Jamaica Conflict & Tragedy News

A court in Jamaica on Tuesday ordered a psychiatric evaluation for Stephen Fray, 21, the Jamaican man who tried to hijack a Canadian plane on the runway of Sangster International Airport last month. The young man made made his first...

He said Douglas was having difficulty getting her medication. The Crown opposed bail on the grounds that Douglas had escaped from custody. Supreme Court Judge Martin Gayle turned down the bail application and ordered that the prison authority should ensure...

Brown, and his 49-year-old fianc�e, Sandra Campbell, has been freed. The Court of Appeal on Wed-nesday freed Donald Whyte, 41-year-old labourer, of Love Lane, Kingston. He was sentenced in November 2007 to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he must...

It's November, which in the reggae world means a holiday rush of new music and...it means Sting , Jamaica's most anticipated yearly concert, is around the corner...Will there be a "surprise" dispensation for the king of Clash? Vybz, Bounty, Beanie...

Nevertheless, there are certain basic requirements that every passenger must fulfil in order to obtain 'leave to land' or to be admitted to the island. These include: Passport (validity of which must extend beyond the passenger's intended length of stay...

The man, still so far identified only as 'Rodman', turned himself in to the police late Thursday night and is being questioned by members of the Major Investigation Task Force. A second person of interest in the case was taken...

The trial date was set yesterday when 22-year-old Constable Rushan Hamilton appeared in the Home Circuit Court. A few weeks after the girl made a report to the police on October 10, last year, that she had been allegedly sexually...