October 31, 2007
Sandals Whitehouse drama goes to court NEVALCO Consultants Limited, the Alston Stewart-owned company contracted as project manager for the controversy-hit Sandals Whitehouse Hotel in Westmoreland, is...
IAPA wants journalist's killers to serve full sentences The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has called for newspaper readers throughout the Americas to add their signatures to a...
Scrap metal exports banned PERSONS NOW involved in the lucrative multimillion-dollar scrap metal trade will shortly be dealt a severe blow as Government has...
'Woolmer counting coils of US$' A janitorial staff member had the court's attention when she testified yesterday at the coroner's inquest into the death of...
October 30, 2007
Fallon's trial marks day 13 The race-fixing trial of English jockey, Keiren Fallon, and co-defendants, Fergal Lynch and Darren Williams, marked its 13th day at...
Alleged job scam mastermind held by police Horace Haughton, the man whom the police say is the mastermind behind an alleged job scam in Montego Bay, St....
Government of Jamaica pathologist defends findings DR. ERE Seshaiah, the Government pathologist whose revelation that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered, again defended his controversial...
... (NTCS) drivers fearful - Milwood says workers plagued by extortionists Ezroy Milwood, president and chief executive officer of the National Transport Coorperative Society (NTCS), is lamenting that bus operators are...
RM urges court to complete Danhai case Senior Resident Magistrate Glen Brown sent a strong message yesterday that every effort must be made to have the fraud...
Bloody battle - Three dead, two injured after shoot-out in west Kingston As the country's official murder toll climbed to 1,105, a series of incidents in west Kingston yesterday added four others...
October 29, 2007
Four foreigners jailed for drugs Two Canadians were last Wednesday sentenced to three months behind bars after each pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle 29...
T&T politician beaten David St. Clair, a dreadlocked candidate for the minority party Congress of the People (COP) in the upcoming general election,...
State vows crackdown on illegal gas stations The Government is warning that it will be clamping down on illegal suppliers of petroleum products. Clive Mullings, Minister of...
Confiscate US$800,000 from Colombians - Court The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Jamaican Government should confiscate the US$800,000 that was found in the luggage...
Teacher killer gets 12 years A man who stabbed a teacher three times in the chest was last week sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for...
November trial date set for alleged St Thomas murderer The man charged in connection with the February 2006 murders of six family members in St. Thomas is to reappear...
... going to bite!' - Mayor warns of offensive against illegal signs Kingston Mayor Desmond McKenzie yesterday threatened business operators who flouted the city council's advertising procedures of more crackdowns, warning he...
Cop shot eight times in the back A police constable who was attached to the St. Andrew South Division was killed by a gunman yesterday. More than...
October 28, 2007
Conflicting testimonies; Seshiah stands his ground Nine days into the coroner's inquest into the death of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, at the Jamaica Conference...
October 27, 2007
Court frees teen jailed 10 years for oral sex Georgia's top court ordered the release yesterday of a youth sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral...
Bahamian found dead A Bahamian national is now dead after what appears to have been a drug deal gone sour. According to police...
Woolmer poison theory resurfaces A QUIRK by Director of Public Prosecutions Kent Pantry left some persons attending yesterday's coroner's inquest into the death of...
Wrecker driver, cops freed of corruption Two policemen and a wrecker operator who were accused of conspiring to take $10,000 from a taxi driver to release...
Five shot in gang war - Woman killed in drive-by shooting The Central Village police say a gang war was the motive behind the murder of a 19-year-old woman and the...
October 26, 2007
Chen-Young appeal against $1.2b Revenue Court order postponed THE appeal hearing of former head of the Eagle financial network, Dr Paul Chen-Young and two companies he controlled against...
Police seeking woman to assist with probe into death of Danish man FROME, Westmoreland - Police probing the death of a Danish national whose body was found Wednesday with a large wound...
Ex-banker convicted for fraud in Dominican bank collapse A prominent former banker was convicted on Sunday in a US$2.2 billion fraud case that drove the Caribbean nation into...
