October 31, 2006
NSWMA prosecuting operators of illegal dumps OPERATORS of illegal dumps will be targeted and prosecuted, warns the National Solid Waste Management Agency (NSWMA). Director of Enforcement...
Court discontinues murder cases against Bayshore Park three THE Crown yesterday entered a nolle prosequi order discontinuing the murder case against three men charged with the 2005 'reprisal'...
E-Commerce Bill for House today; Cyber Crimes law next THE e-Transaction Bill which is expected to usher Jamaica into the modern era of -commerce, is to be tabled in...
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Judicial Commission dismisses Chief Justice's complaints Complaints brought by Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma against Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicholls have been dismissed by the Judicial and Legal...
Conflicting psychiatric reports stall murder trial A trial date could not be set yesterday in the case of 31-year-old security guard Jeffrey Perry who is charged...
Broken down prisoner truck causes delay in court cases Several prisoners were not taken to court yesterday because the only truck assigned to transport prisoners to the courts in...
October 30, 2006
Policeman loses appeal The Court of Appeal has ruled that 38-year-old police constable Weston Gregory is to serve his 12-year prison sentence for...
November 6 court date for murder accused The case of the woman and two men charged jointly with the murder of former president of the Jamaica Gasolene...
Two held in Berbick killing Following hours of intensive investigation and patrolling last night, the Portland police have taken into custody two men believed to...
October 27, 2006
...Probe links procedural breaches at Victoria Jubilee to baby's death The special team that investigated the death of a baby at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston has identified serious...
Fugitive freed of murder charge A man who had been on the run for 10 years, was freed yesterday of the 1991 murder of a...
Montego Bay's 'lone robber' caught An alleged 'lone robber' who got nearly $4,000 from banking establishments in Montego Bay, St. James, by presenting a note...
October 26, 2006
Cop facing assault charges SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Constable Paul Dixon, 26, of the Trelawny Division, was arrested Tuesday on assault charges. He...
Child kidnappers get nine years OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Three men charged jointly with the kidnapping of an 11-year-old boy on April 8 this...
Two arrested, motorcycle seized Alert security guards handed over this motorcycle to the police yesterday, after two men, one said to be armed with...
Retreat to discuss Proceeds of Crime Act ends prematurely A planned two-day retreat of the Joint Select Committee (JSC) on the crucial Proceeds of Crime Act prematurely ended after...
International expert to testify in Coroner's Inquest Professor Derek Pounder, an international expert on forensic pathology, is to testify today at the Coroner's Inquest into the controversial...
Nembhard extradition motion postponed The motion brought in the Supreme Court by 52-year-old St. Ann businessman Norris 'Deedo' Nembhard, Police Corporal Herbert Henry and...
October 25, 2006
Jury unable to reach verdict in 'Tony' Welsh murder case THE 12-member jury in the murder trial of People's National Party (PNP) activist Milton 'Tony' Welsh was yesterday unable to...
House passes ICC World Cup legislation THE House of Representatives last night passed the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) West Indies 2007 Act (Sunset Legislation), allowing...
Retrial ordered for Welsh A jury, after deliberating for more than five hours yesterday, failed to arrive at a unanimous verdict at the murder...
Major drug bust in Montego Bay A major narcotics operation, which targeted illegal drug dealers in Montego Bay, St. James, paid rich dividends last week, when...
Sunset bill passed - Government promises no violation of Jamaican rights Government yesterday attempted to allay the concerns of Jamaicans who believe their rights may be violated under the Sunset Legislation...
October 24, 2006
Cops have no suspects in Radio talk-show DETECTIVES from the Organised Crime Investigative Division (OCID), are now assisting a team of sleuths probing last week's abduction of...
10 men WANTED in St Andrew Central The St Andrew Central Police Division is seeking the assistance of members of the public in the apprehension of the...
CDA raps rights group for report on children's home THE Child Development Agency (CDA) yesterday criticised rights group Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) for suggesting that government was doing little...
