IT company loses claim for US$100m from gov’t over terminated tablets contract
Posted Saturday, 10 June 2023, 10:52 pm
The Supreme Court has dismissed a claim by IT firm GeoTech Vision for state-owned e-Learning Jamaica Company to pay more than US$100 million for terminating a contract to supply over 19,000 tablets to schools in 2019.
Alleged SSL fraudster’s assets frozen
Posted Monday, 20 February 2023, 10:50 pm
The Commercial Court has granted an order freezing all of the assets of the former Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL) client relationship manager, Jean-Ann Panton, who is at the centre of a multibillion-dollar fraud at the company.
Visitor freed in jet-ski death.
Posted Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:59 pm
ST ANN, Jamaica — An Indian national, who was charged with manslaughter after the jet ski he was driving crashed into a group of people killing a seven-year-old girl and injuring others in 2014, was freed in the St Ann Circuit Court today…
Twins balance scales of justice.
Posted Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:58 pm
Identical twins Obika Jovan Gordon and Obiko Jevan Gordon were among 77 law students admitted to practice in the courts in the island yesterday…
Soldiers freed in killing of Tivoli Gardens five.
Posted Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:40 pm
Two Jamaica Defence Force soldiers who were charged this week in connection with the murder of one of the five men who were shot in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, in January 2008, have been freed…
Soldier freed of murder but to be tried for manslaughter.
Posted Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:35 pm
A Jamaica Defence Force soldier was on Wednesday acquitted of a charge of murder in the Home Circuit Court…
Patricia Powell Sues FLA.
Posted Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:29 pm
The attorney representing Police Inspector, Patricia Powell, is demanding a public apology and compensation from the Firearm Licensing Authority, FLA, for defaming her character…
Leys says Brady deceived him.
Posted Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:23 pm
Solicitor General Douglas Leys admitted under cross-examination at Friday’s sitting of the Manatt/Dudus Commission of Enquiry that attorney-at-law Harold Brady had deceived him for a considerable period on…
Lawyers defend downtown – Manley’s old office gets facelift.
Posted Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:15 pm
It is now the home of the law firm Frater, Ennis & Gordon and a recent multimillion-dollar refurbishing has left the building looking fit to house Manley, the former head of Government who is…
Farewell to Eric Lawson Frater.
Posted Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:10 pm
Scores of mourners packed the St Andrew Parish Church yesterday for the Mass of Resurrection for the life of veteran lawyer and educator Eric Lawson Frater, who died earlier this…