November 30, 2006
Snoop Dogg arrested again Another day, another run-in with the law for Snoop Dogg. The 35-year-old rapper was arrested near Los Angeles on Tuesday...
Lisa Hanna loses custody battle Former Miss World Lisa Hanna has lost the custody battle for her five-year-old son to live with her in Jamaica....
Juror shortage may close courts A developing threat that many of the nation's courts could be closed next year because of the shortage of jurors...
Security firm boss arrested - Vere Tech guard had no gun permit The head of Blade's Security Company was yesterday arrested for allowing the security guard involved in the shooting of five...
November 29, 2006
RM cites urgent need for children's registry RESIDENT Magistrate for the Corporate Area Criminal Court and Chairman of the Eastern Circuit of Children's Court Paula Blake-Powell has...
Man judged unfit for trial A man accused of killing his mother and two brothers has been determined to be unfit to plead. The psychiatric...
November 28, 2006
Vasciannie elected to UN Law Commission Stephen Vasciannie, Deputy Solicitor General in the Attorney-General's Chambers and professor of the international law at the University of the...
Toll road war goes to UK Privy Council Residents of Portmore, St. Catherine, led by Oswald James, attorney-at-law, will be taking their toll road battle with the Government...
November 27, 2006
Sex deacon, co-accused back in court December 15 INCOMPLETE investigation into the child sexual assault case - turned human trafficking matter - against former deacon of the Church...
17-year-old sentenced to 3 years probation for carnal abuse A judge jokingly told a 17-year-old youth who was sentenced to three years probation for carnal abuse in the Home...
Policewoman wins appeal After waiting for more than four years for the notes of evidence at her trial, so that her appeal could...
Six held for looting Courts Six persons from Port Maria, St. Mary, have been arrested by police following the looting of the Courts furniture store...
Alleged murderers denied bail Twenty-three-year-old Harold Berbick, who is charged jointly with another man for the murder of former heavyweight boxing champion Trevor Berbick,...
November 26, 2006
Government to implement changes in the justice sector Justice Minister Senator A.J. Nicholson has put civil servants in the justice sector on notice as he says major changes...
1970s bad boys: rebels today without a cause THREE years ago, Assistant Commissioner of Police Keith 'Trinity' Gardner said he was travelling through Rockfort in east Kingston when...
November 25, 2006
Chef gets life for killing wife Justice Lloyd Hibbert, after commenting on the "gruesome and ugly circumstances" in which 34-year-old chef and former security guard Ralston...
November 23, 2006
Man convicted for raping cop's girlfriend A man convicted of raping a policeman's girlfriend, after promising to help recover her stolen $33,000 cellular phone, will be...
Man accused of killing priest gets bail PRINCE Vale, the man accused of murdering St Jude's Anglican Church rector Richard Johnson last week, was granted bail when...
Andem trial postponed The murder trial of 42-year-old gang leader Joel Andem and the two men charged jointly with him was on Monday...
Ex-guard found guilty of murder A Home Circuit Court jury on Tuesday found 34-year-old former security guard Ralston Baker, of Mountain View Avenue, St. Andrew,...
UK Privy Council denies Genius appeal The United Kingdom (U.K.) Privy Council has upheld the decision of Director of Public Prosecutions Kent Pantry, Q.C., not to...
Fullerton's $6m bail extended Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey yesterday extended the $6 million bail of Nicole Fullerton, former acting operations manager of the...
November 22, 2006
2nd sex assault case at school For the second time in under two months, the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) is...
Two held for double murder After spending five months probing a criminal network in the commercial district of White Horses in St. Thomas, detectives attached...
Fullerton attempts to flee after fraud conviction Nicole Ann Fullerton, former acting operations manager of the failed Caldon Merchant Bank, who was convicted on Monday of fraud...
November 21, 2006
Man kills wife, police recover body parts A 42-year-old St. James accountant has been charged with the murder of his wife, whose body parts were recovered from...
