A former don-turned-prosecution witness revealed on Wednesday that one of the alleged members of the One Don Gang wanted to dismember a murder target and to take his head to reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan. The murder target in question, who...
A former top commander in the One Don Gang yesterday disclosed that he did not trust the lone female alleged member of the gang, a pastor, and that at one point, he felt that she was setting him up to be shot. The ex-gangster, who claimed he was...
A former don-turned-prosecution witness delivered a shocking testimony on Monday, claiming that a member of the One Don Gang had told him that he wanted to exhume the skull of a dead man so that he could use it to drink blood. The ex-gangster, who...
A former top commander in the One Don Gang yesterday testified that reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan had reportedly given orders for some of the gang members to be executed. The former gangster, the second top-tier member to be testifying...
A former top lieutenant in the One Don Gang yesterday testified that reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan had warned him that the only way out of the gang was death or prison. The witness, who claimed to have risen to the level of second in...
An ex-member of the One Don Gang testified on Wednesday that when he first went to the police with information about the criminal organisation, law enforcers did not believe him. The second prosecution witness, who had a full-time job during his...
The ex-gangster who is one of the prosecution’s main witnesses in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial said on Tuesday that the only benefit he would get from testifying against his alleged ex-cronies is a spot in a graveyard. The witness, who was on...
Yesterday a former member of the One Don Gang blamed nervousness for several glaring inconsistencies between his statements and his testimony in court. However, the witness rejected suggestions from the attorney of reputed gang leader Andre ‘...
Relatives of the elderly Jamaican-Canadian couple who was gruesomely murdered in Retreat, St Thomas, three years ago, say they have forgiven the killer and are thankful that he confessed. The 29-year-old farmer, Fabian Skervin, who had pleaded...
A former executive of the now-defunct used-car dealership CarMax, who was implicated in a multimillion-dollar fraud probe at the company, was freed of fraud charges last Friday. Businessman Darren Blake, who was arrested and charged in March 2015...
While asking the justices to throw out the appeal against the Full Court’s ruling, a government lawyer argued on Thursday that the dreadlocked student at Kensington Primary had no guaranteed right to attend the school. The Full Court had ruled in...
Lawyers for the self-proclaimed Nazarene couple, whose child was refused a place at Kensington Primary School because of her dreadlocks hairstyle, yesterday argued that the Full Court erred in finding that the child’s constitutional rights had not...
Parish courts across the island will be rolling out a case management programme next year, which will ensure that all criminal matters coming before the court are completed within two years. Simple and standard criminal cases, however, are expected...
Buffeted by criticism of the flagship legislation used to contain the coronavirus outbreak, the Holness administration will face an acid test when the first constitutional challenge against the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) is to be mentioned...
Education Minister Fayval Williams has shied away from indicating whether the controversial board of Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) still enjoys the confidence of the Government given that at least five members who had oversight of the scandal...
The mysterious noxious fumes that forced evacuations and early closure at a number of organisations in the Corporate Area on Tuesday may have been caused by a cooking gas leak. The fumes, which were believed to have started emanating late in the...
The Clansman-One Don Gang trial involving 33 alleged gangsters has been postponed until October 19 after two of the defendants contracted the novel coronavirus. When the trial resumed in the Home Circuit Court on Monday, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes...
A soldier was reportedly among the alleged members of the One Don Gang who served as armed bodyguards for reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, a former crony revealed during his testimony in the Home Circuit Court on Thursday. The ex-member and...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday expressed concerns about the volume of information that is being given in trial by the first witness, instructing the prosecution to be more “pointed” and “focused” in leading the evidence, given that there are...
Weeks after issuing a COVID-19 vaccination ultimatum to its workers, CVM TV has requested to have a ‘local level’ meeting with the National Workers Union (NWU) in the hope of settling the issue. The meeting between the union and the television...
An alleged shooter in the One Don Gang had reportedly callously boasted about cutting down a bus driver in front of the police in the Spanish Town bus park in St Catherine, the prosecution’s first star witness in the Clansman Gang trial told the...
A state witness yesterday told the Home Circuit Court that Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, the alleged leader of the deadly One Don Gang, laughed as his bodyguard carried out a hit on a man in St Catherine in 2018. The former gangster-turned-state witness...
A self-confessed member of the One Don Gang shared details on Wednesday of how an alleged don aligned with the Tesha Miller faction of the Clansman Gang was gunned down on Chancery Street, St Andrew, in 2017. The well-orchestrated execution-style...
About 2,000 to 3,000 reports of child abuse in the country are believed to have gone unreported last year, as the number of child abuse reports continues to plummet in the face of challenges caused by the pandemic. Before the arrival of the virus...
The trial of the 33 alleged members of the One Don Gang will resume Wednesday morning in the Home Circuit Court after technological difficulties forced an early adjournment Tuesday. One of the two main witnesses, a self-confessed member of the...
