March 31, 2009
12 Die In Bloody Siege At Pakistan Police Academy LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - A group of gunmen, some in police uniforms, attacked a police academy yesterday and held it...
US Soldier Gets 35 Years In Deaths Of 4 Iraqis VILSECK, Germany (AP) - A US soldier convicted of murder in the execution-style slayings of four blindfolded Iraqis apologised for...
N Korea Says Us Journalists Will Stand Trial SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Two American journalists detained at North Korea's border with China earlier this month will be...
Crown To Proceed With Jhaneel Goulbourne Murder Case CONSTABLE Rushon Hamilton, the cop charged with murdering 14-year-old student Jhaneel Goulbourne, is said to have confessed to two of...
Lord give me strength! - Taxing times for Luciano IN OCTOBER 2007, reggae singer Luciano received the Order of Distinction during the National Honours and Awards ceremony. The Government...
... information law - Age-old Official Secrets Act remains on law books DESPITE MAKING strides in providing access to information to the public, a cloud of secrecy still hangs over the public...
March 30, 2009
DPP Recommends Department Action Against Two Cops DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn says there is insufficient evidence to lay criminal charges against the two policemen who...
Sex Offences Bill withdrawn Prime Minister Bruce Golding last Tuesday in Gordon House withdrew the Sexual Offences Bill. He said that a significant number...
March 29, 2009
... - Local companies blocked from selling cheap, life-saving drug JAMAICAN pharmaceutical company, Indies Pharma, is gearing up for a court battle with international drug-manufacturing giant, Pfizer-USA, over local distribution...
March 28, 2009
Mona Vendor Killed In Drive-by Attack ONE man was shot dead and another injured during an early-morning drive-by attack outside the gates of the University Hospital...
Rapper TI Sentenced To Year On Weapons Charges ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) - Rapper TI was sentenced Friday to one year and a day in prison after pleading guilty...
Father Arrested Incestutous Relationshio With Daughter ROME, Italy (AFP) - Italian police said yesterday they have arrested a man for forcing his daughter to have sex...
Bill Clarke heads to Court of Appeal Retired president and CEO of Scotiabank, William 'Bill' Clarke, has taken his dispute with the bank over his retirement package...
March 27, 2009
UK probes MI5 in Guantanamo torture The British government ordered police yesterday to investigate allegations by an ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee that United Kingdom intelligence officers were...
Hewitt's murder pinned on husband The husband of talk-show host Christine Hewitt has been charged with her murder, almost three years after her body was...
March 26, 2009
SOS Village Director To Return To Court On April 2 Thirty-seven-year-old Floyd Hitchman, village director of the SOS Children's Village in Barrett Town, St James, is to return to court...
Man Killed, Spouse Injured In Greenwich Town GUNMEN posing as law enforcers yesterday morning shot and killed a 31-year-old man and injured his common-law wife in Greenwich...
...case dumped - Nigerian-Jamaican dentist says reputation has suffered The case against dental practitioner Dr Christopher Ogunsalu, who was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm against his dental...
Three cops wounded, Luciano held International reggae entertainer Jepther McClymont, better known as Luciano, was expected to spend last night in police custody as he...
March 25, 2009
Seven Murdered In 15 Hours GUNMEN yesterday went on a murder spree in the Corporate Area and St Catherine, killing seven persons in an almost...
Alleged murder conspirator remanded May Pen businesswoman Althea Morgan-Carr, who is charged jointly with three men for conspiracy to murder a policewoman, appeared in...
Lawyer suspended The Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council has suspended St Ann-based attorney-at-law R.A (Bill) Salmon. According to the council,...
Dover racer, wife murdered uptown He represented Jamaica on a number of occasions and was in high spirits, gearing up for next month's big Easter...
March 24, 2009
US makes deal with terror suspect United States (US) authorities asked a Guantá-namo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture and agree not to speak publicly...
Woman cop faces court April 30 - On vehicular manslaughter rap The preliminary inquiry for police Superintendent Yvonne Martin-Daley, who has been charged with vehicular manslaughter of a policeman, will start...