November 18, 2006
Farmer accused of murder goes free MARK George Lee, the 34-year-old chicken farmer accused of murdering his stepson by slashing his throat with a machete last...
Sentencing rescheduled for mercy killer SENTENCING of the man who slashed the throat of his cancer-stricken grandfather to put him out of his misery was...
November 17, 2006
Graham pleads not guilty at court hearing SAN FRANCISCO, USA (AFP) - Athletics coach Jamaican Trevor Graham pleaded not guilty to lying to US investigators probing the...
Zeeks returns to court on January 29 FORMER Matthews Lane strongman Donald 'Zeeks' Phipps is scheduled to return to the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court on January 29...
Judge orders psychiatric evaluation of alleged medical imposter A man who allegedly pretended to be a doctor is facing charges in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court. Linval Shaw,...
JP facing fraud charges A Justice of the Peace is facing fraud charges in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court after allegedly writing a fraudulent...
Murder trial of Mtn View man opens The trial of 32-year-old Ralston Baker of Mountain View Avenue, St. Andrew, who is accused of strangling his 49-year-old common-law...
Thomas orders probe into court 'adjournment' In the wake of a dramatic incident between a Resident Magistrate and a police inspector at the Spanish Town Court...
Debate continues on Proceeds of Crime Bill The Joint Select Committee of Parliament considering the Proceeds of Crime Bill, which is expected to put a dent in...
November 16, 2006
Prison murder case rescheduled to next February THE trial of the three men charged with the beating death of a fellow inmate at the Half-Way-Tree Police lock-up...
Nov 24 sentencing for 17-year-old on carnal abuse charges A 17-year-old youth, who pleaded guilty to carnal abuse charges in the Home Circuit Court on Monday, is to be...
Woman in overseas employment scam remanded CLAUDIA Verona Roberts, the woman charged with masterminding an elaborate overseas employment scam, was further remanded into custody when she...
Doping appeals adjourned until November 20 THE COMMITTEE hearing appeals against doping bans handed down to Pakistan fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif has adjourned...
St Ann man loses appeal, gets life for killing nurse A St. Ann man who robbed a nurse of $250 and then bashed her head with a stone, killing her,...
Courtroom drama - Police Inspector 'adjourns' court - Judge left on the bench An Inspector of Police left the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court in amazement on Monday when he 'adjourned' the sitting...
November 15, 2006
RM postpones verdict in Caldon Bank fraud case Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey has put off her verdict in the fraud case of Nicole Fullerton, former acting operations manager...
Court backs beating victim The Court of Appeal has criticised the soldiers and police who severely beat Derrick Pinnock, 31-year-old mechanic of Gutters, St....
November 14, 2006
Singer Buffett sues alleged trademark infringer Singer Jimmy Buffett filed suit on Monday asking a U.S. federal judge to stop a website operator from infringing Buffett's...
Teenager deported from UK A Jamaican member of an armed street gang which robbed people, has been sentenced to life in prison and deportation...
'The Cloth' under fire NOT even men of the cloth have been spared the wrath of the criminal wave that has swept Jamaica during...
November 13, 2006
Former Snr Asst A-G loses case The Public Service Regulations do not impose a mandatory condition for a senior officer to be automatically appointed to act...
Nurse charged for assaulting officers A nurse who allegedly attacked two members of the Island Special Consta-bulary Force (ISCF) in Spanish Town on Saturday, after...
Man freed of murder charge A man who told the police that he acted in self-defence after men came to rob and kill him was...
November 10, 2006
Regional court refuses to restore execution order in first death penalty case BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) - A new Caribbean court has refused to restore execution orders for two convicted murderers, dismissing an...
November 09, 2006
Malvo gets life Kingston-born Lee Boyd Malvo has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the notorious serial sniper killings...
November 08, 2006
Feisty man jailed for 'passing his place' with judge A man found himself in contempt of court and was remanded into custody last week in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's...
