January 31, 2009
Legal battle over Jackson's 'Thriller' video Broadway producer James L. Nederlander said he's hopeful a legal duel over Thriller rights can be resolved. John Landis, who...
King received eight fatal wounds - doctor CONSULTANT FORENSIC pathologist Dr Ere Seshaiah testified yesterday that there were eight fatal wounds on the body of 64-year-old Ambassador...
January 30, 2009
Cocaine found on cargo boat FIVE FOREIGNERS are in custody after cocaine was discovered on a boat they were travelling in. The vessel, MV Rothon,...
Jealous boyfriend found guilty of manslaughter A Jealous man who chopped off the head of his former common-law wife was found guilty of manslaughter and will...
Fingerprint in King's bedroom identified The fingerprint of the man accused of murdering 64-year-old Ambassador Peter King was found on a Guinness bottle in King's...
January 29, 2009
Proposed sexual offences act accepted in the House of Parliament A proposed Sexual Offences Act, which treats harshly crimes of a sexual nature, was accepted by both sides of the...
January 28, 2009
Lawyer sues Government Attorney-at-law Hugh Thompson has filed a suit against the Government seeking special damages of $100 million for loss of business...
Common-law husband questioned about suspected arson/murder Albert Scott, the common-law husband of Angella Smith, who was shot and then burnt along with her three grandchildren in...
NCB given green light to close Olint accounts The United Kingdom Privy Council yesterday gave the National Commercial Bank (NCB) the green light to close the accounts of...
January 27, 2009
United States - Impeachment trial to proceed without governor Taking his defence to the airwaves rather than his impeachment trial, Governor Rod Blagojevich lashed out at his accusers yesterday...
I saw accused at King's home, says eyewitness A MEDICAL doctor testified yesterday that on the night of March 19, 2006, he saw the accused, 26-year-old Sheldon Pusey,...
Boy admits to killing mother The teenage son of Jamaican immigrants calmly admitted in court yesterday that he beat his mother to death with a...
Burnt alive! - Children, grandmother murdered in brutal attack ARETHA SMITH had not seen her children since December 21. She had got them ready, packed their clothes and took...
January 26, 2009
Woman plunged knife into other's groin Esmine Richards, a 28-year-old mother of two children, was Friday convicted for the brutal stabbing murder of a female neighbour...
Fifth suspect arrested in sand theft probe A fifth suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with the alleged theft of 500 truckloads of sand from...
Gunmen kill four in brutal attack on family Four persons including a 14-year-old girl were late Saturday night shot dead and a six-year-old boy left nursing gunshot wounds,...
Man given life sentence for double murder The man who was convicted last year October for the murder of 56-year-old businessman and justice of the peace, Winston...
Bursar attacked at Hanover school The Green Island police in Hanover are probing a case of grievous bodily harm following an attack at the Green...
January 25, 2009
Stealing land - Con artists transfer titles without the knowledge of the owner LOCAL CON ARTISTS have turned their attention to land titles, ripping off legitimate landowners of millions of dollars. Last year,...
January 23, 2009
Customs money seizures The Customs Department has passed over US$565,160 to the treasury, the proceeds of cash that was seized from travellers through...
TCL gets a hearing in court's first major ruling on CSME treaty The Caribbean Court of Justice has held that private firms, who believe they are injured or wrongfully denied commercial benefits...
Chaos at KC- Students attack teacher - Police, education ministry called in Two students of Kingston College (KC) were yesterday taken into police custody for their involvement in a violent incident that...
January 22, 2009
Clarke's living arrangements remain the same Retired president and CEO of Scotiabank, William 'Bill' Clarke, will continue to live in the house assigned to him until...
Kern trial set for June 22 THE TRIAL of the accused in the Cuban light-bulb scandal will begin in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on...
January 20, 2009
House allows jump in juror age, summons to TRN holders THE House of Representatives has approved an increase in the maximum age for jurors from 65 to 70. The change...
Murder convict's appeal denied The Court of Appeal has ruled that the sentence of life imprisonment and order that a murder convict serve 20...
Trial on for King murder accused THE TRIAL of the man accused of the murder of 64-year-old Ambassador Peter King began yesterday before a 12-member jury...
January 17, 2009
Stewart's lawsuit dismissed THE SUPREME Court has struck out a lawsuit brought against chairman of Superclubs Resorts John Issa by head of Sandals...
Cop involved in carnal abuse case denied bail The policeman, who is accused of carnal abuse involving a 14-year-old girl who went missing a few weeks after she...
Kilancholly killer to hang The man convicted of the brutal murder of three children at Kilancholly, St Mary, in January 2005, became the first...
January 16, 2009
Supreme Ventures sued over debt repayment Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) has been sued by an international company that SVL transacted business with before it went public...
January 15, 2009
Bethel Town hairdresser remanded on ganja charge... again Alleged drug smuggler, Cynthia Woolery was again remanded on appearing before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrates Court on Monday.... Continue...
