November 30, 2007
Cash Plus gets injunction blocking closure of accounts CASH Plus Limited has obtained an interim injunction in the Supreme Court, blocking the National Commercial Bank's (NCB) from closing...
Teacher jailed over 'Mohammad' teddy A British teacher who was accused of insulting Muslims after her class called a teddy bear Mohammad has been sentenced...
JRC suspends fighting jockeys Jockeys Larris Allen and Andrew Nunes, both of whom were engaged in a cavalier horseback fight in the 13th and...
...two policemen murdered yesterday - 10 others killed in separate incidents THE SCENIC and peaceful hills of Irish Town, St. Andrew, were yesterday blemished by the shooting death of Assistant Commissioner...
November 29, 2007
Employee shot in botched robbery at Kosmo Tours A driver employed to the Kosmo Tours rental company is now nursing a gunshot wound following a botched robbery attempt...
Courts reduce sentence on security guard robbers Two security guards who, while employed to Guardsman Armoured Ltd., held up two other security guards at gun-point in March...
Jury not sure - Delivers open verdict on Woolmer's death THE CORONER'S inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer ended yesterday at the Jamaica Conference Centre with...
November 28, 2007
Thieves break into home of PM's daughter A daring break-in at the home of Sherine Golding, daughter of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, was among several robberies reported...
Adulterer to get 100 lashes A Nigerian sharia court has sentenced a man to one year in prison and 100 strokes of the cane for...
Leading Caribbean jurist speaks on death penalty A leading Caribbean jurist says regional judges should use their discretion when imposing the death penalty, as the debate over...
Five shot in Vineyard Town Candle wax from a vigil held in remembrance of two residents who were brutally killed in August was still on...
Jury frees Beckles of murder charge An 11-member jury deliberated Monday for two hours before freeing 22-year-old university student Rodney Beckles of the murder of 28-year-old...
Father of four shot dead on wife's birthday Yesterday was Rohan Thompson's wife's 30th birthday. But he was robbed of the joy of celebrating it with her when...
Bullet blitz! - MontegoBay cops under probe for 45-minute illegal gun salute The police High Command has launched a top-level probe to flush out the policemen involved in the staging of a...
November 27, 2007
Two killed in predawn attack in Gobay GOBAY, St Catherine - Gunmen invaded the sleepy Gobay district of North East St Catherine during a predawn attack Sunday,...
'Not Guilty' RODNEY Beckles, the son of a university professor, was yesterday found not guilty for the January murder of 28-year-old Khalil...
Pavarotti's widow files defamation suit Luciano Pavarotti's widow has sued two friends of the late tenor for US$44 million, claiming their comments about her marriage...
Jockeys summoned for horseback fight Jockeys Larris Allen and Andrew Nunes, who rode PRINCESS ZANAI and PRINCESS LATOYA respectively in the 13th and final race...
...student stabbed to death - Killed by classmate; school body traumatised Jamaica College, which has produced many prominent members of society, was yesterday thrown into turmoil after 17-year-old Martiman Golding was...
November 26, 2007
US deportee fighting for survival ONE MONTH after being released from the Kingston Central police lock-up, Linden Graham, who was deported in error to Jamaica,...
Jury urged to find Beckles guilty Prosecutor Caroline Hay has asked the jury to find that 22-year-old university student Rodney Beckles was the aggressor and that...
Cops seize US army gun in Harbour View Flying Squad detectives and their United States counterparts are now actively trying to determine how a gun registered to the...
... (JLP) councillor shot in chest - McKenzie warns against reprisals With less than two weeks to go before the local government elections, political tensions have flared in central Kingston after...
November 25, 2007
Montego Bay scam investigation in US The local police are poised to open a new front in their war against the illicit Montego Bay 'lotto scam',...
November 24, 2007
14-year fugitive sentenced A man who was on the run for 14 years was yesterday sentenced to eight years' imprisonment at hard labour...
Two killed in east Kingston Two persons were killed in separate incidents on Thursday afternoon in the volatile eastern Kingston. The police, however, have not...
