The report of Justice Herbert Lord, one of the two co-chairs of the Commission of Inquiry investigating the Development Finance Corporation, has been received by the Prime Minister and released to the public. A quick but full reading indicates that Lord’s report is a not unfamiliar rendition of what transpired over many months of public […]
There are several sidebars to this story, both concerning the official status of the report. We are reliably informed that this afternoon former D.F.C. Chairman Glenn Godfrey sought an interim injunction to prevent the Lord report from being made public and, because it was issued by Lord alone, to have it declared not to be […]
As the victim of a vicious stabbing over the weekend continues to recover at the K.H.M.H., this afternoon two men were formally charged with the crime. Around two on Sunday morning, twenty-one year old Jermaine Jones was stabbed an incredible sixty-eight times while on Gibnut Street. Subsequent police investigations have resulted in the arrest of […]
After a series of setbacks, including the disappearance of a police file and the accused being out of the country, this morning a jury was empanelled to hear the case against Ben Bou-Nahra. In May of this year, Bou-Nahra was ordered to stand trial in connection the death of Shawn Copius, who was shot five […]
A fire Tuesday night in Port Loyola has left a family of four homeless. According to Operations Manager Michael Middleton, around eight twenty-five the National Fire Service received a call from the police informing them of a fire on Louise Bevans Street. Michael Middleton, Operations Manager, Fire Department “We immediately dispatched two trucks to the […]
It’s not a day that usually makes the headlines, but on Tuesday, the sugar cane processing season officially ended. For cane farmers and the sugar company, it was a year of extremes. This afternoon, officials explained that the while Tower Hill factory received a record one point two million tonnes of cane, the deliveries were […]
