The police are reviewing traffic tickets issued by a St Mary-based constable using the electronic ticketing system, the Ministry of National Security has revealed. It comes amid public concerns after The Sunday Gleaner reported that the constable...
Investigators stumbled upon a number of unexpected items during a series of coordinated raids this week that are related to the alleged $1-billion fraud uncovered at the St Catherine Municipal Corporation (StCMC), law enforcement sources have...
Uniformed cops assigned to the Jamaica Supreme Court have been banned from using mobile phones inside the courtrooms amid complaints from judges and prosecutors that the devices have become a distraction, a top police official has disclosed. The...
A suggestion that Jamaica enact legislative changes that would prescribe social intervention and not criminal prosecution for children engaging in sexual activities is back on the table amid an “alarming” number of sex-related cases that are before...
Hundreds of arrest warrants that were prepared for motorists who were ticketed by law enforcement under the old paper-based system are being returned to the courts, a top police official has revealed. A precise figure was not disclosed. The...
The police have approximately 30,000 arrest warrants for motorists who have ignored tickets issued for traffic violations, a senior official has disclosed. Already, the police have embarked on a “very aggressive” national drive to have them...
A high-level investigation is under way to determine how an injured suspect in the foiled robbery at a Clarendon supermarket last month escaped from a hospital while under police guard. The investigation was ordered by the Police High Command,...
Enforcement of a legislative provision that authorises the use of cameras to detect speeding and other traffic violations and permits emailed tickets to offenders will be a top priority for the country’s main road-safety advocate. The disclosure by...
A judge has indicated that she was not “persuaded” by the evidence of former lawmaker Leslie Campbell during his trial for breaches of the Integrity Commission Act. Campbell, a former member of parliament (MP), senator and junior foreign minister,...
A device that was allegedly confiscated from two men, as they attempted to steal two vehicles at the Constant Spring tax office in St Andrew, has been confirmed to be a key re-programming gadget that allows criminals to steal a car within seconds,...
A popular Manchester businessman, who offered another man $60,000 to kill the top executive at the People’s Cooperative Bank (PCB) in the parish so he could have easier access to loans, has been convicted for solicitation to murder. Marvin Morris,...
Deno Whyte arrived in The Bahamas on October 11 excited about his two-week vacation and plans to reconnect with an old friend. But almost immediately after the Jamaican disembarked Caribbean Airlines flight BW414 in Nassau, his trip took a sudden...
Jamaican motorists who were compelled for 15 years to pay traffic fines that were unlawfully imposed by the government will have to provide proof of payment to get a court-ordered refund, the Supreme Court has ruled. Acceptable forms of proof are...
The country’s top police investigator says the finding of an autopsy that late Gleaner sports journalist Job Nelson was killed by a metal object expelled from the airbag of his car, and not by a bullet, was not surprising. It was initially reported...
The main suspect in the disappearance of primary school teacher Danielle Anglin was cut loose in 2018 with a suspended sentence after he was convicted in the High Court on multiple counts of assault, law enforcement sources have revealed. The...
A former public official at a now shuttered government-owned company that was smeared by allegations of financial impropriety was sent to prison yesterday after he was convicted on corruption-related charges. Lawrence Pommels, a former acting...
The Jamaican Supreme Court has ordered that a mentally ill man who languished in prison for nearly 42 years without facing a trial for murder should be “temporarily” released to family members under strict conditions. His name and the names of the...
Whitehorses: Dalvarine Bruce felt “good” just being around to vote in yesterday’s local government elections in St Thomas. Two weeks ago Bruce, who is a supporter of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), lost her left leg in a gruesome accident...
Police investigators believe popular entertainer Medikk was the victim of a contract killing. However, the police have declined to comment further, citing the on-going investigations. The disclosure came yesterday, hours after the police reported...
There are mechanisms that can be put in place to effect court-ordered refunds of traffic fines, estimated at billions of dollars and collected from motorists over a 15-year period through an order that has been declared illegal, according to...
Criticisms in the British media of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle “hobnobbing” with Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday are “absolutely ridiculous”, one local cultural expert has opined. The exiled Duke and Duchess of Sussex...
The commanding officer for the police division where Jolyan Silvera is being housed has dismissed claims that the former lawmaker is getting preferential treatment. Several detainees at the Kingston Central police lockup threatened to stage a “riot...
A mobile phone attributed to businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald was communicating with a phone linked to one of his wife’s killers on the night and in the area she was stabbed to death, a police witness has testified. However, the witness...
Sandra Risden, the paralegal who was shot to death in a brazen early morning attack in St Andrew yesterday, has been described as an honest and diligent colleague as police investigators theorise that she was targeted by hired killers....
Six sections of the DNA Evidence Act are in breach of several constitutional rights guaranteed to citizens, but those infringements are “demonstrably justified”, Jamaica’s Full Court has ruled. The landmark decision was handed down yesterday,...