Alleged sex deacon, co-accused get slight reprieve FORMER deacon of the Church Dayton Diamond Ridge, Donovan Jones and his three co-accused in the child sexual assault case,...
Two charged with Berbick's murder remanded again The two men charged with the murder of former World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion, Trevor Berbick, were again remanded...
Jury tampering aborts murder trial The murder trial of 35-year-old businessman Stephen Grant, of Queen Hill, St. Andrew, which began on October 30, was aborted...
November 07, 2006
Senate approves amendment to Registration of Business Names Act The Senate last Friday passed the bill amending the Registration of Business Names Act, which prevents local businesses from any...
Hit child sex offenders hard AFTER a spirited 'parliamentary debate' which threw out a call to castrate child sex offenders, scores of Jamaican youth yesterday...
Passport thieves busted What appeared to be a massive scam involving 700 passports that went missing at the Immigration and Passport Division of...
Juror shortage postpones trial A shortage of jurors yesterday stalled the murder trial of five men whose case was marked 'priority' on the court...
Granddad's throat cut in bizarre mercy killing A man who cut his 80-year-old grandfather's throat, to spare him the severe pains he was experiencing because he was...
Brown, Campbell murder case set for mention The murder case of the woman and two men charged jointly with the murder of former president of the Jamaica...
November 06, 2006
Last week in the Courts 'I stole from my boss because he doesn't pay me enough' SENIOR Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey last week sent a...
Saddam sentenced to death An Iraqi court sentenced a shaken but defiant Saddam Hussein to hang yesterday for crimes against humanity, sparking joy for...
November 03, 2006
Parents of pregnant teen charged with aiding carnal abuse SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Senior St Catherine Resident Magistrate Lorna Errar Gayle on Tuesday ordered the arrest of the...
Proposed amendment to Customs Act puts onus on importers Importers suspected of smuggling or tax-dodging through under-invoicing of goods will be regarded as guilty until proven innocent, under new...
Schoolboys plead guilty to manslaughter Two schoolboys who fatally stabbed another student during a dispute in April last year have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The...
November 02, 2006
UK lords to provide new test for company law reform Leading British busi-ness groups have failed to secure a last-minute change to a far-reaching new companies' bill requiring more disclosure...
Murder suspects freed after witness no-show The three men who were accused of murdering three persons in Bayshore Park, eastern Kingston, in an alleged reprisal for...
Drug Court needs shot in the arm Six years after the establishment of the Drug Court to rehabilitate non-violent drug offenders, the programme is yet to expand...
Super Plus manager, supervisors trial date set The trial of Jeremy Chen, general manager of Super Plus Food Stores, and four supervisors, who are charged in connection...
Corrupt cop charged Superintendent Ezra Stewart of the Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI) yesterday executed a ruling by the Director of Public Prosecutions,...
Man freed of rape charge A man who was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, after he was convicted of illegal possession of firearm and rape,...
November 01, 2006
Accused cop killers' murder trial starts today Spanish Town residents Dean Reid and Wayne Morris are to stand trial today for the April 2000 murder of Detective...
St Mary man accused of murdering cousins gets Nov 9 trial date THE murder trial of Jeffrey Perry, the man who was accused last year of slashing the throats of his three...
Trial of SuperPlus five starts today THE trial of the five employees of the SuperPlus Food Store at Park Crescent, Mandeville, who are accused of assaulting...
Judge tells six accused in ATM murders to get lawyers THE four young men and two teenage girls charged with the murders of financial analyst Jamie Lue and Jamaica Aids...
Danhai arrested Well-known East Kingston businessman and People's National Party (PNP) activist Danhai Williams was last night arrested by the police as...
Customs Act debate suspended Debate on a bill to amend the Customs Act was suspended in Parliament yesterday after Opposition members raised objections to...
Conflicting psychiatric reports slow Kilancholly murder trial A trial date could not be set Monday in the case of 31-year-old security guard Jeffrey Perry, who is charged...
