December 31, 2007
Young woman among four charged with Kameka's murder A month after he was slain, sleuths from the Major Investigation Task Force (MIT) on Saturday charged four persons including...
'Madwoman' not yet charged with murder The St. Elizabeth police were, up to yesterday, yet to charge 33-year-old Angella Reid, who was taken into custody in...
... in Westmoreland - UWI student among 10 murdered on weekend An angry mob chopped to death three men accused of stealing a goat in Westmoreland in a bloody weekend which...
December 29, 2007
Teenager killed in St Elizabeth SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - One teenager is dead, another is on the run and his family home set ablaze...
Chef held on gun charges SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Twenty-seven-year-old Wayne Simpson, a chef, and nephew of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor of the...
Zuma to be tried for corruption - lawyer South African prosecutors have ordered African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma to stand trial on corruption charges, his lawyer...
St Ann residents advised to be more wary of robbers Police in St. Ann are advising members of the public to be more vigilant as they go about their daily...
'Unregistered docs practise at own peril' Health Minister Rudyard Spencer says doctors who are found to be operating illegally in Jamaica will be taken from the...
Four cops charged with teen's murder Four policemen were yesterday charged with the murder of 19-year-old André Thomas of Grants Pen, St. Andrew, when they appeared...
Golding free to select PSC members A Supreme Court ruling yesterday has cleared the way for Prime Minister Bruce Golding to name new members to the...
December 28, 2007
Allman Town residents protest police killing of 13-y-o boy, man THE shooting of a 13-year-old boy and another man by police yesterday enraged residents of the central Kingston community of...
...- Killed by suicide bomber - Leaders condemn act - Riots rock Pakistan The Pakistani community in Jamaica has expressed shock and despair at yesterday's assassination of former Prime Minister and Pakistani Opposition...
December 27, 2007
Shooting leaves one dead, three injured in Siloah Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth - The St Elizabeth police are searching for a businessman allegedly involved in a shooting which...
Man stabbed to death on Christmas Day A dispute between a man and his girlfriend turned ugly on Christmas Day after the woman allegedly used a knife...
Government of Jamaica to pay for false imprisonment The nine-year wait for justice by a man who was falsely detained by the police after reports were made that...
December 26, 2007
Jamaica-born Miramar commissioner suspended, faces felony gun charge City Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman was suspended from office on Friday for the second time in two years, after he was...
December 24, 2007
Lowe on ganja rap - report Television Jamaica (TVJ) last night reported that former Jamaica footballer, Onandi Lowe, has had another run-in with the law. According...
Dancehall artiste Bascom X arrested on gun charge Dancehall act Ryan Sudlow, more popularly know as Bascom X, was arrested at his Hellshire, St Catherine home and slapped...
Chief Justice Sharma cleared An international tribunal has found that the case brought against Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma over allegations of judicial misconduct was...
Jamaican ex-convict spared deportation NEW YORK Governor EliotSpitzer has pardoned a 54-year-old Jamaican man convicted of robbery 16 years ago, saying the pardon would...
Five killed in Montego Bay on weekend FIVE PEOPLE were shot dead in Montego Bay, St. James, on the weekend. Investigators were yesterday called to the scene...
Lawmen vow to hunt cop killers THE CHAIRMAN of the Police Federation, Corporal Hartley Stewart, says his colleagues have vowed to find the cop killers who...
December 23, 2007
Gang warfare claims woman, wounds daughter Christmas for the family of Grace Walker will be very bleak. Walker became an addition to the burgeoning murder statistics...
December 22, 2007
Mother charged with cruelty to child A mother who was arrested and charged after the police found her eight-year-old physically deformed daughter naked and tethered by...
...sparksdemonstration - Man loses brother and nephew in shoot-out Cries of police brutality and "we want justice" rang out along sections of St. Johns Road in St. Catherine yesterday...
Walker defends election release Director of Elections Danville Walker, yesterday admitted under cross-examination that in August he saw a letter from the chairman of...
