A fisherman whose boat was forfeited to the Government in 2005 by order of a lower court judge has been forced to wait 16 years to appeal that ruling. That’s because the legal challenge he filed on January 17, 2007 in the Kingston and St Andrew...
With her throat slashed and blood oozing from her neck, eight-year-old Danielle Rowe seemingly made a bid to escape her killer before collapsing on to a busy roadway, according to the accounts of two eyewitnesses. Their accounts were among nearly a...
Students who show up at Jonathan Grant High School tomorrow carrying backpacks with the word ‘Dunce’ printed on them will be barred from classes, a defiant Principal Dr O’Neil Ankle has warned. “If a child shows up with it on Monday, he will have...
Two boys, ages 12 and 13 years old, have come forward with horrific accounts of how they were shocked with tasers, trampled on by adults and beaten with plastic pipes at a popular annual camp aimed at curbing behavioural issues in so-called...
The Government has conceded that it will have to return a substantial portion of traffic ticket fines that were collected over a 15-year period because of legislative missteps uncovered by one motorist. It marks the latest development in a landmark...
Andre Knight and Fabian Davy were among a group of men who buried two bodies in a shallow grave in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on an October night in 2013 and were about to use the cover of darkness to get away with murder. That was until a chance...
A policeman in western Jamaica is under investigation amid claims that he fleeced a charity based in the United States (US) that was sending money to assist an American man who was convicted here on child sex charges. The US Embassy has taken an...
For nearly 20 years, the State-owned oil refinery Petrojam has been paying out millions of dollars in golf fees for its chief executive. The payments, which began in 2004, cover annual membership fees for Petrojam General Manager Winston Watson at...
The Petroleum Company of Jamaica (Petcom) has sought the urgent intervention of the Supreme Court to put a gag on a former employee who it claims copied reams of “highly confidential” company data that could cause “severe financial losses” if they are leaked to competitors.
Four years ago, a pro-accountability lobby used one of the country’s main transparency laws to request from all members of parliament (MPs) annual reports showing how they spend the $1.2 billion split between them each year to enhance the lives of...
The attack by armed thugs on guests and workers at a Jamaican resort hotel on Friday has drawn the outrage of one local private sector lobby. By comparison, officials and industry leaders opted on Saturday to remain silent about reports that a...
The police have broadened their investigation of two policemen implicated in a multimillion-dollar home invasion robbery amid claims that they are part of a band of rogue cops who are behind a string of high-stakes heists. Already, police...
A man who was convicted for shooting two people has been set free because his seven-year wait for the transcript of his trial violated his constitutional rights, Jamaica’s second-highest court has ordered. A transcript is the official record of a...
Jamaican-born retired United States law enforcement agent Wilfred Rattigan does not have the legal standing to file a lawsuit over private donations to Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed bid for the post of Commonwealth...
Andrea Gordon made two cash transfers totalling $8.3 million in November and December 2017 from the coffers of her employer, the National Commercial Bank (NCB), to a car dealer for the purchase of a brand-new motor vehicle. One month later, in...
A businessman who authored a book critical of the Jamaican judicial system that has been widely circulated locally and internationally has been ordered to pay a retired High Court judge over $80 million for defamation. The order was made in the...
Geraldine Chin* began noticing in late 2021 that her then two-year-old son had developed a persistent cough. Around the same time, a multibillion-dollar road and infrastructure upgrade project spanning several parishes was making its way through...
Another “unjustifiable” dismissal by a Government-owned company is set to cost taxpayers a multimillion-dollar payout. Agro-Investment Corporation (AIC), which falls under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, has been ordered by...
A St Andrew woman said she expected to get answers when the police brass announced in 2020 that a “high-level” investigation was under way to find out why cops turned her away from a police station in the middle of the night after she showed up to...
When Desmond McKenzie boarded a flight for New York City last December, he harboured doubts about how the final chapter of his over four-year legal fight to be reunited with his young son would end. McKenzie was heading to New York with a final...
The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) would find itself in a dogfight with the People’s National Party (PNP) to hold on to state power if national elections were called now, according to the findings of a new national poll. The public opinion...
A mobile phone belonging to Amoi Leon Issa has “communication” that could help untangle the mystery surrounding the barbaric murder of her nine-year-old son, Gabriel King, a high-ranking police investigator has disclosed. The nature of the...
An offer from an overseas developer spurred Steadman Bailey to go in and pay his property tax arrears spanning the last eight years. But a visit to the tax office in Old Harbour, St Catherine, on February 9 left the veteran cop in stunned disbelief...
A businessman was left baffled after the card machine, or point-of-sale (POS) terminal, at his retail shop kept rejecting payment. His apprehension worsened when the absence of a unique mark on the underside of the machine confirmed that it was not...
A “majority” of the stash of firearms seized in Montego Bay, St James, on Friday are homemade untraceable ‘ghost guns’, a fast-growing phenomenon in which they have become the weapons of choice for violent criminals and gunrunners. These so-called...
