A DECISION by a disciplinary panel of the General Legal Council (GLC) to exonerate an attorney accused of misconduct in the sale of a property has been overturned by Jamaica’s second-highest court. Instead, the Court of Appeal, in a decision on...
A Jamaican man who was part of a crew that staged a string of armed robberies in the United States (US), then blamed his conduct on the violent culture in his homeland, has been sent to prison for 10 years. Alex Josephs, 23, was sentenced in a...
A rollback of the contentious wage hike for Cabinet ministers would have a “cascading negative effect” on the salaries of senior bureaucrats and other public sector workers, a senior government official has said. That assertion late yesterday by...
THE “POLITICAL class” in Jamaica has been treated with “schizophrenia and disdain” for many years, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said, pushing back at critics of the massive wage hike across the political directorate. The parliamentary...
A MAN who was jailed for over two years after a young child lied to police investigators that he sexually assaulted her has lost a claim in the Supreme Court for malicious prosecution. David Foster was, however, awarded damages totalling $950,000...
SERITA HOUSEN Blair had a tough childhood, often bouncing from one relative’s home to another, according to a close family friend. As an adult, she suffered mental and physical abuse at the hands of her now ex-husband. This assessment of Housen...
A seven year-old girl was the victim of a “savage” sexual attack after she was kidnapped for hours in the quiet rural community of Fellowship Hall in St Mary, on Tuesday, residents and police sources have disclosed. Bloodied and battered, she was...
THE SUBSTANTIAL pay rise announced yesterday for the top brass of the judiciary appears to be “enormous” because judges in Jamaica have been underpaid for decades, a top defence attorney has asserted. Linton Gordon, a former army colonel who has...
A St Andrew man who was shot seven times and pointed out his attacker to the police then went to court and changed his story has been arrested and charged, law enforcement sources have disclosed. Rameal Gentles was charged with attempting to...
Collette Anthony-Jackson wiped the tears from her face as she exited the courtroom where her stepdaughter’s killer was slapped with a long prison sentence on Thursday. Confessed killer Robert Fowler was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to...
Eunice Chambers’ only child, Khanice Jackson, had something she wanted them to discuss over lunch on March 24, 2021. But Chambers pushed back their lunch date to the next day because of work. That was the last time she would speak to her daughter,...
The state-owned Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) has filed an application in the Supreme Court to have disbarred attorney Harold Brady sent to prison for a debt that has ballooned to over $110 million. The application is scheduled to be heard...
Durvin Hayles agonised with the family of slain 16-year-old student Vanessa Kirkland even as he reflected on the “suffering and pain” he and his family endured in the 11 years since the controversial killing. Kirkland, who attended Immaculate...
A male teacher employed to a St Andrew-based high school is in police custody in connection with two investigations, one of which involves a 13-year-old female student, who was reported missing for several hours last week before she was found. The...
The attorney for one of the accused in the $222-million Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) fraud case has described his client’s arrest as “most curious”. Andrew Wright, former financial controller at INSPORTS, was arrested this week while the...
Almost two months after being jailed for her alleged role in the multibillion-dollar fraud uncovered at the investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), Jean-Ann Panton had a list of requests for prison administrators. Panton was given a...
The donation by “corporate Jamaica” towards Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed 2022 bid for the post of Commonwealth secretary general is now the subject of a lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court. Businessman Keith Duncan and...
A medical doctor who has examined accused fraudster Jean-Ann Panton testified on Wednesday that despite her claims, he saw nothing to indicate that she suffered a stroke while in custody. Dr Jermaine Whyte, a sessional medical officer employed to...
A former security guard, who was employed to the Guardsman Group, will have to spend two decades more behind bars for killing three of his ex-colleagues, including two women, in a gruesome triple murder that made national headlines over a decade...
Richard Pandohie, chief executive officer of the Seprod Group, could not conceal the hurt and betrayal he felt after the police confirmed on Thursday that 17 current and former employees were arrested for orchestrating an elaborate scheme that...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has poured cold water on a suggestion that the law be amended to widen the pool of citizens available for jury duty. Schedule A of the Jury Act, which came into effect over 40 years ago, exempts several categories of...
An American advocacy group has sought the intervention of the United States (US) government in the case of an American citizen who was convicted in Jamaica for having sex with an underage girl. Robert Benoit was found guilty by a jury in the St...
Jamaica’s second-highest court has left in place a near-$50 million payout to a west Kingston woman, who was blinded in both eyes by a bullet believed to have been fired by members of the security forces. However, a $2-million award for the woman’s...
A Jamaican man residing in the United States, who sexually abused two of his foster children over a two-year period, has been ordered to serve 50 years in prison. Eric Norman Stewart, 66, of Missouri City, Texas, will have to serve his sentence “...
Jamaica’s parliamentary Opposition has filed a lawsuit in the High Court challenging the legality of the Government’s repeated use of states of emergency (SOEs) as a routine crime-fighting tool. Opposition Leader Mark Golding disclosed, too, that...
