April 30, 2008
Cops struggle to find Peter King exhibits The police are having difficulty in locating all the exhibits that were removed from the house of Ambassador Peter King,...
Education Ministry admits error in GSAT scholarship award The Ministry of Education yesterday conceded that it made a mistake when it decided against recommending the Scotiabank Jamaica Foundation...
April 29, 2008
Lawyers to take Carlos Hill bail request to Supreme Court ATTORNEYS representing fraud suspects Carlos Hill and his brother, Bertram Hill, have filed a petition in the Supreme Court where...
Student battles for life - 10-y-o hit by bullet in Seaview Gardens A ten-year-old girl who attends the Seaview Gardens Primary School should have been laughing and frolicking with her friends yesterday....
Danhai walks - NHDC fraud case dumped The absence of two vital Crown witnesses yesterday forced the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to drop the $451 million...
April 28, 2008
Two men killed at funeral home Relatives and friends wept bitterly last week Friday night, as the bullet riddled bodies of two male employees of the...
Supreme Court judge reprimands education ministry over GSAT row The Ministry of Education came under judicial fire last week Friday for refusing to recommend the top girl scorer in...
April 26, 2008
MoBay double murder MONTEGO BAY, St James - Two men employed to the Delaphena Funeral Home in Montego Bay were shot dead by...
Court of Appeal reserves judgement in Olint/NCB case FOREIGN exchange trader Olint Corporation Limited will have to wait until next week to find out if it will continue...
Constable, ex-cop on car robbery charges Ramble, Hanover - Constable Richardo Mckay of Area One Operations and ex-constable Alanzo Williamson of a Trelawny address are both...
April 25, 2008
Prosecution says man confessed to cop's murder ONE of the three men charged by the police with the robbery and murder of Constable Andre Chung has allegedly...
Asthmatic sentenced for attempting to smuggle ganja A man who claimed that he attempted to smuggle ganja out of the country to help alleviate the effects of...
Brothers meet bloody deaths hours apart A gang feud was said to be the motive behind yesterday's killing of two brothers in Shelter Rock, a poor...
KC, George's feud turns ugly - Schoolgirl assault sparks stabbing, fights A feud between students of North Street neighbours St George's College and Kingston College, over a teenage female student, has...
Boldon eagerly awaits Graham doping trial ATO BOLDON is eagerly awaiting the trial of Jamaica-born sprint coach Trevor Graham. The former Trinidad and Tobago track star...
Local man held for Montego Bay lotto scam A 28-year-old man has been jailed after the seizure of documents, including a copy of a US$10-million cheque that was...
Cop sentenced for stealing from friend A policeman with nine years' service in the force has been jailed for four months for stealing $140,000 from his...
April 24, 2008
Lotto scam gets more sophisticated The Area One Fraud Squad yesterday disclosed a new trick by players in the ongoing illegal sweepstakes scam which is...
Bring back our computers! Thieves made off with some $250,000 worth of computer equipment belonging to the First Hill All-Age School here earlier this...
April 23, 2008
Teen knifed to death outside Transport Centre A teenager was stabbed to death at the entrance of the newly-built Half-Way-Tree Transport Centre in St Andrew yesterday afternoon....
St James rape cases on the rise The St James police have indicated that rape is on the rise in the parish, adding that other sexual crimes,...
Over $100m in ganja seized Over the past four months, narcotics detectives have intercepted and safely removed more than $100 million worth of compressed ganja...
April 22, 2008
PRIDE case ultimatum GOVERNMENT prosecutors pursuing a multi-million dollar fraud case against controversial businessman Danhai Williams and six other accused persons who have...
April 21, 2008
Probe turns up more Cash Plus companies The court-appointed co-receiver/manager for Cash Plus Limited, Kevin Bandoian, says he has discovered more companies affiliated with the investment scheme...
April 20, 2008
Investigation into breakout at St Ann juvenile centre THE DEPARTMENT of Correctional Services has launched an investigation into the escape of 11 wards from the Armadale Juvenile Correctional...
