Tanesha Mundle

A retired government forensic analyst on Thursday rejected defence suggestions that the presence of nitrates on the hand of one of three men killed by police in St Andrew in 2013 was proof that he had fired a gun during the incident.

A retired government forensic analyst on Friday acknowledged that the absence of gunshot residue on the hands of three men killed by police in St Andrew in 2013 did not necessarily mean they had not fired weapons during the fatal confrontation.

For Alicia Robinson, the best Mother's Day gift this year was not flowers or jewellery, but crossing the finish line of the inaugural Run For Mom 5K beside her daughter, Renee Robinson, as they made their way through and around the streets of Tivoli Gardens.

Businessman and author Dwight Clacken has been ordered to discontinue the publication of the offending material contained in the book No Justice in Jamaica after the High Court found it contained defamatory statements about his former business partner, Michael Causwell Sr, and his son, Michael Causwell Jr.

A senior official in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service yesterday conceded that he had no evidence that the chief financial officers at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) failed to comply with the relevant financial laws governing the institution.

That was reportedly the reaction of one of the policemen charged in connection with the fatal 2013 shooting of three men along Acadia Drive in St Andrew after he was cautioned for murder six years later.

A verbal spat between the lead prosecutor and her junior on Thursday resulted in an early adjournment of the trial of six policemen charged in connection with the 2013 fatal shooting of three men on Acadia Drive in St Andrew.

A government forensic analyst on Tuesday testified that DNA profiles matching two of the three men killed by police along Acadia Drive in St Andrew in January 2013 were identified on several exhibits, while two samples allegedly taken from a vehicle linked to the incident failed to produce DNA profiles.The evidence came during the ongoing murder trial of six policemen in the Home Circuit Court before Justice Sonia Bertram Linton and a seven-member jury.

Convicted serial killer Kemar Thompson, whose bloody 2014 crime spree claimed eight lives in three separate incidents across St Catherine, will remain behind bars for at least 66 years and seven months before parole considerations.

A man who led a woman to believe that they were in a committed relationship lost out on half a share in her St Elizabeth home and motor vehicle after he cheated and fathered a baby during their nearly three-year relationship.