The People’s National Party (PNP) says Parliament had usurped the executive arm of the government by passing a bill to extend the tenure of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn. “What has happened in this case is a parliamentary...
Government lawyers have labelled the reasons proffered by the People’s National Party (PNP) in its objection to the recent amendments to the Jamaican Constitution, allowing Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn to remain in office...
A 21-year-old man, who killed a man and a woman and wounded two others in separate shooting incidents between last December and July this year, is to be sentenced on December 7. The defendant, Deandre Grant, a construction worker of Bellefield...
Fishermen at the Greenwich Town Fishing Village in St Andrew were taken by surprise by heavy rainfalls which flooded several of their vessels on Thursday night, with one sinking after taking in a huge volume of water. Despite being aware that the...
A SOFTWARE engineer who sued the State for alleged breaches of his constitutional rights after he was reportedly issued several alleged illegal traffic tickets over a 15-year period is requesting damages in the sum of $1 million. The Constitutional...
One of the foot soldiers in the shocking murder of politician Phillip Paulwell’s infant daughter and her mother is hoping that Jamaicans will find it in their hearts to forgive him. Toshyna Patterson, 27, and 10-month-old Sarayah Paulwell were...
THE THREE policemen accused of killing a St Andrew tiler, after he had reported them for alleged bribery, on Tuesday had their bail extended to March 21 in the Home Circuit Court. Corporal Miguel Eubanks and Constables Kemar Dennis and Purcell...
An American businessman, who allegedly purchased five of the weapons that were found in a massive gun find in a warehouse at the wharf in Kingston in March last year, is to make a bail application on November 23 in the Gun Court. The 32-year-old...
The Chinese contractor, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), which executed the Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP) in 2016, has suggested that FLOW Jamaica used the project as a cover to change out its old infrastructure. The...
A former policeman who was convicted of raping and buggering a woman, including sexually assaulting her with his gun, has lost his bid to have his 35-year sentence and conviction overturned. Kevin Taylor was convicted of rape, buggery, four counts...
FLOW Jamaica has denied that it had resisted the Government’s effort to coordinate with the telecoms company to relocate its infrastructure throughout the Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP) in 2016. The company also dismissed reports...
A legal battle between beach rights campaigners and local state agencies over public access to the Blue Lagoon Beach, via the parochial road, has been set to take place in the Portland Parish Court. Residents and civil groups, following the...
A police corporal has testified that the man whom Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald had reportedly hired to disfigure his wife with ‘black acid’ had refused to give a statement, claiming he feared for his life. A police informant, who is an...
Four months before Tonia McDonald was murdered, her husband, Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, reportedly pointed her out while she was having her hair done and told a man, who he had hired, that he could douse her with a corrosive substance. “Him...
Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald “was always running away from her husband”, and for every year that she was married, would return to her original family home with a packed suitcase. Her husband, well-known businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’...
The self-confessed contract killer in the murder of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald yesterday disclosed that he had purchased a “whole heap” of firearms from Haiti. The 48-year-old fisherman, Denvalyn ‘Bubbla’ Minott, made the revelation...
DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT of Police (DSP) Justin Woolcock got the shock of his life yesterday when less than an hour after he arrived at the Supreme Court and had earlier wondered whether the nearby car park would be able to withstand an earthquake, he...
Asserting that the State is being driven by an “agenda” to preserve the country’s buggery laws, the Supreme Court says it is worrying that savings law clauses are being used to prevent scrutiny of laws violating citizens’ rights. “… It is...
ONE OF the three men implicated in the murder and kidnapping of opposition lawmaker Phillip Paulwell’s infant daughter and her mother has pleaded guilty and is to be sentenced on November 15 in the Home Circuit Court. The defendant pleaded guilty...
The surprise discovery of two new statements from the contract killer in the murder of Tonia McDonald, along with eight other undisclosed witness statements, yesterday forced an adjournment of the trial of Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald until...
DEFENCE COUNSEL Christopher Townsend yesterday continued to chip away at the credibility of the main witness in the 2020 murder Tonia McDonald while highlighting numerous inconsistencies and omissions. However, the contract killer, Denvalyn ‘...
THE MANCHESTER woman who reportedly murdered her husband, Constable Damien Blair, during a domestic dispute at their home in May, is to reappear in the Home Circuit Court on Monday. Kacey-Ann Blair, who was remanded, had her matter rescheduled on...
The case involving former State Minister of Foreign Affairs Leslie Campbell, who is charged with failing to provide information relating to his statutory declaration, suffered a further delay on Thursday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court...
A WOMAN who was sentenced to almost three years in prison in June for pouring hot water on a man was last month was denied bail by the Court of Appeal, pending an appeal. The applicant, Francis Bartley-Downer, was convicted of causing grievous...
