July 31, 2006
Westmoreland bust yields seven-acre field, 1,818kg compressed marijuana A joint military/police operation in Darliston, Westmoreland, yesterday uncovered a seven-acre marijuana field and more than 4,000lb (1,818kg) of...
Clarendon fisherman gets 25 years for manslaughter CLARENDON fisherman Eggbert Eccleston was last Friday sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2002 shooting death of a...
Rhodd wants prisoners to get at least Grade 9 level education JUNIOR security minister Donald Rhodd has proposed the implementation of a literacy programme for prison inmates that would equip them...
July 30, 2006
Court throws out D&G Pensioners' Assoc claim On Friday, the Supreme Court threw out a claim by members of the Desnoes and Geddes Pensioners' Association that the...
July 29, 2006
Richie Pooh gets 12 more years Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe on Thursday sentenced 32-year-old Kevin Tyndale, also called 'Richie Pooh', a former member of the Gideon...
Bus operator nabbed in licence-tampering scam A bus operator was arrested yesterday following a joint operation between the Island Special Constabulary Force and the Transport Authority...
Deacon's stay in jail extended Donovan Jones, the former Dayton Avenue church deacon, who is at the centre of the sexual molestation offence against a...
July 28, 2006
Trinidad's top judge takes leave from duties PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Trinidad's chief justice recused himself Wednesday from all judicial duties until criminal charges against him were...
Court quashes robbery conviction A pair of dark glasses which a witness said a robber was wearing worked in favour of the man who...
Deacon's defence attorney absent The absence of a defence attorney yesterday means former Church Dayton Diamond Ridge deacon, 46-year-old Donovan Jones, and his...
July 27, 2006
Hostel for illegal aliens Illegal aliens who enter the country and are remanded by the authorities will soon be housed in better conditions as...
Deacon, co-accused to return to court again Former Church Dayton Diamond Ridge deacon, Donovan Jones, and his co-accused James Rodgers are to return to the Corporate Area...
FBI, cops catch up with Montego Bay kidnappers Two men who were abducted at gunpoint in Montego Bay, St. James, last Sunday were set free and their abductors...
July 26, 2006
New crime task force The Organised Crime Investigation Division has launched a new task force for Kingston and St. Andrew to buttress the work...
Deacon stays put Donovan Jones, the former Dayton Avenue church deacon and his co-accused, 18 year-old James Rodgers, were yesterday remanded in custody...
Christie demands sanctions... In a caustic and comprehensive review of the public sector's contract awards process for the year 2005, a dissatisfied Contractor...
July 25, 2006
Inspector calls for stiffer penalties for carnal abuse INSPECTOR Duetress Foster-Gardener says that while there has been a significant increase in the number of reported cases of carnal...
Two former students charged with Harbour View murder TWO former students of the Donald Quarrie High School are to face trial on Monday, October 23, for the May...
Police shooting sparks Savanna-la-Mar riots Pandemonium broke out in Savanna-la-Mar yesterday when residents of Harmony Town rioted following the police shooting of a 17-year-old boy...
Trinidad Chief Justice saved from arrest again A High Court judge yesterday maintained an injunction pre-venting the arrest of embattled Trinidad and Tobago Chief Justice, Satnarine Sharma,...
Literacy project for prisons A comprehensive rehabilitation programme targeting illiteracy is to be embarked in the nation's correctional centres, says State Minister in the...
July 24, 2006
Technology takes a swipe at crime CCTV TECHNOLOGY has been around for a while, as has broadband technology, but it wasn't until recently that both have...
Schoolboys to answer firearm charges THREE BOYS, two of them aged 13 and 14, will appear in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court tomorrow, to...
I left them alive says murder accused As prime suspect, 32-year-old Joel Smith continued his testimony in Old Bailey criminal court in London last week, in...
July 23, 2006
Tax incentives coming for service industries BY YEAR-END, service-driven companies operating in Jamaica's free zones will be able to benefit from tax-exemption schemes currently enjoyed by...
Banker under siege - Crawford's ex-wife wants half his assets IN A bizarre twist, Claudine Crawford, the ex-wife of former Century National Bank boss Donovan Crawford has dragged him to...
Legislators haggle over safeguarding anti-buggery law THERE WAS controversy at last Wednesday's meeting of the Joint Select Committee of Parliament considering the Charter of Rights Bill....
July 22, 2006
Witnesses bound over for cop trial TWELVE WITNESSES were bound over by Resident Magistrate Carolyn Tie to testify at the preliminary enquiry in the case of...
Three remanded for Norwood murders THREE MEN, implicated in the July 4 brutal murder of five persons in Norwood, St James, were remanded in custody...
