A retired army officer has revealed that the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) used "explosives" to clear a roadblock leading into Tivoli Gardens during the May 2010 operations. However, retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Sewell, who was in...
A retired Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) colonel has given evidence before the west Kingston commission of enquiry that appears to contradict aspects of the testimony given by Assistant Commissioner of Police Leon Rose. Lieutenant Colonel Andrew...
Published:Tuesday | June 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Following the army's admission that more than three dozen mortar rounds were fired in Tivoli Gardens during the May 2010 police-military operations, the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) has signalled that the commission probing the conduct of the...
Former Jamaica Defence Force chief, Major General Stewart Saunders, has described the May 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens as successful. That description came as Saunders testified during cross-examination before the...
Former Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Chief of Defence Staff Major General Stewart Saunders has testified that he has no idea who may have tipped off drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke about a pending extradition request from United States...
The former head of the Jamaica Defence Force Major General Stewart Saunders has revealed that drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke was captured based on intelligence provided by the military. Coke was captured in June 2010 along the...
Published:Monday | June 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Retired army chief Stewart Saunders has contradicted former Prime Minister Bruce Golding, revealing yesterday that the Jamaican military did request a surveillance aircraft from United States authorities for use during the 2010 operations in Tivoli...
Retired army chief Stewart Saunders says he believes former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington and other police top brass were aware of plans by the military to use mortars in the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens. At the same time, Major...
Retired army chief Stewart Saunders has revealed that he authorised the use of masks by some soldiers who participated in the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens. Saunders said the masks he authorised partially covered the faces of the soldiers...
Former army chief Major General Stewart Saunders this morning revealed that it was entirely his decision to use mortars during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens. Testifying before the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry, Saunders said there...
General Stewart Saunders this morning repeated that drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke "hurriedly" left his upper St Andrew home and drove to his west Kingston stronghold of Tivoli Gardens nearly five minutes after he and the...
Chairman of the west Kingston commission of enquiry Sir David Simmons has given the Tivoli Committee one week to fulfill certain obligations or be barred from further participating in the hearings. This development came after the new attorney for...
Published:Sunday | June 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Jamaica's anti-gang legislation can be an "extremely effective tool" todismantle some of the country's most feared crime syndicates, a team of senior United States law-enforcement personnel has suggested.But having used similar legislation to take...
Published:Friday | June 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Jamaica's judicial system is now weeks away from having at its disposal a remote video-link system that will allow vulnerable victims and witnesses in highly sensitive cases to give their evidence from a location other than a courtroom.Director of...
Published:Thursday | June 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
FOUR YEARS ago, the education ministry signalled that it was taking steps to close Padmore Primary, a school in the hills of St Andrew.Principal Keisha Hayles said when she went to the 75-year-old institution in 2011 to oversee the closure, only 38...
Published:Wednesday | June 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A day after she was again listed as a person-of-interest by the Kingston Western Police, Deborah Golding, a longtime associate of drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, lashed out at the police, complaining that their actions amount to harassment....
Published:Thursday | June 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
LEROY JONES has to wait for someone to help him out of bed every morning.The 66-year-old who, according to the court, is 85 per cent disabled is then tidied, assisted into his wheelchair along with his catheter, before he is wheeled to the verandah...
Published:Thursday | June 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
FORTY-ONE POLICE personnel from the Mobile Reserve Division fired nearly 1,300 rounds of ammunition around the time of the May 2010 operations in the west Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens.That's according to a registry of the firearms and...
Published:Wednesday | June 3, 2015 | 6:42 PMLivern Barrett
The man who commanded police personnel on the ground during the May 2010 Tivoli Gardens operations has said he saw no weaknesses in how it was conducted and that he was not aware of the atrocities reported by residents.Assistant Commissioner of...
Deputy Commissioner of Police Clifford Blake today revealed that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) found no evidence to confirm a report that drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was seen at the private residence of then Information...
Published:Tuesday | June 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A high-ranking member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has testified that it would have been a massacre of police personnel had they gone into drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke's Tivoli Gardens stronghold to arrest him without assistance...
The senior police officer charged with crafting the tactical plan for the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens says going after the more than 300 heavily-armed gunmen who were assembling in the west Kingston community would divert attention from...
The briefing given to a contingent of police personnel in the hours before they were deployed to the west Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens in search of drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke came under much scrutiny yesterday.The West Kingston...
Assistant Commissioner of Police Leon Rose says the destruction of houses in Tivoli Gardens during the May 2010 incursion is not an indication that the operations was an "abject failure". Rose was testifying during cross-examination today...
Despite a medical report that details the condition of a Tivoli Gardens resident while he was being held at one of two detention centres established during the 2010 police-military operations in his west Kingston community, the police officer who...
