The family of convicted Tivoli Gardens strongman, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, has forever been plunged in infamy. The name Coke has forever been linked to organised crime. Well, at least, that’s the narrative the community offers up...
For some, diving may be regarded as a risky activity, but in one inner-city community in Kingston, it is being used, though not initially intended, as a tool to steer young men away from crime. On any given Sunday, more than 20 youth from the...
A St Catherine housewife who took her ex-husband to court for an equal share in a house that he had bought before their marriage was left empty-handed after the judge ruled that she was not entitled to the property, having not contributed towards...
When the National Contracts Commission (NCC) pulled the plug on Cenitech Engineering Company in 2013, revoking its contractor licence, the company not only lost out on billions of dollars in government contract but the company’s reputation took a...
Thursday’s release of three high-profile members of the notorious Coke family and four others on murder and gang-related charges served as a blow to law-enforcement and justice officials who have pitched the crushing of mafias as a key goal to...
Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn is to write to the Supreme Court’s registrar to request a date for the resumption of the Trafigura matter following the Privy Council’s dismissal of the appeal brought by five functionaries of the...
Senior attorney-at-law Diane Jobson has dismissed as ridiculous assertions that “a monster has been let loose on society” in the wake of the acquittal of reputed gang leader Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton. The 28-year-old reputed gangster and his co...
Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, who is accused of plotting the murders of his two wives in separate incidents, is to know on April 30 whether he will be granted bail. The fate of his co-accused, Oscar Barnes, in the murder of...
A St Thomas farmer who has accused the police of wrongfully destroying his ganja field comprising 806 plants, is to return to court on May 12. He was offered $150,000 bail when he appeared in the St Thomas Parish Court on Thursday. The...
A study conducted last year to evaluate the attitudes of pre-service early childhood teachers towards mathematics has found that a large number of them have no interest in tutoring the subject. The finding has triggered alarm bells in the education...
Dancehall artiste Ryan ‘Rytikal’ McFarlane, who is on gun charges, has been mandated by the Gun Court not to leave his St Thomas home before 6 a.m. and must be inside by 6 p.m. daily as part of his condition for bail. The curfew order was imposed...
If the father of the young man who Dante Brooks, son of dancehall artiste Movado, and his co-accused, Andre Hinds, murdered could have traded place with his son, he would. This was evident from the heartache and pain expressed in the victim impact...
The two former Petrojam bigwigs facing fraud charges in relation to alleged fictitious travel claims have been given the green light by the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to fly without restrictions. The accused, former general manager Floyd...
Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks is to decide today in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court whether he will be restricting the movement of the two former Petrojam executives who are on fraud charges. Both accused reside and work in the United...
A factory worker implicated in the recent seizure of 1,500 pounds of compressed ganja at the Kingston Wharves is to be sentenced on April 7. The offender, Jermaine Minott, was captured in video footage transporting the marijuana to the port. The...
Britney Francis has been on the edge since last December, when her world turned upside down after she was informed that her three-year-old daughter has Stage-Four neuroblastoma, a rare type of childhood cancer. The devastated 21-year-old mother...
A former ward of the State who claimed that he was forced to murder Simone Campbell-Collymore as repayment for a missing gun has now asked the family to forgive him for the immense suffering that he has caused. He is also hoping that the family of...
The Court of Appeal is to rule on or before April 30 whether it will grant permission to Ruel Reid and Professor Fritz Pinnock to go to the Privy Council in the United Kingdom. The duo are challenging the Supreme Court’s and the Full Court’s...
Attorney Richard Small asked the Court of Appeal on Monday to throw out Ruel Reid and Fritz Pinnock’s application for leave to go to the Privy Council and to put an end to their abuse of the court process. Reid, a former education minister...
As Jamaica gears up for the electric car revolution, the Government is not only fine-tuning the road map for transition but is looking to incentivise a swing to the market. The shift towards electric has heightened globally, especially with...
Retired Superintendent of Police James Forbes, this week, successfully appealed a 2014 conviction on corruption and from the short, everybody is happy about it, not least of all Forbes himself. A stellar career on the verge of being tainted has...
From around 6, Kresten Stewart nurtured dreams of one day serving her country as a policewoman. Having applied to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and gone through an interview, she was closer to fulfilment. The 27-year-old woman, who is on...
Former Senior Superin-tendent of Police James Forbes, whose 2014 corruption conviction was yesterday thrown out by the Court Appeal, says that if he could go back in time, he would again take part in the events that had led to him being charged...
An American citizen was hauled before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Wednesday for reportedly breaching the curfew order after he went to the police station in the night to check on his brother, another United States citizen, who had...
A man serving a life sentence for the 2013 shooting death of a four-year-old boy in a dispute over a broken pipe in Allman Town, Kingston, has had his appeal tossed last week despite maintaining that he was mistakenly identified as the shooter. The...