...can't be trusted, needs to be jailed - Judge says arguments not compelling Prosecutors say that besieged money manager Bernard Madoff needs to be sent to jail because he cannot be trusted under...
Priest killer given manslaughter A Home Circuit Court jury deliberated for three hours yesterday and convicted 25-year-old Prince Vale of manslaughter, arising from the...
Double murder in Montego Bay - Women killed execution style The homicide rate for St James was pushed to seven since the start of the year following yesterday's double murder...
January 14, 2009
J'cans plead guilty to drug trafficking in the US Jamaican drug kingpin Norris 'Deedo' Nembhard on Monday pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in the United States.... Continue reading...
Would-be robber killed - Cops hold one but another flees Three would-be robbers were stopped in their tracks on Monday when they attempted to stage a brazen daylight attack at...
January 13, 2009
Longer wait for Olint investors Members of investment club Olint will have to wait a while longer before knowing if they will recoup any of...
Accused priest killer begs for mercy The man charged with the murder of Anglican priest, Father Richard Johnson, wept openly in court yesterday as he begged...
Robertson gets summonses More than a week after allegedly committing misdemeanours, James Robertson, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister,...
Search on for pregnant mom's killer Up to late last night, the police were still searching for the 22-year-old man accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend...
Kern easy, Chin queasy AS THE much-anticipated Cuban light-bulb hearing took centre stage in the Corporate Area Resident's Magistrate Court yesterday, a fidgeting Rodney...
...Light-bulb hearing put off as defence, prosecution clash over state witness A CLASH unfolded between the defence and the prosecution in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday as the high-profile...
January 12, 2009
Murder outrage! LUCEA, Hanover - Senior investigators have ruled out robbery as the motive behind yesterday's murder of 89-year-old pensioner Beatrice Watson,...
Stab wounds caused priest's death, says pathologist Government forensic pathologist Dr Kadiyala Persaud has testified that Anglican priest Father Richard Johnson died as a result of two...
No break yet in Pia Phillips case The police are yet to make a breakthrough in the attempted robbery that resulted in the death of Immaculate High...
Businessman Deryck Gibson denies wrongdoing Local businessman Deryck Gibson whose premises, along with Government Minister, Joseph Hibbert's, was searched by United Kingdom sleuths investigating a...
January 11, 2009
Digicel to sue! Digicel says it will sue LIME for defamation after being accused by its competitor of breaching their interconnection agreement by...
MP preparing to sue commissioner of mines GOVERNMENT backbencher Ernest Smith has served notice that he is preparing to bring a civil suit against the commissioner of...
January 10, 2009
Gibson declares innocence in bridge building contracts case Deryck A Gibson yesterday declared that neither he nor his company were involved in any act that could be perceived...
Turks and Caicos High Court to rule on Smith's assets Monday David Smith, principal of the embattled foreign exchange trader Olint Corporation Limited, will have to wait until next week to...
Sentencing of child killer postponed The sentencing of child killer Jeffery Perry was Thursday postponed until next week in the Home Circuit Court.... Continue reading...
Further hold-up in MP's case The St Thomas police will wait until next week to serve summonses on Member of Parliament and Minister without Portfolio...
Road-crash deaths climb - Three dead in St Elizabeth crash, one in St Thomas Road traffic deaths have almost doubled in the first nine days of January compared with the similar period last year....
Thieves prey on MoBay resort Daring break-ins at the upscale 14-storey Montego Bay Club Resort have left tenants puzzled following the latest incident on the...
Blagojevich impeached The Illinois House yesterday voted overwhelmingly to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich - an unprecedented action that sets up a state...
'We're sorry' Commissioner regrets St Ann police shooting Commissioner of Police Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin has apologised for Wednesday night's unfortunate police shooting in Lodge, St Ann, that...
January 09, 2009
PHONE FIGHT! THE row between Jamaica's two telecoms giants intensified yesterday when LIME took its complaint of call blocking to the Supreme...
Guyana - Gov't wants fraud charges for customs officials Guyana wants to charge high-ranking customs officials with fraud and bribery for their alleged role in a $3-million shipment of...
Walkerswood in trouble - Ian Garbutt leading US$8m rescue A consortium of Jamaican firms, led by Ian Garbutt's Associated Manufacturers, is offering to pay creditors of Walkerswood 25 cents...
January 08, 2009
Albion man remanded A man who stabbed a woman twice along busy Barnett Street on New Year's Eve, was remanded in police custody...
Prosecutor wants Madoff jailed Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff and his wife sent at least 16 watches, a jade necklace and a diamond bracelet to...
Man goes on trial for priest's murder The trial of the man accused of the murder of Anglican priest, Father Richard Johnson, began yesterday in the Home...
No more case delays - McCalla Chief Justice Zaila McCalla has issued a strong warning that there will no longer be a situation in the courts...