US deportee freed after 479 days in jail AFTER 479 days in jail, Linden Graham, a man who claims to be a United States citizen and who was...
'Labour laws need to be amended' The Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF) and trade unions on Wednesday urged the Government to enact labour legislation, which they say...
... sound - Sheshaiah - Pathologist maintains that Woolmer was murdered CONTROVERSIAL GOVERNMENT pathologist, Dr. Ere Sheshaiah, yesterday continued to defend his stance that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered,...
Cop fails to get promotion through court A policeman, who was demoted one week after he was promoted failed yesterday in the Supreme Court to get orders...
Sentencing in November for LG Brown murderers The two men convicted of the murder of former president of the Gasolene Retailers Association Lloyd G. Brown and his...
... wins East Hanover seat - Four seats separate JLP from PNP FOUR SEATS now separate the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) after Dr. D.K....
October 25, 2007
CBA to honour Chief Justice, Apellate Court president A special function in honour of Chief Justice Zaila McCalla and Court of Appeal president, Justice Seymour Panton is set...
Student killed in fight at St James school GREEN POND, St James - Classes at the Green Pond High School were aborted yesterday after a male Grade Ten...
Bulb distribution probe now on THE investigation into alleged discrepancies in expenditure on the $4-million Cuban light bulb distribution project is now underway, energy, mining...
Manhole covers stolen from basic school STUDENTS and teachers at the Care Bear Basic School on Nelson Road in Kingston have been placed at risk, after...
Police seize 227 kilos of ganja in Old Braeton THE St Catherine South Police Tuesday night seized 227 kilogrammes of compressed ganja in the community of Old Braeton, Portmore,...
Ex-wife of Lasco boss awarded huge stake in company THE London-based Privy Council yesterday ruled that Audrey Chin, ex-wife of businessman Lascelles Chin, is entitled to half his multi-million-dollar...
Local pathologist insists Woolmer poisoned, strangled DESPITE coming under fire from three of his overseas-based colleagues, Chief Consultant Forensic Pathologist, Dr Ere Seshiah, yesterday stuck to...
Jamaicans in UK jails to serve remaining sentence at home JAMAICA and Britain are in discussions on the transfer of more than 1,000 Jamaicans currently serving time in the United...
October 24, 2007
Big ganja bust A JOINT police/military operation in the upscale community of Smokey Vale in upper St. Andrew, yesterday netted an estimated 5,000...
New prison set to be built Plans are advanced for the construction of a new correctional facility in Amity Hall, St. Catherine. The facility, which is...
United Theological College students attacked by gunmen Three students at the United Theological College (UTC) were recently attacked by armed gunmen who entered the school compound by...
JCF deploys new strategies to tackle rising crime rate In response to criticism that its members are ineffective and unprofessional, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is employing various strategies...
Privy Council to rule on Chin case The United Kingdom-based Privy Council is expected to make its ruling today in the case between Lascelles Chin, chief executive...
Shady deal - Probe ordered into free Cuban light bulb... THE CONTRACTOR General and the Auditor General have been asked to investigate the circumstances under which the last People's National...
October 22, 2007
Mystery surrounds murder, suicide No one has been able to give an explanation as to what could have driven a senior citizen to stab...
Spotlight on corruption - Shaw wants World Bank to do local study Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw has asked the World Bank to conduct a diagnostic study on...
Immigration attorney to speak at inaugural conference The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), in association with attorney-at-law, Dahlia Walker-Huntington, and the Jamaica National Building Society, will...
October 19, 2007
Former political candidate murdered Alvin Desmond Smith, a 49-year-old garage operator, was shot and killed in front of his business place by a gunman...
Appeal Court hands down decision today in Hanover recount dispute The Court of Appeal is to hand down its decision today in the dispute involving rejected ballots in the Eastern...
Woolmer inquest - No request for Pakistan players to testify The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has not yet received any request to send players or officials to testify at the...