IBM sues Amazon over patents Key aspects of Amazon.com Inc's retailing website are improperly built on technologies developed at IBM Corp, Big Blue alleged Monday...
Students beaten, parents upset Several parents whose children attend the Green Island High School in Hanover, are said to be up in arms with...
Sunset Legislation to be debated today Parliamentarians are expected to debate the Sunset Legislation to govern the hosting of Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007, in the...
...Cayman to send home work permit holders, thousands to be affected The Cayman Islands' controversial immigration laws could expel thousands of work-permit-holding Jamaicans who have been employed there for almost eight...
October 23, 2006
Bandits hit Mandeville jewellery store for $5 million Mandeville, Manchester - Robbers held up a jewellery store in Mandeville on Saturday and made off with about $5 million...
Man on murder charge to remain in custody Joseph Francis, the man accused of the 2004 stabbing death of his common-law wife, Paulette Reid-Nelson, will remain in custody...
Terror grips Sandy Bay The people of Sandy Bay in Clarendon are terrified. They say the once quiet community has been transformed into a...
Man held in connection with bus robbery The St. Catherine South Police have now taken a man in custody whom they believe was involved in holding up...
Elderly woman found dead It was the question on everyone's lips. Who would want to hurt Miss Joyce? Joyce Reid, a quiet 74-year-old woman,...
Student's death sparks Safe School programme The St. James police are looking at introducing the Safe Schools Programme at Maldon High School in the parish following...
Take care with the cricket law "Despite the urgency with which Cricket World Cup's Christopher Dehring and Patrick Bryan insist the Sunset Legislation must be passed,...
October 22, 2006
Happy to be alive! Abducted lecturer relates ordeal What was to be a normal Thursday even-ing for lecturer and popular talk show host Dr. Kingsley 'Ragashanti' Stewart, turned...
US sets up task forces to battle marriage fraud Last week, a Los Angeles-based television station aired that task forces that include federal agents have been established to battle...
Chief Justice Wolfe to retire next year Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe, and Appeal Court President Paul Harrison will be retiring next year. Speculation is rife in legal...
October 20, 2006
British police zero in on southern Caribbean in search for serial rapist of elderly PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - London police have narrowed their search to the southern Caribbean for a serial rapist believed to...
Principal says school followed 'due process' in reporting rape of 7-year-old THE principal of Dunrobin Primary School, where five boys - one 11 and the others nine years old - allegedly...
Raped college students processed over seven gruelling hours THE two female students who were raped at gunpoint at the United Theological College of the West Indies (UTC) two...
Magistrate warns women beaters RESIDENT Magistrate Judith Pusey yesterday sent a strong warning to men who beat up on their women, when she sentenced...
Cops say former PNP councillor shot dead for firearm MAY PEN, Clarendon - The police believe former People's National Party (PNP) councillor for May Pen East in Clarendon, Everton...
Bloody Maldon........Two students stabbed, one dead MALDON, St James - A Grade 11 male student of the Maldon High School was stabbed to death outside the...
Man on sex charge gets 7 yrs A man who sexually assaulted a ten-year-old girl was on Wednesday sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Mrs. Justice Marva McIntosh,...
Westmoreland Circuit Court opens The Westmoreland Circuit Court opened at the Savanna-la-Mar courthouse on Tuesday with 35 cases listed for mention before Justice Lennox...
Bank manager on larceny charge remanded A bank branch manager, who is charged with larceny of a motor car, appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's...
Teen killed in St James Violence yesterday claimed the life of yet another student, following a stabbing incident in close proximity to the Maldon High...
Warders face probe for death of inmate Sanctions will be imposed on several warders at Spanish Town's maximum security penal facility, pending a ruling from the Director...
Paulwell files suit against Golding Phillip Paulwell, the Minister of Industry, Commerce Science and Technology with Energy, has made good on his threat to sue...
Welsh denies murder charge People's National Party activist, 59-year-old Milton 'Tony' Welsh, gave an unsworn statement yesterday denying that he murdered 22-year-old Damion Hussey,...
