Livern Barrett - Senior Staff Reporter

George Williams is flanked by his brother Aldwin Jones and niece Pamella Green in this June 2021 photo.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

Gov’t challenges $120m award to George Williams, calls it excessive

The Government is arguing that the $120 million in damages that was awarded to George Williams – the mentally disabled Rastafarian man who spent 50 years in prison awaiting trial – was “punitive in…
What is left of Debbie-Ann Dixon’s plantain farm in Elderslie, St Elizabeth, after the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

BATTERED, WIPED OUT

With Hurricane Melissa bearing down on Jamaica, Debbie-Ann Dixon devised a plan to save over 500 pounds of “fit” plantains on her sizeable farm in Elderslie, a community located in northwestern St…
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

‘Innocent right through’

J.D. Brown* visited the Oracabessa Police Station in St Mary on the night of July 8, 2016, to deliver food for a relative in custody. He chatted with the cops on duty at the time and described them as…

A curious squirrel monkey peeps from his enclosure at the Hope Zoo. While the Hope Zoo would have followed all required procedures to bring its animals into the country, authorities are concerned about possibly thousands of other animals that are brought
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

Exotic animals free-for-all

Jamaican authorities confiscated more than 250 endangered and exotic species of animals over the last five years amid worrying signs that more locals are seeking to cash in on the global…
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December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

Keith Clarke’s family sues Gov’t

More than 15 years after businessman Keith Clarke was fatally shot during a joint police-military operation, his family has filed a lawsuit alleging that security forces stormed the wrong house during…