October 18, 2007
Parents lose HIV case against Government The parents of 13-year-old Richard Facey, who contracted HIV in 1997 during a blood transfusion, have lost their legal battle...
National Democratic Movement (NDM) candidate to reappear in court National Democratic Movement (NDM) candidate in the recently held general election, Denzil Taylor, will reappear in the Spanish Town Resident...
Gunmen kill two, injure nine in Waterhouse Unity Lane and Unity Drive became a divided place in the volatile inner-city community of Waterhouse on Tuesday night. This...
Bob Woolmer coroner's inquest... GRAPHIC IMAGES, robust jousting between a key witness and the prosecutor, and an embarrassing incident involving a journalist, highlighted yesterday's...
October 17, 2007
WOOLMER INQUEST - 'No indication of strangulation' BRITISH PATHOLOGIST, Dr. Nathaniel Cary, yesterday told a coroner's inquest into the death of late Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer,...
Janice Allen case headed for UK The Janice Allen case is now heading to the United Kingdom Privy Council for a determination as to whether the...
Privy council not opposed to toll The United Kingdom Privy Council on Monday heard the appeal by five residents of Portmore, St. Catherine, in which they...
October 16, 2007
Entertainer Jigsy King charged with disorderly conduct FLORENCE HALL, Trelawny - Dance Hall deejay Jigsy King was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and using indecent language...
Privy Council reserves judgement in Portmore toll case THE Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom-based Privy Council yesterday reserved judgement in the case brought against the government by...
Taxi driver on the run A taxi driver, who plies the Chapelton to Mullet Hall route, in Clarendon, is now on the run, and is...
October 14, 2007
Splintering gangs - Implosion increasing murder rate Head of Operation Kingfish, Assistant Commissioner of Police Glenmore Hinds, says, while the same is not true for all communities,...
October 12, 2007
Beenie Man yields to church POPULAR dancehall act Moses 'Beenie Man' Davis yesterday agreed in court not to air his controversial music video with the...
Men get huge settlements for false imprisonment THE Supreme Court yesterday awarded a little over $26 million in damages to two men who sued the government following...
... court over sugar - Otherwise committed to EPA agreement by year-end The European Union's decision to scrap its 32-year-old sugar pact with African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states could wind up...
Vaz dual citizenship case set for Oct 31 A NEW date has been set in the dual citizenship case which People's National Party (PNP) candidate Abe Dabdoub has...
Duncan's appeal put off The appeal brought by People's National Party (PNP) candidate Dr. D.K. Duncan, seeking to set aside an order last week...
October 11, 2007
Gunmen claim three in St James The bloodletting in St. James continued on Tuesday night, claiming the lives of three men, who were killed by gunmen...
October 10, 2007
Cops in controversial Grants Pen shooting get bail THE four police officers implicated in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Grants Pen resident, Andre Thomas, were all granted bail...
Murder is like love - serial killer A Russian man accused of murdering 49 people asked a court yesterday to add another 11 victims to his tally,...
Judge allows public interviews in Meeks case Attorney-at-law Christopher Townsend, who is representing 30-year-old dub poet Neto Meeks on a wounding charge, yesterday sought the intervention of...
Appeal Court to hear PNP's recount case The Court of Appeal will today hear an appeal brought by People's National Party candidate Dr. D.K. Duncan, who is...
Fire for bullets - Gunmen hunt children with firebombs AFTER THEY gassed and lit the house with six children inside, the group of heavily armed gunmen hid in the...
October 09, 2007
Lawyer says change of government will not derail Portmore toll case LAWYERS representing the five Portmore residents who had taken the People's National Party administration to court over the imposition of...
UK Privy Council to hear Portmore toll case Monday A change in government has not derailed the plans of the Portmore toll road case in St. Catherine as it...
Cops in Grants Pen shooting granted bail The four policemen implicated in the controversial death of Grants Pen resident, André Thomas, were each granted bail yesterday, when...
Job scam - Montego Bay job seekers fleeced The Area One Fraud Squad has launched a manhunt for a man, who they say collected thousands of dollars from...
