September 30, 2007
... - Jamaican lawyer under fire for suggesting OECS court could be tainted Hugh Wildman, a Jamaican lawyer who advises the government here, has come under fire for suggesting the court system in...
Mom seeks justice for son's death According to police reports, on the night of July 27, 2007, one of a group of gunmen who reportedly fired...
RM orders urgent verification of deportee's nationality RESIDENT MAGISTRATE Judith Pusey has given the Ministry of Justice one month to further investigate and determine the origin of...
September 29, 2007
Man gets year for escaping custody A 23-year-old man who cut his way out of police lock-up seven years ago was on Wednesday sentenced to 12...
Court of Appeal rules on wrong verdict case The case in which jurors had complained in March that the foreman handed down the wrong verdict in a carnal...
September 28, 2007
Recounts good to go The counting of the two ballot boxes for the St. Mary South Eastern constituency and the magisterial recount in Hanover...
September 27, 2007
Bomb plot accused challenge extradition A High Court has agreed to hear in December a challenge to the extradition to the United States of three...
Judge to rule on SE St Mary injunction issue Senior Puisne Judge Marva McIntosh will rule today on the legal point taken on Tuesday by lawyers representing People's National...
Hanover recount goes to Court of Appeal A decision was taken yesterday for a three-member panel of the Court of Appeal to hear, and make a determination...
Student killed for cellphone The Albion Primary and Junior High School in Montego Bay, St. James, was plunged into mourning yesterday, following news that...
September 26, 2007
Appeal Court halts recount Court of Appeal judge Algernon Smith yesterday granted a stay of the magisterial recount in the Hanover Eastern constituency, just...
US Supreme Court to decide photo ID voting law The Supreme Court said yesterday it would rule on whether United States voters must show a government-issued photo identification at...
... Insurance sue Dyoll Group - Claims $117m in 'overcharged' fees The joint liquidators for Dyoll Insurance Company, have sued the company's former parent, Dyoll Group, for $116.9 million, saying the...
Farmer gets $3m in damages The government is to pay $3 million to Jeffrey Patterson, 37, farmer of Bellas Gate, St. Catherine, who was shot...
No injunction against Crown - PNP Lawyers representing People's National Party candidate Harry Douglas took a legal point yesterday that Jamaica Labour Party candidate Tarn Peralto...
Smith to speak on Woolmer findings Minister of National Security Derrick Smith is expected to make a statement regarding the findings of Justice Ian Forte's administrative...
September 25, 2007
Mechanic charged for alleged identity theft A mechanic, who allegedly assumed the identity of a City of Kingston (COK) Co-operative Credit Union account holder and withdrew...
Trial of Devon House murder accused starts Nov 9 GARFIELD Grant, the man accused of the 2004 stabbing death of a teenage girl at Devon House - a popular...
Man shot by police after car chase awarded almost $3 million THE Supreme Court last Friday awarded a private citizen close to $3 million in damages for injuries he suffered after...
Massive dope bust in the US More than 120 people were arrested in an 18-month international investigation of illicit steroid labs, the Drug Enforce-ment Administration announced...
... 'Tel-Aviv', Southside traumatising students - Central, Southside attacked Several young, traumatised students, had to be escorted to the Holy Family Primary School in central Kingston yesterday morning...
Confusion reigns at Hanover recount The Magisterial recount to determine the winner for the Eastern Hanover constituency was thrown into further confusion yesterday, when the...
September 24, 2007
Citizens protest yet another police shooting Yet another protest by citizens against police shootings was mounted yesterday, following the wounding of a 10-year-old girl as police...
Second trial for murder accused Sandra Watt, the woman who is charged in connection with the murder of Lloyd G. Brown, 62, former president of...
Many charged by NSWMA for passing urine in public Almost 50 per cent of tickets issued by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) within a three-month period this...
September 23, 2007
Drug money-laundering gang nabbed British and Jamaican police collaborated for several years to bust a money-laundering scam being run by a Jamaican drugs gang,...
Mammee Bay owners to sue hotel over beach breaches St. Ann: Members of the board of Mammee Bay Beach Club, representing owners of properties in the Mammee Bay Estate,...
