June 30, 2006
Supreme Court blocks war crimes trials for Guantanamo detainees WASHINGTON, United States (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that president George W Bush overstepped his authority in ordering...
June 29, 2006
More promises to clamp down on tax evaders GOVERNMENT has once again reiterated its intention to go after corporate entities and individuals who continually evade the tax net...
Panel urges Grenada to grant new trials to 17 convicted... ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) - A fact-finding panel in Grenada advised the government on Tuesday to grant new trials to...
Attorney Clayton Morgan still hoping for EC St James seat MONTEGO BAY, St James - Attorney-at-law Clayton Morgan says he still considers himself a potential candidate to contest the East...
June 28, 2006
Cops detain woman accused of smashing window at RGD A woman who was apparently dissatisfied with the service at Registrar General's Department (RGD), and who allegedly smashed a glass...
Hi-tech system to reduce civil cases brought by motorists POLICE vehicles are to be equipped with a computer system that instantly pulls up motorists' records, in a move designed...
Man takes EOJ to court over voters' list A resident of the St Catherine South Eastern constituency whose name has been left off the preliminary voters' list is...
June 27, 2006
Stabbing suspect nabbed A SECOND suspect who is wanted by police in connection with the stabbing death of a 15-year-old Muschett High School...
Riot alert - Prison unrest looms over condom dispute PRISON UNREST looms as Health Minister Horace Dalley's call for condoms to be distributed in correctional insti-tutions has reportedly angered...
June 21, 2006
New state-of-the-art monitoring system for island's prisons THE DEPARTMENT of Correctional Services has embarked on a modernisation process with the Monday launch of the Offender Management System...
...Cop ducked for cover and was last man up LAUGHTER ERUPTED in court yesterday at the Flankers double murder case when Constable Richard Thompson testified that when he and...
Extortion, murder hit St Thomas EXTORTION HAS reared its ugly head again, this time in White Horses, St. Thomas, on Monday, where two employees of...
June 20, 2006
Two accused Paymaster robbers held TWO men accused of robbing a Paymaster bill payment agency in Cross Roads, St Andrew of $168,000 last Monday have...
Flankers Double Murder Trial THE FLANKERS murder case began yesterday in the Home Circuit Court with Superintendent Derrick 'Cowboy' Knight testifying that a police...
New law on cards to tackle child labour GOVERNMENT IS moving to draft new legislation to eliminate child labour locally, despite progress in reducing the incidence of abuses...
June 19, 2006
Preliminary trial in human trafficking case for June 22 A preliminary enquiry into allegations of human trafficking against Narcott Graham, 54, and Agon Stephens, 52, has been set for...
Man with stolen identity caught trying to defraud COK of $1.7m A man is awaiting sentencing in the Half Way Tree Resident Magistrate's court after pleading guilty to attempting to defraud...
Amos accuse courts of... 'Hanky-panky' bail A senior cop has charged that the courts continue to mishandle bail for persons charged with serious offences, saying that...
Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) mulls hanging THE CARIBBEAN Court of Justice (CCJ) will tomorrow consider an appeal by Barbados to overturn a legal precedent that some...
June 18, 2006
COP KILLINGS RISE - Repeat offenders causing concern HUMAN RIGHTS activists have raised an alarm over a spike in the number of civilian killings by the police even...
Lawmakers fears Christian lawyers want to curtail freedoms A submission from the Lawyers Christian Fellowship and the National Church Alliance, activist groups seeking changes to the provisions of...
Drain cleaning set back by illegal garbage disposal MONTEGO BAY, St James - The National Works Agency (NWA), which is responsible for cleaning the country's main drains, expects...
Too many minors in the sex trade, too many forced to work THE labour ministry will meet Monday in Montego Bay with child experts, employers and international agencies to finalise details of...
June 15, 2006
Jamaica, UK to share confiscated crime assets JAMAICA HAS signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom (UK) Home Office to permit the sharing of...
Christian lawyers take charter to task on same-sex marriages THE LAWYERS Christian Fellowship (LCF) yesterday scored a victory when the Joint Select Committee of Parliament, considering the proposed Charter...
Public defender retains lawyer for Hanover residents PUBLIC Defender Howard Hamilton has retained the services of Attorney-at-law Lord Anthony Gifford, who will assist Hanover residents in their...
Judge reserves judgement in Pear Tree Bottom hotel case SUPREME Court Justice Brian Sykes will, within seven days, decide whether to uphold his May 16 ruling to quash the...
Cops in Crawle case say US visas cancelled FIVE Jamaican policemen, all former members of the now disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU), claimed yesterday that their United States...