Inquest goes into another week THE coroner's inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer will go into a sixth week, with coroner...
Alleged gang banker held: Four detained in connection with Stone Crusher Four persons, one of whom is believed to be a financier of the 'Stone Crusher' gang in St. James, were...
November 23, 2007
Earl Paulk sex scandals continue The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the centre of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He...
Three rearrests in missing student's case Authorities here say they have rearrested three men in connection with the disappearance of a United States high-school student in...
Inland Revenue officer to face forgery charge Erldine Brown, principal collector, at the Inland Revenue Department in St. Ann's Bay, St. Ann, is to return to the...
Abortion report is coming to House Question: Is the Government contemplating any change in the law relating to abortion? Answer: The issue of abortion has been...
Jacuzzi high? - Cops find ganja concealed in luxury bathtubs for export Drug dealers are now utilising a new method of concealing marijuana for shipment overseas, as they have resorted to concealing...
Police seize high-powered weapons Five more high-powered rifles are now off the streets after a police operation uncovered the deadly weapons at Universal Freight...
November 22, 2007
Verdict to be decided TESTIMONY in the coroner's inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach, Bob Woolmer, ended yesterday, 26 days after it...
Montego Bay lotto scam and kidnap link The infamous Montego Bay 'lotto scam', which has been the source of much misery both locally and internationally, has been...
Rape in the park - Women violated in St William Grant Park Shortly after she met and spoke with her father at a bus stop in West Parade, downtown Kingston, 14-year-old Alicia...
November 21, 2007
Phyllis Mitchell files appeal against Supreme Court ruling THE People's National Party's (PNP) Phyllis Mitchell, who made an unsuccessful bid for the North East St Catherine seat in...
Day 24 - Policeman counters Seshaiah's testimony DEPUTY Superintendent of Police Colin Pinnock testified yesterday that government pathologist Dr. Ere Seshaiah told him on the day he...
Kidnap victims freed - Flying Squad kills abductor, detains six Two brothers who were kidnapped on Monday night are now safe, after the police rescued them from an unknown fate...
November 20, 2007
Mitchell files appeal against Supreme Court ruling People's National Party candidate, Phyllis Mitchell, has filed an appeal against a Supreme Court ruling this month that Jamaica Labour...
Wong Ken a no-show at Woolmer inquest A TERSE exchange between Director of Public Prosecutions Kent Pantry and attorney Richard Small, got the fifth week of the...
Smith condemns killing of policeman National Security Minister Derrick Smith and the Acting Police Commissioner, Jevene Bent, have strongly condemned the killing of Constable Richard...
November 19, 2007
Spanish Town Hospital faces civil suit STEVEN Brown, whose wife Stacy died last year at the Spanish Town Hospital, is forging ahead with a lawsuit against...
Officers claim Beckles confessed to killing Campbell TWO police officers have testified that murder accused Rodney Beckles confessed to stabbing Khalil Campbell during a fight at a...
Man shot, battles for life in hospital, suspect held Detectives from the Criminal Investigative Branch (CIB) in Port Antonio, Portland, Saturday night arrested a male suspect in connection with...
Court award to Air Jamaica worker soars A former Air Jamaica Ltd. worker, who was shackled and detained by United States authorities because he did not have...
Montego Bay scam blamed for US granny's suicide The infamous Montego Bay 'lotto scam', which is being blamed for the western city's intolerable murder rate, is said to...
November 18, 2007
Shields defends police's decision to close case Last week marked the fourth week in the coroner's inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer. The...
November 17, 2007
UN votes for death penalty moratorium A United Nations committee voted on Thursday in favour of a resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty...
Woolmer inquest (Day 23) - We cooperated with the DPP, says Mark Shields DEPUTY Commissioner of Police, Mark Shields, said yesterday his team cooperated fully with the office of the Director of Public...
November 16, 2007
Visa conman jailed SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Police say they have cracked a visa racket in Spanish Town, with the arrest of...
Gunmen spray car with bullets GUNMEN yesterday sprayed a motor car travelling on Washington Boulevard in Kingston with bullets, killing the male driver and injuring...
