Livern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

Dane Nicholson, head of National Commercial Bank’s fraud prevention division.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

Bank exec on rape rap

A senior executive at the National Commercial Bank (NCB), Dane Nicholson, is facing serious criminal charges in connection with alleged sex-related offences involving a female employee, court records…
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December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

DPP mulls appeal after ‘lenient’ sentence in endangered animal smuggling case

The country’s prosecutorial authority is contemplating whether to lodge an appeal against what environmental watchers call a “tap on the back” sentence imposed on three men – two of them Honduran…
House Clerk Colleen Lowe (right) administers the oath of allegiance as Keith Duncan is sworn in as a government senator in Gordon House on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

‘I’M A FREE THINKER’

Government Senator Keith Duncan has declared that he is a “free thinker” who is “not bound by any one political organisation”. Further, Duncan said the policies of the governing Jamaica Labour Party…
Newly elected House Speaker Juliet Holness (left) feigns reluctance as Former House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert ‘drags’ her to the chair to take the oath of office during the swearing-in ceremony for members of the Upper and Lower Houses of Parl
December 9, 2025 by Livern Barrett

Holness pledges accountability framework as 84 lawmakers sworn in

The process to formally introduce job descriptions for Jamaica’s lawmakers will be “advanced” during this new five-year term of the Parliament, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has said. All 84…