On Friday, March 31, 2023, the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) is to go live with a new high-security electronic or e-passport document to members of the public.
Read more: Jamaica to begin issuing e-passports to the public
A Jamaican man residing in the United States, who sexually abused two of his foster children over a two-year period, has been ordered to serve 50 years in prison.
Read more: J’can gets 50-year sentence for sexually abusing foster children
Jamaican-born Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, who is accused of recruiting support for the Islamic State group was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison in the United States.
Read more: Jamaican Muslim Cleric sentenced to 18 years in US prison for terrorism
TED Prince, alias Mawga Man, the belligerent convict who, while on trial for crimes committed by the notorious Klansman gang openly urinated in the centuries-old Supreme Court, was Thursday convicted of contempt of court by Chief Justice Bryan Sykes, who denounced his action as "contemptuous".
Read more: Judge scolds convicted gangster for urinating in a court
Convicted serial rapist Chaddane Harris, who drove fear into female residents of Portmore, St Catherine, was on Tuesday sentenced to a combined 96 years in prison at hard labour by Justice Bertram Morrison in the St Catherine Circuit Court.
Read more: Portmore serial rapist Chaddane Harris sentenced to 96 years