Tanesha Mundle/Staff Reporter
January 2, 2026
by Tanesha Mundle
Court dismisses negligence claim over traumatic birth at Falmouth Hospital
A High Court judge has dismissed a medical negligence lawsuit brought on behalf of a now-teenage girl who was left with a permanently damaged right arm and other complications following a traumatic…
December 30, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Garbage pile-up sparks outbreak fears in Blackstonedge
Fears of a disease outbreak are mounting in Blackstonedge, St Ann, where residents say they are being forced to live alongside uncollected garbage and are now pleading for urgent intervention from the…
December 26, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Heavy-duty payout
The Supreme Court has ordered Jamaica North South Highway Company Limited and China Harbour Engineering Company Limited to pay heavy-duty truck driver Leon Mais $4,100,829.23 in damages, after finding…
December 23, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
No place like home for the holidays
“Don’t let anything dim yuh spirit.” That was the message echoed by returning Jamaicans at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Monday, as travellers arriving for the Christmas…
December 22, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Supreme Court puts pause on SMA probe
The Supreme Court has granted the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) and its managing director, Dr Maria Myers-Hamilton, permission to seek judicial review of two notices linked to an ongoing…
December 19, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
‘I still cry every night’
A senior police officer broke down in court last Friday after her son’s alleged killer raised a claim of self-defence, forcing sentencing to be aborted for the second time in five years. St Thomas…
December 18, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
‘A memory that never leaves’
Seven years after Jean-Pierre Rhone was brutally murdered and buried in a shallow grave, his family remains deeply hurt and haunted by his death, which they describe as a profound betrayal and a…
December 17, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Forgiving mom wanted shorter sentence for son’s killer
Despite the brutal killing of her son, Cerita Rhone says she forgave his killer years ago and had hoped the court would impose a lighter sentence even after he was handed 30 years’ imprisonment. “I…
December 13, 2025
by Tanesha Mundle
Attorney urges ‘humble forgiveness’ as judge prepares to sentence murder convict
The man who was found guilty for the 2018 murder of businessman Jean-Pierre Rhone, after he went missing, is to know his fate on Monday. Twenty-six-year-old Shamar Clarke, a former employee of Rhone,…