Court awards $6m to amputee A man whose right leg was amputated after he was shot by the police has been awarded more than $6...
December 21, 2007
UN probes allegations of fraud in Haiti, Congo The United Nations says it is investigating allegations of fraud and mismanagement in procurement affecting its peacekeeping mission in Haiti...
Neal and Massy heading to court over BS&T Neal and Massy Holdings Limited was this week evaluating its next move after it was blindsided by a court injunction...
Backlog of divorce cases worries lawyers The slow pace at which divorce petitions are being granted in the Supreme Court since the Matrimonial Causes Rules were...
Nephew guilty of Berbick murder Following a gruelling four-week trial, 21-year-old Harold Berbick was yesterday found guilty of murdering his uncle, Trevor Berbick, the former...
...pay for false HIV diagnosis - $4.8m awarded to couple for mental anguish The government is to pay $4.8 million with interest for a wrong diagnosis four years ago that a pregnant woman...
December 20, 2007
Danville vs Dabdoub - EOJ boss, PNP candidate square off outside court After having his feathers ruffled while under cross-examination, Director of Elections Danville Walker lost his cool yesterday and had to...
December 19, 2007
Cash Plus injunction extended The Carlos Hill-led Cash Plus Ltd. was on Monday granted a further injunction which bars National Commercial Bank from closing...
Four killed in Westmoreland identified The four men killed in a police shooting along Bay Road in Westmoreland Saturday night have now been identified. They...
Gangs face off on UWI campus A security guard was up to last night in serious condition in hospital, after he was shot and injured on...
December 18, 2007
MoBay cop among three on illegal gun, ammo charges MONTEGO BAY, St James - Constable Raul Khouri, the policeman from the Montego Bay Flying Squad who was recently interdicted...
'Gov't should ratify human rights court' The Jamaican Government has been advised to seriously consider ratifying the jurisdiction of the Inter American Court of Human Rights....
Dabdoub vs Vaz - Professor admits praising Portia Expert witness on immigration law, Professor David Rowe, admitted yesterday under cross-examination in the Supreme Court that he gave a...
December 17, 2007
Cops kill five men in Westmoreland, Kingston THE police on Saturday night outgunned four men, killing them all in an alleged gun battle along the Bay Road...
Accused killers of 'Good Samaritans' return to court January 11 THE three men charged with the kidnapping and murder of 'Good Samaritan' couple Jhanel Whyte and Tyawo McKenzie last month...
Maoists spring 300 prisoners At least 300 prisoners, including dozens of Maoist insurgents, escaped from a central Indian jail after overpowering guards yesterday, police...
Cop caught with four illegal guns A constable of the Area One Flying Squad was taken into custody by his colleagues in the wee hours of...
December 16, 2007
Lawyers land victory over the Jamaican Bar Association The Jamaican Bar Association and the lawyers whose offices were searched by the police in January 2003, and clients' files...
UTech student gunned down The promising future of yet another Jamaican youth has been cut short. Diondra Morris, 21-year-old second-year student at the University...
December 15, 2007
Don't punish me for my mother's action - Vaz DARYL Vaz, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) MP for West Portland, is asking the Supreme Court of Jamaica not to...
Police dent trade in guns for drugs One man was shot and killed and another hospitalised, and a gun and ammunition recovered following a shoot-out with the...
'Dirty money' - Police probe legitimacy of NSWMA contractors Payments to contractors hired to conduct the Hurricane Dean clean-up exercise have been temporarily suspended while the police conduct a...
December 14, 2007
Two police officers held on murder charge Two police officers, charged with murder, have been remanded in a case the Police Welfare Association (PWA) has described as...
Montego Bay cops cut down three Stone Crusher gang members The Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) bid to dismantle the much-feared Montego Bay-based Stone Crusher gang experienced more success yesterday when...
Portia happy with court ruling Leader of the Opposition, Portia Simpson Miller, has described yesterday's ruling by the Supreme Court which gives her leave to...