April 19, 2008
Olint lawyers evade NCB account closure Though the National Commercial Bank (NCB) yesterday got the green light from the Supreme Court to close the accounts of...
Security guard gets 12 years Justice Donald McIntosh yesterday sentenced 24-year-old security guard Norman Holmes, of Kitson Town, St Catherine, to 12 years' imprisonment for...
Mom aids in teen daughter's rape A woman who held her 13-year-old daughter while her common-law husband raped her has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment...
April 18, 2008
Murder in Mandeville market Mandeville, Manchester - An orange vendor died after his throat was slashed inside the Mandeville Market early Tuesday afternoon. The...
Man accused of murdering councillor's son freed (This story appeared in yesterday's Observer with the incorrect headline. We regret the error) Spanish Town labourer Arthur Patterson was...
TCL files suit against Guyana - Claims failure to protect cement market Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo has hit out at the Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL), saying the regional company was taking advantage...
Jamaican on US marshals 'most wanted' list United States marshals have added a Jamaican man to their 'Most Wanted' list, offering a US$25,000 reward for information leading...
Andem off murder rap - DPP cites dead witnesses and insufficient evidence Reputed gang leader, 44-year-old Joel Andem, will not be tried for the murder of 48-year-old gas-station operator Sylvia Edwards. Director...
Hills denied bail Cash Plus boss Carlos Hill and his brother Bertram Hill will have to spend another month behind bars as they...
April 17, 2008
Case against Lyn-Sue stalled... again The State's case against police officer Carey Lyn-Sue, who admittedly made up evidence in order to secure a conviction against...
Councillor's son freed of murder Spanish Town labourer Arthur Patterson was on Tuesday acquitted of murdering Douglas Lynch, the son of People's National Party councillor...
Walker remains until ... Director of Elections Danville Walker will remain in his job, at least for now, despite the court ruling in the...
April 16, 2008
Churchman's murder leaves St Peter Claver members tearful Members of the St Peter Claver Church at St Joseph Road and other onlookers wept bitterly as they held an...
Cash Plus drama ...Carlos Hill and co-accused charged with fraud Head of failed alternative investment scheme Cash Plus Limited, Carlos Hill, and his brother Bertram Hill were yesterday slapped with...
Court rejects demand for release of poll results Zimbabwe's High Court has rejected an appeal for the immediate release of delayed presidential election results, dashing hopes for an...
Updates on some controversial police shootings A 19-year-old pregnant woman, Tian Wolf, was shot and killed by the police on September 18, 2007, during a...
Stolen car leads to Cuban bulbs Police personnel attached to the St Andrew North Division yesterday seized more than 3,000 light bulbs in Stony Hill, St...
Cash Plus PR consultant arrested As the Jamaica Constabulary Force continues its investigation into the financial affairs of Cash Plus' head Carlos Hill, a public...
Hill may have spread cash across continents Police investigators have revealed they will be seeking to confirm the existence of more than US$4.6 billion (J$326.6 billion) stashed...
April 15, 2008
'It really hit us hard' A grim silence hung over Moores Primary and Junior High School in Clarendon yesterday as students reflected on the death...
Man gets $18-million award for amputated foot The Government is to pay $18 million in damages to a man whose left foot was amputated above the...
Cash Plus boss may face charges today Charges are expected to be laid against Cash Plus boss Carlos Hill this morning in connection with his failed alternative...
April 14, 2008
Guard convicted of robbing a policewoman A security guard who at gunpoint robbed a policewoman of her motor car and firearm was yesterday convicted of charges...
Man, family escape death after early-morning robbery A Georges Plain man is expressing thanks and counting his luck as he and his family escaped unhurt following an...
Warrant issued for cop on murder charge A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a police constable accused of murder, who last Wednesday left court...
Appeal Court reserves judgement in ex-bankers' fraud case THE Court of Appeal on Wednesday reserved judgement in the appeals of former bank managers Melanie Tapper and Winston McKenzie,...
