When Orthia Watson heard gunshots echo through her Olympic Gardens community in Kingston on Thursday, she rushed towards the chaos – never imagining she would find her 14-year-old daughter lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head. She...
The country’s public defender has raised an alarm over a mounting human rights crisis, emphasising that widespread ignorance among Jamaicans about their human rights is enabling the State to trespass on their fundamental rights. Carolyn Reid-...
Dr Carl Bruce, medical chief of staff at The University Hospital of the West Indies, is to go on trial in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on September 2, in relation to an alleged fight with a former consultant that happened more than 18...
A lawyer found guilty of professional misconduct has partially succeeded in his appeal after the Court of Appeal ruled that the regulatory body made legal and factual errors, and that his constitutional right to a fair hearing was breached. Donald...
The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) is refuting claims by some of its dialysis patients that deteriorating conditions and a lack of resources at the facility’s renal unit are jeopardising their health and well-being. While describing...
The sentencing for the St Catherine woman who left another woman with severe burns and blind in one eye following a brutal acid attack in which three persons were injured was, on Wednesday, pushed back to May 7 in the Home Circuit Court. Justice...
A man who migrated overseas and ceased contributing to the joint property he shared with his ex-wife, following their separation, has officially lost his stake in a Manchester property after a legal battle. Justice Althea Jarrett, after hearing the...
Three years ago, Nicolette Beckford’s life took a tragic turn when she became the victim of an acid attack that left her severely scarred, blind in one eye, and struggling to see from the other. Despite the life-altering consequences, the 46-year-...
The lone accused in the multibillion-dollar fraud investigation at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), Jean Ann Panton, is pushing for access to the Kroll audit report to use as part of her defence in the trial slated for May 4 next year. Panton’s...
Attorney-at-law Lisamae Gordon, who was found guilty of professional misconduct over her handling of a botched land transaction and handed a six-month suspension, has lost her appeal to overturn the guilty finding and suspension. Gordon faced the...
A retired United States (US) resident is suing a St Catherine church for encroaching on its property for over 20 years, and wants the church to vacate the land. But the church is contending that it has dispossessed the owner of the property by...
Sophia Thomas, the prosecutor found guilty of professional misconduct for presenting false evidence in a fraud trial, will serve a six-month suspension from the legal profession after her appeal against the guilty verdict was denied. Last Friday,...
The legal battle surrounding the Portmore parish law took a significant turn yesterday after the Supreme Court issued an order requiring the Government to comply with constitutional requirements before the law can come into effect. Both the...
While lauding Jamaica for making “impressive” strides in its crime-reduction efforts, United States (US) Secretary of State Marco Rubio has promised to re-evaluate the US travel advisory for Jamaica to reflect the current reality regarding crime....
An elderly retired nurse, brutally attacked in her Norbrook, St Andrew, home by her longtime gardener, has been forced to sell her house – now a haunting reminder of the violent ordeal that has left her living in fear. The 89-year-old victim, once...
A gardener who viciously stabbed his elderly employer and her tenant multiple times in a fit of rage was sentenced to seven years and one month in prison on Wednesday – just a day before his 60th birthday. Roy Simpson, a long-time employee of the...
The tearful mother of a child, who was kidnapped as a baby five years ago, says she is “disgusted” by the two-year suspended sentence given to the woman who was held with her son. She had expected the woman to receive at least a 10-year sentence. “...
Anniesha Ramsay, the young woman who was found with a stolen baby five years ago, was taken into custody yesterday for sentencing today in the Home Circuit Court, where she will learn her fate. Justice Leighton Pusey will hand down the sentence....
A St Catherine labourer who had brutally injured two teenage sisters with a machete in a near-fatal attack after one of them threatened to expose his alleged sexual interest in her is to serve his 18-year sentence after the Court of Appeal ruled...
A St Andrew security guard, from whose car an illegal gun was seized, was freed of gun charges in the Gun Court on Friday despite his DNA being found on the weapon. Tryon Cornwall, 41, was found not guilty of possession of a prohibited weapon by...
A St Andrew security guard, from whose car an illegal gun was seized, was freed of gun charges in the Gun Court on Friday despite his DNA being found on the weapon. Tryon Cornwall, 41, was found not guilty of possession of a prohibited weapon by...
A couple who was fighting to keep two parcels of land in Westmoreland, owned by the husband’s deceased boss, was left disappointed after the Supreme Court threw out their claim for adverse possession and ordered the husband to give up the...
Dantay Brooks, son of popular international dancehall artiste Mavado, was greeted with screams of joy from jubilant family members and friends who rushed to his side as he walked free from the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston...
A defence lawyer is hailing as a “ game changer” a ruling from the Court of Appeal that will establish a precedent guiding how pre-trial remand is to be treated when there is a mandatory minimum sentence. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal set aside...
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has conceded that the High Court’s failure to credit a convict for time spent in custody is a constitutional breach of one’s right to liberty and that an individual must be credited even if...
