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Integrity Commission (IC) Executive Director Greg Christie has strongly rejected calls for his resignation, declaring that he has been unbiased in his duties over the last three years at the anti-corruption agency.

THE Government is betting on traffic fines to help it finance up to $635 million in spending across the ministries of justice and national security during the upcoming fiscal year.

The main suspect in last week’s killing of a policeman in York District in Seaforth, St Thomas was shot dead in a confrontation with lawmen Monday evening.

Stricter bail conditions were imposed Tuesday on former Sagicor senior executive Alysia Moulton White along with her three co-accused in a multimillion-dollar fraud case involving the financial institution.

The Privy Council has denied dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel’s request for fresh evidence to be presented in the appeal of his murder conviction.

Another woman has been slapped with charges relative to the illegal sale of land close to Clifton in the Greater Bernard Lodge area of Portmore, St Catherine.

Georgia Messam-Whyte, the St Ann Justice of the Peace (JP) who was charged earlier this month with allegedly fleecing millions of dollars from a client, was remanded in police custody when she appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last week.

Jamaica punched their knockout round ticket at the 2023 Concacaf Men’s Under-17 Championship in Guatemala on Thursday night following a 2-2 draw with Costa Rica.

Jean-Ann Panton, the former wealth advisor implicated in a multimillion-dollar fraud at investment firm, Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), has been formally charged after weeks of investigations. 

There will be no criminal charges brought against Prime Minister Andrew Holness in relation to possible conflict of interest in the awarding of Government contracts that emerged from a probe by the Integrity Commission (IC), from which a 107-page Investigation Report was made public on Tuesday.