The state-owned Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) has filed an application in the Supreme Court to have disbarred attorney Harold Brady sent to prison for a debt that has ballooned to over $110 million. The application is scheduled to be heard...
Durvin Hayles agonised with the family of slain 16-year-old student Vanessa Kirkland even as he reflected on the “suffering and pain” he and his family endured in the 11 years since the controversial killing. Kirkland, who attended Immaculate...
A male teacher employed to a St Andrew-based high school is in police custody in connection with two investigations, one of which involves a 13-year-old female student, who was reported missing for several hours last week before she was found. The...
The attorney for one of the accused in the $222-million Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) fraud case has described his client’s arrest as “most curious”. Andrew Wright, former financial controller at INSPORTS, was arrested this week while the...
Almost two months after being jailed for her alleged role in the multibillion-dollar fraud uncovered at the investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), Jean-Ann Panton had a list of requests for prison administrators. Panton was given a...
The donation by “corporate Jamaica” towards Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed 2022 bid for the post of Commonwealth secretary general is now the subject of a lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court. Businessman Keith Duncan and...
A medical doctor who has examined accused fraudster Jean-Ann Panton testified on Wednesday that despite her claims, he saw nothing to indicate that she suffered a stroke while in custody. Dr Jermaine Whyte, a sessional medical officer employed to...
A former security guard, who was employed to the Guardsman Group, will have to spend two decades more behind bars for killing three of his ex-colleagues, including two women, in a gruesome triple murder that made national headlines over a decade...
Richard Pandohie, chief executive officer of the Seprod Group, could not conceal the hurt and betrayal he felt after the police confirmed on Thursday that 17 current and former employees were arrested for orchestrating an elaborate scheme that...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has poured cold water on a suggestion that the law be amended to widen the pool of citizens available for jury duty. Schedule A of the Jury Act, which came into effect over 40 years ago, exempts several categories of...
An American advocacy group has sought the intervention of the United States (US) government in the case of an American citizen who was convicted in Jamaica for having sex with an underage girl. Robert Benoit was found guilty by a jury in the St...
Jamaica’s second-highest court has left in place a near-$50 million payout to a west Kingston woman, who was blinded in both eyes by a bullet believed to have been fired by members of the security forces. However, a $2-million award for the woman’s...
A Jamaican man residing in the United States, who sexually abused two of his foster children over a two-year period, has been ordered to serve 50 years in prison. Eric Norman Stewart, 66, of Missouri City, Texas, will have to serve his sentence “...
Jamaica’s parliamentary Opposition has filed a lawsuit in the High Court challenging the legality of the Government’s repeated use of states of emergency (SOEs) as a routine crime-fighting tool. Opposition Leader Mark Golding disclosed, too, that...
A Manchester teacher, whose body was found in bushes a week after he went missing, was beaten and shot execution style by four men, including one he had travelled to Clarendon to meet up with, police investigators believe. Details of the gruesome...
A woman who poured gasolene on her spouse while he slept then set him on fire because she suspected that he was cheating has been convicted of murder. Serita Housen Blair, also known as ‘Tasha’ and ‘Aunty’, pleaded guilty in the Home Circuit Court...
A Jamaican man described as the “brains” who used his apartment to manufacture ghost guns that were sold on the streets of Connecticut is going to prison for 18 months. Audley Reeves, 31, was sentenced in a United States District Court on Thursday...
A gun for which the licence expired 17 years ago is among five pistols that were handed over to the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) on Monday, the first working day of a gun amnesty imposed by the Government. The guns contained a total of 10...
Nearly a year ago, Rushane Barnett and his brother were unemployed and in a financial bind when they telephoned their aunt, Gwendolyn McKnight, for help. The brothers wanted to move to Clarendon, where McKnight and her family lived, to find jobs...
An “organised” band of criminals who stole nearly $50 million from an account at JMMB gained access to sensitive personal data through a cyber scheme, law-enforcement authorities have charged. “We can confirm that there is an act of fraud that is...
A Jamaican lecturer has been linked by scientific evidence to sexual and other criminal offences in the United States (US), according to American authorities who have requested his extradition. Russell McLean, a behavioural and social sciences...
Corporal Conrad Martin was inside his office at the May Pen Police Station when another cop alerted him to a young man who wanted to talk with a counsellor. Martin, a peer counsellor assigned to the Clarendon Police Division, is one of the ‘prayer...
Some things are “more clearer” for authorities in the Netherlands who are investigating the controversial $31-million payment by Trafigura Beheer to the People’s National Party (PNP) in 2006, a Dutch prosecutor has revealed. Ronald Steen, a...
The People’s National Party (PNP) bank account into which the bulk of a controversial $31-million payment from the Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer was lodged in 2006 was opened a day after the first tranche of the funds was wired to another Jamaican...
Member of Parliament Phillip Paulwell has denied supplying an invoice to former top executives of the Dutch firm Trafigura Beheer related to a controversial $31-million payment made to the People’s National Party (PNP) around the time they were in...
