Gay rights activist Maurice Tomlinson has changed his mind about ending his legal fight with the State over the constitutionality of the buggery law and is now determined to take this fight all the way to the country’s highest court, the Privy...
Constable Vaughn Daley, who shot and killed a man who was reportedly trying to rape a woman in St Thomas in 2009, has been acquitted of murder. The lawman, who was assigned to the Special Branch unit, was freed on Thursday after a seven-member jury...
The cellular phone used to secretly record conversations between contracted killer Denvalyn Minott and Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald was on Friday admitted into evidence, paving the way for the tapes to be heard. The 48-year-...
Oscar Barnes, the alleged killer of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald, reportedly told the police in a caution statement that he could have saved the woman’s life. “Mi could a save ‘Sassy’ life. Mi know somebody a go dead,” he reportedly said...
Cable and Wireless Jamaica, operating as FLOW, has abandoned pursuit of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) and the Government for damage allegedly done to its infrastructure during the Major...
One of the investigators into the July 2020 murder of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald has admitted that the police never ascertained a description of her alleged killer before he was apprehended. The witness, a detective corporal, while...
Jamaica and the region have lost a distinguished son, literary icon, author, and public orator in Professor Edward Baugh, who died on Sunday morning. News of the death of the renowned and well-loved educator, with the velvet voice, whose artistry...
A Portland aspiring nurse and poultry farmer who walked miles in almost pitch-black darkness to stab a female German national 35 times in an apparent love triangle has been sentenced to life in prison. Sherone Campbell, who celebrated her 41st...
Deandre Grant, who, along with his cronies, murdered a man and a woman and wounded two other people in separate incidents between December 2022 and July this year, claimed that he was led down the wrong path by persons he met in a juvenile centre....
The multibillion-dollar fraud and irregularities uncovered at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) have ballooned past US$30 million with more than 200 accounts impacted. The Financial Investigations Division (FID) shared the update in a statement...
Valerie Neita-Robertson, King’s Counsel (KC), believes the two-year suspension handed to her client, attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan, for offensive comments about the country’s chief prosecutor, Paula Llewellyn, is excessive. She is contemplating...
A preliminary hearing date to determine the validity of the “good-faith certificates” in the Keith Clarke murder case has been set for February 22, next year, amid a stern warning from Justice Vinette Graham-Allen that nothing barring an act of God...
Citing high levels of sexual and domestic violence in the island, 13 civil society groups and 16 advocates are hastening parliamentarians to fast-track amendments to the Domestic Violence Act to include an increase of the fines to a maximum of $1...
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) says it will be vigorously opposing any attempts to release sealed information about the plea deals and transcripts of the accompanying hearings for two convicts recently sentenced in...
The woman charged with the gruesome killing of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe was yesterday remanded in custody until February 1 next year. Kayodi Satchell, a 30-year-old dental assistant, is facing a charge of murder for Rowe’s gruesome slaying,...
trial date for April 3 of next year has been set for a judge-alone hearing of the $222-million fraud uncovered at the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS). The case, which was initially set for mention on January 18 of next year, was yesterday brought...
An employee of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, who was fired from his job six years ago, has lost his bid to have his dismissal referred to the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT). Donovan Brown, who had been fired from his job in...
THE DEFENCE and the prosecution in the matter involving Andre Ruddock, accused of slashing the throat of a woman during an alleged church ritual in St James nearly two years ago, have discussed and agreed on a date and the mode for the trial....
Sanja Elliott, the former deputy superintendent in charge of roads and works, who masterminded a close to $49-million scheme at the Manchester Parish Council, is to serve his five-year prison sentence after the Court of Appeal found no reason to...
An American businessman, who allegedly purchased five of the weapons that were discovered in a massive gun find in a warehouse at the wharf in Kingston in March last year, has been offered bail in the sum of $500,000. The 32-year-old defendant,...
A Manchester man who murdered an 11-year-old with the help of his girlfriend, the boy’s sister, has lost his appeal against his conviction and also failed to have his 26-year pre-parole sentence reduced. The killer, Kayode Garwood, who claimed his...
The Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) has so far racked up more than $14 million in legal and associated costs in its fight to recover a $100-million judgment debt plus interest from disbarred attorney-at-law Harold Brady, who handled a land...
A FORMER police constable accused of shooting a man in an alleged dispute over $2.3 million and other items reportedly stolen from scammers in 2009 was on Thursday freed of wounding with intent charges in the Home Circuit Court. The 38-year-old ex-...
Former Financial Controller at INSPORTS, Andrew Wright, and five former employees implicated in a suspected $222-million fraud at the government agency, are scheduled to return to the Home Circuit Court on January 18. Wright, the promoter of the...