Vaz travelled this year on US passport Chief Immigration Officer Leighton Wilson yesterday produced immigration records in the Supreme Court to show that Jamaica Labour Party Member...
December 13, 2007
Cops kill 'dangerous' Newlands criminal A man, described as a dangerous criminal, was Tuesday shot dead in an alleged confrontation with the police at Westchester...
Portia takes Bruce to court A suit filed by Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller, challenging Prime Minister Bruce Golding's decision to dismiss the current members...
December 12, 2007
Members of PSC dismissed Governor-General, Professor Kenneth Hall, acting on the recommendation of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, yesterday issued letters of dismissal to the...
December 11, 2007
Lawyer, Public Service Commission at loggerheads again Attorney Lackston Robinson's legal battle with the Public Service Commission (PSC) to keep his job as senior assistant attorney general...
Caribbean crackdown on drug traffickers The United States Coast-guard says that illicit trafficking in cocaine is seemingly shifting from the Caribbean to the Pacific, as...
Jockey Fallon cleared of race-fixing charge Today's racing takes place at Fontwell, Sedgefield and the all-weather Flat course Southwell. Meanwhile, six-time champion jockey Kieren Fallon is...
Human rights body takes cases to court The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) submitted two cases to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in November, one...
Wanted men, toddler found dead in car A 10-month-old toddler was found dead in a motor car, along with two men who were on the police most...
Gangster cops - Montego Bay police involved in criminal activities - McGreggor Superintendent of Police Steve McGreggor says it would be foolhardy for Jamaicans to believe that some members of the St....
December 10, 2007
Cops, residents give conflicting stories of Paradise killing PARADISE, St James - Fuming residents in this community are accusing the St James police of killing an alleged community...
Who killed Summerfa Dryden? WAKESFIELD, St Catherine - The family of 32-year-old construction worker Summerfa 'Craig' Dryden, whose nude body was found in bushes...
Gang has police hit list Police in St James are on high alert after receiving information that a notorious gang based in the parish have...
Hamas 'weeds' out drug dealers Hamas Islamists burned sacks of confiscated marijuana and cocaine in Gaza yesterday and said they had arrested dozens of dealers...
'Dead' Canoeist's wife arrested The wife of a man who 'returned from the dead' after apparently being lost at sea in a canoeing accident...
Sex crime on schoolershocks Grenadians The Grenada National Organisation for Women (GNOW) has described as "horrifying", a case in which three young men have been...
More police abuse cases settled out of court - Anderson AS THE Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights (IJCHR) observes human rights day today, reports show that more cases of...
Montego Bay outlaw killed A MAN believed to be one of Jamaica's 12 most wanted criminals was fatally shot and three others taken into...
December 09, 2007
MegaMart probes electricity tampering The management of MegaMart Wholesale Club disclosed yesterday that it had suspended an employee, following initial investigation into the discovery...
December 08, 2007
Cops probe brothers' murder Detectives in St. James are probing the double murder of Easton and Richard Beckford at Capita in Green Pond in...
Deacon trial date in May The trafficking in person case against former church deacon, 47-year-old Donovan Jones, and the three male teenagers who are accused...
Chang's life threatened The police have reportedly increased the security around a senior Government minister, as there are concerns about his safety. Minister...
More murders in Clarendon Despite the presence of military personnel at Clarendon hot spots such as Water Lane, Canaa Hayes and Palmers Cross over...
December 07, 2007
Porteous withdraws election petition THE Jamaica Labour Party's(JLP) Sally Porteous, who unsuccessfully contested the Central Manchester constituency seat in the September 3 general elections,...
Cash Plus vs FSC case adjourned to January THE expected start to the highly-anticipated case involving alternative investment scheme giant Cash Plus Limited against the island's financial regulatory...
Brothers killed in MoBay MONTEGO BAY, St James - Two brothers, one of whom was recently released from prison, were gunned down by unknown...
