The head of one of the island’s largest transportation groups says his members are anticipating an increase close to 120 per cent, noting that anything under 60 per cent would be unacceptable. Transport Minister Daryl Vaz on Wednesday advised...
Former Education Minister Ruel Reid and former Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President Fritz Pinnock, along with their three co-accused, are to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on October 13. The mention date was scheduled...
A St Andrew mechanic, who sued a customer for a 50 per cent stake in her property after claiming they had jointly purchased the land and were romantically involved, has been given three months to vacate the premises. The judgment was handed down in...
Several schools are set to start the new school term with vacancies in critical areas. This despite Education Minister Fayval Williams’ assurances to the island that there are enough “high quality” teachers left in the system amid the ongoing...
Disgruntled and frustrated University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica’s administrative staff are threatening to remain off the job on Monday if management refuses to take steps to bring their pay in line with their counterparts in other institutions...
TEACHERS AT Seaforth High School in St Thomas are insisting that normalcy cannot be guaranteed at next week’s start of the new school year amid their continued disquiet over the dismissal of the principal. Calbert Thomas, who served the school for...
A United States citizen, who is suing Fiesta Jamaica Limited for injuries she reportedly sustained while vacationing at Grand Palladium Jamaica Resort in 2014, has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay nearly $2 million as security for cost or...
Residents of Aylsham Heights in St Andrew have secured a major triumph in their challenge against the erection of a cell tower in their community by telecoms firm Digicel. The Supreme Court last month quashed a building permit issued to the company...
The Portland businesswoman implicated in May’s double gun murder in Portland, which included the alleged target, a pregnant woman, is now denying any involvement in the incident. Jody-Ann Jackson, who, yesterday, was offered $4-million bail, had...
The All Island Banana Growers Association Limited (AIBGAL) has been at a standstill for nearly two years because of a row between former and present directors over the current composition of the board, which has affected banana and plantain growers...
The Jamaica Redevelopment Foundation Inc (JRF) has lost its bid to challenge an Industrial Dispute Tribunal (IDT) award of US$203,280 that was granted to an ex-employee for wrongful dismissal. Court of Appeal judge Simone Wolfe Reece denied the...
A Kingston vendor who lured a woman and her partner to a church and, along with an accomplice, robbed them at gunpoint of valuables, including $2,000 and a handkerchief, has been sentenced to 21 years, three months and 16 days in prison. Keddane...
Jamaica Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James is determined to have his job reinstated while challenging his interdiction, and has already started the process to appeal Thursday’s order for him to remain off the job. “The appeal has...
Jamaica Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James is to know today whether he will be reinstated in his job, pending a judicial review of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Andrew Lewis' decision to interdict him for perceived “...
The chairman of the General Legal Council (GLC) says she has been bombarded by complaints from several lawyers and ordinary citizens deploring attorney Isat Buchanan’s conduct following “profane” comments he made on the weekend. The comments were...
Isat Buchanan’s apology yesterday, for lewd comments directed at Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, has been judged insufficient by Metry Seaga, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ). Seaga yesterday...
Following yet another legal blow, former Education Minister Ruel Reid and former Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President Fritz Pinnock are set to enter a new phase in their legal battle. The men are planning to appeal yesterday’s ruling that...
The widow of one of the American missionaries brutally murdered in 2016, Teri Nichols Hines, says she was not surprised by yesterday’s guilty verdict against one of her former husband’s killers as his evidence was not believable. “I am very...
The prosecution in the trial of the men accused of murdering two United States missionaries in St Mary yesterday urged the jury to find Andre Thomas was not just an innocent bystander who had begged for their lives to be spared. Thomas, a 22-year-...
A St Mary labourer accused of killing the two US missionaries in 2016 has suggested that he was charged because the lead investigator had a personal grudge against him and had threatened to have him imprisoned or killed. Twenty-two-year-old Andre...
Young people on the island are calling for emphasis to be placed on youth inclusion and for that to be entrenched in the Constitution when it is reformed. The youths are also advocating for the country’s supreme laws to be presented in a manner...
AMOI LEON Issa, the mother of nine-year-old Gabriel King who was viciously murdered last January, wants the Supreme Court to find that the State breached her rights to privacy when the parish court judge granted permission to the police to search...
The country is to know by July 31 whether an extension granted to the island’s chief prosecutor, Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn, for her to remain in her post, was legal. Double-murder convict Mervin Cameron, who filed a suit in...
The St Mary farmer who had admitted to killing one of the two United States missionaries murdered in St Mary in 2016 has rejected the suggestion that he changed his story about killing the two missionaries because he wanted a lesser sentence. The...
ONE OF the two United States missionaries killed in 2016 in bushes in St Mary was chopped six times in the head after being shot in the chest. Harold Nichols, 53, the court heard, died as a result of the multiple chop wounds. The wounds, which...
