The Home Circuit court late this afternoon granted bail to 38-year-old Ann Marie Williams, the St Andrew woman who was earlier today sentenced to one year in prison on each of her two counts of causing death by dangerous driving. After filing...
Ann-Marie Williams, the St Andrew woman convicted of two counts of causing death by dangerous driving has been sentenced to one year in prison on each count.
Published:Wednesday | December 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
A PASTOR who raped a 15-year-old schoolgirl at a church in May Pen, Clarendon, in April 2012, was yesterday sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.Oraine Ellis, 32, was convicted in the Clarendon Circuit Court last month by a seven-member jury....
High court judge Gloria Smith was left shocked today after news came that the lawyer representing one of two men in a murder trial has left the island in the middle of the case because of a reported emergency. The lawyer, Donald Bryan,...
A prosecutor in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is now hospitalised in an unconscious state following a car crash along the Negril main road in Westmoreland this afternoon. The circumstances of the crash are not...
The trial of 64-year-old businessman, Bertram Clarke, who is accused of murdering his wife in 2007, will enter its fifth week today in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston. Twenty-two-year-old Arthur Robinson, is also on trial with the...
One of the five manslaughter charges against 26-year-old land surveyor Mark Amos has been dropped. However, Justice Sharon George has ruled that he has a case to answer in relation to the four other counts of causing death by dangerous driving....
The Crown is expected to close its case today at the trial of 26-year-old land surveyor Mark Amos who is charged with five counts of manslaughter. Fifteen witnesses have been called by the prosecution at the trial which began four weeks ago in the...
Published:Friday | November 27, 2015 | 6:15 PMBarbara Gayle
FORMER POLICEMAN, 36-year-old Alpheus Wade has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for kidnapping Kingston businessman Marc Frankson in June 2011.Justice Jennifer Straw, in handing down sentencing yesterday in the Home Circuit Court, said Wade...
The Kingston-based attorney and medical doctor accused of forging the will of deceased hotelier John Sinclair are to return to court on January 27. Sixty-seven-year-old lawyer, Peter Millingen, and 58-year-old medical doctor, Dane Levy, appeared in...
The start of the trial of the five men charged with the beheading of a mother and daughter in Lauriston, St. Catherine in 2011 has been rescheduled to February 29 next year. The trial could not proceed in the Home Circuit Court today because...
Prominent attorney-at-law Harold Brady has been freed of fraud charges. When the matter was called up in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court today the court was informed that the money owed to businessman, Jeffrey Panton, has now...
A jury this morning freed three policemen who were on trial for the murders of two brothers in St Andrew 14 years ago. Justice Vinette Graham Allen instructed the jurors to return a formal verdict of not guilty after prosecutors cited...
A 37-year-old woman whose car ploughed into a St Andrew bus stop in 2011, killing two people, including a blind woman, has been convicted of causing death by dangerous driving. A seven-member jury returned the guilty verdict against Ann-Marie...
Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
A Supreme Court judge has described as insensitive the manner in which the police effected a search at the premises of a St Mary businessman, seized his motor vehicles, and locked him up for several days.Justice David Batts made harsh comments when...
The Supreme Court has granted ATL permission to challenge an order by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) that former employee, Catherine Barber be reinstated. Justice Bryan Sykes this morning granted leave to ATL to go to the...
Published:Friday | November 6, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
After giving years of service to Jamaica's justice system while serving on the Bench, some retired judges now find themselves broke.That's according to outgoing president of the Court of Appeal Justice Seymour Panton, who highlighted the impecunious...
The Court of Appeal has thrown out the appeal brought by elector Manley Bowen to set aside a $4.9 million award in relation to the legal battle involving Member of Parliament for North East St Ann, Shahine Robinson, over her dual citizenship issue...
Published:Saturday | October 31, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Two mothers whose babies were among the 19 who died over a five-month period at two of the island's leading health facilities from bacterial infections have sought the services of a prominent lawyer last week to represent them in negligence suits...
Published:Friday | October 30, 2015 | 5:50 PMBarbara Gayle
THE COURT of Appeal has thrown out an appeal by the minister of national security and the attorney general, who were seeking an order to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that gave attorney-at-law Herbert Hamilton the go-ahead to pursue a claim for...
The Supreme Court has granted leave to PhD student in biochemistry, Suzette Curtello, to challenge a decision of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in relation to certain requirements to complete her degree. She claims the...
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Children's Advocate does not have a statutory right to withhold information in circumstances where rights to freedom of movement have been severely restricted. This is in reference to the case of former...
The two men charged with the murder of former Member of Parliament Dr Neil McGill have been found guilty in the Manchester Circuit Court. Andy Wareham and Milton Green were convicted following a unanimous decision by a 12-member jury. The third co-...
Published:Thursday | October 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison has taken up the case involving a 10-year-old boy who was allegedly slapped several times by a principal at a primary school in the Corporate Area last month."Investigations are going on and we are dealing...
Published:Thursday | October 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle
Mercia Frazer, the mother of Mario Deane, a 31-year-old construction worker, who died as a result of a brutal beating while in police custody, has filed a lawsuit against the Government.Deane's death ignited much public outcry, with Jamaicans at...
