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Mike Henry An esteemed legal team of British and Caribbean counsels has been pulled together to push for reparation from Britain for the atrocities of the chattel slave system in the Caribbean historically. In what is being viewed as a critical step to advance Jamaica’s unanimous vote in Parliament in 2015 to seek reparation from Britain, on April 14, veteran Clarendon Central Member of Parliament (MP), Mike Henry, one of the longest serving MPs in Jamaica’s history, spearheaded a virtual conference with leading legal, academic and historical minds to fast-forward his pitch for compensat...

Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, the popular Portland businessman who is accused of murdering his two wives, is to know later this month whether he will be granted bail.

Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald and his late wife Tonia. The Crown is alleging that Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, paid a police officer to orchestrate the killing of his first wife, Marlene, in 2009. In the sensational allegations read in court today, the Crown outlined how McDonald confessed to his nephew to paying the cop — a Detective Corporal Duncan — to carry out the illegal act. The Crown also outlined from the nephew’s statement to the police how — before the killing — his uncle spoke about wanting to take his own life beca...

Kingston – Attorney Bert Samuels has been appointed to an International Commission of Inquiry into cases of victims of police violence, extrajudicial killings, and maiming of people of African descent, and entrenched structural racism in police practices throughout the United States. In a statement on Thursday, Samuels noted that the commission will also look into the structural racism and bias in the criminal justice system of the United States. “This …

KINGSTON, Jamaica— The four Jamaican fishermen who were detained by United States immigrati...