As we continue to celebrate women this month, the National Cultural Foundation is highlighting the journey and work of artist and designer Shanika Burnett in the final of this two-part feature. We first featured her mum Ayissa Burnett, who is also an artist and designer.
Young Shanika Burnett has always been interested in many areas of the cultural industries and has
Two men who have been housed at the Psychiatric Hospital for more than half their lives can be released once the necessary financial and accommodation systems are in place.
That was the recommendation of Senior Registrar at the Black Rock, St Michael hospital Dr Ronald Chase on Thursday, when he gave a progress report to Justice Randall Worrell on Theo Bourne,
A man housed at the Psychiatric Hospital for more than 40 years on Thursday pleaded to be set free as a High Court judge disclosed that while authorities are “fighting” to get him out, all systems are still not in place for him to be reintegrated into society.“I need to be free!” declared Theo Bourne, one of two men who have been kept at the Black Rock, St Michael institution for a combined 76 years but have been deemed fit to re-enter society.“I have been away from society for 42 years . . . . For years I have been at the Psychiatric Hospital and I never mentally relax,” said the visibly frustrated 62-year-old man.Bourne was speaking after Senior Registrar at the hospital Dr Ronald Chase gave Justice Randall Worrell a progress report on Bourne and fellow patient John Brathwaite, 56, who has been housed at the institution for the past 34 years.
The prosecution believes Davey Reynold Prescod should pay $20 000 for the loaded firearm he was caught with in 2008, but his attorney says it should be closer to $17 000 to account for the age of the matter. Prescod will learn his fate when he returns to the No 4 Supreme Court in February. The businessman, of No. 1 Whitehall, St Michael, had pleaded guilty to having a .40-calibre …
In one of the most high-profile murder cases adjudicated in the High Court in recent times, Hakeem Roberto Stuart was on Tuesday found guilty of the brazen, daylight killing of Damian Trotman in Sheraton Mall more than three and a half years ago.It took a 12-member jury just over three and a half hours of deliberation to find Stuart guilty, following a trial that lasted four days shy of a month and saw over 50 witnesses giving evidence.Stuart, 24, of Shelbourne Gap, St Lawrence, Christ Church, had denied murdering Trotman on March 21, 2019.Sitting in the dock of the No. 3 Supreme Court, Stuart, clad in a mustard pants, a mustard and black patterned button-down shirt and brown boat shoes, and wearing a mask as he did throughout the trial, had shown no emotion when the foreman delivered the guilty verdict.He only bowed his head as he was led away by two prison officers moments later.