Fake cop quizzed Twenty-three-year-old fake cop, Courtney Grayson, yesterday underwent gruelling questioning from the anti-corruption unit regarding how he successfully breached security at...
March 23, 2009
Cops turn robbers? Days after the police force was rocked with the embarrassing revelation of having a fake cop on staff, news has...
March 22, 2009
Of hypocrisy and the Noise Abatement Act The seemingly selective application of the Noise Abatement Act, which sees some promoters facing rigorous enforcement while others are allowed...
March 21, 2009
Fake cop on duty caught - Police imposter arrested after six-month 'stint' in JCF HE REPORTEDLY carried a M16, a legitimate police badge, ID and denim uniform, while patrolling the streets of Montego Bay...
Legislators mull defamation laws THE LONG-AWAITED parlia-mentary deliberation on a 42-page report which reviewed Jamaica's defamation laws, started Thursday in Gordon House. A high-powered...
March 20, 2009
Stewart Files Appeal In 'Hate Mail' Case HOTELIER Gordon Butch Stewart has filed an appeal against a Supreme Court decision to strike out his defamatory suit against...
Bill Clarke Loses THE Supreme Court yesterday ordered William 'Bill' Clarke, the retired president and chief executive officer of the Bank of Nova...
Man stays almost five years in jail ... court fails to hear appeal A Trinidadian man, who pleaded guilty in July 2005 to drug-related charges and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, almost...
DPP to rule on reindicting cop in Janice Allen case The United Kingdom Privy Council has recommended that the director of public prosecutions determine whether the policeman who was acquitted...
St Thomas child killed violently NINE-YEAR-OLD Courtney Walker was a willing, unsuspecting boy who would readily run errands for adults. He was supposed to have...
March 19, 2009
Alleged Hit-And-Run Motorist Remanded A man who allegedly drove off after hitting down a six-year-old boy in Retirement, St James last September was remanded...
Madoff's accountant arrested, released on US$2.5m bail Bernard Madoff's longtime accountant has been released on US$2.5 million in bail. The 49-year-old David Friehling was arrested on fraud...
March 18, 2009
16-Year-Old Schoolboy Found With Gun WHITHORN, Westmoreland - A 16-year-old male student of the Petersfield High School who was held with a handgun on the...
Guyanese prisoner makes surprise trafficking confession After spending nearly three years in a United States jail, notorious Guyanese prisoner Shaheed Roger Khan has pleaded guilty to...
IRS going after Stanford The government is asking a federal judge for permission to go after at least US$226.6 million in back taxes, penalties...
37-y-o freed of cousin's murder A man who was accused of fatally stabbing his cousin at a dance at Kellits, Clarendon, has been freed of...
March 17, 2009
Suspect in Chambers' death killed in shoot-out One of the chief suspects wanted in connection with the June 2008 slaying of then chairman of the Jamaica Urban...
Pusey convicted of manslaughter in Peter King case After deliberating for three and a half hours yesterday, a jury convicted 25-year-old waiter and carpenter Sheldon Pusey of manslaughter...
Four face prison for stealing electricity Four persons scheduled to appear before the courts today face possible jail time for the illegal use of electricity in...
March 16, 2009
Murder Accused Wins Gun Prize Is a civilian murder accused entitled to participate in organised activities involving the use of the gun? That is the...
Another Major Gun Find Police in St Andrew South seized 10 firearms and recovered 77 rounds of ammunition during raids conducted in several hot...
Supreme Court dumps attorney's Cash Plus petition Justice Roy Anderson last Thursday threw out a petition brought by attorney-at-law David Rowe, who was seeking permission from the...
Committee successfully sues Portmore council The Portmore Municipal Support Committee has won a case against the Portmore Municipal Council. The award was $480,300 in damages...
New trial ordered for murder convict The Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for 38-year-old cosmetologist Janet Douglas of Ziadie Gardens, St Andrew, who...
