The Petroleum Company of Jamaica (Petcom) has sought the urgent intervention of the Supreme Court to put a gag on a former employee who it claims copied reams of “highly confidential” company data that could cause “severe financial losses” if they are leaked to competitors.
Four years ago, a pro-accountability lobby used one of the country’s main transparency laws to request from all members of parliament (MPs) annual reports showing how they spend the $1.2 billion split between them each year to enhance the lives of...
The attack by armed thugs on guests and workers at a Jamaican resort hotel on Friday has drawn the outrage of one local private sector lobby. By comparison, officials and industry leaders opted on Saturday to remain silent about reports that a...
The police have broadened their investigation of two policemen implicated in a multimillion-dollar home invasion robbery amid claims that they are part of a band of rogue cops who are behind a string of high-stakes heists. Already, police...
A man who was convicted for shooting two people has been set free because his seven-year wait for the transcript of his trial violated his constitutional rights, Jamaica’s second-highest court has ordered. A transcript is the official record of a...
Jamaican-born retired United States law enforcement agent Wilfred Rattigan does not have the legal standing to file a lawsuit over private donations to Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed bid for the post of Commonwealth...
Andrea Gordon made two cash transfers totalling $8.3 million in November and December 2017 from the coffers of her employer, the National Commercial Bank (NCB), to a car dealer for the purchase of a brand-new motor vehicle. One month later, in...
A businessman who authored a book critical of the Jamaican judicial system that has been widely circulated locally and internationally has been ordered to pay a retired High Court judge over $80 million for defamation. The order was made in the...
Geraldine Chin* began noticing in late 2021 that her then two-year-old son had developed a persistent cough. Around the same time, a multibillion-dollar road and infrastructure upgrade project spanning several parishes was making its way through...
Another “unjustifiable” dismissal by a Government-owned company is set to cost taxpayers a multimillion-dollar payout. Agro-Investment Corporation (AIC), which falls under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, has been ordered by...
A St Andrew woman said she expected to get answers when the police brass announced in 2020 that a “high-level” investigation was under way to find out why cops turned her away from a police station in the middle of the night after she showed up to...
When Desmond McKenzie boarded a flight for New York City last December, he harboured doubts about how the final chapter of his over four-year legal fight to be reunited with his young son would end. McKenzie was heading to New York with a final...
The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) would find itself in a dogfight with the People’s National Party (PNP) to hold on to state power if national elections were called now, according to the findings of a new national poll. The public opinion...
A mobile phone belonging to Amoi Leon Issa has “communication” that could help untangle the mystery surrounding the barbaric murder of her nine-year-old son, Gabriel King, a high-ranking police investigator has disclosed. The nature of the...
An offer from an overseas developer spurred Steadman Bailey to go in and pay his property tax arrears spanning the last eight years. But a visit to the tax office in Old Harbour, St Catherine, on February 9 left the veteran cop in stunned disbelief...
A businessman was left baffled after the card machine, or point-of-sale (POS) terminal, at his retail shop kept rejecting payment. His apprehension worsened when the absence of a unique mark on the underside of the machine confirmed that it was not...
A “majority” of the stash of firearms seized in Montego Bay, St James, on Friday are homemade untraceable ‘ghost guns’, a fast-growing phenomenon in which they have become the weapons of choice for violent criminals and gunrunners. These so-called...
More than $500 million has been returned to victims of fraud over the past decade, local authorities disclosed on Friday. The revelation comes amid fears that the alleged $3 billion fraud uncovered at the firm Stocks...
Colombian drug lords appear to have ramped up their use of Jamaica’s territorial waters as they seek to get record levels of cocaine to lucrative international markets, local law enforcement operatives have theorised. The suggestion comes as...
The Government’s repeated use of 14-day states of emergency (SOEs) will make it easier to convince a judge that it is being used as a “device” to circumvent the Jamaican Parliament, legal experts have asserted. The legal opinion by the attorneys...
The best Christmas Camelia Miller enjoyed as a child was in 2015. Four months before that, the then 14-year-old with a turbulent childhood was among 40 children housed at a government-run facility. That’s when Leonie McLean, a caregiver at the...
His first victims over a 12-year span were two men, ages 20 and 26 years old, who were shot dead in an incident in St Catherine in 2010. Since then, this cop has been involved in 14 shooting incidents across seven parishes that ended with the...
More than 7,000 guns are currently in circulation for which the permits have lapsed, Jamaica’s firearms regulator has disclosed. The Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) revealed, too, that 299 legally registered guns have been reported lost or stolen...
Cybercriminals used an Internet protocol (IP) address based in Jamaica last Thursday to distribute some 1,160 malware attacks per hour to devices here and overseas, the agency that monitors the country’s cybersecurity space has disclosed. This...
Jamaica’s second-highest court has turned away a last-gasp attempt by a convicted drug boss to hold on to his portfolio of assets worth over $500 million. The Court of Appeal, on Friday, refused an application by lawyers for Andrew Hamilton for...