Walker suspended again Leading rider, Omar Walker, who will return from a two-day suspension tomorrow, has been slapped with another two-day ban for...
Policeman on manslaughter charge to face murder trial instead The manslaughter trial of police Constable Deon Carr was aborted on Tuesday after prosecutors took the decision that he should...
PM backs press-friendly libel laws Changes to Jamaica's libel and defamation laws will help to encourage good governance and accountability, participants heard at a seminar...
Another Montego Bay cop killed - Fourth to be gunned down in eight days Sergeant Errol Brown's colleagues had made several attempts without success to contact him on his cellular phone. They subsequently went...
Gun lands parolee back in jail A prisoner who was paroled last year after serving 23 years for a gun murder is now back in prison...
Who wants Hylton dead? - Men in masks lurking around banker's home Patrick Hylton, the group managing director of the National Commercial Bank (NCB) and president of the Jamaica Bankers' Association (JBA),...
December 06, 2007
Policeman who shot colleague to be tried for murder A police constable who appeared in the Home Circuit Court on Tuesday to stand trial for the 2003 shooting death...
Dec 14 court date for accused in LG Brown's murder SANDRA Watt, the household helper who prosecutors are charging played a part in the murder of her boss, Sandra Campbell,...
More slain on poll day Despite a quiet and slow local government election day, the guns continued to bark, as at least four Jamaicans were...
December 05, 2007
The trials and convictions of Carlos Hill Cash Plus boss Carlos Hill was convicted of racketeering, mail fraud and of making a false statement in the US...
Robinson, Gray cases put off, Porteous' withdrawn Three election petitions came before the Supreme Court Monday and two were put off while the third was withdrawn. The...
Privy Council puts end to Portmore toll dispute The United Kingdom Privy Council on Monday put an end to the dispute over the imposition of a toll on...
Criminals targeting St Catherine women Detectives in St. Catherine are baffled about the recent increase of murders involving young women as the victims in the...
Deacon case put off The trafficking in person case against former church deacon, 46-year-old Donovan Jones, and three male teenagers, involving a 14-year-old schoolgirl,...
Brazen brutes! - Gunmen kill 47 in 7 days Despite the deploying of military personnel in the 142 hot spots across the country, the bloodletting continued yesterday, with the...
December 04, 2007
Cops name suspect in Kameka's murder Police yesterday released the photograph and identity of a man who they say is wanted for the murder of Assistant...
Cops under fire Not since 1984 has the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) seen so many of its members killed by gunmen. According to...
...(JLP) team shot at - Three persons injured, one fatally in St Thomas attack Gunmen last night brazenly opened fire on Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament for West St. Thomas, James...
December 03, 2007
Man shoots wife with Alzheimer's to end pain A 77-year-old Italian burst into a hospital ward where his wife was being treated for Alzheimer's disease on Saturday and...
Six killed on weekend With exactly for weeks left in the year, Jamaica is on track to register one of its highest murder tolls...
Ambushed - Montego Bay thugs kill policeman - 20th cop slain since January The St. James police were last night hunting for clues in their bid to unravel the murder of one of...
December 02, 2007
MiPhone pulls plug on Cash Plus' MegaFone - Case in court over indebtedness The long-distance, prepaid telephone service provided by MegaFone, using Oceanic Digital's network, has collapsed in a dispute over payments, leaving...
High-risk investors have no legal backing Investors in high-risk financial schemes stand to lose big, should the schemes crash, because participants will have no legal footing...
December 01, 2007
Two on multiple murder charges remanded Two men charged in separate incidents with the murder of several family members, including young children, appeared in the Home...
Alleged cop killer shot dead A suspect in the killing of Const. Valentino Chambers was shot dead yesterday on Luke Lane in downtown Kingston....
Jury selection no issue The Court of Appeal has cleared coroner of Kingston and St. Andrew, Patrick Murphy, of a Supreme Court ruling that...
Rapists on the run in St Catherine The Old Harbour police in St. Catherine are now searching for a group of men who abducted and raped three...
