While lauding Jamaica for making “impressive” strides in its crime-reduction efforts, United States (US) Secretary of State Marco Rubio has promised to re-evaluate the US travel advisory for Jamaica to reflect the current reality regarding crime....
An elderly retired nurse, brutally attacked in her Norbrook, St Andrew, home by her longtime gardener, has been forced to sell her house – now a haunting reminder of the violent ordeal that has left her living in fear. The 89-year-old victim, once...
A gardener who viciously stabbed his elderly employer and her tenant multiple times in a fit of rage was sentenced to seven years and one month in prison on Wednesday – just a day before his 60th birthday. Roy Simpson, a long-time employee of the...
The tearful mother of a child, who was kidnapped as a baby five years ago, says she is “disgusted” by the two-year suspended sentence given to the woman who was held with her son. She had expected the woman to receive at least a 10-year sentence. “...
Anniesha Ramsay, the young woman who was found with a stolen baby five years ago, was taken into custody yesterday for sentencing today in the Home Circuit Court, where she will learn her fate. Justice Leighton Pusey will hand down the sentence....
A St Catherine labourer who had brutally injured two teenage sisters with a machete in a near-fatal attack after one of them threatened to expose his alleged sexual interest in her is to serve his 18-year sentence after the Court of Appeal ruled...
A St Andrew security guard, from whose car an illegal gun was seized, was freed of gun charges in the Gun Court on Friday despite his DNA being found on the weapon. Tryon Cornwall, 41, was found not guilty of possession of a prohibited weapon by...
A St Andrew security guard, from whose car an illegal gun was seized, was freed of gun charges in the Gun Court on Friday despite his DNA being found on the weapon. Tryon Cornwall, 41, was found not guilty of possession of a prohibited weapon by...
A couple who was fighting to keep two parcels of land in Westmoreland, owned by the husband’s deceased boss, was left disappointed after the Supreme Court threw out their claim for adverse possession and ordered the husband to give up the...
Dantay Brooks, son of popular international dancehall artiste Mavado, was greeted with screams of joy from jubilant family members and friends who rushed to his side as he walked free from the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston...
A defence lawyer is hailing as a “ game changer” a ruling from the Court of Appeal that will establish a precedent guiding how pre-trial remand is to be treated when there is a mandatory minimum sentence. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal set aside...
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has conceded that the High Court’s failure to credit a convict for time spent in custody is a constitutional breach of one’s right to liberty and that an individual must be credited even if...
A trending and controversial music video, featuring a schoolboy and disturbing imagery and lyrics, has drawn backlash from a local children’s advocacy group, which has described the video and lyrics as “appalling and startling” and is calling for...
Former Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President Professor Fritz Pinnock has lost his appeal against the High Court ruling that there was no bias in the chief parish court judge’s ruling that he and his co-accused, including former Education...
A medical practitioner who was found dead in his car on Thursday, in a suspected case of suicide, reportedly had been struggling with mental challenges. The deceased, identified as 29-year-old Dr Mark-Anthony Williams, of Independence City in...
The Supreme Court has awarded $5.5 million in damages plus interest to the estate of a man who was killed in 2014 in Mountain View, St Andrew, after police fired at a car in which he was travelling. General damages of $4.5 million and aggravated...
“Right now, I am devastated because I wasn’t expecting this,” Constable Lescene Edwards said on Monday, reflecting on the passing of King’s Counsel Valerie Neita Robertson. Like many across Jamaica, Edwards was shocked and saddened by the loss of...
Member of Parliament (MP) for Portland Western, Daryl Vaz, and People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary, Dr Dayton Campbell, are set to explore mediation in an effort to amicably resolve a defamation lawsuit stemming from comments made on a...
The sentencing of Anneisha Ramsay, who pleaded guilty to stealing a five-week-old baby in 2019 after allegedly agreeing to adopt the infant for $500,000, has been postponed to March 19. Ramsay pleaded guilty to the charge of child stealing last...
The ex-policeman who is to be retried for the 2008 murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl is scheduled to return to the Home Circuit Court for a bail application on March 20. A bail hearing for Rushon Hamilton was fixed for Wednesday in the Home...
The Court of Appeal has found that a parish court judge had erred in sentencing serial convicted trickster, Ray Morgan, to 12 years in prison, which was manifestly excessive and instead has slashed the sentence by half. The ruling, which was handed...
Clarendon North Central Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Morgan says politics has humbled him and he is learning to listen to the will of the people. The first-term MP faced an upheaval in the Mocho division last year with Jamaica Labour Party (JLP...
Former House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert was yesterday fined $900,000 after pleading guilty to breaching the Integrity Commission Act. The parliamentarian found herself in trouble with the law after failing to declare for six years that she...
The Government has dismissed the Opposition’s suggestion that the move to establish Portmore as the nation’s 15th parish is purely political and, instead, is accusing the People’s National Party (PNP) of opposing the matter without just cause. “...
A man who ran from a shooting scene, leaving his birth certificate behind, after firing at the police, has again been refused permission by the Court of Appeal to appeal against his 15-year sentence and conviction. The applicant, Fabian Manderson,...
