February 28, 2009
Back to the polls - Court of Appeal upholds Chief Justice ruling The battle for West Portland will move from the courtroom to the polling booths on Monday, March 23, when the...
Vaz vows victory - By-election to decide West Portland seat While calling on the people of West Portland to "hold tight until I return", Vaz expressed confidence that he would...
February 27, 2009
Digicel Takes Issue With Lime Over Homefone Pricing And Bad Debt Caribbean mobile telephone service provider Digicel is contesting the price structuring of LIME's Homefone product and its handling of bad...
Comentary - A bill to amend the companies act The current Companies Act came into force February 1, 2004. One of the deficiencies of the 2004 Act is that...
Carnal abuse conviction for landscaper A man who said he honestly believed that a 14-year-old girl with whom he was having an intimate relationship was...
Court case puts Jamaica on the verge of elections WHEN THE clock strikes 9:30 this morning, Daryl Vaz and Abe Dabdoub should already be huddled in a downtown Kingston...
February 26, 2009
Rose Heights Labourer Stabbed Twenty-seven-year-old Kirk Barrett, a labourer of Rose Heights, St James was yesterday morning stabbed fatally when he intervened in a...
Fuller charged amaica and Stoke striker Ricardo Fuller was charged yesterday with driving without insurance and without having a correct licence. The...
Post-mortem on slain cop's girlfriend Friday - DPP to get file next week If Constable Ramon McLean could turn back the hands of time, he would surely want to erase the events which...
...- Denham Town residents irate over 'High Roller's' death IT WAS billed as a late-night party at Kingston Harbour, but the boat never left the dock, as a barrage...
February 25, 2009
Prison warder on wrong side of bars A correctional officer who was caught smuggling contraband into the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre almost two years ago has...
After four years in prison for rape, court frees farmer Jamaica's Court of Appeal has thrown out the rape conviction of a St Thomas man because it adjudged that police...
UWI student's eviction from Mary Seacole Hall upheld The Supreme Court has turned down an application by a student of the University of the West Indies who sought...
...- Vaz-Dabdoub case to be concluded Friday - By-election still a possibility The long-awaited decision in the dual-citizenship case which People's National Party candidate Abe Dabdoub has brought against Member of Parliament...
February 24, 2009
Man Said Critical After New Kingston Shooting A man who police said is a banker is now in critical condition in hospital after he was shot in...
Soldier Implicated In Club Murders Charged With Manchester Shooting THE soldier implicated in last October's 'Heroes' Day massacre' at the Double Diamond gaming lounge in St Andrew has now...
Cops Who Threatened To Kill Journalist Off The Front Line The two cops accused of threatening the life of Observer journalist Julian Richardson have been removed from front line duties...
Abducted teen found dead Just five days after a teenager was killed in Westmoreland, sending shock waves through the parish, police there are investigating...
St James teacher held for hubby's murder Family and child therapist Dr Beverley Scott is hinting that stress and trauma might have influenced the actions of an...
...allegedly molesting his daughter - Children put into protective custody A prominent businessman with branches of his organisation in May Pen, Linstead and Kingston was arrested yesterday by the Centre...
February 23, 2009
Cop, son freed of corruption A police sergeant based at the Ocho Rios station and his son, who were charged with breaches of the Corruption...
February 22, 2009
Jamaican charged with ganja possession in Antigua Winton Wesley Buckley, a Jamaican, has been convicted and fined EC$120,000 in Antigua after pleading guilty to importation of five...
Awaiting the ruling: West Portland not tuned in to Dabdoub FROM THE fledgling sea-coast towns to the rustic hills of West Portland, residents appear to be speaking in one voice....
February 21, 2009
Cops slap charges on Gleaner photographer A Gleaner photojournalist was yesterday taken into custody and charged by the police while trying to capture images of a...
February 20, 2009
No Mercy DESPITE pleas for clemency from several human rights organisations and the European Union, Jamaican-born Edward Nathaniel Bell was last night...
Court frees policeman of assault charge A policeman who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment after he was convicted of an assault charge has been freed...
FBI tracks down Stanford Texas financier Allen Stanford was tracked down yesterday in Virginia, where Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents served him with...
February 19, 2009
Stanford's whereabouts unknown United States marshals in the Virgin Islands were yesterday unable to account for the whereabouts of embattled Texan financier Allen...
February 18, 2009
Virginia To Execute Jamaican-Born Man Tomorrow BARRING a last-minute reprieve, Jamaican-born Edward Bell will be executed in Virginia, USA at 9:00 tomorrow night for the 1999...
Net widens on illegal fishers - Nine sanctuaries formed Stiffer penalties are being considered as part of new legislation for fishermen who use dynamite or bleach to increase their...
...charged for multibillion US dollar fraud - WICB halts sponsorship talks Texan billionaire and cricket promoter Sir Allen Stanford was yesterday charged over a US$8-billion investment fraud. Stanford, who has been...
February 17, 2009
Cop Charged With Murder In Jhaneel Goulbourne Case POLICE Constable Rushon Hamilton was Saturday charged with murder in the case of kidnapped 14-year-old Jhaneel Goulbourne, based on a...
Northern Rock shareholders lose compensation battle A British court on Friday rejected claims by former shareholders in nationalised mortgage lender Northern Rock that the government was...
Mitchell's election petition set for May 18 The election petition which People's National Party candidate and caretaker for St Catherine North Eastern, Phyllis Mitchell, has brought against...
February 16, 2009
LIME blocks on Flow barred Supreme Court judge Courtney Daye has granted an order barring LIME (formerly Cable & Wireless) from disrupting, reducing or terminating...
February 14, 2009
Alleged King killer makes his defence Sheldon Pusey, the 25-year-old man accused of killing 64-year-old Ambassador Peter King, made his defence from the witness box yesterday....
