March 31, 2008
Mavado' gets $200,000 bail Dancehall artiste David 'Mavado' Brooks was last week granted $200,000 bail when he appeared in the High Court Division of...
March 30, 2008
Lightbourne moves to abolish old English law Minister of Justice and Attorney General Senator Dorothy Lightbourne is taking steps to abolish an 18th-century English common-law principle that...
March 29, 2008
TI gets 1,000 hours Rapper TI has admitted having unregistered machine guns and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Now he has...
Flow free to acquire Entertainment Systems The Supreme Court has lifted the temporary injunctions recently brought against telecommunications firm Flow and cable operators Entertainment Systems Limited...
March 28, 2008
Man gets 40 years for robbing and shooting woman cop KAMAR Morgride, the man who shot a policewoman after stealing her service revolver, was on Tuesday sentenced to 40 years'...
Gunmen kill Clarendon couple in vicious attack RUTHLESS gunmen early yesterday morning shot dead a Clarendon woman and her common-law husband after invading the couple's home in...
Judge urges alliance with social groups A senior judge is asking for more social support for the justice system. According to Resident Magistrate Lorna Errar, while...
Gun Court backlog unsettling, says RM SENIOR RESIDENT Magistrate Glenn Brown is concerned about the slow pace at which case files for the Gun Court are...
'Please do your part' - DPP urges legal practitioners to settle cases speedily THE EASTER session of the Home Circuit Court opened Wednesday with the usual concerns being raised about the huge backlog...
Public officials to face court Several high-ranking public officials will be dragged before the courts next week Friday. Serving of the summonses on 17 accounting...
March 27, 2008
Murder dominates Easter Circuit Murder cases dominate the list of cases to be tried at the Easter session of the St James Circuit Court....
Answer your phone, Omar! Daisy Reid, grandmother to 30-year-old Omar Reid, whom the police are seeking to assist their investigation into the recent homicide...
Man steals $112,000 from his grandfather SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - A 21-year-old man who pleaded guilty to fleecing his 82-year-old grandfather of $112,000 is to...
Attempts being made to clear backlog of criminal cases A special attempt is now being made to clear the huge backlog of criminal cases which have been cluttering the...
Downtown roads blocked - Tel-Aviv residents protest police shooting Three weeks after Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin effected changes to reduce the use of deadly force in the...
Cop to answer to kidnapping charge A 31-year-old policeman who has been charged in connection with the June 2007 kidnapping of a 44-year-old man at Bogue...
Kern's bail extended - Kern returns to court in May Former junior government minister Kern Spencer and his co-accused in the Cuban light-bulb affair will have to wait another month...
March 26, 2008
Five arrested for possession of counterfeit notes POLICE in St Thomas are urging residents to look out for several counterfeit $1,000 notes which are circulating in the...
Cop accused of robbery could be released A judge yesterday ordered that the Montego Bay police officer fingered in relation to a $90,000 robbery in the parish...
Detective and son at centre of corruption charges granted bail DETECTIVE Sergeant Noel Morgan and his son Marlando Morgan, who were both recently arrested and charged with breaches of the...
Health Dept probing illegal exhumation Chief Medical Officer of the Kingston and St Andrew Health Department, Dr Herb Elliott, says the department is investigating the...
Beenie Man and Burke in tax court Dancehall artiste Moses Davis, more popularly known as Beenie Man, and veteran politician Paul Burke, were among several delinquent taxpayers...
Kern, co-accused back in court today ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING North East St Elizabeth Member of Parliament (MP) Kern Spencer, businessman Rodney Chin and Coleen Wright are expected...
Man sought for questioning in Brit's murder The police are interested in locating Omar Reid who they want for questioning in relation to the death of Barbara...
...- Constable survives shoot-out in St Catherine, then killed in St Andrew After a near miss in Central Village, St Catherine, in the early hours of the morning where one of his...
March 25, 2008
Kern back in court tomorrow NORTH EAST St Elizabeth Member of Parliament, Kern Spencer, will return to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court tomorrow to...
