The three Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers charged in connection with the May 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke are to know this morning whether they have a case to answer. Lance corporals Greg Tingling and Odel Buckley, along...
A British woman who gave her brother $500,000 to help purchase a car from Rich and Wealthy Car Dealer is demanding a refund of her money after the vehicle was not forthcoming and the dealer stopped communicating with her. According to Jackee Hudson...
Former State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Leslie Campbell, has accused the Integrity Commission (IC) of misplacing some of the information for which the commission had charged him for failing to provide. The...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is to know on December 6 whether the Supreme Court will grant his request for a judicial review of the Integrity Commission (IC) report on his statutory declarations. The prime minister is seeking, among other things,...
The legal challenge brought by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to have an Integrity Commission (IC) report on his financial affairs invalidated will continue today in the Supreme Court. Holness, through his legal team, is seeking to convince Justice...
Manchester and St Elizabeth reported no flooding or any major incident arising from the passage of Tropical Storm Rafael yesterday. At the same time, things were also rather calm in St Mary, according to Port Maria Mayor Fitzroy Wilson. He told The...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is raising concerns about a massive 168 per cent surge in forced outages reported by the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), with numbers jumping from 49,243 in December 2019 to 132,226 in 2023. Of the 136,552...
A local human-rights organisation is bemoaning the “frustratingly slow progress” being made by the Government to improve the lives of persons living with disabilities. Carla Gullotta, executive director of Stand Up Jamaica, said that despite the...
Upset that seven years of relative calm have been broken with Saturday night’s mass shooting incident, which left three people dead on Bowen Road, Kingston 11, residents say they no longer have an interest in maintaining efforts at keeping the...
Expressing concerns over the protracted trial, defence lawyers in the Keith Clarke murder case on Thursday urged Justice Dale Palmer to use his authority to put an end to the frequent adjournments. “I note by way of Rule 36 of the Plea and Case...
A former investigator in the Keith Clarke murder case, who had certified photocopied pages from the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) ammunition book, yesterday struggled to figure out some of the data the document had captured. Taneish Wisdom,...
A witness from the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) disclosed on Tuesday that an ex-soldier, who is being sought to appear in the Keith Clarke murder trial as a witness, left the island in May and returned in July. Deputy...
Records pertaining to the distribution of guns and ammunition at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), for May 2010, cannot be located. The police are also having difficulty locating the former JDF soldier who was the recordkeeper during the same period...
Still overwhelmed by the pain and sorrow caused by last Monday night’s bloodbath in Rockfort, Kingston, during which five men were murdered, other men in the community on Friday wept openly during a walk-through led by Opposition Leader Mark...
The Government has been ordered to pay approximately $472 million plus interest to a private contractor over a botched school construction contract that had an original sum of $49 million when it was inked in 1998. Justice David Batts, last Friday...
A man who arrived in the island from the United States in 2018 with approximately $ 1.2 million in US dollars lost his appeal to recover the funds, which were forfeited after he was unable to clearly state the source and intended purpose of the...
The prosecution in the Keith Clarke murder trial has been granted a request for the head of the Jamaica Defence Force, Vice Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman, as well as the log books for gun and ammunition in May 2010 and its keeper, to be...
One of two men arrested and slapped with gun charges in August after they were reportedly held in the Cherry Tree Lane community, Clarendon, with an illegal gun, a day after the deadly mass shooting, is to remain in custody after the High Court...
As a child, Bishop Professor Dr Randolph Henry loved helping others, and, having saved about four lives so far, it’s no surprise that he is being nationally recognised for helping a man who was shot multiple times and left for dead along Red Hills...
A former senior investigator at the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) yesterday admitted that she did not exercise any independent judgment in her investigation of the Keith Clarke murder case. The witness, Taneish Wisdom-Banton,...
The trial against the three Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers charged with the murder of Keith Clarke was yesterday forced to adjourn until tomorrow, because of a medical emergency impacting one of the defence lawyers. Lance corporals Greg...
Likening the murder of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald by her husband and an accomplice to that of an animal being butchered, Justice Chester Stamp yesterday said the case was among “the worst of the worst”, for which there could be no other...
The family of Tonia McDonald is relieved that her 69-year-old husband, who orchestrated her brutal death, will spend the rest of his life in prison. “He will not be coming out back; that alone is closure for us. He will be locked away for life,”...
The island’s former chief forensic pathologist has supported the account given by relatives of businessmen Keith Clarke that he was shot and killed while climbing down from the closet with his back toward security forces personnel who had entered...
Persistent tears from the Keith Clarke’s daughter while his multiple gunshot wounds were being detailed in the Home Circuit Court on Tuesday rankled the defence, sparking an impromptu break after they complained that the jury was being unfairly...