September 22, 2007
Two students shot at Delaware State University Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early yesterday, and the campus was locked down...
Thousands rally for six black teens in Louisiana It had many of the signs of the early civil rights protests in the American South militant slogans, upraised clenched...
Fujimori to be extradited Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori lost his fight yesterday to avoid extradition from Chile and was to be taken to...
New justices Newly appointed Judges of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court proudly display their Instruments of Appointment, yesterday, after...
King tapes delay trial The videotapes which defence lawyers are requesting in the case of 23-year-old labourer Sheldon Pusey, who is charged with the...
Smith to boost war on drug Minister of National Security Derrick Smith has said the Government would be resolute in its efforts to rid the island...
SE St Mary ballot box battle continues The legal battle over what is to be done with the ballots in the two boxes which were not counted...
...Police - Jamaican PM wants independent body to probe use of force AS THE new Cabinet moved into its second weekend yesterday, Prime Minister Bruce Golding revealed the Government would be moving...
September 21, 2007
Judge grants cop time to seek advice on release of Peter King tapes Attorneys defending Sheldon Pusey, who is charged with the murder of former trade ambassador Peter King, will have to wait...
Landis guilty, to lose Tour title FLOYD LANDIS, who tested positive for the banned male hormone testosterone during his 2006 Tour de France triumph, has been...
Two held for stolen JPS goods THE JAMAICA Public Service Company Ltd. (JPS) says the police have so far made two arrests in relation to individuals...
'Three Hand Chang' guilty Kingston businessman Patrick Chang, otherwise called 'Three Hand Chang', whose illegal gaming business made $278 million over an eight-month period,...
Lankans fined for fraud Two brothers who committed fraud, in what they claim was a bid to escape war in their homeland of Sri...
Flankers residents still angry over police killing A strong contingent of police had to be deployed to Flankers, St. James, yesterday where residents again mounted a roadblock...
Montego Bay suspects in custody Three of the 15 men who were picked up during a joint security operation in Canterbury, Montego Bay, yesterday are...
Probe into schoolboy football shooting The Kingston Western police are now keeping a close watch on sections of Arnett Gardens after an incident in which...
Shattered dreams - 10-year-old mowed down days before returning to school Moesha McKoy did not know she wouldn't use the two books purchased for her to go to school. A motor...
September 20, 2007
Fury in Flankers! Angry residents of this volatile community blocked a section of the main road here yesterday, to protest the shooting death...
RJR Group says surprised; SportsMax files lawsuit THE RJR Communication Group has expressed surprise at an article carried in yesterday's edition of the Observer, which stated that...
Murders up 23 per cent THE police have reported a massive 23 per cent increase in the number of persons murdered up until the end...
Contractor general reports 11 companies to DPP The contractor general has reported 11 delinquent public bodies to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for...
Henry-Wilson retains seat in recount THE People's National Party's Maxine Henry-Wilson was yesterday confirmed winner of the South-East St Andrew constituency by 569 votes over...
Displaced principal goes to Court of Appeal The former provisional principal of Maldon High School, St. James, who was removed from the post in June last year,...
Gloria Smith appointed Court of Appeal judge Supreme Court Judge Gloria Smith has been appointed to act as a Court of Appeal judge effective September 24. Justice...
Trials of a community - Hampstead vs the police The controversial killing of a pregnant woman and a 26-year-old man, who was the breadwinner of his family, has left...
September 19, 2007
SportsMax cries foul! THE RJR Communication Group, through its cable company TVJ Sports Network (TVJ-SN) will be dragged before the courts for alleged...
September 18, 2007
Simpson held without bail, tape of hotel standoff released Former football star O.J. Simpson was held without bail on Monday, accused of stealing back his own sports souvenirs in...
Fairclough takes judiciary to task Veteran attorney-at-law Roy Fairclough has expressed concern at the number of cases transferred to the St. James Circuit Court, by...
McCalla moves to shorten trials The huge backlog of cases in the courts is of concern to Chief Justice Zaila McCalla and she will be...