... - Privy Council upholds conspiracy ruling against widow, businessman Endorsing a ruling by Jamaican courts, the Privy Council has held that entrepreneur Paul Geddes' widow, Margie, conspired with Caymanian...
He was not murdered - Shields MARK SHIELDS, the deputy commissioner of police who led local investigations into the death of Bob Woolmer, said yesterday that...
Man shot on St George's campus Classes will resume today at St. George's College following a shooting incident there yesterday that forced an early closure of...
November 15, 2007
Garage operator shot dead GARAGE operator Oliver Johnson was yesterday evening shot dead while closing his businessplace at 26 Half-Way-Tree Road in Kingston. According...
Witnesses say Campbell had no weapon Three prosecution witnesses have so far testified that 28-year-old Khalil Campbell had no weapon in his hands during the tussle...
Day 21 - Shields defends JCF DEPUTY Commissioner of Police Mark Shields yesterday defended the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) decision to declare investigations into the death...
Witter takes stock of missing wares case Public Defender Earl Witter will be investigating the case of a vendor who was not compensated for her goods which...
Another threat on Hinchcliffe's life A fourth letter threatening the life of chief executive officer of Manpower and Maintenance Services Ltd., Audrey Hinchcliffe, says that...
November 14, 2007
Police shooting of taxi operator under probe MANDEVILLE, Manchester - The Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) was yesterday investigating the circumstances surrounding the police shooting of a...
Two bodies found on Industrial Terrace THE bodies of two men were yesterday found with gunshot wounds and wrapped in tarpaulins along Industrial Terrace in Kingston....
Police hunt all-age school robbers A manhunt is now on for two gunmen who staged a daring robbery at a school near Old Harbour, St...
Day 20 - Match-fixing dominates proceedings MATCH-FIXING in the cricket-mad subcontinent, one of the theories linked to the death of late Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer,...
November 13, 2007
Police charge three accused in Rockfort murders THE police yesterday charged three men in connection with the recent murders in the volatile East Kingston community of Rockfort....
DAY 19 - No pesticide in Woolmer blood samples, says UWI professor PROFESSOR DAS Gupta, head of the Pesticide Research Laboratory at the University of the West Indies, yesterday testified that new...
Major victory for Mair Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament Gregory Mair scored a major victory yesterday when Senior Puisne Judge Marva McIntosh...
November 12, 2007
Scrap metal regime drafted The regulatory framework for the lucrative scrap metal industry in Jamaica has been drafted and was tabled in a ministry...
Theft probe going 'well' Police interviews of over 70 employees at the Financial Investigation Division (FID), where approximately $17 million in cash was stolen...
Cop gunned down in Montego Bay A constable of the St. James Police Division who was murdered by gunmen in Montego Bay yesterday is the latest...
November 11, 2007
...-profile cases: 1999: Geoffrey Maxwell arrested on $22m fraud charge Veteran football coach and former national player Geoffrey Maxwell was arrested on August 12, after Fraud Squad detectives charged him...
Haitians held in Hanover THREE HAITIANS and one Jamaican believed to be involved in the drug-for-guns trade between Jamaica and Haiti were yesterday detained...
November 10, 2007
Welsh gets bail; banned from political meetings PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) activist Milton 'Tony' Welsh, 59, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $3.5 million, a...
Ex-Jamaican cop found guilty of killing pregnant girlfriend A former police officer from Jamaica was found guilty Thursday of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and was immediately sentenced to...
Judge to rule on Gregory Mair's petition Senior Puisne Judge Marva McIntosh is to give her decision on Monday in an application brought by Jamaica Labour Party...
Court grants sharpshooter right to qualify in event The Jamaica Rifle Association (JRA) has been barred by a Supreme Court order from preventing Orville Henriques, a licensed firearm...
'He was planning to retire' MURRAY Stevenson, the former fitness trainer of the Pakistan cricket team, said yesterday that coach Bob Woolmer told him that...
Samaritans slain: Couple held for ransom, throats slashed A young couple who were merely playing the role of good Samaritans never lived to tell the tale of the...
