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August 30, 2008

 IOC files lawsuit against Greek coach  The International Olympic Committee filed a lawsuit yesterday against a Greek track coach after two of his athletes were expelled...


August 29, 2008

 St Mary cop murdered  Not even the pouring rains of Tropical Storm Gustav were enough to quiet the gunmen who continued their murderous rampage...


August 28, 2008

 Threesome facing wounding charges  Two men and an 18-year-old woman are facing several charges in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court arising from a...


August 27, 2008

 Lucrative 20/20 game in doubt after court injunction  BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - The future of the lucrative Stanford Twenty20 for 20 clash between the Stanford Superstars and England...


 Supreme Court rules out Nestle employee's case  A former employee of Nestle JMP Jamaica Ltd has lost his case in the Supreme Court to recover compensation from...


August 26, 2008

 Appeal filed for Martina  The Netherlands Antilles has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to restore Churandy Martina as the third-place...


August 25, 2008

 Police crack house-breaking ring  Six men are now in police custody in connection with a series of break-ins in the Barbican, Shortwood and Half-Way-Tree...


 BSI probing police killing of mentally challenged man  The Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) is probing the fatal shooting of a man by the police at the intersection...


 Prime suspect in corporal's death slain  HOURS before the funeral of slain police Corporal Rodney Henry, the prime suspect in his murder was cut down in...


August 23, 2008

 JP calls court sessions illegal  Constant complaints from persons who attend the Petty Sessions Court in Spanish Town have led Senior Justice of the Peace...


August 22, 2008

 Businessman files US$539,000 suit against World Wise  World Wise Partners Limited, the latest investment club to be issued a cease-and-desist order by the Financial Services Commission (FSC),...


 Man charged with harbouring most wanted fugitive  Police on Wednesday charged a man with two counts of harbouring Guyana's most wanted fugitive, Rondell 'Fineman' Rawlins, and members...


 Suspect in Mullany murder case denied bail  The fifth suspect charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a British honeymooning couple was on Wednesday denied bail...


August 21, 2008

 Olint faces another lawsuit  DAVID Smith and his troubled foreign exchange outfit, Olint Investment Limited and Olint TCI, have been named as defendants in...


August 20, 2008

 Trinidad to amend legislation to deal with death penalty  PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - The Trinidad and Tobago government says it will seek to amend existing legislation to...


 Karadzic alleges war crime judge biased  Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has applied to the UN war crimes tribunal to disqualify a Dutch judge from...


 Trinidadian woman guilty of killing husband  A New York court has found Trinidadian Kelly Forbes guilty of first-degree manslaughter for strangling her American-born husband last year....


 Murders spike in Clarendon  The latest spate of nine homicides in six days has pushed Clarendon's murder count this year to 109, 26 more...


 Judge questions death sentences left hanging  Supreme Court Judge Donald McIntosh on Monday expressed concern that the Government was not carrying out the death penalty. He...


August 19, 2008

 25-y-o man sentenced to death for double murder  TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD August Town fisherman Junior 'Simple' Campbell has been sentenced to death for the murder of a couple within his...


August 18, 2008

 Cop injured during shoot-out in Westmoreland  Ace crime fighter in western Jamaica Corporal Clive 'Karate Georgie' Lawrence was injured during a police shoot-out with an armed...


August 17, 2008

 Injunction stops demolition plans  The Supreme Court has put the brakes on plans by the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) to demolish a...


August 15, 2008

 TVJ takes legal action in Olympics broadcast row with CMC  Television Jamaica (TVJ) yesterday said it had commenced legal proceedings to ensure that the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) disallows any...


 MERCILESS!  MERCILESS gunmen about 4:00 yesterday morning went to a tenement yard on Elgin Road in Kingston 5 with one mission....


 ...larceny case - Says computer-generated evidence insufficient  A criminal case, in which the prosecution relied on computer-generated documents to prove its case, has been thrown out by...


 Police seize 'Bungles' vehicles  As part of their investigations into corruption charges against Superintendent Harry 'Bungles' Daley, the police have seized two of the...


August 14, 2008

 MoBay Com College student fined for ganja  Andre Fullwood, a Montego Bay Community College student, was on Monday fined $24,000 or three months and given a six...


 RM gives ganja-smuggling mom a chance  A 37-year-old mother of nine, who admitted to trying to smuggle a half-pound of ganja in her underwear, was spared...


 Police nab last two suspects in botched robbery attempt  POLICE in the St Andrew North Division believe they have nabbed the last two suspects of a gang of four...


 Marcus Garvey's great grandson on carnal abuse charge  DEVON Garvey, the great grandson of National Hero Marcus Garvey, is now facing a charge of carnal abuse stemming from...