September 17, 2007
'Ol' pirates come to rob I'? - Marley family protests Verizon ringtone deal The licensing dispute between the estate of the late international reggae superstar Bob Marley and the United States Universal Music...
Special prosecutor to be impartial - Golding Prime Minister Bruce Golding will be taking steps today to appoint a special prosecutor to probe, indict and imprison public...
Two more quizzed in JFK terror plot The FBI and Guyana police have questioned two Shi'ite Muslim leaders they say knew at least one of four Caribbean...
Man slapped with six years for buggery A man who pulled a seven-year-old boy into an abandoned building and buggered him was sentenced last week Friday to...
September 15, 2007
Vaz allegiance hearing set for October The lawsuit filed by People's National Party (PNP) candidate Abe Dabdoub, challenging the nomination of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate...
September 14, 2007
Man gets 6 months for stealing manhole cover A man who was caught trying to steal two manhole covers from the Boulevard Shopping Centre was yesterday sentenced to...
New judge for Supreme Court Master in Chambersat the Supreme Court, Christine McDonald, has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court. Registrar of the...
Kraal cops on evidence planting charge get bail extension The two policemen charged in connection with the planting of evidence at the crime scene at Kraal, Clarendon, on May...
Man detained for Montego Bay murder The Montego Bay police have detained a suspect in connection with Wednesday morning's shooting death of 45-year-old electrical engineer, Leo...
Chief Justice to hear allegiance suit Chief Justice Zaila McCalla will today have a hearing in the first lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court challenging the...
Court demands Peter King tapes The videotapes collected by the police from the house of 64-year-old Ambassador Peter King during the investigation into his murder...
September 13, 2007
'Zeeks' back in court on unlawful possession of property charge FORMER Matthews Lane strongman Donald 'Zeeks' Phipps was yesterday remanded in custody when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident...
Court allows dismissed teacher back in school The Supreme Court has given the go-ahead for Marjorie Richards, a teacher at the Ocho Rios High School, to resume...
Peralto official winner in South East St Mary TARN PERALTO of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was declared winner of the South East St. Mary seat by...
Kraal cops have one charge dropped The two policemen who are accused of planting evidence at the crime scene at Kraal, Clarendon, where four civilians were...
September 12, 2007
Skerrit sues newspaper Lawyers representing Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit have filed a lawsuit against the Times, a local newspaper, after it published allegations...
Torturers! - Black woman survives week of abuse Authorities said yesterday they are considering hate crime charges in the case of a black woman who was tortured by...
September 11, 2007
Teenage girl gets two-year probation A 16-year-old girl who doused a group of family members with a corrosive substance was on Friday sentenced to a...
Court to hear bankers' appeals A date has finally been set for the hearing of the appeal of former bankers, Melanie Tapper and Winston McKenzie,...
September 09, 2007
Business owners now face jail time for letterheads, ads Correspondence on letterheads and the placing of advertisements in the media are acts that can land a business owner in...
Government dismisses United States court's ruling Iran yesterday dismissed a United States (U.S.) federal judge's ruling that the Islamic Republic must pay US$2.65 billion to the...
September 08, 2007
Court orders teen to attend church A judge, in putting a pregnant 16-year-old schoolgirl on probation for throwing acid on five young children and two adults,...
September 06, 2007
Allegiance action brought against Shahine A St. Ann elector is seeking a declaration from the Supreme Court that Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) representative Shahine Robinson...
September 05, 2007
Opposition denies convicted fraudster is party financier The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is denying allegations that a Grenadian man sentenced to a maximum nine-year jail term...
September 04, 2007
Judge asked to throw out Whitney Houston's divorce Lawyers for R&B singer Bobby Brown asked a California judge on Friday to throw out his divorce from Whitney Houston...
September 03, 2007
Illegal immigrants in US get reprieve Thousands of illegal immigrants, including West Indians, have been granted a temporary reprieve when a United States federal judge prohibited...
September 01, 2007
Allegiance lawsuit filed The first lawsuit challenging the alleged dual citizenship of a Jamaica Labour Party candidate was filed yesterday in the Supreme...
