One of the four active guns and ammunition dealers supplying private companies and licensed firearm owners in Jamaica has run out of bullets, following a crippling arms embargo imposed by the United States on Jamaica and 35 other countries,...
The Jamaican Government is exploring several options to have Fitz Bailey, a retired deputy police commissioner, remain in the local public sector. However, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang, who made the disclosure, declined to discuss...
Andrea Bailey* stood in stunned disbelief, trying to make sense of the “disturbing” incident that unfolded before her eyes. The educator was at a popular St Andrew restaurant where she and a small group of pals went to have dinner in late July....
A law enacted nearly three years ago to stem the influx of cell phones in prisons has failed its first test, forcing a prosecutor to end the trial of a prisoner who was purportedly discovered with two mobile devices in his cell at a maximum-...
Amid the rapidly deteriorating state of his heart and the filthy, inhumane conditions in which he was held for over a decade, Vybz Kartel was fearful that he would die in prison, according to court documents. The entertainer has been told by his...
Multiple criminal gangs across Jamaica have forged an “alliance” to target money courier entities, and have reportedly escaped with over $300 million during a recent spate of brazen daytime heists, since last year, police investigators have...
Tens of thousands of motor vehicles with a deadly air bag defect are operational in Jamaica largely unknown to authorities and their owners, an investigation by The Sunday Gleaner has revealed. It also revealed that measures crafted by the...
The Supreme Court has ruled that witness statements recorded by police investigators but not signed by them are inadmissible in court. The ruling provides a partial legal victory for a Trelawny man who was ordered to stand trial for murder. The...
The union representing teachers in Jamaica is now entangled in a lawsuit filed by a former president, who aims to nullify its current three-year wage agreement with the Government, according to court documents. La Sonja Harrison, immediate past...
One of Jamaica’s major international partners has indicated that a US$2.3-million project it financed to help prevent flooding in the east Kingston community of Harbour View was completed without any “design failures”. But that assertion by the...
The Government spent £185,659 (or J$36.2 million) for the services of the British legal team that represented Jamaica in the Vybz Kartel appeal before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in the United Kingdom, official data obtained...
Sandino Hernandez* and his wife Dorothy*, a retiree, were overcome with compassion when a woman they met in June last year approached them for financial assistance three weeks later. The “timid, soft-spoken woman”, Jessica Fry*, indicated that her...
A forensic investigation has concluded that the now-shuttered Alliance Finance Limited (AFL) obtained benefits totalling nearly $1 billion from the criminal conduct for which it was convicted, the authorities have disclosed. The disclosure was...
Up to a year ago, Sebastian Henry* was toiling more than 12 hours each day as a chef to earn a weekly salary of $15,000. He would typically wake up around 4 a.m. each day to give himself sufficient time to prepare the breakfast menu at the St...
Fraudulent contracts, crooked invoicing and underhand cheque cashing were at the heart of a two-year multimillion-dollar raid of public funds by former National Energy Solutions Limited (NESoL) official Lawrence Pommels. Pommels used the...
Last week’s coroner’s inquest ruling that controversial religious leader Kevin Smith died by suicide has drawn a stinging rebuke from criminal defence attorney Valerie Neita-Robertson, King’s Counsel, who represents Smith’s estate and is...
Eleven years ago, Jeffrey James found out through a relative that a government-owned company was selling lands in the resort town of Negril, Westmoreland, and he immediately sprang into action. James, who is a member of the United States (US)...
The software engineer who was ordered to pay a Jamaican attorney over $12 million for allegedly causing the leak of photos and videos of their sexual encounter is facing “financial hardship”, his attorney has claimed. But the claim by Rodrick Brown...
Motorists who for over 15 years paid traffic ticket fines that were illegally imposed should be required to show proof in order to collect a court-ordered refund, attorneys for the Government have proposed. However, lawyers for the motorist whose...
A debit card belonging to an elderly woman residing in the United States (US) was allegedly used by a scammer based in Jamaica to purchase a new Mercedes-Benz motor car in Japan and to cover shipping costs. In another case, an accused lottery...
It is “dangerous” and “a great risk” for the country’s chief prosecutor to continue to exercise the powers of her office following a ruling by the Constitutional Court on Friday, a top legal expert has warned. The Jamaican Constitution gives the...
A homeowner who complained for nearly a decade about the nuisance caused by a sewage pumping station erected next to his property has been awarded nearly $6 million in damages for breaches of contract. The award was made by the Supreme Court in a...
Harold Brady, the disbarred attorney and former politician, has been ordered to serve 30 days in prison for failing to hand over half of the $140 million he collected for a publicly owned company from the sale of a St Andrew property. However,...
Amid fears that the decision to overturn the murder conviction of popular entertainer Vybz Kartel and co-accused has exposed a major defect in existing laws, Jamaican authorities are now moving to hastily plug the gap that could allow accused...
