October 31, 2008
Dukharan sworn in as appeal judge Justice Mahadev Dukharan was on Wednesday sworn in as a Court of Appeal judge in a ceremony at King's House...
December 19 D-Day - Stern to learn fate of election petition appeal Jamaica Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Michael Stern will know on December 19 if the election petition filed against...
West Kingston tense after shooting deaths Sections of south St Andrew and west kingston were tense late last night, following two shooting incidents, which left at...
Cop freed of rape charge A policeman who was accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl was yesterday freed by a seven-member jury. Constable Newton...
October 30, 2008
Students get counselling after watchman's murder Counselling sessions are expected to begin today at the Anchovy High School in St James, where a watchman was shot...
Cops confirm body found is Ananda's THE WORST fears of the family of Ananda Dean were yesterday confirmed by the police, after a month of speculation...
October 29, 2008
Man gets life for best friend's murder FREDERICK Sterling, a Kingston labourer who stabbed his best friend to death in 2005 during a dispute, was sentenced to...
Still no leads in Swiss lecturer's murder MORE than a year after the brutal slaying of Swiss University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturer, Peter Vogel, police...
Kingston robbers held in Clarendon FOUR Kingston-based gunmen who police say pulled off a series of robberies in St Elizabeth, are now behind bars after...
Cop slapped with multiple charges A 29-year-old policeman is now behind bars after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled that he be...
Rosales faces corruption allegations Venezuela opened a corrup-tion probe of a leading opponent of President Hugo Chávez yesterday with less than a month to...
Toughen penalties on corrupt judges - lawyer ATTORNEY-AT-LAW CLYDE Williams has proposed harsher punishment for members of the judiciary and the legislature who are convicted of corruption....
October 28, 2008
Rape doubled in September Rape and carnal abuse cases doubled in September when compared with the corresponding month last year, according to the latest...
October 27, 2008
Trial continues for cops accused of murder THE trial of the three police officers implicated in the 2001 murder of a 23-year-old man at his place of...
The Gavel - Partisan divide slows down crime bill decision A VOCIFEROUS rejection by members of a joint select committee of Parliament to a recent charge that parliamentarians vote mainly...
October 26, 2008
Grange Hill farmer killed Rudolph Kerr, 47, a farmer of Camp Savannah in Grange Hill, Westmore-land, was gunned down at his home shortly after...
October 25, 2008
Female municipal police officer shot dead MONTEGO BAY, St James - Municipal police officer assigned to the St James Parish Council, Ann Marie Christie, 37, was...
Florida-based businessman sues World Wise Informal investment club World Wise Partners and its head, Noel Strachan, are being sued by a Florida-based client to recover...
Man freed after judge's error A judge's error has resulted in the Court of Appeal quashing the murder conviction of 37-year-old Kevin Tyndale, also...
October 24, 2008
Weeping witness recounts murder A prosecution witness wept Wednesday as she recounted how 23-year-old Richard Williams, also called 'Truie', was beaten by policemen and...
October 23, 2008
Gunman kills Courts delivery man FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Steven Bartley, a delivery man contracted to furniture retailer Courts Jamaica Limited, was shot dead by one of three...
Murder case delayed to gather more evidence The trial of three men charged with the murder of two good Samaritans was put off Tuesday to allow the...
Two Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) workers suspended The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has suspended two of its employees who were arrested in Montego Bay, St James,...
Montego Bay doctor on rape charge A prominent Montego Bay-based doctor was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $250,000 in the city's Resident Magistrate's Court...
October 22, 2008
Ban firearms in nightclubs - Green Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green wants legislation to prevent licensed firearm holders from taking their weapons inside nightclubs and...
Nightclub soldier was under probe for 2007 shooting The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) corporal involved in Monday morning's shooting at the Double Diamond nightclub in St Andrew was...
October 21, 2008
..., five injured in fit of rage - Witness: 'Browning's' rebuff sparked row Senior police investigators are still trying to determine what led to the fatal shooting of at least four persons in...
October 20, 2008
NCB appeals Olint ruling THE NATIONAL Commercial Bank (NCB) has filed an appeal against a Supreme Court ruling, which quashed its application last month...
Farmer freed of murder A St Ann farmer was freed of a murder charge last week after the sole eyewitness failed to remember vital...
Dabdoub receives notes of evidence People's National Party candidate Abe Dabdoub has received the notes of evidence in the dual-citizenship case against Jamaica Labour Party...
October 19, 2008
'No bail' A high court judge on Friday refused bail applications for three persons accused of serious crimes, including murder, and advised...
Cops detain 20 people in 9 raids in Kingston, St Catherine MORE than 20 persons are now behind bars following nine simultaneous police operations in St Catherine and the Corporate Area...
October 18, 2008
Boy who confessed to killing 11-y-o remanded A 16-year-old boy who confessed to the grisly murder of 11-year-old Aamir Scott, whose remains were found in a rice...
Pharmacist abducted, raped, murdered POLICE have warned members of the public to take registered public transportation, following yesterday's gruesome discovery of the charred remains...
Pastor attacked, chopped by man in church All hell broke loose yesterday at the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in New Kingston, where Brazilian pastor...
Cop Murdered - Second policewoman to be killed since start of the year District Constable Vinnette Guthrie was yesterday murdered in her Hanover home. The 39-year-old mother became the second policewoman to be...
October 17, 2008
Witness links three to Chin murders A witness has tied three men to the murder of 56-year-old businessman and justice of the peace, Winston Chin, and...
Man found guilty of St Elizabeth double murder The six-week double murder trial of 39-year-old Garland Marriott of Boon Hall, St Andrew, ended yesterday with the jury deliberating...