Boys plead guilty, no bail for deacon RESIDENT MAGISTRATE Judith Pusey has ordered social enquiry reports for two of the four persons implicated in the sexual assault...
Rape reclassified - Gov't moves to amend sex crime laws GOVERNMENT yesterday re-tabled two pieces of legislation to amend laws relating to rape, incest, and other sexual offences. The changes...
July 21, 2006
New laws to boost employment for disabled THE GOVERNMENT is now advanced in the development of two pieces of legislation to support disabled persons seeking employment. According...
'Richie Poo' pleads guilty to shooting cop REPUTED former head of the Gideon Warriors Kevin 'Richie Poo' Tyndale pleaded guilty in the Gun Court yesterday to shooting...
Flankers cops freed A 12-MEMBER jury deliberated for almost three hours yesterday before freeing the four policemen who were charged with the murder...
Senate rejects cement probe THE SENATE yesterday rejected a private member's motion brought by the Opposition to appoint a Joint Select Committee of Parliament...
'He asked me to provide a false alibi'... A FORMER associate of 23-year-old Joel Smith, who is on trial for the double murder of Jamaicans, seven-year-old Toni-Ann Byfield...
July 20, 2006
Cops on corruption charges remanded MONTEGO BAY- Police officers Alton Forbes and Ricardo Morgan were yesterday remanded in custody when they appeared in the Montego...
Kidnapping, sexual abuse growing trends in Jamaica OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on National Security, Derrick Smith, pointing to the incidence of kidnapping as a growing trend in Jamaica, has...
Woman accused of forcing child to perform oral sex A WOMAN shocked the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday when she appeared on charges of indecent assault and cruelty...
July 19, 2006
Church at centre of sex scandal operating illegally, says mayor THE Dayton Avenue Church of God, which has come under fire recently for condoning the actions of one of its...
Offenders soon to pay damages - Nicholson IF THE Government has its way, perpetrators of crimes will in future be required to provide some level of compensation...
Government of Jamaica launches victims' charter JAMAICANS WILL in the next three months have the opportunity to examine and make further recommendations on the Draft Victims'...
Government of Jamaica to draft child porn law JUSTICE MINISTER and Attorney-General, Senator A.J. Nicholson, has given instruction for the drafting of child pornography legislation. According to Canute...
July 18, 2006
Whitehouse report in Parliament's hands A 73-PAGE report detailing the findings of the Contractor General's investigation into the controversial Sandals White-house hotel project in Westmore-land...
Cops in Flankers trial to know fate today THE judge in the trial of the four remaining officers facing the court for the 'murder' of two elderly Flankers...
Cop's forgiveness saves 'cruel' bus driver from prison A 22-year-old man who a judge was convinced "deserves prison time" was spared imprisonment after the police officer whom he...
Developers win $165m award against Magil AFTER FOUR years of arbitration, Can-Cara Development Ltd., developers of the White Water housing scheme in St. Catherine, has been...
July 17, 2006
Man held in Marverly said to be fugitive Jamaica's Fugitive Apprehension Team and United States Marshals on Saturday arrested a man in Marverly, Kingston 20 who they say...
Portland PC takes down illegal signs Port Antonio, Portland - The Portland Parish Council, claiming that it is losing $5 million in street advertising fees annually,...
Trinidad chief justice charged with interfering in Panday's trial PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Authorities charged Trinidad's chief justice with trying to pressure a magistrate in a criminal case against...
July 14, 2006
Four Cubans charged with uttering forged documents FOUR Cubans are facing charges in the Kingston Criminal Court after allegedly attempting to use forged documents at the Norman...
Three Norwood suspects identified MONTEGO BAY, St James - Three suspects who are in police custody in connection with last week's brutal slaying of...
Greed breeding crime! POLICE Commissioner Lucius Thomas, rapidly making a name for himself as a cop who shoots straight from the hip, has...
No link between Bacchas and police guns - expert BALLISTICS EXPERT Daniel Wray said under cross-examination yesterday that he was not able to link the fragment from the body...
Carnal abuse crack down - Constabulary Force to intensify efforts CALLING FOR the public to speak out whenever they have information about children being sexually molested, Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas...
July 12, 2006
Father grieves as man accused of killing three kids appears in court THE father of the three children whose throats were slashed in Kilancholly, St Mary, last year could not fight back...
Armed robber makes off with $48,000 AN armed robber yesterday made off with $48,000 in cash in an early afternoon robbery at the Cable & Wireless...
