May 31, 2007
House amends bills to tighten voting rules PARLIAMENT on Tuesday amended the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation Act, the Representation of the People Act and the Parish...
United States - Murder trial opens for Mississippi Klansman The cold case trial got under way yesterday in the deaths of two black teenagers who were beaten and dumped...
Switzerland - Geneva Court blocks release of Duvalier's money A Geneva court has blocked the release of some of the 7.6 million Swiss francs (US$6.2 million; euro4.6 million) stashed...
OUR, C&W win cell rate appeal The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) and Cable and Wireless (C&W) Jamaica won a major victory yesterday when the Court...
Barclays settles insider trading charges Barclays Bank has agreed to pay about US$10.9 million to settle charges of illegal insider trading in bond securities, the...
McCalla new Chief Justice of Jamaica Court of Appeal Judge Zaila McCalla has created history in being the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of...
May 30, 2007
Crash claims woman, child AN EARLY-morning auto accident at a busy Washington Boulevard intersection yesterday resulted in the death of two persons and injuries...
Man cons kids of $105 SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Daemon Palmer, a 24-year-old resident of Passagefort in Portmore, St Catherine yesterday pleaded guilty when...
Still no penalty for those who fail to report child abuse PERSONS who fail or neglect to report cases of abuse against children cannot be charged under the Childcare and Protection...
May 29, 2007
Call for legislation allowing equal opportunity to the blind PRESIDENT of the Caribbean Council for the Blind Lola Marson says legislation governing equal opportunity employment would reduce the problem...
Police delays anger judge in kidnapping case SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - St Catherine resident magistrate Lorna Errar-Gayle scolded those she said were hobbling justice, by failing...
No breaches by NWC, rules Privy Council The United Kingdom Privy Council has upheld a Court of Appeal ruling that the National Water Commission committed no breach...
May 27, 2007
New Fisheries Act being drafted, says Nicholson THE Chief Parliamentary Counsel is drafting a new Fisheries Act that will address fisheries governance, as well as increased fines...
CDA doing best to publicise Child Care and Protection Act While agreeing there is always more to be done to increase awareness of the Child Care and Protection Act, Chief...
Punishment not the answer for young girls having consensual sex Advocates have taken issue with a proposal by Children's Advocate Mary Clarke to have sexual offence laws amended so young...
Daily police abuse: Human rights watchdog gets one complaint per day At least one citizen per day reports being abused by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, according to the...
May 26, 2007
Boats, ganja seized in St Thomas THE police yesterday seized two go-fast boats, a large quantity of ganja and took three persons into custody during an...
Double police killing under probe MONTEGO BAY, St James -The Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI) has started investigations into Wednesday night's fatal shooting of a...
Court grants opposition party right to protest BELIZE CITY, Belize (CMC): A High Court here has granted the opposition United Democratic Party an injunction barring the police...
...Public Prosecutions (DPP) drops robbery charges against teens The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has dropped the charges against the two female teenagers who were charged jointly with...
Miami man held on gun charges A Miami resident, who was implicatedin the shipment of 20 illegal guns and a quantity of assorted rounds of ammunition...
Terror preacher deported: UK boots mentor of 7/7 transport bomber Abdullah el-Faisal, the St. James-born Muslim cleric implicated by the British government in the 2005 London transport bombings, returned to...
May 25, 2007
Lessons for Jamaica from new UK companies legislation THE NEW United Kingdom Companies Act 2006 comprises 1,300 sections and is said to be the single largest piece of...
Deputy DPP wants laws to protect children Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn said that, without the passing of regulations, then Section 6of the Child...
Teen freed of murder charge A Home Circuit Court jury has freed 18-year-old Troy Baugh, labourer of a Kingston address, of the murder of 23-year-old...
Alliance against brutality launched The National Action Coalition (NAC), an activist organisation that speaks out against police brutality and other forms of injustices, will...
Policemen taken off front line after fatal shooting Three policemen attached to the St. James Division have been taken off front-line duty following the controversial fatal shooting of...
