The members of the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry are now in West Kingston touring several communities. Commission Chairman Sir David Simmons was flocked by residents, some of whom hugged and kissed him as he got out of his car. Some of the...
Ahead of a visit to west Kingston by the three-member Commission of Enquiry, residents are now staging a peaceful protest. The residents, some bearing placards, are claiming that former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has not been truthful in...
Published:Thursday | April 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The West Kingston Commission of Enquiry yesterday heard evidence that members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) fired a total of 1,167 shots when they moved into Tivoli Gardens after a police-military team had already secured the community....
Former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has contradicted evidence before the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry that 35 or nearly half of the more than 70 persons killed during the 2010 police-military operations in west Kingston were shot in...
THIRTY-FIVE or nearly half of the more than 70 persons killed during the 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens were shot in the back, chairman of the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry Sir David Simmons revealed yesterday.Declaring that...
Published:Tuesday | April 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
THE WEST Kingston commission of Enquiry yesterday heard evidence that contradicted the testimony of former Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington on the number of illegal firearms seized by the security forces during the May 2010 police-military...
Former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington says he should only be judged by the way the May 2010 police-military operations in the west Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens were planned, executed and monitored. At the West Kingston Commission of...
A Kingston magistrate has further delayed her ruling on whether the St Mary teen suspected of trying to join Islamic militants is to remain in police custody. The Magistrate was expected to make a decision this morning upon receiving a social...
Published:Monday | April 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has testified that a risk assessment conducted before the May 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens suggested that the death toll "could have been much higher".Ellington, who was giving evidence...
Former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington today conceded that the Jamaica police did not explore the possibility of filing criminal charges against convicted drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke. Ellington also said the Jamaica...
After hours of contemplation, a magistrate has ruled that the St Mary teen suspected of trying to join a militant group be remanded in police custody until Tuesday. The magistrate has also ordered a preliminary social enquiry report into the...
Published:Wednesday | April 15, 2015 | 4:02 PMLivern Barrett
Secretary to the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry Maria Jones has conceded that the hearing is running well behind schedule.The admission came after yesterday's sitting of the three-member panel was adjourned early without any public hearings....
The Family Court is to rule tomorrow on whether the teen detained on suspicion that he was trying to join Islamic militants in the Middle East should be released from police custody. The court has issued a gag order barring attorneys and police in...
Published:Tuesday | April 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
THE NATION'S former police chief yesterday revealed that in the last decade, the west Kingston-based 'Shower Posse', or 'Presidential Click' gang - under the direction of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke - "invested" in a stockpile of firepower that made it...
Former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington says after 2001 the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke-led gang Presidential Click significantly upgraded it's firepower. In 2001 there was a commission of enquiry into another police-military operations...
Retired Police Commissioner Owen Ellington says the nation is fortunate that the security forces were able to repel the attack on the state by the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke led Shower Posse back in 2010. Ellington, who was testifying before...
Retired Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has revealed that days before the 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens there were reports that an aircraft carrying a "shipment of guns" landed at the Vernamfield airstrip in...
Attorneys for the Reverend Merrick 'Al' Miller have until May 4 to provide a magistrate with written submissions outlining why the corruption charge against him should be dismissed. Prosecutors have been given until May 11 to respond and...
Published:Saturday | March 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Almost two weeks before United States President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit the island, the Government has rolled out a major road repaving programme across sections of the Corporate Area.The project covers much of the route Obama is expected...
A magistrate has barred the media from publishing the names and other identifying information for the remaining witnesses in the corruption trial of the juror accused of trying to bribe his peers in the Vybz Kartel murder trial. Resident...
Published:Wednesday | March 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
One of the jurors who served on the 11-member panel that convicted entertainer Vybz Kartel has revealed that the discussions in the jury room sometimes strayed to matters that were not related to the trial. Dennis Brown, the man who served as juror...
Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
One of the jurors who served in the Vybz Kartel murder trial admitted yesterday that he "works” with the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). Dennis Brown made the admission in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court as he gave...
Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 4:17 PMLivern Barrett
The attorney for the juror accused of offering some of his peers $500,000 bribes to influence the outcome of the Vybz Kartel murder trial has raised concerns that the cell phone used to record the alleged incident was returned to its owner, who...
The corruption trial of the juror accused of trying to bribe his colleagues in the Vybz Kartel murder trial failed to get underway today after his attorney raised a number of concerns. Livingston Cain is facing five counts of attempting to pervert...
Published:Thursday | March 19, 2015 | 4:46 PMLivern Barrett
THE United States (US) STATE Department has warned that Jamaica's overburdened justice system is crippling the country's efforts to fight corruption, international drug trafficking, and violent criminal gangs.The warning was contained in the latest...
