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...
WESTERN BUREAU: Following the looting of a refrigerated container of chicken that washed ashore in Hellshire, St Catherine, earlier this month, acting chief public health inspector for St James, Sherika Lewis, is urging residents in the western...
WESTERN BUREAU: Tempers flared at Thursday’s St James Municipal Corporation meeting after Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon shot down attempts by People’s National Party (PNP) councillors to challenge his authority to remove political banners and...
WESTERN BUREAU: Forensic investigator Detective Constable Rickardo Evans yesterday concluded his evidence-in-chief in the Mario Deane trial, which is ongoing in the Westmoreland Circuit Court, by showing the court photographs he took of the cell...
WESTERN BUREAU: The crime scene investigator who examined the Barnett Street Police Station cell where Mario Deane was beaten in August 2014 told the Westmoreland Circuit Court on Tuesday that he saw water on the floor and a blood-like substance in...
WESTERN BUREAU: Detective Constable Rickardo Evans of the Area One Scene-of-Crime Unit testified yesterday in the Westmoreland Circuit Court that he was escorted to the cell where Mario Deane was fatally beaten in 2014 by one of the officers now...
WESTERN BUREAU: A forensic examiner from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) admitted on Thursday that he could not confirm whether the Barnett Street Police Station cell, where Mario Deane was beaten on August 3, 2014, had been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dwayne Vaz, the former member of parliament for Westmoreland Central, is calling for a revamp of the Government’s procurement processes, saying it will result in a smoother flow of transactions. He suggested the implementation of e-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Economist Dr Andre Haughton, the Opposition’s spokesman on science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship, says that Jamaica must acknowledge the importance of technology in national development in order to avoid repeating...
WESTERN BUREAU: The trial of three cops charged in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane was yesterday adjourned until Thursday to give the defence lawyers time to review photos and videos submitted as evidence by the Independent Commission of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The trial of 16 members of the controversial Montego Bay-based Qahal Yahweh religious group was delayed once again in the St James Parish Court on Friday due to the absence of both the defendants’ lawyer and the trial judge. As a...
WESTERN BUREAU: When the ninth staging of the annual Jill Stewart MoBay City Run (JSMCR) 10K and 5K walk/run kicks off on Sunday, May 4, Chris-Shana Gallimore, one of the scholarship recipients tied to the event, will be on hand to assist the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Murari Sarangi, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Mario Deane’s body, yesterday, told the Westmoreland Circuit Court that based on the injuries he saw, he concluded that the deceased man was pinned down during the...
Western Bureau: Dr Murari Sarangi, the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on Mario Deane’s body after his 2014 death in custody at the Barnett Street Police Station in Montego Bay, St James, told the Westmoreland Circuit Court yesterday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lorna Bailey, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust’s (JNHT) director of public education, public relations and communication, is calling for greater security protection of national monuments after the Sam Sharpe monument in Montego...
WESTERN BUREAU: Adam Stewart, executive chairman of Sandals Resort International, is recommending that a half-marathon be part of next year’s 10th anniversary staging of the Jill Stewart MoBay City Run (JSMCR) 10K/5K walk-run event, which was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica must position itself to seize emerging opportunities in the global services industry, which is projected to generate an estimated US$1.38 trillion globally by 2032, according to Wayne Sinclair, president of the Global...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Circuit Court yesterday heard the deposition statement of the now-deceased Castel McKenzie, the man who was not allowed to bail Mario Deane after he was arrested for possession of a ganja spliff and taken to Barnett...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rohan Rose, the man accused of not telling the police what he knew about the 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is expected to know his fate when he returns to the St James Circuit Court on October...
WESTERN BUREAU: High Court Justice Courtney Daye, the presiding judge in the trial of three police personnel implicated in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane, is urging members of the media to be mindful of how they disseminate information...