Shot and detained POLICE investigating a gunfight between patrons at a dance in Port Henderson, St Catherine on Sunday morning have shackled to...
St Elizabeth traffic cop on corruption rap A police corporal assigned to the traffic division at the Santa Cruz Police Station in St Elizabeth is behind bars...
Four Paths 4 on ganja rap Four people, who on Friday were arrested and charged with possession of 50 pounds of marijuana in Four Paths, Clarendon,...
March 24, 2008
Woman offered green card for oral sex New York police have arrested a Guyana-born United States federal immigration official for demanding sex from a Colombian woman in...
La Roose mayhem - One slain, eight injured in shooting, stampede Investigators are still trying to ascertain the motive behind the shooting death of a man and injuries to seven others...
March 22, 2008
Constable charged with simple larceny A district constable attached to the Green Island Police Station in Hanover was arrested for breaching the Larceny Act...
Body of UK woman found Area One Crime Scene investigators yesterday afternoon recovered the body of a 61-year-old British national, who was reported missing from...
...- Lawyer says cop will challenge sentence for illegal possession of firearm The attorneys representing Constable Rahul Khourie, who was on Thursday sentenced in the western Regional Gun Court to 15 years...
March 20, 2008
Teenager facing charges of sexually assaulting toddler A teenager is now facing a charge of buggery in the Home Circuit Court for the alleged sexual assault of...
Cop who allegedly killed child still on the run The policeman who allegedly shot and killed 10-year-old Renee Lyons in Majesty Gardens, St Andrew almost five years ago is...
Accused in murder of senior cop gets bail ROHAN Townsend, one of four accused in the November murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Gilbert Kameka, was yesterday offered...
What's up with Companies Act amendment? February 1, 2008 marked the third anniversary of the coming into force of the Companies Act. Its enactment marked the...
Another woman slain seven women have been murdered in the St Catherine North Police Division since the start of the year. This brings...
Teacher on rape charge A 26-year-old teacher, Andre McLean, of a Portland address, was yesterday offered $250,000 bail when he appeared in the Buff...
Students caught in crossfire - Gunmen, cops face off in August Town Several hundred students were yesterday prevented from attending classes at the August Town primary and basic schools in St Andrew,...
March 19, 2008
Judge frees eight murder accused A judge last week adjourned the cases against eight men who were facing serious charges including murder and shooting in...
Bodies found dumped in field still unidentified CLARKS TOWN, Trelawny - Senior investigators here were up to yesterday still looking for clues which could assist in identifying...
Police inspector said among several suspects in car-stealing ring A police inspector is among several cops who are under suspicion of involvement in a car-stealing ring, which was uncovered...
LA superior court reduces damages to Dole farmhands A California judge has thrown out US$2.5 million of 'punitive' damages awarded against Dole Food Company in the Tellez case...
Teacher pleads not guilty Mylan Blake, also called Marlon Black, the teacher from Jonathan Grant High School who is facing 18 counts of aiding...
Vaz to return to court Embattled Member of Parliament (MP) for Western Portland, Daryl Vaz, who is charged with breaches of the Public Order, and...
Government of Jamaica relies on old law to bury injury suit A man who was seriously injured in 2001, when a section of a main road collapsed on him, has not...
March 18, 2008
Olint, NCB case continues in court The application which investment club Olint Corporation Ltd has brought in the Supreme Court seeking an injunction to bar National...
Missing persons, human remains keep cops busy A puzzling situation is now facing the police in St James and Trelawny as, while persons are going missing in...
Jonathan Grant to padlock gate A decision has been taken to lock the rear gate at the Jonathan Grant High School after an attack on...
Man gets $10m award The government is to pay $10 million to 67-year-old Harvey Morgan who was formerly employed to the Forestry Department in...
New trial ordered for constable A judge's failure to give adequate directions to the jury has led to the Court of Appeal ordering a new...
