AN EXTRADITION request by United States (US) authorities for a mentally ill Jamaican man wanted for murder in the state of New York was lodged at the Ministry of Justice for over a decade with no action, officials have confirmed. What’s worse,...
Ten years after the 2010 Tivoli Gardens incursion, there has been no systemic changes within the Jamaican security forces to ensure there is no repeat of the catastrophic events, one state agency has asserted. Compensation payouts for the death and...
Financially and mentally, Jerome Wilkins* is broken. That’s because for nearly a decade, the 36-year-old police constable has been on suspension from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). What’s worse, Wilkins says, is the reason he has been...
THERE’S A surprising revelation as investigations continue into the controversial death of Jodian Fearon. The Sunday Gleaner has now learnt that nearly 24 hours before the first-time mother died of apparent heart failure, a senior official at...
Almost five years ago, lawmakers on a bipartisan committee of Parliament agreed unanimously to amend the law to give the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) the power to arrest and prosecute cops. That proposed amendment, which was...
A FORMER member of parliament has opened up about some of the measures that were employed to keep her safe amid a slew of death threats over the four years she served as a lawmaker. Heather Robinson, the one-term parliamentary representative for...
The Jamaican workers stranded overseas on-board the Marella Discovery 2 cruise ship have demanded answers from the Government after learning that the ban on incoming passengers was relaxed for a gravely ill patient from the Turks and Caicos Islands...
Angela Whitcomb* was sent home on Thursday, April 9 from her job at the Portmore, St Catherine, branch of Alorica, the business process outsourcing (BPO) firm at the centre of the sudden increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Jamaica. The...
Paula Llewellyn is acutely aware of how reluctant Jamaicans are when it comes to sharing information with the authorities. As the country’s chief prosecutor for the past decade, Llewellyn has had to navigate the ‘informa fi dead’ culture, which...
Jamaica’s largest residential facility for victims of domestic violence has revealed that calls to its hotlines have slowed to a trickle since a range of COVID-19 containment measures forced a large chunk of the population to remain indoors....
Concerned that persons who die from COVID-19 may still be infectious, funeral home operators are being warned to avoid direct contact with blood and other fluids from the bodies. Jamaica’s health ministry has also cautioned that funeral home...
Clara Graham* was close to the end of her shift last Wednesday at a New York City hospital when she could no longer hold it together and the tears burst like a dam. She was at the epicentre of the United States’ worst-hit region battling the...
Health and Wellness Ministry has clarified comments by the health minister in an interview with The Sunday Gleaner about frontline workers and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). According to the ministry, no health worker has tested positive...
The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) would be ready for a general election next February if the outbreak of the coronavirus is brought under control by mid-year. That is the assessment of EOJ boss Glasspole Brown after the outbreak of the...
Relatives of the woman who became Jamaica’s first confirmed case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been getting death threats from angry residents in their community, two family members have revealed. ‘Family Member 1’ and ‘Family...
The start-up firm ItzShipd24/7 has been outed as the entity identified in a recent Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) audit as ‘Logistic Company 2’, which obtained contracts valued at over $50 million under questionable circumstances and in breach...
Jamaica must begin to seriously tackle corruption and go after corrupt public figures or face dire consequences, a renowned academic has warned. Professor Anthony Clayton, head of the Institute for Sustainable Development at The University of the...
The Government is close to lifting the gag order imposed on members of the previous Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) Council through a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). The NDAs first came to public attention through a Sunday Gleaner exposé...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is suggesting that the publication of his 2018 statutory declaration of income, assets and liabilities is an indication that he has been given the all-clear by the Integrity Commission. The Integrity Commission is the...
A report that is now before the Integrity Commission has seemingly made a number of “adverse recommendations” involving key players in the multimillion-dollar scandal that was uncovered at the state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam. But according to...
The failure of successive administrations to simply enforce laws enacted to combat corruption has been held up as one of the reasons almost seven out of 10 Jamaicans believe their Government is run by powerful business interests. One such example,...
An elderly man who languished in jail for a year on gun-related charges has been set free after a video recording obtained by investigators raised a number of red flags about the police account of his arrest. Investigators have indicated, too, that...
Elderly siblings Mannaseh and Gerald Thomas had little trouble reeling off the assurances they claim they got from Kaiser Bauxite Jamaica 15 years ago. “They said, ‘look, we are going to give you justice because you give us no trouble … so we are...
A legal showdown is looming over a decision by Custos of Kingston Steadman Fuller to reject an application by controversial attorney Isat Buchanan to become a justice of the peace (JP). Buchanan was admitted to practise law in Jamaica in 2017,...
A Jamaican man believed to be living in the United States (US) illegally has admitted, in a federal court in Florida, that he was the person behind a shipment of high-powered rifles and pistols along with thousands of bullets that were intercepted...