... 2007 tournament in trouble if Sunset laws not passed in 11 days Officials of the ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 are expressing concern that seven Caribbean countries slated to host...
October 19, 2006
Attorney charged with hate crime in attack on teenager in Barbados BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) - A Barbadian man and his son have been charged for allegedly beating a black teenager as...
New association pushing for modern Gunpowder and Explosives Act A new organisation, the Jamaica Association of Explosives Engineering Professionals (JAEEP), is proposing an overhaul of the act that regulates...
JLP councillor arrested JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) Councillor for the Ginger Ridge Division, St Catherine, Hyman Smith, was arrested and charged after he...
EAC wants Electoral Commission bill passed this week The Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC) wants the long awaited bill transforming the committee into a commission of Parliament passed by...
Former teacher gets help to appeal case in UK ATTORNEY GENERAL and Minister of Justice, A.J. Nicholson, has intervened in the case involving Easton Grant, a Jamaican man, who...
Man incarcerated for six years freed The Court of Appeal on Tuesday freed a man who was incarcerated for six years because the presiding judge did...
October 18, 2006
Three accused of engaging cops in gunfight held THE police yesterday arrested three men who allegedly engaged them in a shoot-out in Arnett Gardens, a tough community in...
Five members of St Catherine family ordered re-arrested SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Five members of a St Catherine family, who were arrested for aiding and abetting the...
October 16, 2006
COK hosts public forum on identity fraud Thursday THE City of Kingston (COK) Cooperative Credit Union, as part of its annual activities in observance of Credit Union Week,...
PNP wants banks to adhere to regulations THE ruling People's National Party (PNP) has called on the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Jamaica to ensure...
'CSME on track' - Task force formed to discuss single currency for region Plans for the imple-mentation of the Carib-bean Community (CARI-COM) Single Economy by 2008 are still on track, says Dr. Edward...
October 13, 2006
Teen, boyfriend charged with uncle's murder WATER WORKS, Westmoreland - A 16-year-old girl and her horticulturist boyfriend - who is also her cousin - are scheduled...
Brothers charged with murder of cop to face Gun Court SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - The murder case against two brothers charged with killing police constable Richard Taylor of the...
Man charged with wife's murder gets extended bail SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Richard Duhaney, 41, who is charged with the March murder of his wife Daphne, had...
Two men injured in controversial police shooting TWO men were yesterday shot and injured following a gunfight between the police and gunmen near the normally busy intersection...
Manchester couple die in bizarre murder/suicide RESIDENTS of the Manchester districts of Newport and Georges Valley were in mourning yesterday as they grieved over the deaths...
School accused of cover-up Detectives from the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) are probing allegations that five boys, all...
Witness identifies Welsh in stabbing Three witnesses have so far testified of seeing 59-year-old farmer and con-tractor Milton 'Tony' Welsh, of Brandon Hill, St. Andrew,...
Cop loses legal battle Acting Assistant Com-missioner of Police, Owen Ellington, on Wednesday lost his legal battle in the Supreme Court to recover millions...
Two men shot and injured in alleged gunfight... CRIES FOR justice resonated throughout sections of west Kingston yesterday with residents of Denham Town claiming a case of indiscriminate...
October 12, 2006
Serial rapist posing as cop triggers fear on Indian reservation FORT APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, Arizona (AP) - A man in a dark shirt and hat emblazoned POLICE has raped 10...
Accused Air J ticket office robber for trial next month MARTINDALE Gordon, the man accused of disguising himself with fake whiskers and mustache while robbing an Air Jamaica ticket office...
No charges against cops accused of Half-Way-Tree beatings NO charges are to be laid against the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF) officers who were accused of beating a...
DPP rules out criminal charge in couple's beating The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ruled that no criminal charges should be laid against members of the Island...
Drug find points to UK, Jamaica connection Narcotics detectives are probing a multimillion-dollar drug link between an importer in the United Kingdom and a Jamaican exporter, following...