March 17, 2008
ST LUCIA: Cop accused of buggering 9-y-o - mother suing for EC$1m The mother of a 14-year-old boy allegedly buggered by a policeman is suing the state. Twenty-nine-year-old police officer Barry Hunte...
Cop injured, two killed At least two persons were shot and killed by gunmen, while a special constable was shot and injured and a...
March 16, 2008
Stricter laws needed to govern fishing industry Stakeholders in the fishing industry are this year anticipating the introduction of new and overhauled legislation aimed at better managing...
March 15, 2008
Woman arrested for stabbing boyfriend A domestic dispute, on Wednesday, resulted in the stabbing death of 21-year-old labourer Tafari 'Johnny' Charlton, of a Land Settlement...
Hope for reporters serving time in Cuba Five years after 'Black Spring', in which 27 journalists in Cuba were arrested and unfairly sentenced to prison terms ranging...
Another cop, son on corruption charges Another member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force has been arrested on corruption charges. Detective Sergeant Nowell Morgan and his son...
March 14, 2008
Woman accused of stabbing 86-year-old admirer to death SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - A 58-year-old Portmore woman who allegedly stabbed her admirer to death after a quarrel was...
Woman says fake Englishman tricked her out of $50,000 SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - An alleged con artist who tricked a woman from the country into giving him $50,000...
Taylor trial witness tells of cannibalism Grim tales of cannibalism highlighting the brutality of West Africa's civil wars emerged in testimony yesterday at the war crimes...
Walker appeals four-day ban Champion jockey Omar Walker has appealed a four-day suspension imposed by the stewards on Tuesday for careless riding at Caymanas...
Cop's conspiracy case back in court April 2 Police Constable Richard Pearce, who is charged jointly with another man for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, is...
DPP receives Tivoli Five file for ruling The Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) has submitted a report on the shooting deaths of five men in Tivoli Gardens,...
Olint appeals for Hylton ban Investment Club Olint Corporation Ltd is pursuing its application to bar former Solicitor General Michael Hylton, QC, from representing the...
...repeat traffic offenders - 20 cabbies, busmen get two days in jail each Branded as repeat offenders, 20 taxi and bus operators were yesterday ordered locked up for two days each by Resident...
Teen fugitive from US caught A 17-year-old girl who was wanted by law enforcement officials in the United States since April 2007 was on Wednesday...
Teacher to answer assault charges A teacher of the Jonathan Grant High School in St Catherine is scheduled to appear before the Spanish Town Resident...
Cops in trouble - Cases mount against members of the force A 31-year-old policeman attached to the Area One Flying Squad - based in Montego Bay - is scheduled to be...
March 13, 2008
Former army officer charged with sedition A former army lieutenant charged with sedition and advocating the commission of a terrorist act was on Tuesday remanded to...
Gunmen terrorise Ramble residents The controversy surrounding the new Royale Rest Cemetery in Burnt Ground, Hanover, appears to have taken another twist on Tuesday...
Students ganged - Severely beaten after allegedly stealing teacher's cellphone Teachers and students of Jonathan Grant High School in St Catherine say they are living in fear after six grade...
Another taximan slain in Norwood Scores of commuters, including students plying the Hendon, Norwood and Glendevon to Montego Bay routes were left stranded yesterday morning...
$350,000 or prison! RELATIVES of the two men who on Tuesday failed to turn up in the Home Circuit Court for their rape...
March 12, 2008
Dead man found stuffed in Honda motorcar THE normally quiet Farewell Avenue community off Molynes Road in St Andrew was yesterday gripped in horror following the discovery...
March 11, 2008
Hung jury in schoolgirl stabbing case A panel of 12 jurors was on Friday unable to convict a 16-year-old schoolgirl charged with the stabbing death of...
Another lawyer pulls out of representing accused child killer ALLEGED child killer Jeffery Perry, who is charged with the throat-slashing murders of his three young cousins in St Mary,...
School sued after giving boy detention The family of a middle-school student who was given detention for wearing a T-shirt bearing the image of a gun...
Man faces trial for killing wife A man who is accused of con-spiring with another man to throw a corrosive substance on his wife is to...
