May 31, 2008
Food vendors in fear of Clarendon crime Food Vendors in Claren-don are now saying they are afraid to sell their goods in the parish for fear they...
Gleaner auction bidder killed A man who was successful in bidding for a refrigerator in The Gleaner's Western Bureau Western Focus auction last year,...
May 30, 2008
Graham found guilty ATHLETICS COACH Trevor Graham was found guilty yesterday of one count of lying to federal investigators about his relationship with...
...Davis sues C&W Jamaica - Telcoms claims former boss breached authority Rodney Davis, terminated last year as chief executive officer of Cable and Wireless Jamaica, has sued his former employers to...
Would-be cattle thief butchered One of five men who allegedly attempted to steal cattle from a pasture in Hibernia, Manchester, was chopped to death...
More murders across Jamaica Violent killings continued Wednesday night into yesterday in St James, Clarendon and the Corporate Area. At least seven more persons...
Crime plan clamour - More murders across Jamaica The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) yesterday demanded that the Government share with the country its approach to curb...
May 29, 2008
Construction worker freed of murder Absent witnesses on Monday forced the Crown to offer no further evidence against 32-year-old construction worker Leon Henry of Spanish...
Teen to serve time for assaulting principal The 15-year-old student who was charged with assaulting the principal of Oracabessa High School earlier this month will have to...
'It can't go on' - Two killed in Kingston, three in St James Murders continued yesterday with a brazen afternoon attack where seven persons were shot, two fatally, at 25 Prince of Wales...
May 28, 2008
Shock, disbelief at Fitz-Henley murder Sharon Hay-Webster, member of Parliament for South Central St Catherine, is still trying to come to grips with the brutal...
Most early childhood centres breaching law The Government has allocated $200 million to assist early childhood institutions that are in danger of closure because they have...
Cops target Clarendon hot spots As murders and shootings in Clarendon increase, the police there have widened the scope of their operation with help from...
Mom rues slain son The dark clouds rolled in as a single raindrop fell to the ground, the concrete is still stained with the...
Gym instructor gets off gun rap A gym instructor has been freed in the Gun Court of charges of wounding and illegal possession of firearm. Steven...
Appeal court frees murder convicts The Court of Appeal on Monday freed two men, who were convicted in 2005 of the murder of Veronica Bennett,...
Former Cash Plus exec wants bodyguards The former Cash Plus manager, who brought the application to have the investment scheme put into receivership, has put in...
Attacking Praedial Larceny - We are losing millions - Farmers From Seaforth, St Thomas, to Windsor Forest, Westmoreland, farmers are pleading for an end to praedial larceny, saying they have...
May 27, 2008
Wanted: slaughter permit system now - Attacking praedial larceny Dr Karl Wellington, chairman of the Jamaica Red Poll Cattle Breeders' Society, says historical animal-control systems would be more effective...
Construction worker gets reduced jail time A man who was sentenced in 2006 to 15 years' imprisonment for murder will instead serve 10 years' imprisonment for...
JP appealing conviction - Claims judge erred with non-existent law Since a Justice of the Peace (JP) was jailed in May for three months for negligence contrary to common-law, there...
Portmore Municipal Council being sued A group of residents from Portmore, St Catherine, is suing the municipal council to recover money it claimed was raised...
Gunmen shoot pastor Pastor George Simpson of the Mt Carey Baptist Church in St James was hospitalised in serious but stable condition yesterday...
... - Residents shocked alleged cop-killers were their neighbours Following yesterday's fatal shooting of two men implicated in Friday's gun murders of two policemen in west Kingston, the police...
May 26, 2008
Shields vows to nab Trench Town cop killers DEPUTY COMMISSIONER of Police Mark Shields yesterday said the police were hot on the trail of the gunmen who killed...
May 25, 2008
Jamaicans overseas to sue Hill A LARGE group of Cash Plus investors in the United States are preparing to join their counterparts in Jamaica who...
Displaced farm workers seek compensation AS MANY AS 4,000 Jamaican former farm workers, who were shunted off Florida's sugar cane fields following the mechanisation of...
'No more violence':... RESIDENTS OF trench Town in south St Andrew, where two members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) were fatally gunned...
May 24, 2008
AMBUSHED - Cops killed in Trench Town They were ambushed and shot repeatedly. Within seconds, the bodies of constables Cornell Grant and Delano Lawrence were lying on...
May 23, 2008
Greenwood bodies recovered from well At 9:45 a.m. Wednesday, firefighters from the Montego Bay Fire Department revved up their engines to lower an undertaker on...
Christie to probe 'sweetheart deals' Contractor General Greg Christie yesterday revealed his office will conduct formal investigations into claims, by finance and the public service...
May 22, 2008
Better benefits for security guards INSURANCE BENEFITS for industrial security guards are to be increased effective January 1, 2009. Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel...
Bunting recants - Apologises to Shaw PETER BUNTING, Member of Parliament for Central Manchester, yesterday retracted statements he made last week accusing Finance and the Public...
