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LEODA Bradshaw, the US Navy petty officer to be tried for capital murder in the deaths of the 10-month-old daughter of veteran politician Phillip Paulwell and the child's mother, one day after lea...

Veteran attorney-at-law Bert Samuels is calling for the Jamaican Bar Association to convene an urgent meeting with Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke, to find solutions to safeguard lawyers against the potential financial risk of losing clients’...

The $22 million fraud uncovered at the St Ann's Bay National Commercial Bank (NCB) branch in January has increased by $6.6 million. The fraud amount rose after detectives found that US$44,000 was also swindled from another customer's...

Alysia Moulton White’s defence team is now seeking to get their hands on information being held by Sagicor to clear her name of any involvement in a suspected $65-million racket uncovered at the bank’s Liguanea branch last October. Attorney-at-law...

ATTORNEYS representing former Sagicor executive Alysia Moulton White are livid that the prosecution is yet to make full disclosure of critical material to them with the trial set to resume in the ...

SOME WITNESSES in the ongoing Petrojam fraud trial will be recalled for questioning by the defence next year January, when the trial resumes, following an amendment to the indictment. Former Petrojam General Manager Floyd Grindley and former board...

Now two months after the latest public spectacle surrounding the ‘badword law’, Jamaica has seemingly returned to business as usual. Under section 9C of the Towns and Communities Act of 1843, it is illegal for any person to use any profane,...

Jamaica Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James is to know today whether he will be reinstated in his job, pending a judicial review of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Andrew Lewis' decision to interdict him for perceived “...

Businessman Paul Simpson has rejected claims that he used fraud and deceit to get a reportedly unwell Rita Humphries-Lewin to sell over $2 billion worth of shares in her former company Barita to his investment firm, Cornerstone Group. Simpson is...

A firestorm of criticism has been directed at police chief Major General Antony Anderson following his decision yesterday to interdict the head of the police union for perceived “disrespectful” comments. Anderson, the police commissioner, ordered...