October 08, 2007
Settlement reached in teacher's suit A settlement has been reached in the suit which Marjorie Richards, teacher at the Ocho Rios High School, St. Ann,...
Judge frees 66-y-o of charges Supreme Court Judge Horace Marsh has freed Desford Clarke, 66, taxi driver, of a Kingston address of charges of illegal...
Cops shot, one in critical condition TWO POLICEMEN assigned to the Stony Hill Police Station were shot and injured during a shoot-out with gunmen in Stony...
Three arrested after gun find POLICE ARRESTED three men, including a 16-year-old, after seizing three illegal guns in Bartley Town, Manchester, yesterday. The Constabulary Communi-cation...
October 06, 2007
Caribbean briefs # Police inquiry into death of student ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC): Police are investigating the death of a 26-year-old student...
Jones pleads guilty to lying about doping Three-time Olympic champion Marion Jones pleaded guilty to lying to U.S. government investigators when she denied using performance-enhancing drugs, and...
King tapes in court's custody Defence lawyers did not get the go ahead yesterday to view the videotapes, in the Peter King murder case....
More delay in East Hanover recount The magisterial recount in the Hanover Eastern constituency was stopped yesterday following an order granted by Court of Appeal Judge...
Slaughter! Reprisal killings claim seven in east Kingston With their hands folded across their chest, a group of teary-eyed women erupted in loud screams as Madden's Funeral Home...
October 05, 2007
Cops seek Canadian fugitive said hiding in Jamaica THE constabulary's Fugitive Apprehension Team yesterday sought the help of the public in locating a Canadian, said to be hiding...
Nine witnesses come forward in Grants Pen police shooting Nine witnesses have so far been interviewed by members of the police's Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI), which is investigating...
Jones admits to steroid use - report MARION JONES admitted to doping before the 2000 Olympics in a recent letter to close family and friends, The Washington...
... - Arrest them! DPP wants cops involved in Grants Pen shooting arrested Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Kent Pantry, has given instructions for the four policemen implicated in last Friday's controversial killing...
October 04, 2007
Police hunt for suspect in Tryall stabbing death SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - The St Elizabeth police are searching for a man alleged to have been involved in...
Student accused of threatening teacher charged A grade 11 male student of the Islington High School in St Mary who allegedly brandished a knife and threatened...
Magistrate likely to declare East Hanover seat today THE Supreme Court yesterday refused the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) application for a judicial review of the magisterial recount in...
Insurance scam convicts escape death penalty Two Guyanese immigrants convicted in July of engineering the murder of two people in an insurance scheme have escaped the...
Human trafficking case set for December Jamaica's first trafficking in persons case, involving two elderly men, is now set for trial on December 10. The case...
Alleged cop killer held He had been on the run for the last 27 days, moving between parishes, eluding police dragnets. His luck ran...
Teen tyrants With the new Government still in its teething stages, an alarming trend of violence among teens has seemingly resurfaced. Over...
October 03, 2007
Ex cop gets 18 months for fraud A former policewoman who pleaded guilty to defrauding the Police Federation of more than $1 million has been sentenced to...
Cops hunt escaped kidnappers Up to late yesterday evening, police in Westmoreland were combing sections of their division, and neighbouring parishes in search of...
October 02, 2007
Son of university professor on wounding charge NETO Meeks, son of Amina Blackwood-Meeks and university professor Brian Meeks, is now facing several charges after a dispute between...
Police officer chopped to death Police are investigating the death of one of their colleagues who was chopped to death as he lay asleep on...
Fisherman faces extradition 20 years after plea The Court of Appeal has ruled that a Jamaican man who fled to the island in 1986 after pleading guilty...
Supreme Court forces second delay in Eastern Hanover The re-examination of the magisterial recount for the Eastern Hanover constituency which was scheduled to continue yesterday, has been halted...
Beckles' murder trial postponed The murder trial of Rodney Beckles, son of the University of the West Indies (UWI) professor, Hilary Beckles, which was...