An alleged top-ranking member of the Clansman-One Don Gang known as ‘Lucifer’ reportedly bragged that he had instructed gangsters to shoot up the Spanish Town Police Station following the death of the founding gang leader Donovan ‘Bulbie’ Bennett...
Feared reputed gang leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan had expressed confidence that he could not be convicted under the anti-gang legislation as the police had nothing concrete on him and, worse, were clueless that he was responsible for the split in...
Reputed leader of the One Don Gang, Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, had reportedly promised that he was going to get rid of all his cronies who had turned against him while he was in prison. An ex-member of the Clansman-One Don Gang who had secretly...
The former gangster who secretly recorded his phone conversations with alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang will return to trial to give evidence today about the audio as it is being played. The much-anticipated secret recordings were...
A high-school teacher in Manchester who admitted to having sexual intercourse with his 14-year-old student on the school compound has been sentenced to almost 14 years in prison. The convicted teacher, whose name is to be added to the Sex Offender...
The Home Circuit Court will today start hearing the much-anticipated secretly recorded conversations of alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang, including those of reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan. The way was paved on Monday following a...
The taxi driver implicated in last month’s Washington Boulevard hit-and-run could not hold back his tears yesterday when he appeared in Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The 42-year-old accused, Godfrey Graham, who was a picture of remorse and...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes is to rule on Monday whether he will accept the secret recordings of conversations of alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang following the prosecution’s submission Thursday that they have met the required standard of...
Rastafarian Nzinga King will be seeking financial compensation for assault and battery after Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn ruled on Wednesday that a police corporal accused of forcibly cutting her hair should not be charged...
Hope Pastures residents are seeking a mandatory injunction from the Supreme Court ordering the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to restore and maintain the supply of underground electricity to the community and to remove its overhead supply....
In-limbo education ministry permanent secretary Dean-Roy Bernard is threatening legal action against Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis over alleged defamatory statements made in her damning report on the Joint Committee on Tertiary Education (...
Police officers were left in wonderment yesterday after dancehall entertainer Rytikal, who was arrested for an illegal gun found in his rented car, was freed of gun charges. “I am puzzled,” a senior officer, who seemed lost for word after the case...
A St Mary man who was convicted for having sexual intercourse with his 12-year-old cousin when he was 29 years old had his prison sentence halved to nine years yesterday by the Court of Appeal as a result of a trial judge’s error. The sex offender...
The last of three phones reportedly used by a former Clansman-One Don Gang lieutenant to secretly record conversations with his ex-cronies was finally entered into evidence yesterday after three prior unsuccessful attempts. The prosecution was...
The restrictions placed on how lawyers advertise their businesses locally are perceived by critics as draconian, but those curtailments remain the same in spite of the recent ruling of the Supreme Court in the Bignall case with the General Legal...
A forensic expert testified on Tuesday that the couple targeted by the Clansman-One Don Gang in a murder-arson in New Nursey, Twickenham Park, in 2017, died from gunshot wounds before their house was set on fire. According to the pathologist, no...
Another crime-scene investigator testified on Monday in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial that photographs taken at a murder scene at the Spanish Town bus terminus in St Catherine following the murder of a bus driver are missing. The bus driver,...
Attorney-at-law Vaughn Bignall, who had been embroiled in a legal battle with the General Legal Council (GLC) for advertising his law firm’s services in the media and on social media, yesterday scored a major victory following a landmark ruling by...
A St Catherine labourer who robbed a man of his wallet after peppering him with bullets in 2017 was sentenced Thursday to life in prison after he was found guilty of murder. Justice Leighton Pusey, in handing down the sentence in the Gun Court,...
The woman who lost her life brutally in St Catherine in 2017 in a murder-arson was reportedly visiting her lover for the first time when gangsters allegedly aligned to the Clansman-One Don Gang kicked open the door and sprayed them with bullets...
A police witness in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial disclosed in testimony on Tuesday that photographs taken at a murder scene on Chancery Street in northwest St Andrew in August 2017 could not be located. The crime-scene investigator further...
Two police witnesses have insisted that they never fired a single shot at the alleged member of the Clansman-One Don Gang who fired at them repeatedly before he was chased and allegedly held with an illegal handgun in 2017. Both officers recalled,...
A 21-year-old man who, as a boy, raped his schoolmate after stealing her pen, had his five-year prison sentence reduced last Friday by the Court of Appeal to a three-year suspended term following a misstep by the sentencing judge. The offender was...
The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has applied for an injunction to immediately halt construction of a St Andrew apartment complex it claims is in contravention of the approved building plan. The development, which is at 9...
A former inmate is suing the State for an erectile condition that he reportedly developed while in state care which has left him impotent. He is seeking millions of dollars in compensation. The claimant, Rupert Campbell, had developed an episode of...