May 21, 2008
No bail for man charged with beating baby to death A man, who allegedly punched his two-year-old daughter to death, was remanded yesterday after a failed bail application in the...
Crackdown on illegal DVDs Superintendent Fitz Bailey, head of the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, yesterday confirmed the arrest...
Vaz remains in House until appeal is heard Member of Parliament for West Portland Daryl Vaz is to remain in Parliament until the Court of Appeal makes a...
Experts sorting out $1.8m in seized weapons, ammo Government forensic experts have begun processing the cache of 13 illegal guns seized yesterday morning in Kingston. The weapons and...
May 20, 2008
Banker makes court appearance Lawyers for embattled banker, Finton De Bourg, say they intend to appeal the million dollar bail granted to their client...
Attorney faces fraud claims Well-known attorney-at-law and former talk show host, Antonnette Haughton-Cardenas, has been summoned before the Yallahs Resident Magistrate's Court to answer...
June deadline for case file in British nurse's murder The prosecution has been given until June 16 to complete the case file in the matter against the St James...
...- Cash Plus must recover funds on failed transactions - receivers' report CASH PLUS lenders have received more bad news as the report of the receiver/manager for the failed entity found that...
May 18, 2008
Police awaits forensic report on fire victims Following the deaths of five persons in a two-hour period yesterday, investigators at the St Catherine North Police Division are...
May 17, 2008
Briefs Teens plead guilty in deacon case The three male teenagers who were arrested and charged, along with a church deacon...
Further delay for Cuban light-bulb case The fraud case involving former state minister for energy, Kern Spencer, and his two associates, Coleen Wright and Rodney Chin,...
...seat under threat - Mitchell appeal win jeopardises Mair's place in Parliament PEOPLE'S NATIONAL PARTY (PNP) caretaker for St Catherine North Eastern, Phyllis Mitchell, yesterday received the green light from the Court...
May 16, 2008
Longer wait for Cash Plus investors Cash Plus investors will have to wait at least another month to hear whether they will be getting back money...
Rampage out west - Gunmen shoot six, three fatally As the crime wave continues to grip the country, gunmen shot six more persons, three fatally, in western Jamaica in...
Kern returns to court THE CUBAN light-bulb spotlight will today be refocused on North East St Elizabeth Member of Parliament (MP) Kern Spencer and...
Vaz appeals - New turn in West Portland battle The Court battle for the West Portland seat has intensified with Member of Parliament (MP) Daryl Vaz filing a surprise...
May 15, 2008
Dabdoub files appeal against McCalla ruling People's National Party candidate Abe Dabdoub is going full speed ahead in his bid to be declared member of parliament...
May 14, 2008
Colombia - 14 warlords extradited to the US Colombia extradited 14 paramilitary warlords to the United States yesterday on drug-related charges in a surprise move that brought praise...
It's official, Samuels out for two years West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels was banned from cricket for two years yesterday for breaking rules intended to prevent...
Convicted arms broker charged in Jamaica deal A FLORIDA man awaiting sentencing for illegally exporting military items to the United Arab Emirates is facing new federal charges...
May 13, 2008
Migratory criminals blamed for Manchester lawlessness The Manchester police high command says migratory criminals and manpower shortage are the major challenges to their anti-crime initiatives. "Shortage...
Samuels facing two-year ban - Found guilty of violating ICC rules Jamaica and West Indies middle order batsman Marlon Samuels is facing at least a two-year ban from all cricket. In...
May 12, 2008
Cops hold main suspect in August Town violence Police on Friday reported that one of the main suspects in the recent escalation of gun violence in the volatile...
Woman cop among four murdered on weekend Police yesterday identified a woman who was found at North Parade in downtown Kingston on Saturday as a member of...
Kingfish seeks Clarendon wanted men Operation Kingfish is seeking the following men who are suspects in cases of murder and other serious crimes committed in...
Mother's Day grief - Valiant stepson shot to death at entrance to police station Everton Salkey was not her biological son, but his death the night before ruined Mother's Day for her. Edna Salkey,...
May 11, 2008
Spotlight on justice: Case load too heavy for courts THE LOCAL justice system has been fraught with adjournments and delays that have worked in favour of defendants and their...
Spotlight on justice - Shortage of judges delays justice THE SHORTAGE of judges is one of the causes of the huge backlog of cases in the courts, which is...
May 10, 2008
Man who cut out girlfriend's tongue gets life in prison for murder SANTA ANA, California (AP) - A man who cut out his girlfriend's tongue and let her bleed to death has...
'Deedo' Nembhard to know fate on July 4 COURT of Appeal judges yesterday reserved judgment in the appeal hearing challenging the extradition of alleged Jamaican drug kingpin Norris...
Man gets 18 months for attempting to export cocaine A man who attempted to export more than a pound of cocaine to England was sentenced to 18 months in...
