May’s leakage of the Caribbean Secondary Education...
Defence lawyers in the Omar Collymore murder trial will today make their cases for the court to dismiss the murder and murder conspiracy charges against the four men implicated in businesswoman Simone Campbell Collymore’s murder, including her...
CONFUSION SHROUDS Paula Llewellyn’s status as director of public prosecutions (DPP) with the Government insisting that there is no order in place for her to demit office, while the Opposition contends that the post is vacant arising from yesterday’...
OPERATIONS HAVE returned to normal at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Kingston after correctional officers took a break from their regular duties yesterday to register their dissatisfaction surrounding their compensation review. The correctional...
Barbados-born businessman Omar Collymore, who is on trial for reportedly masterminding the murder of his wife, was the sole beneficiary on her $21-million life insurance and was also allotted 70 per cent of her second life insurance policy, which...
Businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore had taken out an $80-million life insurance policy less than three months before she was murdered to add to a similar policy she had valued at $21 million. A life insurance agent, now a branch manager, who...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn and defence lawyers in the Keith Clarke murder trial yesterday locked horns over the defence’s request to place the hearing on hold pending an appeal. The long-awaited murder trial involving...
With Jamaica aiming to become a global logistics hub, the Government is being urged to consider establishing an arm of the industry, investment and commerce ministry, to focus on improving and strengthening logistics on the island. Clive Coke, the...
New questions are being raised about the Jamaica Customs Agency’s (JCA) insistence on implementing a contactless clearance policy, with Clive Coke, immediate past president of the Customs Brokers...
VYBZ KARTEL’S lawyer Isat Buchanan has lauded the Court of Appeal for moving swiftly in scheduling a hearing date to determine whether the popular entertainer and his three co-accused should be retried. The Court of Appeal yesterday issued a notice...
BARBADOS-BORN business-man Omar Collymore and his three alleged accomplices implicated in the murder of his wife will now each have to answer to a count of conspiracy to murder after Justice Leighton Pusey granted the Crown permission to amend the...
Former St Mary Western Member of Parliament (MP) Jolyan Silvera, who is charged with his wife Melissa’s murder, will have to wait for another three weeks to find out whether he will be admitted to bail. The 52-year-old one-term People’s National...
Phone data records showed that businessman Omar Collymore had called his wife for minutes, half hour before she was murdered and immediately after, he made another minute-long call to the man whom he allegedly contracted to have her killed....
ALLIANCE INVESTMENTS Management Limited (AIML) has been freed of charges over alleged breaches of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA). Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks on Thursday dismissed 17 POCA charges against the company after he upheld a no-...
Senior Deputy Director of Prosecutions Andrea Martin-Swaby is reminding the public, specifically offenders in gun crimes, that they can obtain a sentence below the mandatory minimum of 15 to 20 years, if they assist the police in a “meaningful way...
King’s Counsel (KC) Valerie Neita Robertson has indicated that the defence lawyers representing the three soldiers implicated in the 2010 shooting death of Keith Clarke will be appealing yesterday’s ruling by the Court of Appeal for the matter to...
The trial of four employees accused of defrauding Tropical Battery of $3 million failed to start in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. The matter was rescheduled to July 18. Christopher Robinson, Jamel Reid, Carl Love, and Hartel...
LEADERS OF of two of the island’s transport groups in Kingston have declared they will not be supporting any form of industrial action against the Government’s deferment of the 16 per cent increase in taxi fare, which was slated to take effect...
TWO CHRISTIAN advocacy groups have welcomed the move by the United States to ban the flying of the Pride flag at its embassies, with one dubbing it a global win for democracy. Reacting to the development, President of the Love March Movement, Dr...
Member of Parliament for Manchester Southern Robert Chin is expected to meet with the Integrity Commission today to iron out issues that he says concern outstanding financial statements for companies in which he is a director. On Sunday, the...
SEVEN MARKETS, including the Cross Roads and Coronation markets, are to be renovated by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Council at a cost of $25 million. Newly appointed Mayor of Kingston and St Andrew Andrew Swaby made the announcement on...
A new trial date is to be fixed in the judge-alone hearing of the $222-million fraud uncovered at the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS). A trial date was previously scheduled for April 3 in the Home Circuit Court; however, the court was informed last...
THE THREE policemen implicated in the July 2022 murder of a St Andrew tiler, who had reported them for alleged bribery, are scheduled to return to the Home Circuit Court on July 23 for the continuation of a case-management hearing on Tuesday....
