Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica-born Brooklyn-based pastor, Reverend Edward-Richard Hinds, has been arrested by New York police on sex crime charges.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Director of Public Prosecutions has ruled that Constable Kevin Dilworth be charged with murder after he allegedly shot a 47-year-old motorist who reportedly threw soup at him during a traffic altercation. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Broilers Group Limited, JBG, says most of its growth in the immediate future will come from the United States segment of its business, where it expanded its chicken plant to produce 700,000 chickens per week.

(Jamaica Observer) Prominent attorney-at-law Charles ‘Advoket’ Ganga-Singh, who is representing ska great Derrick Morgan in a defamation lawsuit, said that reggae star Ventrice ‘Queen Ifrica’ Morgan has been served by a process server.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A motorist was shot and killed gangland-style in front of the police’s control centre, formerly the Church Street Police Station, in downtown Montego Bay, St James, early Monday night by gunmen who reportedly chased his vehicle through traffic, firing a barrage of shots.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Three policemen who were charged with breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act were freed in the St Catherine Parish Court on Monday after the prosecution conceded that it could not mount a successful case against them.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Up to late Monday evening, detectives were still processing a crime scene at the Rousseau Primary School in St Andrew, hours after the murder of a parent in full view of children and other parents.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Farmers of coffee in Jamaica’s high mountains have witnessed a two-thirds dip in production from pre-pandemic levels.

– An explainer on the prime minister’s legal challenge over financial probe (Jamaican Gleaner) The Integrity Commission has enlisted King’s Counsel and former Solicitor General Michael Hylton to lead its defence in the judicial review case filed by Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

(Jamaica Gleaner)  Olympics legend Usain Bolt is said by his attorney to be “shocked and disappointed” by the lack of movement in the more than one year-old SSL fraud case.

… But Speaker says she would have allowed it (Jamaica Gleaner) Speaker of the House of Representatives Juliet Holness on Tuesday said she had intended to allow Opposition Leader Mark Golding to move a censure motion against Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has applied to the Supreme Court to have an Integrity Commission investigation report into his financial affairs rejected as “unlawful”, “unfair” and premised on an “unconstitutional” law.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Declaring that he will not be intimidated by threats and barbs directed at the commissioners and staff of the Integrity Commission (IC), Justice (ret’d) Seymour Panton has urged members of the anti-corruption body to fearlessly carry out their duties in accordance with the law.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Global outsourcing company Ibex has scaled back its operations in Jamaica, closing two centres, and eliminating one-third of its contact desks, in the process.

(Jamaica Observer) Two men are dead after gunmen, posing as police officers, entered a premises and opened fire in Free Hill, St Mary, early Sunday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness, while rejecting some of the startling findings of the investigation by the Integrity Commission into his statutory declarations, said on Wednesday that the report has cleared him of involvement in any illicit enrichment.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness, while rejecting some of the startling findings of the investigation by the Integrity Commission into his statutory declarations, said on Wednesday that the report has cleared him of involvement in any illicit enrichment.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In a matter of days, all eyes will be on Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) and the Financial Investigations Division (FID) amid the referral of an investigative report into the statutory declarations of Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

(Jamaica Gleaner) After protracted and sometimes contentious negotiations between the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) and the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service on the compensation restructuring exercise, both parties on Thursday inked an agreement which now brings closure to several sticking points that have stalled the deal since last year.

Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke signed an agreement on behalf of the Jamaican government that could see the completion of as many as 10 major infrastructure projects valued at US$2 billion.