Four shot in West Central St Andrew A fresh wave of gun violence has erupted in another section of the volatile West Central St. Andrew constituency, where...
October 11, 2006
St Ann MP threatens to sue commissioner of mines SOUTH West St Ann Member of Parliament Ernest Smith has reiterated his threat to sue the commissioner of mines on...
Murders still trending down ONE hundred and four people were murdered in September, the first time since May that more than 100 people were...
Teens shot in Montego Bay A 13-year-old schoolgirl and a teenage mother were shot and injured shortly after 10:00 a.m. yesterday when two unknown assailants...
Cop suing Goverment of Jamaica Legal arguments began in the Supreme Court this week in the suit which Superintendent of Police Owen Ellington has brought...
Appeal Court quashes manslaughter verdict A man who spent three years in prison awaiting the hearing of his appeal was freed yesterday after the Court...
October 10, 2006
Magistrate reduces bail for man charged with 7,650-lb ganja haul ERROL Anthony Morris, the man who was arrested and charged in connection with the September 29 drug bust in Kingston...
Court orders three Indians deported THREE Indian nationals, allegedly involved in scam to procure work permits for themselves, were ordered deported yesterday when they appeared...
Cops seeking two suspects in murder of bus conductor HOMICIDE detectives in the St Andrew South Police Division were yesterday trying to find two suspects in the murder of...
Jury rejects $100m claim against RPD A special jury yesterday rejected the $100 million claim which Kingston businessman Alton Washington Brown had brought against the Revenue...
October 09, 2006
Girl, 15, boyfriend held for uncle's death WATER WORKS, Westmoreland - A-15 year-old female student, along with her boyfriend and another man were taken into custody Friday...
Accused cop killer facing another murder trial Bail application is expected to be made on behalf of accused cop killer and reputed former Olympic Gardens strongman, Ian...
Helper awaits trial for murder of gas station owner Sandra Watt, the helper suspected in the murder of her former boss, businessman George L G Brown, and his fiancé,...
Alleged UTech student on gun rap A man in his early 20s, who is said to be a student of the University of Technology, is to...
If you are raped report it, please! Hoping to encourage rape victims to overcome their fear of reporting the heinous but embarrassing crime, the police is to...
Nov 9 trial for cellphone cops Constables Errol Bonner and Kumar Bailey, who are each facing a charge of breaching the Corruption Prevention Act, in the...
Amputee wins $5m in damages The Supreme Court has ordered the Government to pay more than $5 million with interest to 35-year-old farmer Howard Genas,...
Slain inmate identified The Department of Correc-tions has released the name of the male inmate who was found dead at the Horizon Remand...
Scores held after gun ammo raid Forty-six persons are being detained for questioning following a joint police/military operation on Saturday night in Olympic Gardens, St. Andrew....
October 08, 2006
Gang of children killing homeless people Homicide detectives in the Kingston Central and Kingston West police divisions are trying to locate a gang of homeless children...
October 06, 2006
Minibus driver offered bail A minibus driver, who was remanded on September 15 when he appeared in the Mandeville Resident Magistrate's Court for a...
No trial date for ex-deacon yet A trial date could not be set yesterday in the trafficking in person case against former church deacon, 46-year-old Donovan...
Smith wants increased sentences Opposition spokesman on National Security, Derrick Smith, has urged the Government to increase non-custodial penalties for persons who commit crimes....
No schedule yet to debate cricket law The 'Sunset legislation' which will seek to make provisions for the efficient and effective staging of Cricket World Cup (CWC)...
October 05, 2006
Threats to sue Golding A legal battle is looming between Opposition Leader Bruce Golding and at least two People's National Party (PNP) officials, who...
Police probe ATM scam in Montego Bay The Area One Fraud Squad has launched a top-level probe into a sophisticated automated teller machine (ATM) skimming ring operating...
Barbadian cop freed of marijuana charge David Alleyne, assistant coach for the Barbados body building team and a 25-year veteran in the police force in that...