August 31, 2007
Court orders followers to yield control of Ethiopian Orthodox Church The 1992 split in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jamaica has finally been resolved by the Supreme Court. Mr. Justice...
August 29, 2007
Judge approves Noriega's extradition to France Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega can be extradited to France once he completes his United States prison sentence for a...
Four sentenced in Grenada offshore banking scam Five people who never got much past a high school education somehow managed to pass themselves off as sophisticated financial...
August 27, 2007
Polish MP charged with rape, sex abuse An MP expelled from Poland's rural-based Self-Defence Party has been arrested and charged with rape and sexual abuse, a prosecutor...
Nightmare for Noriega? FRANCE HAD "taken note" of a United States court ruling in the case of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, but...
Girl to serve time for acid attack A teenager who threw a corrosive substance on a 15-month-old babygirl, severely disfiguring her face, has been sentenced to seven...
August 25, 2007
Ex-Klansman gets life for killings A reputed Ku Klux Klansman was sentenced yesterday to three life terms in prison for his role in the 1964...
Doggone guilty! Vick admits wrongdoing in plea agreement Atlanta Falcons' quarter-back Michael Vick admitted guilt yesterday in a dogfighting case that threatens the career of one of the...
Female footballer gets five-year ban for stabbing Harbour View's Claudette Walker, the player accused of stabbing Olympic Gardens goalkeeper Lotoya Reid in the head with a sharp...
August 23, 2007
President refuses to approve media law The Kenyan president refused yesterday to approve legislation that has widely been condemned as an attack on independent media because...
Terror suspects challenge extradition High Court judge Charmaine Pemberton will today hear applications by three men, including two nationals from Guyana, challenging their extradition...
Rapper jailed for violating probation A judge has jailed troubled rapper Foxy Brown for violating her probation, authorities said yesterday. Officials had sought to have...
Lawsuit against Michael Jackson, hospital halted A lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died at a California hospital soon after she was moved...
August 18, 2007
Police intercept illegal drugs Law enforcement officials say a number of nationals from Antigua and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are assisting their investigations...
Brazil to provide free sex-change operations Brazil's public health system will begin providing free sex-change operations in compliance with a court order, the health ministry said...
August 17, 2007
17-y-o boy admits to killing woman, stuffing body in barrel A 17-year-old boy has admitted to murdering a woman, stuffing her body in a barrel and dumping it at the...
Lawyers for six men ordered extradited appeal decision ATTORNEYS for the six men whose extradition orders were upheld by the Full Court in June, yesterday filed an appeal...
More charges for Foxy Rapper Foxy Brown, already in trouble for attacking two manicurists at a nail salon, was charged with striking a neighbour...
Nembhard appeals extradition St. Ann businessman Norris 'Deedo' Nembhard, who is wanted in the United States to face charges of conspiracy to...
Son of murdered couple arrested The son of the couple who was murdered at their home at Seavie in Flankers, St. James, on July 29,...
Proceeds of Crime Act setto break organised crime A RULING, on Tuesday, in the Supreme Court, which saw the first case being brought under the Proceeds of Crime...
August 16, 2007
Political parties back ombudsman law Parliamentarians from across the political divide have thrown their support behind legislation giving citizens an avenue to complain against the...
Cop, aunt get bail extension Corporal Randolph Mullings, the member of the Prime Minister's security detail who has been implicated in a car theft...
August 15, 2007
Police capture suspected guerrilla drug traffickers Peruvian police have arrested at least 20 suspected Shining Path guerrillas linked to cocaine trafficking in a series of jungle...
Alleged Norwood killers offered bail The unexplained absence of the investigating officer and the main eyewitness in the case against four men charged for the...
Two sought in St James double murder Investigators in Westmoreland, Hanover and St. James are seeking two men who, they believe, can assist them in their probe...
Assets frozen The Assets Recovery Agency got orders yesterday from the Supreme Court to freeze the multimillion-dollar assets of the Jamaican woman...
August 14, 2007
Teens plead no contest in alleged plot to bomb Wisconsin high school Three teens accused of helping to plan an attack on a Wisconsin high school similar to Colorado's Columbine school massacre...
Three guns seized, men arrested in Kingston Three men were arrested by the police yesterday, after the car in which they were travelling along Dames Road in...
... Force (JCF) to release info on police under probe for car theft The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is holding out until later this week to reveal the details regarding its members who...
