March 31, 2006
Unpaid bills leave Port Maria police without phone service THE PORT Maria Police Station has had its telephone services disconnected, for over two weeks, for non-payment of bills. According...
Olint appeals document ruling LAWYERS REPRESENTING Olint Corporation Ltd. are going to the Court of Appeal to challenge a Supreme Court ruling refusing to...
Portia targets crime Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller was yesterday sworn-in as Jamaica's first woman prime minister and immediately pledged to advance human rights...
March 30, 2006
68 people charged for electricity theft SIXTY-eight people, including eight business operators have been arrested and charged with illegally connecting to the Jamaica Public Service Company's...
Shootings disrupt Spanish Town again TWO men carrying high-powered weapons yesterday went on a shooting spree at the Spanish Town bus terminus, leaving two people...
March 29, 2006
Two charged with Bull Bay ganja find TWO men are facing several drug-related charges in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court after they were allegedly being found in...
March 28, 2006
Trinidad murders up 37% WITH THREE days left in the month, March has turned out to be one of the bloodiest, as the murder...
Police question persons on Peter King sex tapes AS THE probe into the murder of Ambassador Peter King continues, police investigators are in the process of questioning several...
Cement tax may go PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson yesterday said the Government may consider removing the remaining tariff on cement which was imposed to...
March 24, 2006
Bermudan soldiers arrested on return from Jamaica THREE BERMUDA Regiment soldiers have been arrested on suspicion of importing drugs after coming back from an annual training camp...
Boy gets probation for setting cousin ablaze A SCHOOLBOY who doused one of his cousins with gasolene and then set him ablaze has been put on probation...
'Zekes' co-accused freed of murder THE MAN who was charged jointly with 48-year-old Matthews Lane resident Donald 'Zekes' Phipps for a double murder, was freed...
40 years for killing Crown witness A SUPREME Court Judge has recommended that a man serve 40 years' imprisonment for murdering a Crown witness, because such...
65 illegal aliens held IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES and the police are probing a suspected case of human trafficking in which 65 illegal aliens were taken...
March 22, 2006
Kingfish probing drug link with football clubs OPERATION KINGFISH has joined the narcotics police and the Financial Investigation Division (FID) in a comprehensive probe of several persons...
CPTC glad for amendment to Rediffusion Act THE BOARD of directors and management of the Creative Production and Training Centre Limited (CPTC) have welcomed Govern-ment's decision to...
Mob kills woman's ex-lover N ANGRY mob stoned and chopped a man to death in Beeston Spring, eastern Westmoreland yesterday, executing revenge only moments...
March 21, 2006
Panday hid money in British bank, prosecutor tells court PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Former Trinidadian Prime Minister Basdeo Panday hid hundreds of thousands of dollars in a British bank...
Man accused of defrauding 30 people on $500,000 bail WAYNE Downie, who is facing more than 30 counts of obtaining money by means of false pretences, was yesterday granted...
33 cops charged with corruption since last June THE Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) says citizens are now more willing to report police misconduct, which it says has advanced...
March 20, 2006
Court rejects OLINT Corp's injunction against FSC THE Supreme Court on Friday turned down an application from OLINT Corporation and its proprietor, David Smith, which sought to...
Local cable companies happy for ad legislation LOCAL CABLE television companies have welcomed legislation passed in the Senate to allow them to compete for advertising with established...
Christian lawyers step up fight against charter MEMBERS OF the local Christian community are strengthening their resolve against elements of the proposed Charter of Rights and Freedoms....
Montego Bay couple abducted - Kidnappers posed as cops FIVE ARMED men, posing as policemen, abducted a man and his girlfriend from their home in the community of Hendon...
March 17, 2006
Narcotics police make huge dent in illegal drug trade THE NARCOTICS police have delivered a body blow to the illegal drug trade over the past two months. They have...
Held with millions NARCOTICS DETECTIVES are probing the circumstances under which a Colombian national, Ruben Santa María Hernández, has obtained an annual work...
Deportee charged with St Thomas murders A 39-YEAR-OLD deportee, who has been in custody since February 27, has been formally charged by detectives probing the murder...
March 09, 2006
Danhai trial to start October 2 THE TRIAL of east Kingston businessman Danhai Williams and six others accused of defrauding the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC)...
