A government member of parliament (MP) being investigated for possible illicit enrichment was due to face the Integrity Commission (IC) in February for an interview, but it was not held because of a reported “procedural issue”. The official was...
The operators of Jamaica College (JC) have rejected former principal Ruel Reid’s claim for at least $10 million in incentive payments and are pushing for his lawsuit to be thrown out. Reid, a former education minister who resigned in 2019 amid...
Three HEART/NSTA Trust employees say they have been left dejected and hurt after a slew of new charges were brought against them just days before their “nine months of hell” in suspension was due to end. The matter follows an investigation of at...
Former Education Minister Ruel Reid is seeking at least $10 million in incentive payments and salary top-ups for his time as principal of Jamaica College (JC), the all-boys high school he is suing for alleged breach of contract. Reid, who resigned...
Ruel Reid, the former education minister who resigned amid corruption allegations, is suing the owners of Jamaica College (JC) for millions of dollars he claims is owed to him for the last four years of his contract as principal. It is the latest...
An expert witness has contended that “flawed” accounting used by Cornerstone caused businesswoman Rita Humphries-Lewin to waste US$6 million on “overpriced” shares in the investment company. At the average exchange rate for September 2021, US$6...
The committee managing Rita Humphries-Lewin’s affairs has asked the Supreme Court to undo more than $2 billion worth of transactions involving the retired businesswoman and investment firms Cornerstone and its subsidiary Barita. Rita’s husband,...
Claiming that the transaction “does not make commercial sense”, Sagicor Investments Jamaica last year demanded an explantion from Cornerstone for Rita Humphries-Lewin’s sale of 28.2 million shares in Barita, to pay for 1.4 million stocks in...
Rita Humphries-Lewin’s dementia had so worsened up to January 2023 that the 87-year-old respected Jamaican businesswoman reportedly could not even recall the word ‘Barita’ – the name of the investment company she established more than four decades...
There may be “some merit” to a claim that businesswoman Rita Humphries-Lewin, who is reportedly battling dementia, was pressured to spend $2 billion to buy shares in investment firm Cornerstone, says the agency that probes financial crimes in...
Consultants appear set to propose that four CARICOM institutions, including the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) and one dealing with aviation safety, be closed or reconstructed. It is the first major indication of what may end up in the highly...
The state-owned Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and its subsidiary, whose investments of over J$400 million of taxpayers’ money in FirstRock Capital Holdings were “irregular and lacked transparency”, continue to have shares in the private real...
The Holness administration appears confident that it will meet a new deadline of October 2023 to bring Jamaica’s anti-money laundering and countering of the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime up to international standards and avoid being...
A dispute is brewing over whether the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) got permission from the right person to construct a cell tower on a plot of land in the community of Cocoa Walk in Cross Keys, southern Manchester. On May 5, Kerron Outar, through...
The battle between the Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) and Harold Brady has now turned on whether the state entity is legally empowered to enforce an order for the disbarred attorney to pay over $110 million owed from a property transaction...
Professor of international business and a senior administrator at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Densil Williams, has been recommended to take over as principal of the financially troubled Mona campus in Jamaica, The Sunday Gleaner has...
A baby’s death two days after being born has triggered a mandatory requirement for all newborns at the Black River Hospital in St Elizabeth to be seen any day of the week by a member of the paediatric unit before being discharged. Shakera Morgan,...
The St Elizabeth police have confirmed that an armed policeman, who last month told a citizen that “Mi wi mash up yuh [expletive] eno” for video-recording him, is the subject of an internal probe. But Superintendent Kenneth Chin, who leads the...
“Mi wi mash up yuh [expletive] eno” was a policeman’s video-recorded ‘threat’ to a citizen now alleging abuse by the agent of the State following an incident at the Black River Primary and Infant School in St Elizabeth last week. Seconds later,...
For the past five months, the head of Jamaica’s primary business development agency has not been paid because of a contract-extension dispute that is grappling with questions about whether the Aubyn Hill-appointed board was pressured into reversing...
A developer who built 32 bedrooms instead of the approved 12 has lost a bid to have an adverse court ruling withdrawn on the basis of a settlement with the St Andrew residents who opposed the apartments' construction. Supreme Court judge Natalie...
Fraud-hit Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL) was anticipating close to half a billion dollars in capital injection under a now seemingly failed deal that was likely to see...
In 2009, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) discovered that the now fraud-hit investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) had taken almost $200 million from ‘client accounts’ to finance three companies while “under severe financial...
