THE CASE involving Matthew Hyde, the university student who reportedly held his girlfriend captive in his dorm room and tortured her with a hot clothes iron, has been transferred to the Home Circuit Court for mention on September 14 after a parish...
Anti-corruption lobby National Integrity Action (NIA) has accused Cabinet minister Aubyn Hill of being “arrogant” and seeking to downplay the widely held view that many Jamaican politicians are corrupt. At a post-Cabinet press briefing yesterday,...
One of the alleged masterminds behind the $160 million fraud at Seprod Group of Companies has been granted bail in the sum of $500,000. On Monday, Parish Court Judge Leighton Morris granted Jason Grant bail in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish...
Investigators from the Fraud Squad are widening their probe to snag the mastermind and other players believed to be behind a nearly $2-million payroll fraud that was recently uncovered at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). Sums...
JUSTICE VINETTE Graham-Allen yesterday warned that she will not be changing the September 18 trial date for the Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, who is to be tried for the murder of one of his two wives, who he is alleged to...
A bail application for the police constable implicated in the alleged rape and robbery of a woman in St Elizabeth following a traffic stop in January was yesterday postponed to November 23. Constable Alwayne Hill is also accused of making purchases...
AMID PUBLIC outrage over the brutal and callous throat-slashing murder of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe, members of the entertainment fraternity yesterday supported a call for the Government to resume hanging to punish child killers. The Braeton...
The Full Court is to deliver its ruling on July 28, following a judicial review of Parish Judge Chester Crooks’ decision that former Education Minister Ruel Reid, former Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President Fritz Pinnock, and their co-...
The St Andrew woman and her brother who admitted to murdering a mother and her two young children, amid a tragic love triangle in 2018, believe their sentences of 36 years in prison before parole were too harsh and are seeking a reduction. At the...
The lone female defendant who is alleged to be a member of the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang, reportedly headed by a police constable, is to know today whether she will be admitted to bail. Jassett Brown is among 11 individuals, including four police...
A windshield wiper who had been in custody since June 2015 for gun murder, but was freed on Tuesday, said he will be turning over his life to Christ and will be getting baptised soon. Mark Curtis, 28, who was charged for murder, as well as making...
A St Andrew construction worker who reportedly confessed to the murder of his girlfriend, following an argument over his refusal to provide money for his child with another woman, was on Tuesday denied bail in the Home Circuit Court. Kevin Seymour...
THE HEAD of one of the island’s legal associations has described as inappropriate and concerning, utterances by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck expressing disappointment at rapist Davian Bryan’s 23-year sentence. The 32-year-old sex offender, who had...
Justice Vinette Graham-Allen yesterday again expressed frustration at the delay being experienced in the murder case surrounding the 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke. Corporal Odel Buckley, Lance Corporal Greg Tinglin, and Private...
The ATTORNEY for the alleged mastermind behind the $160-million fraud at Seprod Group of Companies yesterday complained that his client’s constitutional rights were being breached after the bail hearing was postponed and attempts by him to get an...
The plea and case management in relation to the 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke is to continue on June 5. The case was scheduled to resume yesterday in the Home Circuit Court but was postponed due to the unavailability of the...
The popular Chinese supermarket owner who was killed during a robbery at his business place in Porus, Manchester, last December, lost his life after his killers abandoned their original plan to rob a Brinks truck and instead targeted his...
A MANCHESTER security guard, who allegedly conspired with others to rob a man of a knapsack containing approximately $14 million, after assisting him at the bank, has been released on $900,000 bail following an unsuccessful attempt by the director...
FOREIGN AFFAIRS minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, is moving to have the lawsuit filed against her by a former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent thrown out of the Supreme Court. The lawsuit pertains to donations for her failed 2022 bid for...
Superintendent of Police Howard Chambers, commanding officer for St Catherine, is dismissing reports that 16 of the men who were freed in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial have either been killed or gone missing. “We patrol the communities from which...
Two policemen, who reportedly battered two detainees with a baton nine years ago, were freed Friday of unlawful wounding charges in the St Ann’s Bay Parish Court. Constables Jermaine Holmes and Gary Barrett walked free on two counts of the charges...
HIS JOB was to hire the alleged trigger man behind Tamara Geddes’ death, and for that, Owen Irving believed that his 20-year sentence was too harsh. The Court of Appeal, however, disagreed, noting that if he was indicted for murder under the...
A FORMER Shortwood Teachers’ College employee, who sustained back injuries during a fall on the job in 2011, had $1.5 million shaved off the $4 million in general damages she was seeking after the Supreme Court held that she exaggerated her...
The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has acknowledged that the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) erred in not taking custody of an abandoned day-old baby, dubbed Baby Sunshine, and transporting her to the Bustamante Hospital for Children...
A security guard implicated in last June’s seizure of an illegal weapon found in his stepdaughter’s schoolbag in Rockfort, Kingston, was yesterday freed of gun charges. The 38-year-old Kevin Lewis, of a Windward Road address in Kingston 16, was...