Crown presents main witness in Zekes trial THE JURY heard evidence yesterday from the main prosecution witness on whom the Crown is relying to establish its case...
Cops uncover leads in St Thomas slayings AS SENIOR detectives attempt to wrap up their investigations into the bloody slaughter of six family members who were murdered...
Petroleum Act to be amended - Davies THE GOVERNMENT will be amending the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica Act to allow for the administration of the PetroCaribe Fund....
Killed at church - 62-year-old woman attacked at Stella Maris VILMA MAIS, a 62-year-old member of the Stella Maris Church in St. Andrew, died yesterday after she was viciously attacked...
March 08, 2006
Mother of three fined, gets suspended sentence for ganja MONTEGO BAY, St James - Pauline Morrison, a 41 year-old Kingston restaurant owner, was on Monday fined $26,000 and given...
New regulations for persons travelling to, from the US EFFECTIVE MARCH 6, 2006, all persons travelling to and from the United States who are not residents or citizens will...
Wider spy powers THE HOUSE of Representatives yesterday passed legislation allowing the police to modify warrants and effectively wiretap Jamaican citizens for up...
March 07, 2006
Britain's House of Lords votes for ID cards to be voluntary... LONDON (AP) - Britain's House of Lords voted yesterday for identity cards to be voluntary, defying Prime Minister Tony Blair...
Justice Training Institute seeking tertiary level status BY September this year, several new posts will be created for court reporters in Resident Magistrate Courts islandwide to allow...
'Zekes' double murder trial begins THERE WAS a strong detachment of police and military personnel yesterday at the Home Circuit Court, downtown Kingston, where the...
Deadly dealing? SEVERAL PERSONS including a medical doctor are being investigated in connection with the disappearance of a 53 year-old businessman, who...
School girl raped, teachers protest Teachers at the Vauxhall High School in East Kingston, boycotted classes yesterday, to protest against the rape of a female...
March 06, 2006
Four Clarks Town escapees surrender to police CLARKS TOWN, Trelawny - Four more of the 15 prisoners who broke out of the Clarks Town police lock-up on...
Another child murdered Andrea Flemmings-Beaufort had a lot of hope for her 15 year-old son Jordano. "He was such a brilliant boy, very...
March 04, 2006
Repeat offender gets life A JUVENILE, who was convicted three times for murder before he was 18 years old, was yesterday sentenced to life...
Gov't considers electronic tagging of inmates THE GOVERNMENT is hoping to introduce a system of electronic tagging of inmates as opposed to custodial sentencing, according to...
Centre to be built for low-risk inmates at Tamarind Farm A NEW Transition Centre is to be constructed at the Tamarind Farm Correctional Facility, according to Senator Kern Spencer, Parliamentary...
March 03, 2006
Cop among three facing gun charges THREE men, including a police constable assigned to the Mobile Reserve Division, are facing illegal gun charges after officers from...
Girl's body found The search for six-year-old Jihad George McCool ended yesterday, after a 39-year-old deportee led a team of senior investigators to...
Opposition rejects gas tax proposal THE OPPOSITION yesterday flatly rejected Government's proposal that a value-added tax on gasolene be considered, dashing the administration's hope of...
Court of Appeal refuses Panton KINGSTON BUSINESSMAN Donald Panton has failed in his bid to get an adjournment in the $2 billion lawsuit against him....
March 02, 2006
Briton gets 5 years in Jamaican jail for ganja AN English national was Tuesday sentenced in the Half Way Tree Criminal Court to five years in prison, after pleading...
Linstead police seize third illegal weapon THE LINSTEAD Police in St Catherine have seized their third illegal weapon from the hands of criminals since the start...
Prisoners recaptured in Montego Bay, Trelawny THE MONTEGO Bay police have recaptured three more of the 15 prisoners who went missing from the Clark's Town Police...
March 01, 2006
Flight attendant held for ganja AN AIR Jamaica flight attendant was jailed Monday night after narcotics police found compressed ganja concealed in his luggage at...
Gas tax on table GOVERNMENT YESTERDAY tabled new proposals for an energy policy which could include the reintroduction of a value-added tax on gas....
Robbers make off with 70 generators... DELTA Supply Company, located at 102 Hagley Park Road in Kingston, reported yesterday that thieves broke into its warehouse between...
