CLARENDON, Jamaica With nominations for the local government election officially closed as of 2:00 pm, Jamaica’s two major political parties nominated a total of six candidates in the constituency of Clarendon North Central. They are People's National Party (PNP) candidate for the Mocho division, Romaine Morrison, who was initially a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the area but switched sides after reportedly falling out with the Member of Parliament.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - A man who was previously given six months’ imprisonment by a Senior Parish Judge last year for aggravated robbery, was again sentenced by that same Judge on Tuesday for a similar offence. Rodney Smith was ordered to spend two years in prison at hard labour by presiding judge Lori-Ann Cole-Montague in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court after he pleaded guilty to robbing a woman at.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Despite a father pleading guilty to wounding a woman and throwing her five-year-old son in a fence, the woman was quick to tell a senior parish judge that she has no intention of leaving the accused man. Charlton Miller, charged with the unlawful wounding of the mother of his child and assaulting her child, registered his plea of guilt on Tuesday in the Kingston and St Andrew.
The family of former Member of Parliament Jolyan Silvera and the media were barred from entering the court Thursday as the former legislator made his first appearance before a judge to answer the charge that he murdered his wife Melissa. His daughter and her mother were visibly disappointed when Justice Vinette Graham-Allen made the announcement minutes after 2:00 pm. “One has to exercise discretion in each case,” the judge said..
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Andrew Holness is making it known that his administration’s desire to convert Portmore into Jamaica’s 15th parish is not born out of ill intent or political scheming. Rather, the prime minister said this desire is due to a deeper understanding as to “how we allow our country to develop and progress”. Holness was speaking at the Portmore Moravian Church in St Catherine, on Sunday morning..