A travelling peddler, who is among eight persons left homeless after fire destroyed their homes at Fleet Street in Kingston on Friday, is pondering her next move after her goods and $16,000 – the last of her savings – were also lost in the blaze...
Lawyers representing Antigua’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Anthony Armstrong, who is facing fraud charges in relation to three land transactions, are threatening to take the issue before the Constitutional Court in a bid to have the...
An alleged player in a suspected phone-stealing ring, which was recently discovered and more than 200 devices recovered, will be seeking bail when he next appears before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on November 18. Shaunie Latchman, who...
A bartender, who is claiming that he suffered permanent injuries after a health practitioner at St Joseph’s Hospital in St Andrew wrongly injected a nerve in his buttocks, is suing the government and the health facility for negligence and breach of...
Attorney-at-law Michelle Thomas, who is representing Rushawn Patterson, the person of interest in the murder of social-media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is accusing the police of breaching due process after her client...
The police are probing whether the parents of the man held for the murder of former Portland Eastern Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield played a role in his disappearance yesterday ahead of the start of his trial in the Home Circuit Court....
A St Ann widow, who is blaming the death of her husband on mining activities in the parish, is among nine residents suing the Government, Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II and New Day Aluminum (Jamaica) Limited for alleged breaches of their...
A senior citizen who stole a portion of her friend’s property and later subdivided the land and gifted it to herself, her children, and ex-husband was on Friday taken into custody after her sentencing was postponed in the Home Circuit Court. The...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has hailed Friday’s historic verdict in her office’s first sentencing appeal as a victory for victims of crime. The Court of Appeal on Friday quashed a 12-year sentence that was imposed on...
A St Catherine man who was in 2016 convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl is challenging his 42-year sentence in the Court of Appeal. The 40-odd-year-old convict, whose identity The Gleaner is withholding to protect the victim’s...
A JAMAICAN living in the United States was forced to relinquish possession of a piece of land, which he claimed was a part of a plot of land that he had purchased in Hanover, after the Supreme Court found that he had fraudulently obtained the title...
Gwendolyn McKnight, the woman whose daughter and four grandchildren were brutally murdered in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, in June, says that convicted killer Rushane Barnett should remain behind bars, adding that she is “a little” pleased with his...
THE CASE involving three policemen accused of killing a St Andrew tiler after he had reported them for alleged bribery is expected to be transferred to the Home Circuit Court next Monday. Corporal Miguel Eubanks and Constables Kemar Dennis and...
Steer Town Academy in St Ann is being investigated by the education ministry for alleged academic misconduct in this year’s sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. Reports are that some students were given...
A promising high school footballer who dropped out of Holy Trinity High School this year, reportedly as a result of the deadly ongoing feud between the Darksyde and Genasyde gangs in Kingston Central, was gunned down in a brazen daylight gun attack...
The Manchester farmer who slaughtered his lover, their teenage son, and his brother in April 2014 had reportedly told a taxi driver three weeks before the tragedy that he was going to kill the woman because she owed him $20,000 and was refusing to...
Jeffery Bowen, who braved crocodile-infested sewage water on the night of July 31, 2020, to rescue a drowning young boy, said he would not have been able to live with himself if he had turned a blind eye to the boy’s plight and he ended up dying....
Three alleged gangsters who were sentenced to 20 years in prison for their involvement in the brazen 2011 daylight $50-million jewellery heist at Tropical Jewellers on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew have had their sentences significantly reduced...
High Court judge Justice Vinette Graham on Thursday accused Constable Noel Maitland of using his nine years of experience in the police force to assist him in covering up and getting rid of possible evidence in the murder of his girlfriend. The...
A St Catherine businessman, who was allegedly caught trying to ship approximately ship three pounds of ganja to St Lucia in two bike seats, was on Wednesday freed of the charges when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. William...
The St Mary brothers accused of killing four people, including a Chinese couple, in separate incidents are scheduled to return to the Home Circuit Court on November 24 for a plea and case-management hearing. The date was scheduled yesterday when...
Five alleged members of the Clarendon-based Bloods Gang were yesterday remanded until January 11 next year after their plea and case management hearing failed to start in the Home Circuit Court. Abigayle Hydol, George Robinson, Travis Hardy,...
A bail application for two foreigners arrested in connection with the seizure of 21 firearms and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition at a warehouse at the wharf in Kingston in March is to continue in the Gun Court on Thursday. Lawyers...
Local manufacturers, distributors, other businesses, and citizens who have been deeply impacted by the congestion at the Port of Kingston can expect steady improvement in the clearance of their goods. Concerns were recently raised by the...
A man who won a personal-injury suit, including $50,000 compensation for losing his girlfriend because of motor vehicle injuries that had left him impotent, has scored another victory after the Court of Appeal increased his general damages award to...