Magistrate refuses application for release of deacon, two teenage boys RESIDENT Magistrate Georgiana Fraser yesterday refused an application, in the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court, from attorney Paul Beswick, seeking the release...
July 11, 2006
Manslaughter trial stalled THE ABSENCE of one of the attorneys in the case against 20-year-old Raine Russell, who is charged with the death...
Protesters slam church for defending deacon MEMBERS OF civil society yesterday staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the Dayton Avenue Church of God, the worship...
FLANKERS MURDER TRIAL - Death car was stationary or slow-moving - expert THE FLANKERS murder case entered its fourth week yesterday with ballistics expert Daniel Wray describing the bullet holes and bullet...
July 10, 2006
... Cabinet to discuss Portmore toll boycott CABINET will today discuss an organised plan by Portmore residents to boycott the toll road for up to two months...
Church founder lashes whistle blowers AMID shouts of amen and hallelujah, the founder of the Dayton Avenue Church of God, Ruby Kelly, yesterday chastised whistle...
New witness for Flankers trial AT THE Flankers murder trial on Friday, an early adjournment was granted to allow the prosecution to call a witness...
July 09, 2006
Poor infrastructure hindering crime fighting - Golding OPPOSITION LEADER Bruce Golding says Government must resume its upgrading of infrastructure programmes in the troubled community of Norwood, St....
Buggery law backward - Munroe THE JOINT Select Committee of Parliament considering the proposed Charter of Rights Bill failed to conclude its deliberations last week...
Penniless after millions in settlement WHEN NICOLA Webb, the exotic dancer who was paralysed by a policeman's bullet on September 4, 2002, received an $11.2...
July 07, 2006
Prisoner database up and running THE OFFENDER Management System (OMS), designed to monitor high-risk and other inmates in the country's penal institutions, is now a...
Cops quiz deacon - Two teenagers detained in child abuse case POLICE YESTERDAY detained at least one of the boys involved in sexually molesting a schoolgirl, which was captured on tape...
UK murder trial for Jamaican child begins A 12-MAN jury has begun hearing evidence on the cold-blooded murder of seven-year-old Jamaican Toni-Ann Byfield in the Old Bailey...
July 06, 2006
'Keep tax-dodgers' kids out of school' THE head of the union representing state-paid school teachers suggested yesterday that parents be required to present a Tax Compliance...
Jealous man dumps ex-girlfriend's undies in toilet, urinates on them A man, who in a fit of rage assaulted his ex-girlfriend, dumped 52 pairs of her underwear into the toilet...
July 05, 2006
Former helper pleads guilty to stealing DJ's money KAREN Francis, 38, former housekeeper of popular dancehall deejay Rodney Pryce, better known as "Bounty Killa", yesterday pleaded guilty in...
No reinforcement for St Ann cops - Shields DEPUTY COMMISSIONER of Police Mark Shields says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is unable to increase its numbers in St....
Three on kidnapping charges remanded FORMER TEACHER Steve McCalla, who is charged jointly with two women for the alleged kidnapping of two female life insurance...
FLANKERS MURDER TRIAL - Shooter blew out Bacchas' brains, court told CONSULTANT FORENSIC pathologist Dr. Murari Sarangi yesterday described the gunshot injuries he saw on the bodies of the two senior...
Bloodbath - Five slain in Norwood pre-dawn terror THE COMMUNITY of Norwood, St. James, was yesterday rocked by hellish terror as armed thugs went on a bloody rampage...
July 04, 2006
'Clergy sexually abusing their flock' AN Anglican priest Sunday charged that sexual misbehaviour among the clergy was a serious problem and called for the removal...
July 03, 2006
Woman seeks justice A COMPLAINANT in a criminal case in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court, after attending court for 29 times between...
Gang violence hits schools THE RECENT spate of gang-related violence now gripping sections of Trelawny has made its way into several schools throughout the...
Strip-searched woman to get $300K from Government of Jamaica SUPREME COURT Judge, Paulette Williams has ordered the Government to pay $300,000 with interest to a woman who was strip-searched...
July 02, 2006
Cop killers hunted COP KILLERS are being hunted. The police recently released the names of five persons wanted for the murders of policemen...
More medical lawsuits uncovered FOLLOWING A report on the number of lawsuits for negligence facing some medical institutions over the last 13 years, a...
J'can women jailed in UK could finish sentence here SOME 150 JAMAICAN women, most serving time for violation of the Dangerous Drugs Act in British penal institutions, may soon...
Long arm of the law - J'can gangster caught in US A WEALTHY, notorious west Kingston gangster who was chased out of the Matthews Lane community by convicted killer, Donald 'Zekes'...
