Tax authorities will not be able to collect four years of property tax arrears owed by Constant Spring Golf Club (CSGC) amounting to millions of dollars, following a ruling by Jamaica’s second-highest court this week. It marks the latest...
The Jamaican Government is weighing “legal consideration” regarding the fate of an ex-Colombian army officer described as a key suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, the Foreign Ministry has confirmed. This disclosure...
Jamaica is again moving to enforce the court-ordered deportation of ex-Colombian army officer Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, a key suspect in the July assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, to his homeland. This development comes...
Donavan McGann was convinced, two years ago, that he was close to the $5-million payout he was awarded in his lawsuit that had crawled through Jamaica’s notoriously slow court system for five years. Supreme Court judge Justice Vinnette Graham-Allen...
The Financial Investigations Division (FID) in the finance ministry has refused to answer Sunday Gleaner questions on whether it has commenced civil forfeiture proceedings against former Education Minister Ruel Reid and his co-accused in the...
Uncertainty about how the COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility is among the main reasons nearly a third of the island’s registered nurses were not inoculated against the deadly respiratory disease up to August despite health officials noting that the...
Penelope Singleton* turned up for work at Qualcare Jamaica Limited in St Andrew last week knowing she had not complied with the new COVID-19 vaccination policy put in place by her employers. The policy, which was outlined in a memo Qualcare...
With the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) failing since 1992 to file audited financial statements annually as mandated by law, there are calls for the relevant authorities to launch investigations into the state agency to see whether billions of...
Nearly $250 million in assets, suspected to have been acquired through criminal activities, were restrained by the Jamaican courts over a 13-month period that ended in May this year, official figures have revealed. These assets include six houses,...
There is a “very obvious double standard” in the police’s handling of an investigation into alleged breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) by fallen Agriculture Minister Floyd Green and others connected to the governing Jamaica Labour...
Shanon Stephenson, a Jamaican living in the United States (US) illegally, and Audrey Johnson, an American citizen, got ‘married’ in a seemingly normal ceremony held in the state of New York on March 1, 2012. Days later, Stephenson applied to the US...
Deaths that can be directly linked to the shortage of bulk oxygen at some public hospitals two weeks ago are grounds for legal action against Jamaican health authorities, legal experts have suggested. The lawsuits could be filed against the State...
Four people were killed and seven others wounded by gunfire over the first three-day lockdown imposed by the Government last month to arrest a deadly third wave of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Amid spiralling...
Although the number of convicted sex offenders registered in Jamaica has almost doubled over the last three years, according to new data, specialists believe it still doesn’t tell the true picture. They fear that the low rate of conviction for sex...
There are indications that no rigorous due diligence was conducted for popular pastor Merrick ‘Al’ Miller before he was selected for a national award. Despite this, however, one member of the committee that conferred on Miller the Commander of the...
Nearly 70 people were murdered across Jamaica during the two-week period of the just-concluded Olympic Games, bucking a traditional trend of a respite in the mayhem during major international sporting events. A total of 69 murders and 55 shootings...
The Reverend Merrick ‘Al’ Miller could not believe what he had just heard after he answered his telephone while relaxing at home with his family last Monday. The caller disclosed that he had been selected to receive a national honour, Commander of...
Constable Granville Ortiz* and two of his colleagues were conducting spot check duties in St Andrew earlier this year when he noticed the driver of a car blew through a red light after making an illegal U-turn. “So, he created an offence for me to...
Another cop has been arrested at the Hunts Bay Police Station in St Andrew. The second one in a month. The police corporal was apprehended by other police personnel “around allegations of corruption”, according to Superintendent Kirk Ricketts,...
Jamaican entertainer-turned-drug dealer ‘Flippa Mafia’ remains joint owner of a $22-million apartment in the upscale neighbourhood of Norbrook, St Andrew, amid a search by local authorities looking to seize assets linked to him. Two high-end...
A businessman has been ordered by the Jamaican high court to remove a flock of exotic birds and other pets from his home in the upper-class Norbrook, St Andrew, area after one of his neighbours complained about the noise nuisance. Alexander Haber,...
Detectives up to late yesterday evening were combing through “some good information” they hope will lead them to two armed thugs who gunned down an off-duty police corporal on Friday night in what is believed to be a targeted killing. At the same...
The man seen on American television stations last week blaming Jamaica’s high murder rate for trying to illegally enter the United States (US) by boat is a “former don” with multiple convictions, Jamaican law-enforcement officials have revealed....
A police constable believed to be a high-ranking member of a violent criminal gang is now in custody facing serious charges, police officials have disclosed. His arrest, according to senior law-enforcement sources, is just the tip of the iceberg as...
Winnifred Jackson’s house now sits precariously near the edge of a gully behind her property in the east Kingston community of Harbour View. The unpaved gully runs behind at least 25 other homes along Harbour Drive and was dug out over five years...