February 13, 2009
Court Reserves Judgment In Olint/FSC Case OLINT, the embattled foreign exchange club, will have to wait some time before knowing whether it will have to be...
Unlicensed Fishers EIGHTY-NINE per cent of the island's registered fishermen are operating without a licence, a probe by the Office of the...
Premier's son to stand trial After a week of testimony from alleged victims, a judge in Los Angeles, California, has ruled that the son of...
Antigua - Labour party responds to accusation claims The legal spokesman for former junior finance minister Asot Michael has responded to charges that have been levelled against the...
King slapped with sexual assault charges Reggae Boy Marlon King is set to appear in a magistrate's court here later this month after being charged with...
Accused in teen killing remanded The 17-year-old boy accused of killing his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, Nisa Grant, of York Castle High School, in Brown's Town, was...
Crown rests case in Peter King trial The Crown closed its case yesterday after calling 17 witnesses at the trial of 26-year-old labourer Sheldon Pusey, who is...
February 12, 2009
Terry Linen Sued By Management Team Reggae singer, Kiplin Simpson aka Terry Linen has been sued by his management team, Uplifting Music International Limited, for what...
FSC defends stop order on Olint The Financial Services Commission (FSC) sent documents in 2006 to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions concerning allegations...
Manslaughter case hits snag A shortage of resident magistrates in St Catherine has led to the postponement of the preliminary inquiry against a police...
Vigilante murder appeal quashed The Court of Appeal, in dismissing a case in which the appellant was involved in a mob killing, emphasised that...
Accused claims he killed King in self-defence - cop Superintendent McArthur Sutherland testified Tuesday that 26-year-old labourer Sheldon Pusey told him that he killed 64-year-old Ambassador Peter King, but...
Fraud at Accountant General's Department The police have confirmed that a major fraud case has been uncovered at the Accountant General's Department in downtown Kingston....
February 11, 2009
Olint cease-and-desist order without basis, says Gifford A cease-and-desist order should not have been issued against investment club Olint Corporation Ltd, because it did not breach any...
Stolen sand case to begin April 1 The case involving some 6,000 cubic yards of sand allegedly stolen from a Coral Springs beach property in Trelawny last...
February 10, 2009
Olint Begins Appeals Court Bid To Challenge FSC Registration EMBATTLED foreign exchange club Olint Corporation Limited yesterday began its bid to have the Court of Appeal overturn a ruling...
Former Puerto Rican governor pleads not guilty to corruption Former governor of Puerto Rico, Anibal Acevedo Vila, entered a federal court to the cheers of supporters and pleaded not...
Kingfish outpost unit nets eight illegal guns Spokesman for Operation Kingfish, Detective Sergeant Jubert Llewellyn, says an outpost of the elite crime-fighting unit has been set up...
...under attack - Broadcasting Commission sticks to ban on vulgar lyrics THE BROADCASTING Commission has remained steadfast in its decision to place a ban on certain lyrics deemed inappropriate for airplay....
February 09, 2009
BILL TARGETS STUDENT BAN Principals who bar students from attending school could face criminal charges if a Bill of Rights now before the Parliament...
February 08, 2009
Dual-citizenship case ruling within days AS ANTICIPATION mounts about the court's ruling on the appeal in the dual-citizenship case which People's National Party (PNP) candidate...
Court rejects request to freeze Olint money AN INVESTOR in the troubled David Smith-led foreign-exchange trading club, Olint, has failed in his bid to have the Supreme...
February 07, 2009
Police await formal local complaints against Smith Local police investigators say they are yet to receive any formal complaints from Jamaica against Olint boss, David Smith. On...
Teen to be charged with girl's murder A 17-year-old second-year student of the Brown's Town Community College is to be charged with murder following intensive police investigations...
Slack song ban - Kartel's 'Rampin' Shop' among explicit lyrics outlawed The Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica, the watchdog over the island's electronic media, yesterday banned radio and television stations from airing...
February 06, 2009
Two rifles, 500 rounds of ammo discovered A joint operation yesterday between the St James police and the Jamaica Defence Force led to the discovery of more...
Olint boss held Head of OLINT Investment Club, David Smith, was arrested yesterday by police in the twin-island state of Turks and Caicos,...
February 05, 2009
'SPLIFFY' GETS BAIL Marvin 'Spliffy' Dunstan a 24 year-old self-described entertainer of Red Dirt in Flankers was offered bail when he appeared in...
BUSTED! SWEET RIVER, Westmore-land - The Westmoreland Police and members of the Narcotics Squad yesterday busted a major car-stealing operation while...
February 04, 2009
SAVAGERY! Grange Hill, Portland- Retired banker 61-year-old Herbert Salicram had just sat down with his granddaughter to watch the 7:00 pm...
Mother of baby who burnt to death could be charged Police investigators will today begin questioning the mother of a seven-month-old baby who died in a fire in Cassava Piece,...
...consent for former Scotia head to keep bank-assigned house, cars Retired president and CEO of Scotiabank, William 'Bill' Clarke, will maintain possession of the house the bank had assigned to...
February 03, 2009
Investigating Moses' death THE St Andrew North police are still investigating the death of gospel singer Moses, whose body was found January 27...
Dube trio plead not guilty to charges THE men accused of murdering reggae star Lucky Dube pleaded not guilty to all charges against them in the Johannesburg...
Judge warns lawyer to be courteous There were fireworks yesterday at the trial of the man accused of the murder of 64-year-old Ambassador Peter King, resulting...
February 02, 2009
Carib Cement takes Government to court over duty breach The Caribbean Cement Company has taken the Government to court over its alleged failure to impose duty on cement imported...