McCalla PM's pick for Chief Justice Justice Zaila McCalla is now being proposed by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to be the next chief justice. She...
May 24, 2007
Businessman pleads guilty to fraud charges A man the police claim to be a "senior fraudist" was remanded in custody after pleading guilty to fraud-related charges...
May 23, 2007
Two suspects in murder of 2-y-o Tyra detained TWO suspects in the March 19 gun murder of two-year-old Tyra Lewis are now behind bars, the police said yesterday....
Britain demands Russia hand over polonium suspect British prosecutors accused an ex-KGB agent yesterday of poisoning Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polo-nium and demanded his extradition,...
New probe into Chief Justice - Manning moves to impeach Sharma MOVES are afoot to suspend Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma from office to make way for a tribunal to investigate him...
Justice on trial - Hauntings of the Woolmer case and beyond I followed with interest and sometimes wry amusement, the developing story regarding the unfortunate death of Bob Woolmer in Jamaica....
May 22, 2007
Miami court stays freeze on Chen-Young's assets The Miami Circuit Court in Florida has set aside its ruling for the freezing of the assets of former Eagle...
Labourer convicted of murder in Content A Home Circuit Court jury has convicted Nassive Williams, labourer, of Content district, St. James, for the murder of 35-year-old...
No date set for deacon sex case A trial date has not yet been set in the case of former church deacon, 46-year-old Donovan Jones and the...
Lack of jurors affecting court The Home Circuit Court is facing an acute shortage of jurors. Yesterday, Supreme Court Judge Carol Beswick made an impassioned...
Young Colomathi pleads innocence - May face additional charges Thion Colomathi, the son of the People's National Party caretaker/candidate for East Central St. James, and councillor of the Springmount...
JCF still silent on Woolmer inquiry LOCAL POLICE remained tight-lipped on the Bob Woolmer investigation yesterday, despite a report carried by The Sunday Times newspaper in...
'Election laws will not be violated' Established rules governing the electoral process will not be flouted by anyone in the upcoming general election, according to the...
May 21, 2007
New US immigration bill comes under fire Caribbean legislators in the United States have denounced an agreement reached Thursday by United States Senate negotiators from both the...
Cops crush 'Don' - Kingpin of notorious Montego Bay gang slain in gunfight St. James' crime czar made good on his promise to target thugs when leader of the notorious Stone Crusher gang...
May 20, 2007
Low-risk prisoners to be tagged A MAN who steals a bunch of bananas may very soon not be subjected to a prison term. Instead, he...
Awaiting freedom from behind bars PRISON, in any language, is not a pleasant place. Just ask Mark, who is awaiting his turn to face the...
Jamaican mom wins battle to stay in England A Jamaican mother who said she fled to England after receiving a death threat from her abusive husband, has won...
'Repeal Money Lending Act' MONTEGO BAY, ST James - General Manager of Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) and Chairman of JN Small Business Loans...
...death two months later: Two steps forward, several backwards FOR SOME it's called blunders; for others it's plain inconsistencies; but whatever the case may be, the Jamaican police have...
May 19, 2007
CAC to crack down on illegal GCT The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) will next week begin clamping down on retailers illegally charging GCT on otherwise exempt energy-saving...
Fishermen get 15 years at hard labour Four Jamaican fishermen, who were arrested last year after they were seen carrying eight AK-47 rifles, two revolvers and 75...
Earl Pratt Prison authorities made arrangements for his burial on three separate occasions. This was 25 years ago. Yesterday, 48-year-old Earl Pratt...
Freedom!Mary Lynch Mary Lynch raises her hands in triumph yesterday after being released from the Fort Augusta Correctional Centre in St. Catherine.-...
Cops on the hunt for 35 dangerous criminals in kgn THE police on Thursday released the names/aliases of the 35 fugitives wanted in the Corporate Area for murder and shooting...
