The Ministry of Health and Wellness is partnering with the Ministry of National Security on a range of interventions aimed at strengthening support for persons behind bars who suffer from mental illne...
Amid expectations that two Jamaican men would return to the island after being released from Antiguan prison, prosecutors there have opted to appeal the six-year sentences that were given to them for ...
A man who pleaded guilty to raping a one-legged woman over several days in 2003, has failed in his attempts to have his sentence of 25 years’ imprisonment overturned by the Court of Appeal. In...
A significant number of persons, many of whom pleaded guilty to serious offences, were convicted and various sentences handed down to them when they appeared in the St. James Circuit Court and the Wes...
Former premier league football coach, Kevin ‘Senseh’ Williams was on Friday ordered to serve 10 years in prison before being eligible for parole for his conviction on indecent assault and child sex ch...
The Court of Appeal has set aside the sentence of 25 years’ imprisonment that was handed down to a Trelawny man who stabbed a man several times during a dispute over $50 while they were gambling in Ju...
The two men who were charged with the murder of six members of a family in Logwood, Hanover in October 2015 were given life sentences when they appeared in the Home Circuit Court on Friday. They ar...
Jamaican-born Rastafarian musician, Patrick Beadle, who was convicted of drug trafficking in Madison County, Mississippi in the United States, has been slapped with an eight-year prison sentence witho...
It is often said that there is honour even among thieves. The notion perhaps rang true last week when a pickpocket who pleaded guilty to his habitual vices, stunned those who were in a Corporate Ar...
A Jamaican man has been slapped with an 18-month prison sentence in Guyana on forgery charges. Alfred Wellington was sentenced after a two-year trial. He was also fined $40,000 or three months’ ...