Mandatory death sentences
Gov't may consider changing law
SENATOR A.J. Nicholson, Q.C., Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, said yesterday that the Government of Jamaica naturally accepted that the Privy Council decision in the Lambert Watson case "has binding force. As a..
Amendment that led to ruling
THE 1992 amendment that caused the ruling in the Lambert Watson case was made to the Offences Against the Person Act and it paved the way for two categories of murder capital murder, which attracts the death penalty, and non-capital murder, for...
Pickersgill lauds Shearer
ROBERT PICKERSGILL, chairman of the ruling People's National Party (PNP), yesterday hailed the life and work of former Prime Minister Hugh Shearer. Mr. Pickersgill said that in the course of his five decades of distinguished public service, Mr. Shearer.
Smith, Shaw non-starters in JLP race
DERRICK SMITH, a deputy leader of the Jamaica Labour Party, says he will not be a candidate for the soon-to-be-vacant leadership of the opposition party.
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