Policeman freed of murder Police Constable Andrew Rhooms has been freed by a Home Circuit Court jury of the murder of 31-year-old taxi driver,...
BSI to question MP's bodyguards The Head of the of Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI), Assistant Commissioner Granville Gause, yesterday confirmed that he has made...
More delay in MP's case A mix-up surrounding the schedule of West St Thomas member of parliament, James Robertson, yesterday prevented the police from serving...
...- OCG to probe state minister on corruption allegation, lawyer angered CONTRACTOR GENERAL Greg Christie has earned the ire of attorney-at-law Ernest Smith, after opening an investigation into State Minister Joseph...
January 07, 2009
Portland tragedy truck driver offered $1m bail Buff Bay, Portland - Christopher Clarke, the 31-year-old mechanic and driver of the market truck that plunged over the ravine...
Spanish Town Infirmary resident knifed to death A 54-year-old male resident of the Spanish Town Infirmary yesterday died after he was allegedly stabbed by another inmate during...
NY teen gets 18 years for killing Jamaica born guard A teenager who shot and killed a New York security guard who confronted egg-throwing youths on Halloween has been sentenced...
Public Defender probes state liability in Portland crash THE OFFICE of the Public Defender will today begin an independent investigation into the circumstances that led to the Portland...
Plea bargain law delayed FOUR YEARS after the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament approved far-reaching legislation, which was crafted to target organised crimes,...
January 06, 2009
Deadly attack at wake BOGUE HILL, St James - Blood-curdling screams reverberated throughout this community Sunday night as four heavily armed men sprayed a...
...- Businessman to testify against politician in Cuban light-bulb trial The Director of public prosecutions (DPP) is set to withdraw all charges against businessman Rodney Chin when he returns to...
Man charged in NY crane collapse The contractor who raised the crane that toppled in midtown Manhattan last year and killed seven people was charged yesterday...
Freeze on Joey Issa's assets lifted The assets of businessman Joseph 'Joey' Issa are no longer frozen as the Supreme Court yesterday set aside the freezing...
Suspected cop killer held Quick work from police investigators resulted in the recovery of a slain special constable's private firearm and the arrest of...
Robertson yet to get summonses Up to late last night, Government minister James Robertson was yet to be served summonses, three days after he allegedly...
Bill sues Scotia - Former CEO asks court to bar eviction order Retired president and chief executive officer of Scotiabank Jamaica, William 'Bill' Clarke, is now engaged in a legal battle in...
January 05, 2009
MP to face court - Police may charge Robertson for using abusive language Government minister James Robertson is facing arrest after reportedly using abusive language at a police team in the aftermath of...
January 04, 2009
...Sans Souci contract: Tells arbitrators to reconsider damages in 2004 case Jamaica's appeal court upheld an arbitration ruling that Carreras Ltd in 2003 wrongfully fired Super Clubs subsidiary, VRL Services, as...
Truck driver in jail too long - lawyer THE LAWYER of the driver in custody, following the tragic accident where a truck plunged over a precipice in the...
...verdict, 'a slap in the face': Recovering mother disappointed at justice system WHEN RESIDENT Magistrate Lorna Gayle handed down a three-year suspended sentence to Jermaine Beckford on December 9, 2008, the verdict...
Esmin Green's lawsuit gains traction WITHIN A month or two, The New York Department of Investigation (NYDI) is expected to make public a report on...
January 03, 2009
Jamaican gets eight years for US mortgage-fraud scheme Citing the steep cost of mortgage fraud on South Florida, a Fort Lauderdale federal judge sentenced a Jamaican man to...
Cops probe Bull Bay shooting LATE LAST night the police were combing Bull Bay in St Andrew for clues leading to the shooting deaths of...
Two shot after watchnight service WHILE THOUSANDS of people were enjoying the beauty of the Fireworks on the Waterfront in downtown Kingston at the stroke...
Freezing order varied in Issa case BUSINESSMAN JOSEPH 'Joey' Issa, who has been slapped with a US$1.5-million lawsuit, was yesterday successful in getting the Supreme Court...
January 02, 2009
Ex-cop in prison for carnal abuse on new conviction A former policeman who is now serving a five-year prison term for carnal abuse was on Wednesday sentenced to nine...
Two shot, one dead out west While most Jamaicans welcomed 2009 without incident early yesterday morning, New Year's celebrations turned deadly for patrons of at least...
January 01, 2009
Brazil - Brazilian airline founder faces murder accusations For the second time in a month, Brazilian authorities have asked for a murder indictment against a co-founder of Brazil's...
Pakistan - Suspect confesses to Mumbai attacks - officials A militant arrested in Pakistan has confessed involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks and is giving investigators details of the...
Gov't employee gets off drug rap A Ministry of Finance employee who was arrested and charged for drug possession was set free when she appeared in...
Pregnant woman, others killed A pregnant woman was among three persons fatally shot by gunmen at Varma Road, Kingston 11, yesterday morning. The victims...