June 14, 2006
Woman charged with murder of Finnish husband back in court July 27 THE case involving a Jamaican woman and a fellow villager who were charged more than seven months ago with murdering...
June 13, 2006
Peterkin wants legislation to protect tourism sector MONTEGO BAY, St James - Horace Peterkin, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourism Association (JHTA), has called on Tourism...
Reneto Adams back in uniform RENETO Adams yesterday donned the familiar brown khaki uniform and epaulette bearing a crown and a star of his rank...
June 11, 2006
'Party-pooper' law IF YOU are a cricketfan who enjoys taking horns, pot covers, shells, musical instru-ments and big flags to Sabina Park,...
New cricket law may dampen festivities CHRIS DEHRING, managing director and CEO of Inter-national Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007, has said that...
Anti-discrimination laws coming for HIV/AIDS NEW LAWS to reduce discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS are on the horizon. Law firm, Mcneil and...
June 09, 2006
Cut secrecy, libel, says Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) president -.... WHILE CELEBRATING Jamaica's progress in facilitating access to information from statutory bodies, Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) president Desmond Richards...
Free? Think again... PLANS ARE now being put in place for legislation to be passed which will give the court power to quash...
'Bring some private firms under Access to Info Act' GOVERNMENT SENATOR Professor Trevor Munroe wants private entities, which exercise public power, to be brought under the Access to Information...
June 07, 2006
Illegal settlements targeted A SQUATTER MANAGEMENT Unit has been established by Government to take a two-pronged approach to bring more than 300 informal...
Doctors rush to obey the law SEVERAL MEDICAL doctors have been flocking the offices of the Medical Council of Jamaica to pay up their outstanding fees...
JANICE ALLEN CASE - Lawyer says client being harassed ATTORNEY-AT-LAW RICHARD Small told the Court of Appeal yesterday that there were attempts of bribery and intimidation by certain forces...
Spanish hotel case may affect Cricket World Cup THE SPANISH owners of the Bahia Principe Hotel under construction at Pear Tree Bottom, Runaway Bay, St. Ann, are contending...
June 06, 2006
Injured woman constable still in hospital THE woman constable who was shot and injured during a robbery on a passenger bus in Gregory Park, St Catherine,...
Bearer employed to auto parts store robbed of $50,000, shot dead OMAR Brown, a bearer employed to Bert's Auto Parts in Kingston, was yesterday robbed of more than $50,000 and then...
Tier two rating in human trafficking now official THE United States (US) State Department has officially given Jamaica a tier two ranking in terms of the island's efforts...
June 05, 2006
Foote confident of booting rival WHILE HISTORY does not appear to favour his candidacy, attorney-at-law Don Foote believes that it is his destiny to do...
Slain teen's case to be heard in Appeal Court LAWYERS FOR the family of Janice Allen, the teenager who was killed by a policeman's bullet six years ago, will...
Policeman murdered at dance CORPORAL LINCOLN Parker of the Special Anti-Crime Task Force was murdered by gunmen at a dance in De La Vega...
June 04, 2006
Fighting crime the 'Yardie' way LIKE THE rebound of the West Indies cricket team, the fight against organised crime is beginning to pay real dividends....
'Life without 'Zekes' tough' DURING CLOSING arguments last Tuesday in the Donald 'Zekes' Phipps murder trial at the Supreme Court, attorney K. Churchill Neita...
Phillips wants all-out attack on carnal abuse THE ALARMING rise in the incidence of carnal abuse will have to be tackled from various fronts in order to...
June 03, 2006
Two MoBay businessmen fined MONTEGO BAY, St James - The two Montego Bay business operators who were charged with breaches of the Public Health...
Two men accused of luring teenager into prostitution remanded TWO men accused of luring a 14 year-old girl into prostitution were yesterday remanded in custody when they appeared in...
Mother, six children disarm, kill gunman A GUNMAN was yesterday disarmed and chopped to death by a woman with the assistance of her six children when...
Student in stabbing incident sentenced to juvenile centre THE STUDENT who stabbed and seriously injured another student during lunch time at Jamaica College in November 2004 has been...
June 02, 2006
Four cops to be tried for teen's death THE FOUR police personnel charged with the murder of 17-year-old Christopher McKenzie, arising from an incident at the Crofts Hill...
Policeman implicated in murder plot charged ONE OF two policemen implicated in a plot to kill a 67-year-old St. Elizabeth farmer was arrested Wednesday afternoon and...
AJ raps Jamaicans on human trafficking CHIDING JAMAICANS for not taking the issue of human trafficking seriously, Senator A.J. Nicholson, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, says...
Government of Jamaica to implement new strategies for fight against crime WITH A 21 per cent decline in murder and significant reductions in other major crimes since the start of the...