Three to face court for shooting CCN's Salkey MONTEGO BAY, St James - Three persons are booked to appear before the Western Regional Gun Court tomorrow in relation...
'Ban public smoking' - Pressure mounts against lighting up A powerful anti-drug lobby has added its voice to the chorus for a ban on lighting up in public spaces,...
April 13, 2008
Carlos Hill to be questioned tomorrow Bertram Hill, brother of Cash Plus boss Carlos Hill, and Peter Wilson, chief financial officer of the group, were questioned...
April 12, 2008
Man to be sentenced for crack possession A man who police arrested after 27 packets of crack cocaine were found on his person pleaded guilty to charges...
Downtown Kingston shooting claims one One of the victims of Thursday's shooting of 13 people in downtown Kingston succumbed to his injuries in the Kingston...
Cash Plus boss remains in jail Cash Plus boss Carlos Hill will spend the weekend in jail as he will not be questioned by the police...
Vaz loses: Court nullifies election as West Portland MP, orders by-election DARYL VAZ has vowed that he will be the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for Western Portland if he fails...
Suspect in murder of retired British nurse remanded MONTEGO BAY, St James - Omar Reid, the man who was arrested and charged with the death of 61-year-old retired...
April 11, 2008
Appeal court withholds decision on bankers' conspiracy case The Court of Appeal has reserved its decision in the appeal of former bankers Melanie Tapper and Winston McKenzie....
Man freed of murder charge A Home Circuit Court jury on Wednesday freed Ian Mighty, 32, construction worker of Duhaney Park, St Andrew, of a...
Accused in cop's killing remanded The three men charged with the murder of 22-year-old Constable Andre Chung, who was attached to Special Branch, appeared Wednesday...
Cash Plus boss, brother arrested Carlos Hill and his brother Bertram Hill were yesterday arrested during an early morning raid on Carlos Hill's upscale St...
April 10, 2008
'It was a hit' Investigators are theorising that Monday night's shooting death of popular Montego Bay chef Clive Wallace, outside his small restaurant here...
Gavin McNeil remanded Gavin McNeil, the civilian charged along with two policemen was remanded in custody until April 17 when his attorney is...
Three charged with murder of cop again remanded THREE men charged with last month's robbery and murder of Constable Andre Chung, whose bullet-riddled body was found in Barbican,...
Seven St Elizabeth men to answer gun, drug charges today SEVEN St Elizabeth men, including well known businessman Lumsden Ledgister, are scheduled to appear in the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court today...
Head of Chinese firm charged with electricity theft HUA Yuan Chun, managing director of Cosco Shanghai, a Chinese construction contracting company which employs workers on the Palmyra hotel...
Former MP's son pleads guilty to gun charge; fined $250,000 STEVE Mitchell, the son of former People's National Party member of parliament, Phyllis Mitchell, was fined $250,000 on gun and...
Olint appeal to be heard in June The appeal brought by investment club Olint Corporation Ltd against a Supreme Court ruling which allowed former Solicitor General Michael...
Lyn-Sue on bail Detective Constable Carey Lyn-Sue, who confessed to fabricating a statement against a murder accused, was granted bail when he appeared...
April 09, 2008
Parents of abandoned boys granted bail THE parents who police say abandoned their two little boys at a police station last Tuesday, were granted bail of...
St James chef shot dead MONTEGO BAY, ST James - Swift action by a police team here Monday night led to the apprehension of the...
Female inmate on the run AN inmate of the Fort Augusta Women's Prison is now on the run after escaping the clutches of prison warders...
Cpl Lyn-Sue to plead guilty today MONTEGO BAY, St James - Detective Corporal Carey Lyn-Sue will today plead guilty in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court...
Cop kidnap probe - Mother relieved, case into abducted son reopened The mother of 20-year-old Kemar Walters, one of two men who were allegedly kidnapped by policemen at a shopping plaza...
April 08, 2008
5-hour gunfight Heavily-armed gangs fought fierce street battles for more than five hours in August Town yesterday, killing two men and injuring...
