St Andrew senior citizen Barbara Archer was looking forward to today’s visit from her only daughter and gifting her pineapple, which she specially picked for her. But the reunion was dashed by Archer’s gruesome murder. The partially nude body of...
A former government forensic analyst on Monday testified that Keith Clarke was shot while inside the closet in the master bedroom, contradicting the testimony from his widow and daughter that it occurred while climbing down from atop the closet....
Two opposition legislators, who sued the Government over a constitutional amendment to increase the retirement age of the director of public prosecutions (DPP) and the auditor general, are questioning the State’s move to appeal the Full Court’s...
Counsel for the incumbent Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn says it is puzzling that the Constitutional Court struck down a provision that was the only mechanism in place giving the DPP and the Auditor General the right to early...
Counsel for the attorney general (AG) yesterday argued that the Constitutional Court erred when it found that the amendment to the Constitution increasing the age of retirement for the director of public prosecutions and the auditor general did not...
A Court of Appeal hearing to clarify issues that had arisen following the Constitutional Court’s decision in April that resulted in King’s Counsel (KC) Paula Llewellyn stepping aside as director of public prosecutions (DPP) will get under way today...
Three of four persons including an alleged gangster who were implicated in a massive gun find in a warehouse at the wharf in Kingston in March 2022 were yesterday freed of gun charges. The trio were found not guilty after their lawyers made...
A budding entertainer, who lost his left eye because of the negligence of a general practitioner who failed to promptly refer him to an eye specialist, has been awarded $8.6 million plus interest. The claimant, Steve Wright, who had visited the...
A crime scene forensic investigator who collected evidence and photographed the scene at Keith Clarke’s home following his shooting death in May 2010 yesterday denied that he had been incompetent and unprofessional in his duties. The detective...
Evidence by a crime scene forensic investigator has countered the defence’s assertion that blood from another injured person, aside from that of Keith Clarke, was discovered in the house on the night of the businessman’s fatal shooting. The defence...
Declaring that Vybz Kartel and his co-accused must be allowed to clear their names, the prosecution says it wants the murder case to be retried on its merits and not be determined on technicalities. “The public interest in the final determination...
The Court of Appeal on Thursday questioned the possibility of finding seven unbiased jurors, given the widespread publicity surrounding the case after the prosecution argued strongly that there are safeguards in the Jamaican court system to ensure...
The Court of Appeal says the prosecution must explain why Vybz Kartel and his three co-accused should be retried for the 2011 murder of Clive Williams when they have already suffered multiple constitutional breaches in the previous trial process....
Defence lawyers representing Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer and his co-accused are contending that the unavailability of technological material that was used in their original murder trial will affect their clients’ defence if a retrial is granted....
A court says it is not enough to claim that foul odour and the flow of raw sewage is a breach of a constitutional right without bringing evidence on the impact on health and also to establish whether it was an environmental abuse. “Although it is...
While sharing that she was still yearning to know the truth about what happened on the night her father was killed, the daughter of slain businessman Keith Clarke yesterday declared that she was coached by God to tell the truth about what she...
The daughter of slain businessman Keith Clarke yesterday denied a suggestion from the defence that an injured person who left blood stains in different sections of the house was present on the night her father was killed. Clarke, a 63-year-old...
The night Britney witnessed her father, Keith Clarke, being shot and killed by soldiers was not just a nightmare, it was also a moment where she accepted her own life was about to end. Testifying on Tuesday at the ongoing murder trial, the witness...
The widow of slain chartered accountant Keith Clarke has questioned why none of the alleged gunmen who the defence claimed were on her property the night her husband was killed was caught or shot. Noting that the army is there to defend Jamaica,...
DNA evidence has indicated that there was another person present in the Clarkes’ master bedroom, other than their daughter, on the night Keith Clarke was shot and killed, the defence has revealed. But Clarke’s widow, Dr Claudette Clarke, said, if...
Dr Claudette Clarke, the widow of slain businessman Keith Clarke, was yesterday accused of lying and of putting on a show by throwing temper tantrums when cornered in a lie to avoid answering questions directly. The suggestions came following...
The sentencing for former Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) physiotherapist Kyodia Burnett, who stabbed and killed his wife Nordraka Williams-Burnett in December 2018, was yesterday postponed to Friday in the Home Circuit Court. The sentencing was...
The prosecution and the defence in the Matthew Hyde case are to continue discussions regarding a possible plea deal. The university student, who reportedly held his girlfriend captive in a dorm room and tortured her over a year ago, was on...
Keith Clarke had unknowingly fired at members of the security forces on the night he was shot and killed in May 2010, his widow, Dr Claudette Clarke, has claimed. At the same time, the 65-year-old widow, who is giving testimony in the Home Circuit...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is calling on justices of the peace (JPs) to play a greater role in tackling misinformation in society. Speaking on Saturday during a commissioning ceremony for 102 new justices of the peace (JPs) for St Andrew at Up...