May 18, 2007
Montego Bay cops cleared of robbery charge The three Montego Bay policemen who were implicated in a robbery that reportedly occurred at Dundee, Westmoreland in March, have...
More pressure for AJ to apologise Two law groups and a public affairs association have strongly criticised Minister of Justice and Attorney-General A.J. Nicholson for comments...
Police confirm cop killed by friendly fire MICHAEL Haughton, the police constable who was shot dead in the volatile Payne Land community in South-West St Andrew on...
Child advocate wants action against girls who have consensual sex CHILDREN'S Advocate Mary Clarke yesterday said her office will be advocating for an amendment to the Sexual Offences Act to...
May 17, 2007
Where is (s)he ? Plans by the Falmouth police to arrest members of the mob that assaulted a cross-dresser in the square of this...
2 more Klansman gang members held TWO more members of the notorious Klansman gang have been held in the United States, the police confirmed yesterday. Their...
... underage girls should be held accountable for consenting to sexual acts. Children's Advocate Mary Clarke wants underage girls who willingly consent to sexual acts to be held accountable, under new legislation....
Interfering with the judiciary The following is an edited version of a statement from the Independent Jamaican Council for Human Rights (IJCHR) on comments...
AJ under fire - Lawyers blast Justice Minister for comments on judge There is a furore in legal circles in respect of the response by Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, A.J. Nicholson,...
May 16, 2007
Late documents delay trial of LG Brown murder suspects THE trial of the three people charged with the murder of businessman George L G Brown, and his fiancée Sandra...
MoBay cops allow accused teen rapist to sit exam MONTEGO BAY, St James - In what appears to be a rare move, the St James Police yesterday allowed an...
Trial date set for accused killers of former JGRA head The trial of the woman and two men charged jointly with the murder of former president of the Jamaica Gasolene...
Jury crisis - Justice Minister says jurors sufficient; lawyers say not so Minister of Justice and Attorney-General A. J. Nicholson has said that the 36 jurors who turned up on Monday to...
Nicholson responds to judge's claims Minister of Justice and Attorney-General A.J. Nicholson has responded to comments made by Supreme Court Judge Almarie Sinclair-Haynes in the...
May 15, 2007
Police seek killers in Maverly double murder HOMICIDE detectives from the St Andrew South police division were up to late last night trying to find the killers...
Alleged police impersonator cons cops, on the run A man who allegedly impersonated a police officer and fleeced several cops of thousands of dollars was yesterday being sought...
Give us more time, Shields pleads DEPUTY Commissioner Mark Shields, the lead investigator in the Bob Woolmer murder investigation, yesterday pleaded for patience in allowing the...
Cops face robbery charges Two police constables are now languishing in jail at the Montego Freeport lock-up, after they were taken into custody by...
Insufficient jurors delay murder trials wo murder cases which were set for trial in the Home Circuit Court yesterday had to be put off because...
Police get tough on copyright pirates Despite receiving an uncomplimentary ranking by the United States for its efforts to battle piracy of intellectual property, the Jamaica...
Ministry to probe abuses at wholesales The Ministry of Labour has launched an immediate probe into the findings of a study which asserts that women employed...
No way, no how! - Female cop turns table on rapist The man who attempted to rape Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Dorett Barrett-Latchman is someone she has known for at...
May 14, 2007
St Catherine PC says no evidence of illegal spending in Lauriston SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - The St Catherine Parish Council says it has found no evidence of misappropriation of funds...
More video-link evidence coming - Evidence Act to be amended Further amendments are to be made to the Evidence Act to make it easier to use modern technology in giving...
Police sticking to story - Still waiting on more Woolmer results The Police High Command yesterday said it was treating as speculation, reports that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died of...
May 13, 2007
'It wasn't murder!' Scotland Yard says Bob Woolmer died of heart failure There has been a bombshell development in the Bob Woolmer investigation. A group of Scotland Yard investigators, who were asked...
May 12, 2007
MoBay pastor shot, injured MONTEGO BAY, St James -The police were up to late last night seeking the two would-be robbers who shot and...
