Rushane Barnett News Today

This and many other societies today have a strangely selective sense of justice. Particularly baffling is the hypocrisy in how we view murders committed by children as opposed to those committed by adults. Children who murder are considered...

IMAGINE BEING asked to outshine your boss. That is one of the public service challenges thrown out by Jamaica’s chief prosecutor, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, to every member of her staff. Under the theme, ‘Raising the bar...

Twenty-three-month-old Kishawn Henry and Rushane Barnett were inseparable. There was no greater joy for the boy than ‘jockey rides’ on the man later convicted for the death of the infant, his mother, and three siblings in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon...

Two mothers and one father who lost children to violence met each other for the first time on Sunday and discussed among themselves over dinner at a St Andrew restaurant the need for proper support sy...

Tuesday’s indication by the island’s chief prosecutor that she would be seeking the death penalty for the man accused of raping and murdering nine-year-old Nikita Noel is the sedative the child’s ...

THE Jamaica Observer provided extensive coverage of the courts in 2022 where several interesting matters where heard. Some were completed last year while some will continue into 2023. Here are s...

Jamaica celebrated its 60th anniversary of independence from Britain in 2022, during a year that started with COVID-19 restrictions, including curfews, still in place. It would not be until March befo...

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, KC, has described as "spot on" the ruling of Supreme Court Judge Justice Leighton Pusey who on Thursday handed 23-year-old convict Rushane Ba...

Supreme Court Judge Justice Leighton Pusey sentenced convicted murderer Rushane Barnett to five life sentences on Thursday and, in what appeared to be unprecedented comments in his summation, ...

STATING that her nephew Rushane Barnett who knifed her daughter and four grandchildren to death deserved the five life sentences he was slapped with on Thursday by a Supreme Court judge, a grievin...