November 09, 2007
New regulations for scrap metal dealers tabled in Parliament SCRAP metal exporters will have to register with Jamaica Trade & Invest, obtain a licence from the Trade Board, while...
It was Zeeks' THE approximately $17 million stolen from a safe at the Ministry of Finance's Financial Investigations Division (FID) was money seized...
Hung jury in Welsh case again A Home Circuit Court jury retired for five hours yesterday but failed to arrive at a verdict in the murder...
Newsmaker: Kent Pantry - DPP standing in the line of fire DURING her testimony at the coroner's inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, government forensic analyst Marcia...
Day 17 - 'There was enough poison to kill him' FITZMORE Coates, acting chief forensic officer at the Government Forensic Science Laboratory, yesterday told the coroner's inquest into the death...
November 08, 2007
Two Swiss banks accused in Brazil remittance fraud Brazilian authorities have accused employees of two Swiss banks, UBS and Clariden Leu, of participating in an illegal remittance scheme...
New trial dates set New trials dates were set on Monday for President of the National Association of Taxi Operators, Edgerton Newman, who...
Day 16 - 'Samples sent to UK not sufficient' JUDITH MOWATT, director at the Government Forensic Science Laboratory, said yesterday that a senior British police officer told her that...
$1m fine for lotto scam artist A St. Ann man, who was involved in the Jamaican lottery sweepstakes scam which resulted in a large number of...
Probe launched into missing millions at Finance Ministry THE MAJOR Investigations Task Force has commenced a probe into the theft of millions of dollars from the Ministry of...
November 07, 2007
...lawsuit - Sets precedent on legal jurisdiction over multinationals A Los Angeles jury awarded US$3.3 million to six workers on Monday who claimed they were left sterile by a...
Cigarette Company transfers were 'sham' loans - judge Revenue Court Judge Roy Anderson has labelled as 'a sham' the transfer of over two billion dollars booked as 'loans'...
Day 15 - Analyst says swabs did not match DNA SAMPLES taken from the Pakistan cricket party did not match items taken from the hotel room of their coach,...
November 06, 2007
Coroner gives okay for Woolmer samples to be retested CORONER Patrick Murphy, the magistrate overseeing the inquest into the death of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, yesterday granted...
Missing child found murdered A Nine-year-old girl Sade Stoby who went missing here on Friday was Sunday found brutally murdered not far from her...
'Sammy' probe delayed The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has delayed its probe into middle-order batsman Marlon Samuels' relationship with an Indian bookmaker...
Loans officer jailed on ammo charge A 40-year-old loans officer employed to the National Commercial Bank in Cross Roads, St. Andrew, has been jailed and charged...
November 05, 2007
'Cold, calculating, sheer evil' Thirty-seven-year-old Peter Dugal was on Friday sentenced to death for the 2005 murder of gas station operator, George L G...
Gunmen kill four The murder of four men on Saturday evening at the intersection of St. James Avenue and Little Kew Road,...
November 04, 2007
Woolmer inquest - Answers still being sought The third week of testimony in the coroner's inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer began on...
Director of Public Prosecutions drops charges against Fullerton KENT PANTRY, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), has dropped charges against Nicole-Ann Fullerton for a breach of the Financial...
Mitchell's lawyers get time to file affadavit An adjournment was granted Friday until Monday to allow lawyers representing People's National Party candidate Phyllis Mitchell to file...
November 03, 2007
Fraud uncovered at Red Stripe FRAUDULENT activity at Red Stripe led the brewer to write off $42 million in "unsubstantiated" receivables and call in "the...
Press calls for probe into death threats A New York-based press freedom group has called on Haitian authorities to fully investigate what it said were multiple death...
LG Brown's killer to be hanged One of the two men convicted of the murder of former president of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA), 62-year-old...
Men awarded cash after conviction overturned The lusty crowing of a rooster somewhere in the backyard, momentarily drowned out Gloria Daley's words. She was a diminutive...
Faster background checks on persons in custody The police and the courts will soon be able to do faster background checks on persons held in custody with...