From death row to freedom - Earl Pratt to be released after decades in prison More than a decade after the United Kingdom Judicial Committee of the Privy Council recommended that his death sentence should...
May 11, 2007
Fullertons to return to court in July Former head of the failed Caldon Finance Group, Henry Fullerton, and his daughter, Nicole Ann, appeared in the Corporate Area...
Teen girls on murder charge granted bail The two teenage girls charged in connection with the murder of Steve Harvey, coordinator at the AIDS Support Unit, were...
Paulwell to table cyber crime legislation Anticipating that ecommerce transactions will eventually outpace traditional business, Jamaica is pushing to enact cyber crime legislation to bolster the...
May 10, 2007
Cop freed in alleged extortion racket CONSTABLE Dave Austin, who was in October 2005 charged with conspiracy to extort Kingston businessman Marvin Wong, was yesterday acquitted...
Police could name Woolmer murder suspect after UK meeting A source close to the probe into the death of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, said yesterday that a...
Political code of conduct will be enforced - Blair Political Ombudsman, Bishop Herro Blair, is warning that he will be ensuring that the political code of conduct is obeyed...
UK Ministry of Justice to focus on prison population The new Ministry of Justice created in Britain yesterday, following the separation of the roles of the Home Office, will...
Government of Jamaica to pay for justice delayed The Supreme Court has given the green light for the Government to be made liable to pay compensation to persons...
May 09, 2007
Two St Ann students on wounding charges TWO female students of the Marcus Garvey Technical High School in St Ann's Bay are to appear before the next...
Brawl in court lands two women in trouble SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Two women were yesterday sentenced to 120 hours of community service following a brawl over...
FCIB investors want court to set share price Seven FirstCaribbean minority investors, who own 338,454 shares among them, have asked that the courts fix a price at which...
...Jamaica responds to public debate - Sentencing, a tough call for judges The Advocates Association of Jamaica, in responding to the recent public debate on sentencing, has emphasised that sentencing is one...
Alleged 63-y-o con woman in court A senior citizen who is accused of defrauding a woman of more than $200,000 was remanded when she appeared in...
Constable freed of extortion charge One of the five policemen who was charged jointly with a former policeman for allegedly attempting to extort US$2.5 million...
May 08, 2007
Judge upset over closure of criminal court Senior Puisne Judge Marva McIntosh said yesterday that she was disturbed and upset that one of the four criminal courts...
Jamaican police insist Woolmer was strangled JAMAICAN POLICE are maintaining that Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer was strangled amid reports of claims by the Pakistani...
May 07, 2007
'It ain't legal' DEPUTY solicitor general Patrick Foster has made it clear that same-sex marriages have no legal status in Jamaica, amidst reports...
Trinidad & Tobago - Court crisis Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma is scheduled to meet today with Attorney-General John Jeremie in a bid to avert a possible...
Man who killed wife gets May court date Michael Laoe, 40, battery technician of a Kingston 11 address who is charged with the murder of his wife Charmaine,...
... calls for clarification on prisoners' lateness for court Prisoners whose cases were set for mention in the Home Circuit Court on Friday were more than an hour late...
Wanted man slain by cops One of the men wanted for the 2005 gruesome murder of 10-year-old Sasha-Kaye Brown and three other family members at...
No proof in Woolmer case - Pakistani sleuths say murder theory baseless Allegations by two Pakistani sleuths that there is no clear evidence cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered have been met...
May 05, 2007
Man charged with family slaying remanded The man who is charged in connection with the brutal murder of six members of a family in St. Thomas...
Fishermen to be sentenced Four Jamaican fishermen who were arrested and charged last December shortly after they were seen carrying eight AK-47 rifles, two...
Narco find at airports Eight pounds of cocaine and more than 150 pounds of compressed ganja that were destined for the United States and...
May 04, 2007
Speeding car mows down youngsters in St Elizabeth SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - Police yesterday said speeding was the cause of an accident along Pagon Drive in the...