 Judge refuses former Finsac accountant permission to travel overseas  Nicasha Edwards, the former Finsac (Financial Sector Adjustment Company) employee who allegedly swindled several millions of dollars from the state-run...


August 13, 2008

 Woman on fraud charge denied bail  A 24-year-old woman who allegedly defrauded $3 million from the City of Kingston Co-operative Credit Union branch in Montego Bay,...


August 12, 2008

 One killed in Seaview  A two-year-old boy was among two persons left nursing gunshot wounds yesterday, after a gun attack in Seaview Gardens, Kingston,...


 Muirhead's case returns to Court of Appeal  The United Kingdom Privy Council has sent back the murder case of 30-year-old Gerald Muirhead of McKoy Lane, Kingston 11,...


 KSAC's demolition plan devastates shop owners  Tears streamed down the face of one bar operator as she begged for more time while the anger was clear...


 Rapists fuel concerns out west  An eight-year-old St James girl is the latest victim to suffer at the hands of rapists who went on a...


August 10, 2008

 US investor sues tourism agencies  AN AMERICAN investor has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo)...


August 09, 2008

 Carlos Hill discloses global assets, spared jail  CARLOS Hill, the embattled former Cash Plus boss, was yesterday spared jail time after an order for his imprisonment for...


 Bodies found in Springvale pit identified  SPRINGVALE, St Elizabeth - Police have identified the male and female whose bullet-riddled bodies were found on Thursday in a...


August 08, 2008

 D-day for Hill to disclose global assets  FORMER Cash Plus boss Carlos Hill must today make full disclosure of his global assets in the Supreme Court or...


 United States - Mayor ordered jailed after bond violation  Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, charged with perjury and other felonies for his testimony in a civil trial, was ordered to jail...


August 07, 2008

 Thieves break into residence of police chief  PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) - Police officers in Trinidad are carrying out investigations to determine who broke into the...


 Cheating students get lenient sentences  PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Magistrate Adrian Darmanie has sentenced two students in Trinidad to community service after they...


 T&T soldiers extradited to face murder charges in US  PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Four people, including two members of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment, were extradited to...


August 06, 2008

 Cease-and-desist order was expected, says World Wise  The legal representative of World Wise Partners Limited said a cease-and-desist order issued on the investment scheme yesterday by the...


 Million-dollar bail for 'Bungles'   A curfew was imposed yesterday on Police Superintendent Harry 'Bungles' Daley when he was granted bail in the sum...


August 05, 2008

 Another night in jail for 'Bungles'  Embattled senior police officer Superintendent Harry 'Bungles' Daley was forced to spend yet another night in custody at the Horizon...


 Brazil Courts, military question Amazon land policy  Deep in the northernmost reaches of the Amazon jungle, a land conflict between rice farmers and a handful of Indian...


 Bush signs bill to settle Libyan lawsuits  President George W. Bush signed legislation yesterday that allows the State Department to settle all remaining lawsuits against Libya by...


August 04, 2008

 Two policemen murdered on weekend  TWO MEMBERS of the Jamaica Constabulary Force were murdered by gunmen Saturday evening, the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) reported yesterday....


August 03, 2008

 Daley still behind bars  SUPERINTENDENT HARRY 'Bungles' Daley is to face another round of questioning by police tomorrow in relation to allegations of corruption...


August 02, 2008

 Body found on Bounty's property  The body of a man was found yesterday with nine gunshot wounds at an unfinished house owned by popular deejay,...


 Briefs...  A former president of the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) has been convicted of perjury, after lying at a bail hearing...


August 01, 2008

 Bus attack leaves passenger headless  A man aboard a Greyhound bus stabbed a fellow passenger, Canadian police said yesterday, and witnesses said the victim was...


 Karadzic appears at UN war crimes tribunal  Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared at the United Nation's (UN) Yugoslav war crimes tribunal for the first time...


 Students in CXC scam to be sentenced  Trinidad Magistrate Adrian Darmanie will decide on Monday the fate of two persons who pleaded guilty to having prior knowledge...


 Reward offered for killers of British tourist  Hoteliers and other business entities in Antigua have offered more than EC$350,000 (US$133,587) for the capture of whoever was responsible...


 Guns, magazines seized at Daley's residence  Up to late yesterday afternoon, police and military personnel were still at Superintendent Harry Daley's house in Ebony Vale, St...


 Spencer, co-accused for court Sept 15  Former junior minister in the Ministry of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, Kern Spencer, and his two co-accused in the...


 Warrant out for Bounty Killer's arrest  A bench warrant has been ordered for the arrest of controversial dancehall artiste Rodney 'Bounty Killer' Price, following his no-show...


 Senior cop jailed - Harry 'Bungles' Daley arrested on corruption charges  One of the island's best-known crime fighters, Super-intendent Harry Daley, spent last night behind bars at the Horizon Remand Centre...


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