Cash Plus receiver/ managers to present findings Monday THE court appointed joint receiver/managers of the failed Cash Plus pyramid scheme will on Monday present their findings on the...
Truck driver involved in fatal accident turns self in MONTEGO BAY, St James - The truck driver involved in Wednesday's fatal three-vehicle collision along the Rose Hall main road...
Woman drops wounding charge against child's father DESPITE the pain and the scars from a stabbing under her left eye with a kitchen knife, Stacy-Ann Morris on...
News briefs Cops probe German's death The Portland police are sifting through clues to determine the circumstances that led to the murder...
'Cops seizing licensed guns without giving receipts' A GOVERNMENT senator yesterday raised concerns that the police have not been providing receipts to some licensed firearm holders whose...
Millwood loses appeal The Ezroy Millwood-led National Transport Cooperative Society (NTCS) yesterday lost its legal battle in the Court of Appeal to restore...
May 09, 2008
Jamaican bomb suspect held without bail until trial A Jamaican man arrested in Florida last month for attempting to carry pipe-bomb components onto a flight has been ordered...
Danhai has knack for beating the rap IF DANHAI Williams ever decides to throw in the towel as a contractor and make a career change, he should...
Hinds to take charge of Clarendon Crime-torn communities of Clarendon are to get more attention as the Government moves to deal with the increasing number of...
Kingston crime chief LES GREEN, the assistant commissioner of police who heads the Major Investigation Task Force (MIT), will as of Monday lead...
May 08, 2008
Two murdered in little London LITTLE LONDON, Westmoreland-Residents of this normally quiet community are still distraught after rampaging gunmen went on a robbery and shooting...
May 07, 2008
Samuels' WICB hearing this weekend KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) - Media reports indicate that Marlon Samuels will face the Code of Ethics & Disciplinary Committee of...
May 06, 2008
Smuggled Haitians get measly wages for work in Jamaica HAITIANS smuggled into Jamaica as part of a human smuggling ring have been receiving measly wages for work done on...
Gangland murder rocks Montego Bay The horrifying killing spree, which has been rocking St James within recent weeks, claimed yet another victim on Friday night...
Lyn-Sue gets six months for fabricating evidence Detective Constable Carey Lyn-Sue, who pleaded guilty to perverting the course of public justice after a much-publicised confession to fabricating...
May 05, 2008
Foreigners said involved in human trafficking Jamaican and Haitian authorities confirmed last week that a number of Haitians who end up on Jamaica's shores are victims...
UWI professor's daughter kidnapped Members of the Anti-Kid-napping Squad, the Special Anti-Crime Unit of Trinidad and Tobago and the Inter-Agency Task Force were searching...
CASE property under threat from squatters Property owned and occupied by the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) in Portland, is under threat from a...
Toddler shot dead A toddler was among at least nine persons killed on a bloody weekend across Jamaica, with most of the violence...
May 04, 2008
Appeal Court returns Khemlani case to Supreme Court The following article was published on April 28 with inaccuracies which we now correct. The Court of Appeal on April...
May 03, 2008
GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER: NEW YORK, USA - Democracies from Colombia to India and Russia to the Philippines are among the worst nations in...
Two killed in St James Fear has gripped the quiet community of Mount Carey in St James, following the gruesome killings of two residents in...
Hill brothers granted bail, Carlos still behind bars Efforts are being made to get the required documentation organised for Cash Plus boss Carlos Hill to take up a...
May 02, 2008
Campbell sues FirstCaribbean Bank, Sonia Christie for $30-m FirstCaribbean Bank and its senior executive, Sonia Christie, who was sent on leave in the wake of the Trafigura scandal...
Former PNP caretaker freed of carnal abuse Lloyd Myrie, former People's National Party (PNP) caretaker for the North West St Elizabeth constituency, has been freed of a...
...Slain - 'It's the lowest dem man here gone now,' say residents Sitting in front of shops and houses, several women and a few men engaged in deep conversation on Balcombe Drive...
Lyn-Sue to be sentenced Three months after confessing that he made up a statement and falsified witness in a murder case, Detective Constable Carey...
'I will not be swayed!' - Dabdoub will take case to Privy Council if necessary People's National Party (PNP) caretaker Abe Dabdoub says he is prepared to take his battle for the West Portland seat...
May 01, 2008
Bloody day in Southside DESPITE the desperate pleas of 68-year-old Marjorie Miles, who grovelled and begged for her life, gunmen pumped several bullets into...
NCB barred from closing Olint accounts The National Commercial Bank (NCB) has been barred from closing the three accounts of investment club Olint Corporation Ltd until...
St Thomas teen on gun, ammo charges A 16-year-old St Thomas boy has been charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition Tuesday following the seizure of...
Half-mil cut for wrong surgery The Government is to pay $500,000 in damages to a man who had surgery performed on the wrong side of...
Montego Bay mob kills gunman - One hospitalised, another on the run One of three alleged gunmen who held a man hostage inside his house at Irwin, St James, Tuesday was fatally...