March 14, 2009
Change The Law Court of Appeal President Seymour Panton yesterday suggested that legislators make amendments to the constitution regarding who may be qualified...
Defence rests in Phil Spector murder retrial Phil Spector's defence attorney rested his case Thursday in the music producer's murder retrial involving the death of actress Lana...
Butch vs Issa thrown out The Supreme Court has struck out a libel suit brought against Muna Issa, daughter of Superclubs' boss, John Issa, in...
'Repeal night law for women' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Margarette Macaulay wants a 1942 legislation prohibiting women, except for those employed in the essential services, from working at...
...- Long-awaited reasons for decisions in Vaz-Dabdoub case handed down The Court of Appeal has said, in its very detailed reasons for upholding the ruling that there should be a...
March 13, 2009
Iraq - Local 'hero' gets three years for shoes throwing The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former United States President George W. Bush was convicted yesterday of assaulting...
Belize - Judicial review on former PM's theft trial ruling Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh has agreed to a judicial review of last February's decision by Magistrate Earl Jones which commits...
Billionaire Stanford silent in fraud case Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford and one of his top officials have asserted their United States Constitutional right against self-incrimination...
Versair files appeal in airport-catering case The ongoing legal battle between Versair In-flight Services Ltd and the defendants, Airports Authority of Jamaica & MBJ Airports Limited,...
Prisoner hunger stalls King trial The Department of Correctional Services' practice of not providing lunch for prisoners on trial at the Home Circuit posed a...
Community cries for slain pastor The community of Dias, Hanover, was covered in a tapestry of sorrow and shock yesterday as teary-eyed residents struggled to...
March 12, 2009
Still No Bail For Teen Accused Of Killing Ex-girlfriend OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The 17-year-old college student charged with the murder of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend was remanded in...
Bill to get court's answer next week William 'Bill' Clarke, retired president and chief executive officer of Scotiabank, will know next week Thursday if his retirement package...
March 11, 2009
Student gets warning for weapons possession A 15-year-old student of Donald Quarrie High School was yesterday sentenced to two years in custody when she appeared in...
Clarke begins legal battle with Scotiabank Legal arguments began yesterday in an application brought by retired president and chief executive officer of Scotiabank William Bill Clarke...
March 10, 2009
FBI charges student with hacking Palin's email Three more federal charges have been filed against a University of Tennessee student charged with hacking into the personal email...
'Widow's penalty' puts immigrants in the red At least 200 immigrants nationwide face deportation under what's become known as the "widow's penalty," a federal policy ordering widows...
Judge continues summation in Pusey's trial today Senior Puisne Judge Marva McIntosh began her summation to the jury yesterday at the trial of 25-year-old Sheldon Pusey, who...
Outrage as cop fingered in murder case back on job Supreme Court Judge Lennox Campbell last Friday issued a directive for a letter to be sent to the commissioner of...
'4 years is terrible' - Judge blasts slow justice The justice system came under sharp criticism last Friday when Supreme Court judge Lennox Campbell discovered that two men had...
Smith sings different buggery tune MEMBER OF Parliament Ernie Smith might just have become the butt of a new round of jokes. Despite his impassioned...
March 09, 2009
Carnage in Montego Bay - Gunmen invade dance, killing four Divisional commander for the St James police, Superintendent Maurice Robinson, is appealing for calm following a quadruple murder in the...
March 08, 2009
JCC hails Court of Appeal decision The Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) is hailing the recent decision by the Court of Appeal to uphold the ruling...
March 07, 2009
Bruce Willis sues production company over funding LOS ANGELES (AP):Actor Bruce Willis has filed a countersuit against a team of movie producers who had earlier accused him...
Winehouse charged with assault LONDON (AP):Fresh from a two-month Caribbean vacation, singer Amy Winehouse is due in court for an alleged attack on a...
Lawyer loses legal battle for final grade Attorney-at-law Roger Archibald, who is registered to practise in New York, United States, has lost his legal battle in the...