Media barred from revealing Cash Plus receiver/manager THE media and others have been barred from naming the other person approved by the court last Monday along with...
Gun permits seized - Political activists, entertainers targeted Amid an internal audit of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), there are reports that the permits of several licensed firearm...
April 07, 2008
Heat on 6 cops MONTEGO BAY, St James - Four policemen were last Friday taken before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court to answer...
Gonsalves let off other sex charge THE DIRECTOR of public prosecutions (DPP) has reportedly stepped in again and discontinued a sexual assault charge against Prime Minister...
Chase ends in brutal murder A Hanover woman was gunned down execution-style in a neighbour's kitchen where she ran for refuge yesterday morning. Police reports...
Hanover cop held for bribery Two policemen have become the latest victims of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's drive to rid the organisation of corruption. One...
Main suspect charged with murder of British woman OMAR REID, a 30-year-old labourer from Somerton district in Hanover, was charged on Saturday with the murder of British national...
April 05, 2008
Man gets 7 years for killing mother, brothers A man who used a sledgehammer to inflict fatal head injuries to his mother and two brothers has been sentenced...
Weeding them out! 24 cops charged with corruption since January 1 The assistant commissioner of police in charge of the Anti-Corruption Branch, Justin Felice, says 24 members of the Jamaica Constabulary...
April 04, 2008
Cop, wrecker operator on bribery charges SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Police Constable Keffin Murray of the Spanish Town police and a wrecker driver Franklin Henry,...
Cops interrogate man accused of killing retired British nurse MONTEGO BAY, St James - Thirty-year-old labourer Omar Reid, a prime suspect in the murder of 61-year-old retired British nurse...
Parents of abandoned brothers arrested THE parents of the two boys who were allegedly abandoned at the Hunts Bay Police Station in St Andrew on...
Bomb trial on - Jamaican suspect to face US court United States magistrate Karla Spaulding yesterday found probable cause to detain the former United States Army soldier and Iraq contractor...
April 03, 2008
6th cabbie killed Nineteen-year-old Dwayne Pennicott of Hendon, Norwood on Tuesday became the second cabbie to be slain by gunmen in the second...
Lawsuit hovers over dump Armed with a battery of respiratory complaints from residents who live in close proximity to the municipal dump in Retirement,...
Witnesses' no-show stalls Danhai Williams' Pride trial THE disappearance of two key prosecution witnesses has resulted in a further delay in the trial of People's National Party...
Akhtar to appeal his ban PAKISTAN PACEMAN Shoaib Akhtar said yesterday he would appeal a five-year ban imposed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and...
Cop to face new murder trial Supreme Court Judge Kay Beckford has offered bail in the sum of $750,000 with sureties to Constable Glenroy McDermott, who...
Suspended policeman still on the job There is uncertainty surrounding the status of Detective Constable Carey Lyn-Sue, the policeman who was ordered suspended by Police Commissioner...
Rogue cops to be deported After being implicated in two controversial killings, they fled Jamaica for the United States, but they could not hide from...
'Iraq made him!' - War, mother's death created Jamaican 'bomber' His mother's unsolved murder and the explosive conditions in Iraq are being cited among the factors that contributed to the...
April 02, 2008
Five-year ban for Akhtar THE PAKISTAN Cricket Board (PCB) has banned fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar from international and domestic cricket for five years for...
'Bomber' on board - Jamaican arrested in Florida with explosive materials Prime Minister Bruce Golding last night announced that he had directed the commissioner of police to carry out thorough investigations...
April 01, 2008
Cop on murder charge granted bail A detective constable, who was two weeks ago ordered re-tried by the Court of Appeal for the 2006 murder of...
Lehman Brothers sues Marubeni for US$350 million Lehman Brothers filed a lawsuit against major Japanese trading company Marubeni on Monday, demanding US$350 million in damages in an...
Jamaican couple on mortgage scam charges denied bail Jamaican couple Delroy and Yvette Patterson, who are wanted in the United States to face charges in a multimillion-dollar mortgage...
