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Two men were fined a total of almost $5,000 yesterday after admitting taking part in a scheme to dismiss traffic tickets. Calshunto James, 35, and Kenton Smith, 34, pleaded guilty in Magistrates Court to conspiring to pervert the course of justice by...

A couple accused of breaking Covid-19 quarantine rules had a crowd of supporters outside their home on the day a senior health officer came to arrest them, a court heard yesterday. Armell Thomas said that he tried to have Sophia Cannonier, 52, and M...

A man who admitted setting fire to two cars in a misguided attempt to exact revenge on his estranged wife was given a suspended prison sentence. Justice Iris pleaded guilty to causing wilful damage in the 2019 incident, which caused more than $6,000 ...

A friendly society has been ordered to pay the Government’s legal costs for its unsuccessful action to secure the ability to offer vehicle insurance. The Bentley Friendly Society had argued that the Government had wrongly ordered the Transport Contro...

The Supreme Court has upheld a decision to refer a dispute between dock-workers and management over the termination of the son of a union leader to a tribunal. Stevedoring Services had called for a judicial review of labour minister Jason Hayward’s d...

A 51-year-old man who was paid to carry out an arson attack that caused almost $20,000 of damage has been jailed for two years. Calvin Trott was also sentenced to three years probation after his release, during which time his behaviour will be monito...

A woman who waited five years for her drugs case to be resolved has been given a suspended six-month jail sentence. Magistrates’ Court heard that Zaharrin Simmons, 30, had been fighting two counts of drug possession in an increased penalty zone since...

A man found guilty of a Christmas Eve murder has called on the Court of Appeal to quash his conviction over how the jury was selected for his trial. Wolda Gardner was jailed for the premeditated murder of Malcolm Augustus in 2012 and using a firearm ...

The daughter of a senior who suffered brain injuries after an unprovoked attack said the incident had torn her family apart. Tiffany Smith told the Supreme Court yesterday that her father, Herndon, used to be an independent and loving family man — bu...