Flying fraud! Air J boss raises alarm over fraudulent transfer of airline's funds A junior employee of Air Jamaica has allegedly taken off with more than $70 million of the floundering national carrier's...
March 06, 2009
News Photographer Returns To Court May 6 GLEANER photographer Ricardo Makyn who was slapped with a range of charges while on duty at a shooting scene in...
Brown charged with two felonies Chris Brown has been charged with two felonies stemming from an argument with his girlfriend, pop star Rihanna, court documents...
Actors sue movie distributor for unauthorised advertisement Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are teaming up in a lawsuit against a movie distributor and a watch company...
Vice-principal to appear in court March 13 Thirty-six-year-old Maxine Tugwell-Brown, the acting vice-principal of John's Hall All-Age School, who has been charged with the murder of her...
Cop's lawyer threatens action against police A lawyer representing a police corporal charged with corruption said he would be writing to the commissioner of police to...
March 05, 2009
No Bail For Vice-Principal Brown Senior Resident Magistrate Winsome Henry yesterday branded Maxine Tugwell Brown, the acting vice-principal of the Johns Hall All-Age school, a...
Murder In Bethel Town BETHEL TOWN, Westmoreland- Rohan Tulloch, a 43-year-old farmer/construction worker of Bethel Town, Westmoreland yesterday died from stab wounds allegedly inflicted...
Mexico - Court cuts Frenchwoman's sentence Mexico's Supreme Court has cut the sentence of a Frenchwoman convicted of kidnapping from 96 to 60 years. The federal...
Netherlands - Court issues war-crimes warrant for Sudan's Bashir The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant yesterday for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and...
Jamaican con man among America's Most Wanted He's a smooth talker, with an angelic face, said to be on a mission for God. This is the description...
Trial begins today for man 'saved' by Robertson The trial of a man who was allegedly rescued by Minister without Portfolio James Robertson begins in the Gun Court...
...but Lightbourne concerned about contradiction with Official Secrets Act The long-awaited Whistleblower Legislation moved one step closer to reality on Monday, when Cabinet issued drafting instructions to the Chief...
March 04, 2009
Despite ruling, Stern heads to Privy Council Member of Parliament Michael Stern did not get the green light yesterday from the Court of Appeal to go to...
Proctor case anger Defence lawyer Tom Tavares-Finson complained Monday that too many applications for adjournments had been made by the Crown in the...
March 03, 2009
Ganja Seized At Wharf, Airport THE Customs Contraband Enforcement Team (CET) yesterday made two seizures of drugs at the wharf and the Norman Manley International...
Businessman On Incest Charge Denied Bail THE 60-year-old Kingston businessman charged with molesting his 12-year-old daughter was yesterday denied bail when he appeared in the Half-Way-Tree...
Botanist Goes To Trial On 89TH Birthday DR George Proctor, the botanist accused of conspiring with co-accused Glenmore Fellington to murder his wife of over 30 years,...
Putting Brakes On Landlords THE Rent Assessment Board is seeking legislation to restrain landlords from demanding any more than a month's rent in security...
Bankers lose appeal Former bankers Melanie Tapper and Winston McKenzie have lost their appeal against their convictions for conspiracy to defraud Kingston businessman...
March 02, 2009
Five held in connection with lotto fraud in Jamaica, US Senior investigators are banking on material and intelligence-driven evidence to link five people suspected of fleecing several people of millions...
Call to amend scam law While the police continue in their relentless fight to cripple the lottery scam, they want the laws governing fraud crimes...
Chief justice blames 'undesirable practices' for court-case backlog The backlog of cases in the courts has come under scrutiny from Chief Justice Zaila McCalla who has spoken publicly...
...cop cases - Llewellyn vows to clear pile-up of BSI files by April-May Pushing to clear the backlog of files received from the Bureau of Special Investi-gations (BSI), Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)...
March 01, 2009
Seven shot, three fatally LIKE COWBOYS of the 'wild, wild West', gunmen carrying nine-millimetre weapons sprayed patrons at a party on Perry Street, downtown...