Extradition appeal put off for men on drug charge THE APPEAL brought by St Ann businessman Norris 'Deedo' Nembhard, Police Corporal Herbert Henry and four other men against their...
'Put 'Peeping Tom' Act on books' Member of Parliament (MP) for the South Central St Catherine constituency, Sharon Hay-Webster, says the time has come for Jamaica...
March 10, 2008
JET sued for review of Dolphin Cove EIA Montego Bay, St James - The consultants responsible for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the proposed Dolphin Cove facility...
Killancholly murder case postponed Another mention date was set yesterday for 32-year-old security guard, Jeffrey Perry, who is charged with the murder of three...
St James cops held in robbery case Three men, two of whom are policemen, are reportedly in custody in connection with a robbery on Gloucester Avenue, Montego...
More blood shed on weekend The Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) has reported that several persons lost their life tragically on the weekend. Today's police blotter...
Migratory criminals fuel Clarendon murders - cops Head of the Clarendon police, Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, is blaming easy movement across parish borders for the influx of murders...
Flow injunction extended Telecommunications firm Flow has been further barred by a Supreme Court order from acquiring the assets or ownership of any...
March 08, 2008
Double murder at health centre Services at the St Jago Park Health Centre in Spanish Town, St Catherine had to be suspended yesterday, following a...
March 07, 2008
Olint application against Hylton thrown out Supreme Court Judge Roy Jones yesterday threw out an application which investment club Olint Corporation Ltd had brought seeking to...
Bellefield student knifed to death MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Omar Lushane-Wright, a 17-year-old student of Bellefield High School, became the 13th murder victim in Manchester for...
Two J'can drug traffickers face life in US prison JAMAICAN drug kingpins Leebert Ramcharan, and Donovan "Plucky" Williams are both facing life sentences after a United States judge convicted...
Ramble residents raise cemetery issue in court Members of the Ramble Community Development Committee (CDC) have secured legal backing in their bid to prevent the development of...
...Town erupts - Alleged police shooting of 11-month-old sparks disorder The fatal shooting of an 11-month-old infant allegedly by the police yesterday afternoon plunged sections of Spanish Town into chaos,...
March 06, 2008
Killers escape death penalty Three Caribbean nationals have been spared the hangman's noose, at least for the time being, after the London-based Privy Council...
Haitians convicted for holding teen as slave A United States federal jury has convicted a Haitian mother and her daughter on charges of forcing a teenage Haitian...
Broadcasting Commission moves to bar Hylton An application is to be made on Friday in the Supreme Court in an attempt to bar former Solicitor General...
Cops crack down on students - 15 held in Old Harbour Fifteen students from Old Harbour, St Catherine, were taken into custody by the police yesterday after being cited for offences...
Gruesome find in Norwood The tough Norwood community yesterday woke up to the gruesome find of a partially- decayed corpse in a suitcase under...
Man, two schoolboys to be sentenced in carnal abuse case A man and two schoolboys are to be sentenced next week after pleading guilty to a charge of carnal abuse...
Man said to be J'can shoots himself after killing one, injuring four A 60-year-old gunman, allegedly of Jamaican origin, committed suicide Monday after he opened fire in a Wendy's fast-food restaurant, killing...
Court extends injunction against Flow An injunction obtained by the Broadcasting Commission last month, blocking the planned acquisition of Entertainment Systems Limited by telecommunications firm...
Paul Burke appears before civil court INFLUENTIAL People's National Party (PNP) activist and head of the party's Resource Group Seven, Paul Burke, yesterday appeared before the...
Danville awaits fate DANVILLE Walker's future as Jamaica's director of elections could depend on the court's ruling in the dual citizenship case brought...
Cop's bullet-riddled body found in Barbican POLICE Commissioner Hardley Lewin posted a $1-million bounty on the heads of the killers of Constable Andrew Chung, whose bullet-riddled...
March 05, 2008
Aussie murder trial begins April A trial date has finally been set for the man who is accused of murdering Australian national Brian Johnston....