WESTERN BUREAU: High Court Justice Courtney Daye, presiding over the Mario Deane trial, began his summation at the Westmoreland Circuit Court on Tuesday, urging the seven-member jury to base their verdict solely on the evidence, not personal...
WESTERN BUREAU: The defence attorneys for the three police personnel in the Mario Deane trial yesterday declared that an inmate who had testified for the prosecution was a liar with a personal agenda, while delivering their closing arguments...
WESTERN BUREAU: There were several testy exchanges on Friday between King’s Counsel Peter Champagnie, the lawyer for 16 members of the controversial Qahal Yahweh religious organisation, and a prosecution witness in the their ongoing trial, about...
WESTERN BUREAU: Forty six-year-old Mario Brown, who admitted in court to applying for a passport under a false name in 2014, has been ordered to pay a $400,000 fine or spend 30 days in prison. He appeared before Judge Natiesha Fairclough-Hylton in...
Western Bureau: With two witnesses, who were slated to testify on behalf of two of the three police personnel charged in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane, failing to put in an appearance at the Westmoreland Circuit Court yesterday, the defence...
WESTERN BUREAU: Three police officers charged in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane gave unsworn statements from the dock on Thursday in the Westmoreland Circuit Court despite their legal team opting not to present a formal defence. Corporal...
WESTERN BUREAU: The presiding judge in the Mario Deane trial yesterday rejected an application from the defence team of the three police personnel implicated in Deane’s death, for the trial’s seven-member jury to be allowed to visit and examine the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mollie Plummer, a former senior investigator with the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), testified on Tuesday in the Westmoreland Circuit Court that the cell where Mario Deane was fatally beaten in August 2014...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Chapman Longmore, the acting senior resident in the Department of General Surgery at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in August 2014, testified that there were no available intensive care unit (ICU) beds for Mario Deane, who was...
WESTERN BUREAU: While fighting to keep his emotions in check, Jamaican athletics icon Usain Bolt yesterday credited his father, who operated a grocery shop in their home community of Sherwood Content, Trelawny, with teaching him the value of...
WESTERN BUREAU: Anika Lowe, senior forensic science officer at the Forensic Institute’s DNA Unit, testified in the Westmoreland Circuit Court on Monday that blood samples collected from several items and areas outside the prison cell where Mario...
WESTERN BUREAU: Courtney Cole, chief technical director in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, says farmers must be willing to organise themselves into groups so they can better access the resources they need to thrive in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The prosecution in the trial of the three police personnel charged in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane failed, on two occasions, in their bid to show the denim trousers that Deane was believed to have been wearing on the day he...
WESTERN BUREAU: Forensic scientist Nadia Whyte testified on Monday that two exhibits submitted in the trial of three police officers accused in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane did not match the descriptions on the evidence bags. Whyte, from...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James farmer Nadesha Campbell, who has faced several hurdles while seeking to launch her own coconut cassava bread, thought she had a breakthrough earlier this year after showing her product to businessman Michael Lee-Chin, but...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mercia Fraser, the mother of Mario Deane, struggled to contain her emotions yesterday as she testified about receiving a pair of bloodstained pants, which she believes belonged to her son. Fraser, who was the first witness in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sagicor Bank CEO Chorvelle Johnson-Cunningham is calling on women in leadership to actively support other women’s growth as a strategy to aid Jamaica’s development. She made this appeal at Thursday’s launch of the Women of Western...
WESTERN BUREAU: As the eight-year, multibillion-dollar rehabilitation of Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) nears completion, the Government is touting progress while the Opposition voices deep frustration over delays and ballooning costs. Speaking...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mercia Fraser, the mother of Mario Deane, is expected to retake the witness stand tomorrow when the trial of three police personnel charged in relation to her son’s death resumes in the Westmoreland Circuit Court. Presiding High...
WESTERN BUREAU: A former inmate at the lock-up where Mario Deane was beaten on August 3, 2014, told the court yesterday that he did not review his statement to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) when its investigators met with...
WESTERN BUREAU: Attorney-at-law Martyn Thomas, who is representing two of the three police personnel on trial for Mario Deane’s death in 2014, yesterday challenged the prosecution’s eighth witness about apparent discrepancies between his current...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Francine Phillips-Kelly, medical officer of health for St James, says the parish remains vigilant in detecting mosquito-borne diseases such as yellow fever, even as Jamaica continues to battle a dengue outbreak. Addressing the...
WESTERN BUREAU: A former inmate at the Barnett Street Police Station lock-up has testified that the three cops now facing charges instructed him not to tell investigators what he saw on the day Mario Deane was beaten. The witness, currently in...
WESTERN BUREAU: A former inmate at the Barnett Street Police Station lock-up told the Westmoreland Circuit Court on Monday that he saw the three cops being tried for Mario Deane’s death, on duty at the facility, on the day Deane was beaten. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Pastor Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), has commended Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness for the Jamaican government’s stance on upholding the country’s reputation for religious...
