December 31, 2006
House moves to pass new bills before legislative year ends Two far-reaching pieces of legislation are on the parliamentary agenda for debate and passage before Parliament prorogues in March, signaling...
Push to reform labour laws Trade unions and employers will be aggressively pushing for labour market reforms during next year. According to Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd, executive...
December 30, 2006
Cosmetologist pays dearly for wrong image Cosmetologist Judy Thomas must now be rueing the fact that she and her sister Tanya Phillips aren't identical twins. For...
Body fished from river, man said held with gun The body of 32 year-old Clyde Brown, otherwise called 'Warlord' of Salt Spring, St James was found in the Barnett...
Court upholds 'cease and desist' order against Olint The Supreme Court has dismissed the application brought by Olint Corporation Limited and LewFam Trading Limited against the Financial Services...
Probe into shooting of wanted man Two days after being shot by the police in Carey Park, Trelawny, a man wanted on a warrant for shooting...
Saddam hanged Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was hanged last night (Jamaica time) for crimes against humanity after killing 148 Shi'ite men...
December 29, 2006
Unions still pushing to represent private security guards LABOUR unions have resolved to intensify their efforts to gain representational rights for more than 12,000 private security guards who...
Man on fraud charge granted $1.5m bail A man accused of defrauding Quality Dealers Limited of $6 million was granted $1.5 million bail with up to three...
Investigation into Lyn suspects lawyer debate Executive Director of the Legal Aid Council, Glen Cruickshank, Q.C., said yesterday he would be investigating the circumstances which left...
December 28, 2006
Sting promoter's firearm seized after shooting Police say they have seized the licensed firearm of a member of the Supreme Promotions team, organisers of the Sting...
... Four nursing wounds out west Four persons were wounded by gunmen in two cases of shooting in Trelawny and St. James between Tuesday night and...
Five shot, one dead in St Thomas ... Since Tuesday night, at least five persons have been shot, one fatally, in Seaforth, St. Thomas. Voniel McDonald, 26, was...
Lawyers not approached for Lyn suspects - Attorney Attorney-at-law Donald Gittens has withdrawn an offer to represent two suspects being held in connection with the disappearance of Mandeville...
Cops crack massive stolen car ring The St. Catherine police took a man and a woman into custody yesterday in connection with a car stealing ring...
December 27, 2006
Mandeville lawyers come forward MANDEVILLE-based attorney Donald Getton has offered to represent one of three people taken into custody in connection with the robbery...
December 26, 2006
US Court cuts Exxon Valdez damages by US$2b A U.S. appeals court cut US$2 billion off the US$4.5 billion in punitive damages owed by Exxon Mobil Corp for...
December 24, 2006
Mandeville lawyers shun suspects Mandeville lawyers, apparently troubled by the abduction of Richard and Julia Lyn, a popular business couple, have abandoned cherished legal...
December 23, 2006
Men accused of 100 Lane murders return to court January 12 TWO young men charged with the 2001 murder of two residents of 100 Lane, Red Hills Road, St Andrew, were...
Employment scam woman gets deadline to repay money CLAUDIA Verona Roberts, the woman at the centre of an overseas employment scam in which more than 500 people were...
Cabbie's teen killers sent to 'juvie' centre TWO 16-year-olds, who admitted to killing a 53-year-old cab driver in Spanish Town for money to buy sneakers and attend...
Judge dismisses infringement lawsuit against Google products MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a company's lawsuit that claimed Google Inc was infringing on its...
Witnesses missing in police murder trial The trial of the three policemen involved in the 1999 killing of Noel Barnes, reputed gunman of Bull Bay, St....
December 22, 2006
Appeal Court wants 'tainted acquittal' legislation The Court of Appeal on Wednesday called for urgent legislation to be passed to deal with 'tainted acquittals' when it...
JPS wins appeal against suit The Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd. (JPS) has won its appeal against a Supreme Court ruling that it should pay...
December 21, 2006
Court orders aircraft seized in drug bust returned The Court of Appeal on Monday ordered the return of an aircraft - seized during a drug bust last September...
Janice Allen case for Privy Council THE Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a ruling to deny leave for a Judicial Review in the Janice Allen murder...
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO - Appeal Court rules Attorney-General can't control DPP The Appeal Court in Trinidad and Tobago has said the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is under no obligation to...
Arms find linked to drug-for-gun trade The seizure of 10 illegal firearms - eight AK-47 rifles and two revolvers - at Great Bay Fishing Beach in...
December 20, 2006
Magistrate confiscates cop's mobile SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Senior St Catherine resident magistrate Lorna Errar-Gayle last Tuesday confiscated a detective corporal's mobile phone...
Cop on murder, indecent assault charges denied bail SERGEANT Aldermon Doran - the man who allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend and then shot himself in the neck...
JLP wants Tourism Incentive Act amended MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has called on the government to amend the Tourism Incentive...
Woman among four arrested in missing couple case A woman is among those arrested in connection with the disappearance of elderly Mandeville couple Richard and Julia Lyn. The...
