The widow of St Andrew accountant Keith Clarke, who three Jamaica Defence Force soldiers have been accused of murdering in May 2010, is expected to start giving evidence today at the trial in the Home Circuit Court. Dr Claudette Clarke had taken...
Facey Commodity Company Limited is blaming the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Company for a massive fire which destroyed its New Port West warehouse and other structures in Kingston almost three years ago and is seeking to recover more than $2...
Dwayne Pink’s lawyer yesterday urged the jury to find him not guilty of the murder of Simone Campbell-Collymore and Winston Walters while arguing that the prosecution has failed to present any evidence to prove that Pink was involved in the deadly...
The attorney-at-law who is representing the alleged contract killer in the murder of businesswoman Simone Campbell Collymore yesterday sought to discredit the evidence of one of the shooters, branding him a liar. Attorney-at-law Sanjay Smith, who...
Omar Collymore’s attorney yesterday sought to convince the jury that the United States businessman had absolutely no reason to kill his wife and was merely just a “gyalis” and not a murderer. Attorney-at-law Diane Jobson, who is representing the 41...
Omar Collymore was yesterday painted by the prosecution as a cold-hearted man who was struggling for money and, as a result, over several days, engineered the horrific murder of his wife so that he could benefit from her $101-million insurance...
While proclaiming his innocence, one of the alleged murder accomplices in the January 2, 2018 shooting deaths of businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore and her taxi-driver Winston Walters, said he did everything possible to separate himself from...
TWO MEN implicated in the brazen daylight contract killing of businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore are to remain on trial after Justice Leighton Pusey ruled that they too have a case to answer. Dwayne Pink and Shaquilla Edwards are charged along...
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...
