A brief look at Jamaica's political history provides an interesting background to the concept and creation of the 1962 Constitution and the format of the Senate.
A 50-year-old woman who was said to be aware that her son was sexually assaulting her teenage daughter, but failed to report the incident, is to be sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on July 21.
The woman, Marlene Brown, will also be sentenced for abusing the 16-year-old teenage girl.
The Kingston higgler appeared Tuesday before Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey for sentencing on charges of cruelty to a child and failure to report a crime to the Office of the Children's Registry, but the sentencing was postponed for the magistrate to check the legislation, which outlines the penalty for failing to report.