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A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) member was reportedly taken to hospital to be treated for injuries he received when the jeep he was driving was involved in a collision with a motorcar in St James Friday afternoon. According to an alleged eyewitness source, four soldiers were aboard the vehicle which collided with a grey…
National Housing Trust (NHT) contributors who are looking to own a home are being encouraged to use their refund to offset some of the costs associated with the process. Corporate and Public Affairs Manager, Dwayne Berbick, said persons should consider using the repayment to assist with the deposit, valuation report or legal fees. “Do…
Lawyers for dancehall icon, Bounty Killer, have filed a lawsuit in the High Court Justice in London in the UK, against British national Othman Mukhlis in a dispute over the withholding of royalties collected on behalf of the Jamaican artiste. In the lawsuit, Bounty Killer has claimed that Mukhlis and his company, Jamdown Music…
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has condemned the murder of 38-year-old Correctional Officer Shannon Briscoe, whose body was found in a gully in Seaview Gardens., St Andrew after he went missing. Commissioner of Corrections, Lieutenant Colonel Gary Rowe, said the DCS family is saddened by the loss of Briscoe. “This is a gloomy…
This week’s featured development as Newsmaker of the Week just ended is the shocking announcement by Member of Parliament (MP) for South East St Ann, Lisa Hanna, that she will be leaving representational politics. This means that Hanna will not be offering herself to represent the People’s National Party (PNP) in the constituency when…
A truck driver who was charged following the seizure of US$2 million worth of compressed ganja in Stony Hill, St Andrew last month, has pleaded guilty to the charges. Melton Blackwood, otherwise called ‘Blacks’, of Waltham Park Road in St Andrew, appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Thursday. The 57-year-old…
Two men were shot dead hours apart in separate incidents in Ocho Rios and Bamboo, St Ann on Friday night. The deceased are 26-year-old Kerrique Kudratt of an unknown address, and 60-year-old Lester Henry, a businessman and butcher of Clay Ground in Bamboo, St Ann. In the first incident on Friday, Kudratt and another…
Twenty-nine-year-old Rohan Pitter, a deliveryman of Tavares Gardens, St Andrew, has been charged with the April 2022 killing of a father and son in Hayesfield, Clarendon. The deceased are 46-year-old Thomas James Snr, and eight-year-old Thomas James Jnr. Reports are that about 7:45 pm on the day of the incident, James was inside his…
Arsenio Johnson, a retail support officer employed to National Commercial Bank (NCB), was granted bail last week relative to a multi-million fraud case involving the bank. The 37-year-old man appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on charges of larceny as a servant and breaches of the Proceeds of Crime Act and…
SCROLL DOWN AND CLICK THE RED BUTTON TO SEE THE GRAPHIC VIDEO The police made a grisly discovery of the body of missing correctional officer Shannon ‘David’ Briscoe, 38, in a gully in Seaview Gardens, St Andrew, on Saturday. Briscoe, who is from Seaview Gardens, has been missing since August 11. He worked at…