The judiciary is to decide today in whose custody the children of Melissa Silvera and former legislator Jolyan Silvera will be placed as the high public interest murder saga involving the Silveras continues. The Gleaner has learnt that the matter...
Sections of the gritty community of Zambia in Central Village, St Catherine, have earned the tag of an unofficial burial ground, a concern for some residents as the security forces constantly unearth shallow graves with human remains. An excavation...
Senior attorney-at-law Bert Samuels says he is always wary of the court going ahead without the public viewing as the debate regarding media and family being locked out of the Jolyan Silvera murder case rages on. Silvera, 52, a former People’s...
One of two pieces of evidence the defence had to wrestle from the prosecution in the Petrojam fraud matter was disclosed yesterday, days after they wrapped up a no-case submission, and weeks after the long-running trial got under way. Former...
The defence team for murder accused and former St Mary Western Member of Parliament (MP) Jolyan Silvera, headed by King’s Counsel Peter Champagnie, says they have work to do, as per instructions, as their client maintains his innocence. Silvera, a...
Tensions flared yesterday at the scene of a suspected drowning at the Kingston Harbour as family members publicly expressed anger at how a son who longed for love met his demise while swimming on Tuesday. Dead is 12-year-old Karif Mitchenere, who...
King’s Counsel KD Knight yesterday said the state is using “its great might” against two former Petrojam executives accused of defrauding the petroleum company by using allegedly fraudulent claims for overseas travel allowances amounting to more...
Photographs reportedly taken at the scene of the crime, inside the Diamond Court, Stony Hill home of Melissa Silvera and her husband, former People’s National Party legislator Jolyan Silvera, are expected to play a critical role in the ongoing...
Exactly a week after Melissa Silvera’s funeral, detectives assigned to the Major Investigation Division (MID) yesterday preferred charges against her husband, former St Mary Western Member of Parliament (MP) Jolyan Silvera. Silvera, a land...
Former Member of Parliament for Western St Mary Jolyan Silvera was preparing for a party yesterday evening for an aunt of his deceased wife when investigators showed up to confront him. The Gleaner understands that the party was cancelled as the...
A St Andrew mother is hysterical after almost two weeks of non-communication with her son, who last spoke to her from Mexico as he sought to travel with his child across the border illegally into the United States (US). Michelle Clarke*, who...
Fire of unknown origin, which gutted premises located at 3 (1/2) and 4 Swettenham Road in Whitfield Town, Kingston 13, last Wednesday, has left 25 people homeless, including children of varying ages. The inferno reportedly began at 5:50 p.m. and...
It was a feeling of déjà vu for relatives of 14-year-old Rasheem Wilson, a student and resident of 100 Lane in St Andrew, after he was fatally shot during an alleged police operation mid-afternoon yesterday. His grandmother, Michelle Dawkins, told...
One of the attorneys representing entertainer Popcaan, Matthew Hyatt, in his submission before the St Thomas parish court yesterday said there is a vast inequality between soca and dancehall events. Popcaan, whose given name is Andre Sutherland,...
What began as a traffic stop along Maxfield Avenue yesterday afternoon quickly turned into a bizarre shooting incident, leaving a police constable seriously injured after a man disarmed his colleague and shot him repeatedly. The shooter, who is...
The defence attorneys representing former Petrojam General Manager (GM) Floyd Grindley and former board chair Dr Perceval Singh yesterday further cross-examined Delroy Brown, chief financial officer (CFO), during a recall of witnesses. The men are...
Children and adults who endured childhood trauma and abuse have a reading space to learn how a Canadian-Jamaican chronicled her truth and are encouraged to pen their own stories to overcome. Kamelah Blair, an award-winning Canadian author,...
One of two men shot dead in Wednesday’s double murder on Wildman Street in Kingston has left the mother of his child saddened that the bond between father and son has been broken. Akiel ‘Bull’ Ainsworth, 26, and 30-year-old DeShane ‘Eddie’ Palmer,...
Fifteen-year-old student and philanthropist Sherinae Brown, following a successful third year of Christmas street feeding, is moving to register as a non-profit organisation her initiative dubbed ‘Nourishing Neighbours with Helping Hands’. Brown,...
The Police High Command made a raft of management changes in St Elizabeth in June after a major jailbreak there. Now, the fate of their counterparts in St Mary is to be decided after seven more escaped custody yesterday. The Gleaner understands...
A case review into the suspected murder of Melissa Silvera is expected to determine, among other things, whether the initial investigating officer, a police sergeant, attended upon the scene by himself. Silvera, the wife of former St Mary Western...
John Jacobs, one of five attorneys representing murder accused Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, took the investigator to task over his statements and a cellphone during cross-examination on Monday. McDonald is charged with Oscar Barnes for the...
The lead investigator in the Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald trial yesterday picked up where he left off on Tuesday, detailing how he took charge of the case and arrested the main suspects. The policeman, a detective sergeant who has been serving...
The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) on Tuesday passed a motion to allow for a section of Orange Street in downtown Kingston to be transformed into a vending zone for the period December 18 to January 14, 2024. The motion was...
Courtney Rowe, one of four attorneys representing murder accused Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, on Monday drilled a police constable, who later admitted to writing a second statement three years after his initial evidence and after the trial had...