40% say CCJ should replace Privy Council Approximately 40 per cent of eligible voters believe that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) should replace the United Kingdom-based...
Ganja plane to be returned to owner An aircraft belonging to a Bahamian doctor, which was forfeited to the Crown after it was used to transport ganja...
December 19, 2006
Two more suspects held in missing couple case THE police yesterday held two more men in connection with the abduction and robbery of elderly Mandeville couple Richard and...
Suspended sentence for fraud convict Robert Panton, 45-year-old labourer, was convicted in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday and given a six-month suspended sentence...
Cop faces murder, carnal abuse charges Four weeks after he allegedly shot and killed his 35-year-old girlfriend before attempting to kill himself, Detective Sergeant Alderman Doran,...
Court quashes labour relations conviction against Marksman A security company and one of its directors had their convictions quashed and their $550,000 fines set aside for breaching...
Woman in janitor's death denied bail A woman accused of mur-dering her common-law husband and dumping his body in a pit latrine was denied bail in...
December 18, 2006
Violence claims two in Westmoreland Two men lost their lives violently in the parish of Westmoreland during the past 48 hours. Dead are 47-year-old Clive...
December 17, 2006
Breakthrough in Lyns' abduction - One arrested, other still being sought The police last night captured Kevin Powell, one of two men who are implicated in the abduction of Richard...
December 16, 2006
Nicole Fullerton returns to court next March FORMER acting operations manager of the failed Caldon Finance Group, Nicole Fullerton, had her $6 million bail extended until March...
Kingston barber gets nine months, fined for ganja MONTEGO BAY, St James - A Kingston barber who pleaded guilty to trying to export 8.5 pounds of ganja to...
75 cops arrested for organised crime ties Brazilian federal agents arrested 75 state police troopers yesterday for links with organised crime in Rio de Janeiro state's high-profile...
Man charged in beheading death Thirty-five-year-old Shorn Samuel will reappear in court next week in connection with the public beheading of a woman on Tuesday....
Deacon's file incomplete, no trial date set The file in the case of former church deacon, 46-year-old Donovan Jones and the three male teenagers charged with human...
Jamaican man loses extradition appeal A Jamaican man who fled to the island in 1986 after pleading guilty to drug-related charges in the United States...
Sentencing for Fullerton put off Senior Resident Magis-trate Judith Pusey on Thursday granted an appli-cation for the sentencing of Nicole Ann Fullerton, daughter of Henry...
CAR THEFTS RISE - Criminals target Corporate Area Over the past few weeks there have been increased reports of carjackings and thefts, specifically in the Corporate Area. Although...
December 15, 2006
Salesman accused of raping woman in car for court today A 32-year-old salesman accused of raping a woman in his car at the back of a Kingston high school, is...
Smith says Incest Punishment Act needs 'more teeth' OPPOSITION Member of Parliament Ernest Smith has called for 'more teeth' to be given to the Incest Punishment Act to...
House rejects alibi legislation Legislation requiring an accused person to disclose the nature of his defence to the court before trial will have to...
No bail for man facing murder retrial A Supreme Court Judge on Wednesday turned down a bail application for 36-year-old St. Andrew businessman Steven Grant, and expressed...
St Catherine police seize nine guns in as many days An increase in the number of patrols and police personnel in the hotbed of the St. Catherine North Police Division...
Music teacher gets five years for buggery A music teacher who buggered a 14-year-old schoolboy was sentenced to five years at hard labour, in the St. Catherine...
Cockpit Country issue may be taken to court Environmental advocates, the Cockpit Country Stakeholders Group (CCSG), said they would be looking for ways to take the Government to...
December 14, 2006
JAS wants Proceeds of Crime Act to cover praedial larceny THE Jamaica Agriculture Society (JAS) has proposed that assets earned through praedial larceny be included in the Proceeds of Crime...
Accused priest killer for prelim hearing TWENTY-two-year old Prince "Bomber" Vale, the man accused of murdering Anglican Reverend Father Richard Johnson, yesterday had the matter set...
Complainant's death frees cop A special constable who allegedly used his gun to beat a man in the head three years ago in Spanish...
Man gets 12 years for manslaughter A man who buried an unconscious man after they had a dispute in the bushes in Red Lands district, near...
Court reporters lobby for safety rails Court reporters at the Supreme Court are calling on officials from the Ministry of Justice to put plans in place...
Alleged armoured truck robbers case transferred to St Ann court The case of the two security guards who allegedly robbed $200 million from a Guardsman Ltd. armoured truck has been...
Preliminary hearing on decapitated wife begins The preliminary enquiry into the alleged murder by decapitation of a St. Catherine woman by her husband has started in...
Groups object to marital rape clause Three women's organisations have objected to a proposed legislative clause which would require consultation with the Director of Public Prosecutions...
More Montego Bay lotto busts Eight more persons have been taken into custody by the Montego Bay police in connection with the lucrative lottery scam...
