A prosecutor would have virtually no chance of pinning a charge of assault on a man seen viciously attacking a woman in a viral video without help from the victim on the receiving end of the brutal beatdown, according to legal experts. It appears...
Jamaicans are walking away from their marriages in droves amid the throes of a coronavirus pandemic. Since January 1 this year, some 1,220 divorce applications have been filed in the courts, figures compiled by Court Administration Division (CAD)...
Margaret Alexander* was getting ready to leave work earlier this month when she noticed that her ex-boyfriend had entered the small gaming lounge she managed. The certified locksmith, she claimed, had been stalking her for months, either trailing...
A “comprehensive” audit of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) is now under way amid claims of “poor management and lack of accountability” of the institution’s assets levelled by its alumni association. Over the last three...
At least 29 people have died this year in motor vehicle crashes that occurred after the start of the nightly all-island curfews, new statistics have revealed. The death toll resulted from 25 fatal crashes that involved a total of 39 vehicles, some...
A grandmother caught in the middle of an international child custody battle was briefly jailed this week for failing to comply with a court order. Daisy Elizabeth Raymond, 64, a retired teacher, was arrested at her home in Portland about 7:30 p.m....
A silent surge in mental health disorders triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has placed Jamaica on the verge of a crisis that could have devastating long-term implications, medical experts have warned. There are fears, too, that amid the escalating...
Jonathan Anderson* was convicted in 2015 for a number of traffic breaches he insists he did not commit. But the convictions in the Traffic Court for unlicensed motor vehicle, unlawful use of licence plates, and not having motor vehicle insurance...
Nearly 400 appeals filed in the last four years challenging rulings handed down by Jamaica’s high and parish courts have stalled because of the absence of transcripts. Between 2016 and February 22 this year, a total of 311 transcripts and 67 judges...
The Jamaican Government, after months of silence, has disclosed that it has signed a five-year J$4-billion contract with the Israeli firm ELTA Systems Limited, but has sought to assure Jamaicans that they have nothing to fear. The disclosure and...
Jamaica averaged four murders per day over the first 42 days of this year. For a bloody six-day stretch, which started on January 29, average daily murders climbed to five when a total of 30 persons were killed, including 10 on January 31 alone,...
It was mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve three years ago and the market in the central Jamaica town of Mandeville was buzzing with activities. Suddenly, gunshots rang out, sending shoppers and vendors scampering for safety. When the shooting ended,...
Amid the limited return to face-to-face classes in Jamaica’s public school system, some principals are quietly asking parents to sign a waiver indemnifying their institutions should students contract the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19). But the use...
More than 500 Jamaicans were sentenced in the United Kingdom (UK) to at least 12 months in prison over a four-year period ending in 2019. The staggering figure comes as the British government, under fire for what lobby groups there describe as...
Chinese operatives are eavesdropping on mobile telephone calls being made by Jamaicans on the Digicel network, the departing top American diplomat here has alleged, opening the door for speculation on what Jamaican authorities may know. But the...
Dr Peter Phillips has admitted that his failed attempt more than a decade ago to wrest control of the People’s National Party (PNP) from then President Portia Simpson Miller was ill-advised. And, while the PNP continues the search for answers for...
The race for the presidency of the People’s National Party (PNP) is going down to the wire, a new opinion poll has revealed. A week before a vote is cast in the party’s presidential election, St Ann South Eastern Member of Parliament (MP) Lisa...
A veil of secrecy clouds the criteria used by the National Workers’ Union (NWU) to confer voting rights on dozens of persons to elect the next president of the opposition People’s National Party (PNP). Approximately 3,400 delegates, drawn from the...
It was the afternoon of Friday, October 17, 2014 when Joan Martin was at home in the United Kingdom (UK) with a church sister and her phone rang. On the phone was an administrator at the school where her then 16-year-old son Osime Brown was...
The physical and emotional scars serve as constant reminders for Majorie Hinds about the moment, 10 years ago, when she claimed a powerful blast from a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) mortar round changed her life for the worse. Hinds’ recollection of...
Amid the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 700 people have been murdered across Jamaica since the dreaded respiratory ailment reached local soil. The staggering death toll comes despite a range of stringent COVID-19 containment measures...
The contract killer who admitted his role in the gruesome murder of Tonia McDonald, wife of popular Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, is cooperating with prosecutors under a plea deal. Denvalyn Minott, who pleaded guilty to...
Mark Golding is aware of the suspicion that his challenge for the presidency of the People’s National Party (PNP) has evoked among some party faithful. The unease in some PNP circles, insiders say, is based on fears that Golding is merely seeking...
Beauty queen-turned-lawmaker Lisa Hanna has emerged as the front runner to take over the reins of the floundering People’s National Party (PNP), according to a leaked internal poll commissioned by the party. But with the PNP heading towards a...
With what are believed to have been coordinated attacks on the lives of police officers and their relatives last weekend, triggering the High Command to raise the threat level for cops to high, the Jamaica Police Federation is up in arms over the...
