After living in Morant Bay, St Thomas, for more than 40 years, street vendor Denise said yesterday that she has never seen a reason to vote and does not even know the candidates contesting the upcoming September 3 polls. “Mi nuh see no reason fi...
Amid a persistent sewage problem engulfing some of Kingston’s busiest town centres in the foul stench of raw waste, the mayor of Kingston, Andrew Swaby, is urging the National Water Commission (NWC) to meet with the municipal corporation and...
A St Catherine woman, along with a religious leader and his wife, was remanded for a bail application on June 16 in connection with the alleged abduction of her teenage niece for participation in a cult ritual. The 13-year-old Clarendon girl, who...
The Court of Appeal, in a historic sitting of nine judges, is set to decide how convicts should be credited for time spent in custody before trial, specifically in instances where the credit would result in a sentence below the minimum prescribed....
“It is horrifying what was done to the complainant in this matter and persons who act in this inhumane way must prepare themselves for significant periods of imprisonment.” Justice Carolyn Tie-Powell did not mince her words as she issued the...
Former junior foreign minister Leslie Campbell, who is charged with failing to provide information about his income declaration, will have to wait until December 17 to know his fate. The verdict, which was scheduled for yesterday in the Kingston...
The ongoing trial into the murder of St Andrew accountant Keith Clarke will resume on Tuesday after the matter was adjourned yesterday due to the unavailability of witnesses. Lead prosecutor Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy...
Kerry-Ann Folkes, the supervisor at the New Kingston branch of the local Burger King franchise and who had suffered serious injuries in an explosion at the fast food outlet, has been transferred from the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to the...
Lawyers for the People National Party (PNP) yesterday rubbished the argument of the government and the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Paula Llewellyn that a provision in the amendment to the Constitution last July was to enable her to opt...
The prosecution is pushing for a retrial despite the likelihood that two of the accused who are charged with the murder along with entertainer Vybz Kartel would have finished their sentence if convicted again. “We are accepting that by the time we...
Just like Humpty Dumpty, defence lawyer John Clarke yesterday charged that there are no common-law safeguards available that can fix the post-trial damage caused by the bribery issue, which unfolded in the murder trial of Vybz Kartel and his three...
Barbados-born businessman Omar Collymore, who is on trial for reportedly masterminding the murder of his wife for her multimillion life insurance policies, insisted yesterday that he did not know the value of her policies and that he would have...
Phone data evidence showed that there was continuous communication between Barbados-born businessman Omar Collymore and the alleged contract killer in the days leading up to his wife’s murder. The data also showed a pattern where Collymore would...
Attorneys for Adidja 'Vybz Kartel' Palmer and his co-defendants in the Clive Williams murder case have come out swinging in defence of the men, declaring that they had nothing to do with the attempts to taint the jury. Responding to suggestions and...
Barbados-born businessman Omar Collymore had been communicating non-stop with a man in the days leading up to his wife’s murder and, in one of the texts sent two days before her death, was urging the person “to hurry up” and to “ do it this morning...
Slain businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore had pleaded with her husband, Omar Collymore, to give their marriage a second chance and to resume living with her and their children, two months before she was murdered in a contract-style killing...
Barbados-born businessman Omar ‘Best’ Collymore reportedly gave the alleged contract killer a hoverboard as part payment for the murder of his wife. The revelation was made yesterday by the investigator during his evidence-in-chief in the Home...
Omar 'Best' Collymore, the alleged mastermind behind the January 2018 murder of his wife, had burst into tears when he saw his wife at their gate gasping for air after she was shot multiple times. The businessman had also told police a day after...
Ahead of his April 11 bail hearing, defence lawyers for former St Mary Western Member of Parliament (MP) Jolyan Silvera, who is implicated in his wife’s murder, said their client is “anxious to be vindicated and have his day in court”. The 52-year-...
The lead investigator in the Tonia McDonald murder case yesterday denied that he had deliberately hidden information from the defence about the existence of a cellular phone which allegedly contained secretly recorded conversations between Everton...
While charging that the Andrew Holness-led administration is bankrupt of ideas to bring crime and violence, under control, Opposition Senator Peter Bunting has highlighted that 2,300 more Jamaicans have been killed in the last eight years since...
The murder trial involving Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald has been adjourned until January 9 next year. McDonald, 68, and his co-accused, 33-year-old St Mary fisherman Oscar Barnes, are currently on trial for the murder of...
On the heels of Sunday’s daring daylight robbery at the KFC Restaurant King Street branch in downtown Kingston, business owners are being warned to review their security arrangements, especially over the Christmas season, to ensure the safety of...
A senior manager at Flow Jamaica has said that the National Works Agency (NWA) failed to provide the company with funds to assist in relocating its infrastructure during the Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP) in 2016 along several...