December 13, 2006
Fraud charges against Canadian nat'l dropped Fraud charges against Maurice Gabay, the former financial controller of the Canadian company Magil Construction Company Ltd., have been dropped....
McKenzie taking two firms to court - Burger King, Escape 24/7 cited for breaches Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie says he will be taking court action against two companies that have failed to comply...
December 12, 2006
Teen killers of cab driver to be sentenced Dec 22 TWO 16-year-olds who admitted to killing a 53-year-old cab driver in Spanish Town for money to buy sneakers and attend...
Jamaican building codes under construction The Jamaican construction industry could finally see the emergence of legally enforceable regulations in January, says Noel daCosta, chairman of...
December 11, 2006
Man accused of robbing insurance agents refused bail STEVE McCalla, the man accused of robbing two Life of Jamaica sales agents in March, with the aid of two...
Custody of Jamaican children - Which court should hear applications? Custody battles are notoriously bitter, and the victory of one party is invariably a pyrrhic one - "you win the...
International humanitarian law International Law is the law that governs relationships between and among states. This statement, though generally true, has to...
Political party funding law for Constitution Legislation will be implemented to create restrictions and offer guidelines for the funding of Jamaican political parties. So said Cabinet...
Caribbean to benefit from US court ruling on deportees The Caribbean stands to benefit from a United States Supreme Court ruling that a non-citizen cannot be deported for a...
December 10, 2006
Double murder on Mountain View Avenue A CEASEfire that has been holding in sections of Mountain View has been broken. Residents of Saunders Lane, Mountain View...
December 09, 2006
Committee wraps up deliberations on Proceeds of Crime Act THE Joint Select Committee of Parliament on Thursday wrapped up its more than year-long deliberations on the Proceeds of Crime...
Teacher loses appeal for old job A Jamaican teacher who represented himself before the United Kingdom Privy Council has lost his bid to be reinstated to...
December 08, 2006
Proceeds of Crime Act decision 2007 The Proceeds of Crime Act 2006, which gives legislative power to the State to forfeit property and confiscate proceeds obtained...
... - Four gunmen charged for Retirement killings, policemen held in lottery scam Six persons including two police constables have been jailed for their alleged involvement in the escalating crime wave in St....
December 07, 2006
Rape debate causes rift in Bar A proposal to make the offence of rape gender-neutral has reportedly triggered a sharp divide among members of the Jamaican...
December 06, 2006
House passes Trafficking in Persons Bill THE House of Representatives yesterday passed the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Suppression and Punishment) Act, which will implement provisions to...
Ganja - lowest law enforcement priority! In November, a judge upheld a rule passed by a condominium association in Golden, Colorada, prohibiting owners from smoking even...
Court clears Tewani, Messado of fraud The Supreme Court on Monday cleared Kingston attorney-at-law Jennifer Messado and businessman Gordon Tewani of allegations in a civil suit...
Scrap the Secrets Act, says JLP Chiding the Government for its "hypocrisy", the Opposition yesterday called for the immediate abolition of the Official Secrets Act. In...
December 05, 2006
J'can-born truck driver convicted in US human smuggling case HOUSTON, USA (AP) - A Jamaican-born truck driver was convicted yesterday for his role in the United States' deadliest human...
Ganja seized in Miami on flight from Jamaica More than 3,000 pounds of ganja was confiscated at Miami International Airport in the United States last week, after arriving...
December 04, 2006
Three cops shot in St James Up to late yesterday, one police constable remained hospitalised in critical condition, following an early-morning shooting in Salt Spring, St....
Justice system stakeholders urged to make views known Stakeholders in the nation's justice system are being urged to make their views known to the Canadian Advisory Committee which...
In the courts last week. St James man faces court for death of Australian MONTEGO BAY-A St James man is booked to face the Montego...
December 03, 2006
Jamaican court system needs fixing Although the Ministry of Justice is making elaborate and seemingly expensive plans to reform the justice system islandwide, the provision...
December 02, 2006
Three of the 'Grenada 17' to be released Three prisoners from the so-called 'Grenada 17' group who were convicted in the slaying of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop...
Gov't auditor cleared of fraud Government auditor Andrea Phillips, who was employed to the Ministry of Finance and Planning, has been cleared by the Court...
MacMillan calls for laws to ferret out corrupt cops Opposition Senator Colonel Trevor MacMillan has called for whistle-blower legislation for the police force to weed out corrupt cops, arguing...
December 01, 2006
Security boss and employee granted $1 million bail Operator of Blade Security Company, Samuel Tulloch, 45, and his employee Basil Brown, 38, were yesterday granted bail in the...
Privy Council rules against Chief Justice Sharma The London-based Privy Council yesterday unanimously ruled against the embattled Trinidad and Tobago Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma, paving the way...
15-y-o fondled in class - Teacher did not intervene, warrants out for boys Several warrants of arrest have been issued for a group of Morant Bay High School boys, who sexually assaulted a...
Privy Council rules Trinidad's top judge must face criminal proceedings PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Trinidad's chief justice must face criminal proceedings to determine if he tried to influence a lower...