October 16, 2008
New breed of bank robbers! THIEVES yesterday unscrewed and made off with an Automated Banking Machine (ABM) unit containing about $4 million from a gas...
Jamaica hosts 25th lawyers' conference A host of legal minds, attorneys, judges and chief justices from as far as Australia, New Zealand, England and as...
October 15, 2008
Bitter murder case put off The case of Kingston businessman, 42-year-old Stephen Bitter, who is charged with the murder of his 90-year-old grandfather, has been...
Family's four-day search ends in grisly find Four days of uncertainty and anxiety over a missing St Elizabeth man ended with the discovery of his body partially...
October 14, 2008
Sex-crime crisis - Special task force pushes for House debate THE TASK force established to examine the increasing incidence of violence against children will recommend to Prime Minister Bruce Golding...
October 13, 2008
Most-wanted men get four years for firearms Two men, who made Jamaica's Most Wanted list while crime ran rampant late last year, were both convicted last Thursday...
October 11, 2008
Swedish couple hacked to death in Tobago PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - A Swedish couple was hacked to death in their home in a tourist district of the...
Tiler convicted for murder A panel of 12 jurors in the Home Circuit Court yesterday took just over an hour to convict 32-year-old tiler...
Teacher convicted for attempted buggery, indecent assault DELROY Givans, the St Catherine teacher who operated the popular Mr Green's extra lesson centre in Spanish Town, was Thursday...
News briefs - High-profile murder case delayed by forensics The forensic reports in the case of the four men, who are accused of murdering four men, while they were...
October 10, 2008
Customs employee takes Danville Walker to court Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker is now facing his first legal battle as head of the Jamaica Customs Department.... Continue...
October 09, 2008
Wounding with intent trial set for Dec 9 Jeffery Anderson, a resident from Falmouth, has been remanded into police custody pending the payment of a $40,000 bail bond...
Trio pleads guilty to larceny Dwayne Reid, a 23-year-old taxi driver of Wakefield Trelawny, Joseph Young of Falmouth and Karcia Graham of St James are...
October 08, 2008
Cop gets four years for assault SPECIAL Corporal Leonard Nelson was last Friday sentenced to four years' imprisonment at hard labour for assaulting a taxi operator...
Stanford clash in doubt after court ruling THE US$20 million Stanford Super Series is in jeopardy following a British High Court ruling yesterday that has ordered the...
Court upholds ruling to disbar lawyer The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling by the disciplinary committee of the General Legal Council that attorney-at-law Jonathan...
October 07, 2008
DPP office bungle A charge of carnal abuse against a schoolboy was not withdrawn in the Home Circuit Court yesterday because the youth...
Citigroup sues Wachovia, Wells Fargo for US$60b Citigroup Inc on Monday said it has filed a complaint in New York Supreme Court against Wachovia, Wells Fargo, and...
Altercation lands cop four-year sentence Special Corporal Leonard Nelson, who had 25 years' service in the police force, was on Friday sentenced to four years'...
October 06, 2008
Jones Town man freed of murder Thirty-three-year-old labourer Clayon Grant walked from the Home Circuit Court a happy man last Wednesday after a 12-member jury acquitted...
October 05, 2008
Simpson guilty of armed robbery, kidnapping Thirteen years to the day after being acquitted of killing his wife and her friend in Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson...
October 03, 2008
NCB-Olint suit set for trial next March The civil suit in which National Commercial Bank (NCB) is seeking to close the accounts of investment club Olint Corporation...
Sleuth gets 3 weeks to probe bribery The investigating officer in the case against two St James policemen answering corruption charges in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's...
Tougher laws loom for first-time motorists Minister of National Security, Colonel Trevor MacMillan, yesterday outlined three amendments being proposed to the Road Traffic Act at the...
Ananda case still wide open Investigators have started retracing their steps in an attempt to get closer to discovering those responsible for the disappearance of...
October 02, 2008
Go back home! Thirty-three-year-old Mark Christopher Blanton, a United States fugitive whose cover here was blown by the Westmoreland police, is to be...
Robber killed in shoot-out at KFC restaurant One of three thieves who on Monday tried to rob the KFC restaurant on Red Hills Road in St Andrew...
Cops to question aunt of infant allegedly sodomised by big brother POLICE were yesterday preparing to interview the aunt of the nine-month-old child who was allegedly sodomised and killed on Monday,...
Cash Plus requests withdrawn Two applications seeking directions from the Supreme Court in relation to investment scheme Cash Plus Ltd were withdrawn Tuesday. Bank...
C&W to pay $1m for tripping man Cable and Wireless Jamaica (C&WJ) has withdrawn its appeal against a Supreme Court ruling that it is to pay $800,000...
Crime bill not in keeping with the Constitution THE BAIL (INTERIM PROVISIONS FOR SPECIFIED OFFENCES) ACT One of the crime bills being considered by a joint select committee...
Cop faces the music tomorrow A policeman who used a baton to hit a man in the right side of the face, resulting in the...
Gunmen attack family, kill two Three members of the same family were shot, two fatally, as they sat inside their business place on King Street...
October 01, 2008
Motorist granted bail after fatal Mobay crash A motorist who allegedly hit and killed a pedestrian and injured another to avoid a collision on the Rose Hall...
Police present seven reasons for 60 days THE POLICE High Command yesterday presented seven cases, detailing alleged crimes committed by accused persons on bail, as they sought...
...- Nine-month-old molested, slain - Over 50 children killed since January While forensic experts yesterday tried to determine whether a body found in Belvedere, St Andrew was that of 11-year-old Ananda...