...- Government lawyer awarded damages for loss of salary, allowances The Supreme Court has ruled that the Public Service Commission (PSC) breached its regulations and the rules of natural justice,...
August 13, 2007
Lord, have mercy! - Pastor held for tying girl to van, dragging her on ground A Texas pastor and a colleaguehave been charged with tying a 15-year-old girl to a van and dragging her along...
Hinds appeals ban Wavell Hinds, Jamaica's senior cricket captain, has appealed his year-end ban, according to an Observer source close to the player....
August 12, 2007
Digicel sues T&T telecoms firm Digicel Trinidad and Tobago will be taking Telecommunication Services of Trinidad & Tobago (TSTT) and its directors to court over...
August 11, 2007
Parliament passes controversial recall law Legislators here have passed the historic but controversial recall legislation amidst abstentions from some parliamen-tarians and condemnation from the minority...
Another Prime Minister's bodyguard sought for car theft A second member of the Prime Minister's security detail is under investigation for car theft. However, the police have not...
August 10, 2007
Basdeo Panday case pushed to September The State's bribery case against former prime minister Basdeo Panday and his wife, Oma, has been adjourned until next month,...
28-y-o man joins niece on Montego Bay fraud rap The uncle of a woman accused of defrauding Iberostar Hotel in St. James of over $12 million was on Wednesday...
August 09, 2007
Two guns seized, three arrested THE police have so far arrested three men in connection with the seizure of two guns - an M1 Spingfield...
Party supporter charged A 36-year-old People's National Party (PNP) supporter is to face the courts in St. Elizabeth tomorrow to answer to charges...
Trial of returning residents' alleged robbers put off The trial of the policeman and two civilians charged with the series of robberies of returning residents had to be...
August 08, 2007
Court orders Bhutto warrant withdrawal A Pakistani high court yesterday ordered authorities to withdraw a request to Interpol to issue arrest warrants for exiled former...
Terror suspects to be extradited to US Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls on Monday ruled that the three suspects arrested in Trinidad and Tobago in relation to an...
August 06, 2007
Coast Guard detains two foreigners, vessels caught fishing illegally THE Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard Saturday said it had seized two vessels and have held two foreigners caught...
Man gets 17 years for stealing cellphone LEROY Wilson, a father of three young children, was last Monday sentenced to 17 years in prison for the August...
Woman on fraud charge denied bail A FORMER employee of the Iberostar Hotel in Rose Hall, St. James, who allegedly defrauded the resort of more than...
August 04, 2007
News briefs # PM's bodyguard bailed Corporal Randolph Mullings, who has been charged in connection with a stolen car, was granted bail...
August 03, 2007
Cop retired in public's interest ordered reinstated DONOVAN 'Hucks' O'Connor, the controversial police inspector who was in December 2005 ordered retired by the Police Services Commission (PSC)...
Cop freed of abduction Police Corporal Clayton Lawrence, who was accused of abducting two men from a plaza along Washington Boulevard in December 2004,...
Court approves new evidence for old trial The Court of Appeal has given the go-ahead for a prisoner, who was convicted in 1994 of four counts of...
Prime Minister's bodyguard faces court today Cpl. Randolph Mullings, a member of the Prime Minister's security team, is scheduled to appear in the Yallahs Resident...
August 02, 2007
$513,000-shopping spree lands deportee in jail for seven years A man, recently deported from the United States, was on Tuesday sentenced to seven years behind bars after pleading guilty...
Foul-up frees man facing extradition A major foul-up by the Jamaican authorities has resulted in the Court of Appeal ordering that a Jamaican man should...
Cop held in connection with illegal car ring A MEMBER of the Island Special Constabulary Force was yesterday taken into custody in connection with a car-stealing ring. A...
Fatal accident during race to save life Kenny Robinson was making a desperate attempt to savehis brother's life. But on his way to the Princess Margaret Hospital,...
August 01, 2007
Cop wins case against commission Well-known crime fighter Inspector Donovan O'Connor has won his legal battle against the Police Service Commission to retire him in...
People's National Party (PNP) caretaker granted bail Errol Lamey, the People's National Party (PNP) councillor/ caretaker for the Mount Salem Division in St James, has been granted...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) embraces change to reduce court backlog Committing itself to a 10-year justice reform programme proposed by the Jamaica Justice Reform Task Force, the Jamaica Labour Party...
Principal to take dismissal to Appeal Court After a 10-month court battle with the Ministry of Education and Youth over a decision to replace Derrick Wilson as...
