The sentencing of convicted human trafficker, Rajesh Gurunani, has been postponed until next week Friday. It was put off to give the defence time to review the claim for compensation being sought by the prosecution. Gurunani’s bail was also...
Contractor General, Dirk Harrison, has filed an application to have a court overturn a decision by the director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn not to prosecute Hanover councillor, Shernet Haughton in a nepotism case. The contractor...
A High Court judge this afternoon handed down a sentence of life imprisonment, to pre-trained teacher, Chadwick Blissett. Blissett was recently convicted of murdering quantity surveyor, Cletus Graham. Justice Lloyd Hibbert handed down the...
A jury moments ago convicted businessman Rajesh Gurunani on human trafficking charges in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston. It is the first human trafficking conviction in Jamaica since 2007 and the first under new legislation...
A seven-member jury is now deliberating on the fate of businessman, Rajesh Gurunani who is on trial for human trafficking. The jury retired about 40 minutes ago after the presiding judge, Courtney Daye completed his summation and...
The application brought by the Government against the Jamaica Police Federation is to be heard in the Supreme Court in November. The hearing is set for November 4, 5, and 6. The dates were set when the parties appeared before Justice Frank Williams...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM ) was today successful in getting its first conviction in the Gun Court when detective constable Sherwood Simpson was found guilty of firearm offences. Justice Lennox Campbell...
The crown has closed its case at the trial of businessman, Rajesh Gurunani, who is charged with trafficking in persons, facilitating trafficking in persons and withholding travel documents. The crown had called 12 witnesses, during the trial, which...
The Privy Council has ruled that a retired lecturer of the University of the West Indies (UWI) must get his supplementary pension although the institution claims he was 36 days short of being entitled to the benefit. The decision in favour of Dr Boufoy Bastick,...
Two security consultants employed to Guardsman Armoured Limited have been freed of gun and assault charges after video evidence backed up their story. Raymond Robinson and Ian Firth were freed of illegal possession of firearm and inflicting...
The Supreme Court has turned down an application by the National Commercial Bank (NCB) for leave to go to the Judicial Review Court to quash an Industrial Dispute Tribunal (IDT) ruling in relation to the reinstatement of one of its former senior...
The Supreme Court has turned down an application by Columbus Communications Jamaica Limited, trading as Flow, which was seeking an injunction to bar its rival, Digicel Jamaica Limited, from employing its former managing director, Sean Latty. Flow,...
The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) is now investigating the circumstances under which a prisoner came to the Gun Court in downtown Kingston today with a key for his handcuff. The prisoner, who is on gun-related charges,...
The case against the three men charged with the murder of prominent attorney, Clover Graham, has been taken off the trial list and has again been set for mention. The trial was expected to start in the Home Circuit Court today. However, it had to...
Prominent attorney Don Foote has been charged with fraudulent conversion involving $12 million. The charge reportedly relates to a trust fund for a minor who is now 17 years old. However, attorney-at-law Bert Samuels, who is representing Foote,...
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) is to pay damages amounting to $3 million with interest to a passenger who was seriously injured while travelling in one of its buses. Acting Supreme Court Judge Marcia Dunbar-Green made the award in...
The Supreme Court has quashed the 2013 reinstatement of an employee of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) ruling that the body is entitled to immunity from legal process. Acting Supreme Court Judge, Marcia Dunbar-Green made the ruling...
A retrial has been ordered for Kingston businesswoman, Hermalinda Parker, and her husband, Anthony, who are accused of human trafficking. However, Parker's daughter, Lynn Scantlebury, has been freed. Justice Jennifer Straw made the order in the...
The United Kingdom (UK)-based Privy Council yesterday sent back the case brought by Eutetra Bromfield against her ex-husband, Vincent Bromfield, for the Supreme Court to determine maintenance for her under Matrimonial Causes Act.
Carmax Limited, the car dealership company which allegedly owes customers more than $100 million has been placed into receivership following a Supreme Court order. The assets of its directors Darren Blake and Ian Lyn are also in receivership. The...
The new term of the Home Circuit Court in Kingston, the Easter Session, opened this morning with stakeholders lamenting the old problem of juror participation. Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn disclosed that 1,000 summonses were sent...
Ousted executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Jennifer Edwards, has withdrawn her court challenge against the board’s decision not to renew her employment contract. The matter came up in the Supreme Court...
The Court of Appeal has ruled that Xtabi Resort Limited in Negril, Westmoreland cannot be blamed for the drowning death of an American in 1995. Forty nine yea-old Robert Flickenger was a guest at the resort at the time of his death. He reportedly...
GraceKennedy Remittance Services, the operators of Bill Express, could have to pay millions to its competitor, Paymaster Jamaica Limited, after Paymaster won an appeal in its breach of confidentiality lawsuit.
Dancehall entertainer Lady Saw will know on May 25 if the Court of Appeal will give her the opportunity to appeal a default judgment entered against her in a case brought by domestic worker Dorothy Wilson. The 60-year-old woman took the entertainer...
