WESTERN BUREAU: A forensic examiner from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) admitted on Thursday that he could not confirm whether the Barnett Street Police Station cell, where Mario Deane was beaten on August 3, 2014, had been...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dwayne Vaz, the former member of parliament for Westmoreland Central, is calling for a revamp of the Government’s procurement processes, saying it will result in a smoother flow of transactions. He suggested the implementation of e-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Economist Dr Andre Haughton, the Opposition’s spokesman on science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship, says that Jamaica must acknowledge the importance of technology in national development in order to avoid repeating...
WESTERN BUREAU: The trial of three cops charged in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane was yesterday adjourned until Thursday to give the defence lawyers time to review photos and videos submitted as evidence by the Independent Commission of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The trial of 16 members of the controversial Montego Bay-based Qahal Yahweh religious group was delayed once again in the St James Parish Court on Friday due to the absence of both the defendants’ lawyer and the trial judge. As a...
WESTERN BUREAU: When the ninth staging of the annual Jill Stewart MoBay City Run (JSMCR) 10K and 5K walk/run kicks off on Sunday, May 4, Chris-Shana Gallimore, one of the scholarship recipients tied to the event, will be on hand to assist the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Murari Sarangi, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Mario Deane’s body, yesterday, told the Westmoreland Circuit Court that based on the injuries he saw, he concluded that the deceased man was pinned down during the...
Western Bureau: Dr Murari Sarangi, the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on Mario Deane’s body after his 2014 death in custody at the Barnett Street Police Station in Montego Bay, St James, told the Westmoreland Circuit Court yesterday...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lorna Bailey, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust’s (JNHT) director of public education, public relations and communication, is calling for greater security protection of national monuments after the Sam Sharpe monument in Montego...
WESTERN BUREAU: Adam Stewart, executive chairman of Sandals Resort International, is recommending that a half-marathon be part of next year’s 10th anniversary staging of the Jill Stewart MoBay City Run (JSMCR) 10K/5K walk-run event, which was...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica must position itself to seize emerging opportunities in the global services industry, which is projected to generate an estimated US$1.38 trillion globally by 2032, according to Wayne Sinclair, president of the Global...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Westmoreland Circuit Court yesterday heard the deposition statement of the now-deceased Castel McKenzie, the man who was not allowed to bail Mario Deane after he was arrested for possession of a ganja spliff and taken to Barnett...
WESTERN BUREAU: Rohan Rose, the man accused of not telling the police what he knew about the 2022 murder of social media influencer Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend, is expected to know his fate when he returns to the St James Circuit Court on October...
WESTERN BUREAU: High Court Justice Courtney Daye, the presiding judge in the trial of three police personnel implicated in the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane, is urging members of the media to be mindful of how they disseminate information...
WESTERN BUREAU: Twenty-four children in the paediatric ward at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay, St James, will benefit from the donation of three portable air-conditioning units, courtesy of Dr Jodine Jackto-Tafari, founder of...
WESTERN BUREAU: There was a heated exchange between councillors Charles Sinclair and Michael Troupe during the St James Municipal Corporation’s (StJMC) monthly meeting last Thursday over Troupe’s insistence that persons are reportedly removing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon has renewed calls for residents of St James, particularly in the parish capital, to take greater responsibility for waste disposal, warning that current practices could lead to a health crisis....
WESTERN BUREAU: Dillon Reid, the St James man charged in relation to the October 2024 hit-and-run death of 44-year-old Police Constable Linroy Codner, has had his bail extended to May 7 following his first appearance in the St James Parish Court to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Constable Orville Williams, the police witness currently testifying in the trial of three police personnel charged in the beating death of Mario Deane, admitted under cross-examination yesterday that Deane was arguing with another...
WESTERN BUREAU: Corporal Orville Williams, who was the subofficer on duty at the lock-up at the Barnett Street Police Station, in Montego Bay, St James, when Mario Deane suffered a fatal beating on August 3, 2014, positively identified two of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Circuit Court has granted an application for two prosecution witnesses to give evidence via the online platform in the triple murder case against music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson and Tajay Clarke, who are...
WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Kevin Francis, whose absence derailed Monday’s scheduled sitting in the trial of the three police personnel charged in the Mario Deane beating death case, was back on the stand today but it was...
WESTERN BUREAU: The third day of the trial of the three police officers charged in connection with the 2014 beating death of Mario Deane was adjourned after five minutes as Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Kevin Francis, who was slated to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson and his co-accused, Tajay Clarke, who are charged with a triple murder committed in Rose Heights, St James, in 2022, will learn next Tuesday if an overseas prosecution witness will be...
WESTERN BUREAU: With the empanelling of a jury for the trial of the three police officers implicated in the death of Mario Deane finally taking place, human-rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is calling for an examination of the circumstances...
