A trending and controversial music video, featuring a schoolboy and disturbing imagery and lyrics, has drawn backlash from a local children’s advocacy group, which has described the video and lyrics as “appalling and startling” and is calling for...
Former Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President Professor Fritz Pinnock has lost his appeal against the High Court ruling that there was no bias in the chief parish court judge’s ruling that he and his co-accused, including former Education...
A medical practitioner who was found dead in his car on Thursday, in a suspected case of suicide, reportedly had been struggling with mental challenges. The deceased, identified as 29-year-old Dr Mark-Anthony Williams, of Independence City in...
The Supreme Court has awarded $5.5 million in damages plus interest to the estate of a man who was killed in 2014 in Mountain View, St Andrew, after police fired at a car in which he was travelling. General damages of $4.5 million and aggravated...
“Right now, I am devastated because I wasn’t expecting this,” Constable Lescene Edwards said on Monday, reflecting on the passing of King’s Counsel Valerie Neita Robertson. Like many across Jamaica, Edwards was shocked and saddened by the loss of...
Member of Parliament (MP) for Portland Western, Daryl Vaz, and People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary, Dr Dayton Campbell, are set to explore mediation in an effort to amicably resolve a defamation lawsuit stemming from comments made on a...
The sentencing of Anneisha Ramsay, who pleaded guilty to stealing a five-week-old baby in 2019 after allegedly agreeing to adopt the infant for $500,000, has been postponed to March 19. Ramsay pleaded guilty to the charge of child stealing last...
The ex-policeman who is to be retried for the 2008 murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl is scheduled to return to the Home Circuit Court for a bail application on March 20. A bail hearing for Rushon Hamilton was fixed for Wednesday in the Home...
The Court of Appeal has found that a parish court judge had erred in sentencing serial convicted trickster, Ray Morgan, to 12 years in prison, which was manifestly excessive and instead has slashed the sentence by half. The ruling, which was handed...
Clarendon North Central Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Morgan says politics has humbled him and he is learning to listen to the will of the people. The first-term MP faced an upheaval in the Mocho division last year with Jamaica Labour Party (JLP...
Former House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert was yesterday fined $900,000 after pleading guilty to breaching the Integrity Commission Act. The parliamentarian found herself in trouble with the law after failing to declare for six years that she...
The Government has dismissed the Opposition’s suggestion that the move to establish Portmore as the nation’s 15th parish is purely political and, instead, is accusing the People’s National Party (PNP) of opposing the matter without just cause. “...
A man who ran from a shooting scene, leaving his birth certificate behind, after firing at the police, has again been refused permission by the Court of Appeal to appeal against his 15-year sentence and conviction. The applicant, Fabian Manderson,...
The Home Circuit Court will this morning start hearing evidence in the murder trial of Constable Melissa White, who is accused of shooting to death an unarmed man seven years ago and lying about how the incident occurred. The policewoman, who was...
The Government has agreed to reimburse the salaries and allowances, with interest, to two former King’s House employees who were barred from entering the premises in October 2021 as a result of COVID-19 restrictions. Office attendants Valerie Marsh...
Delton Knight, the St Andrew businessman who was reportedly captured on video shooting his son to death at the family business place in Papine, St Andrew, nearly four years ago, has died of colon cancer. The 67-year-old man, who was on $800,000...
The Government yesterday moved to allay the fears of beneficiaries of houses under the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) that their dwellings would be reclaimed when they die, with an assurance that houses are fully owned by the beneficiaries. “...
A former driver and junior treasury officer at Guardsman Security and his mother, implicated in the theft of close to $14 million from two National Commercial Bank ATMs in St Ann five years ago, were this week freed in the St Ann Parish Court....
Two men who were reportedly among a group of armed gangsters who shot and killed a toddler in August Town, St Andrew, in 2007 are to be retried on February 17 in the Home Circuit Court. Adrian Tomlinson and Aaron Chambers are to be retried for the...
A taxi operator who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for the 2012 killing of the father of one of his ex-partner’s children will now serve 14 years in prison. The Court of Appeal last month overturned the life sentence handed down to...
A senior Jamaican jurist at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is asserting that Jamaica has a legal obligation to adopt the regional court as its final appellate tribunal, noting that the country has had ample time to consider its accession. “...
Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is urgently calling for People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding to pointedly address claims by his party’s former caretaker for Kingston Central, Lawrence Rowe, that state appointments were among offers...
Two of five men implicated in the almost-$12-billion cocaine bust in Havendale, St Andrew, last August have been granted $3 million bail. Junior Haldane, 72, and Aubrey Sterling were last month offered bail by Justice Leighton Pusey on condition to...
A woman’s failure to prove that she and her so-called spouse were in an exclusive relationship when they were together has resulted in her losing out on obtaining any beneficial interest in his property and assets. The ex-partner in question,...
The prosecution has given notice that it will be seeking the death penalty for the man accused of murdering journalist Barbara Gayle. Justice Lorna Shelly Williams was informed yesterday in the Home Circuit Court that the death penalty is being...
