Author: Alicia Dunkley
Source: Jamaica Observer
Author: Alicia Dunkley
Source: Jamaica Observer
The case was set for trial Monday but had to be put off because the investigating officer was unavailable. The other witnesses in the case did not attend and the court was told that the police were in contact with them.
Supreme Court judge Lloyd Hibbert was not happy with the arrangement.
"The Crown does not grant adjournments and the Crown is not obliged to tell witnesses not to come to court," the judge emphasised. The judge warned that if cases were ready and could not proceed because witnesses were told not to come, that could be treated as contempt of court on the part of the Crown. Witnesses must come to court so they can be bound over for another date if the case is not proceeding, the judge said.
Granted bail
Jones was granted bail after he was arrested and charged in 2006. He is being represented by attorney-at-law Paul Beswick....
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Leave was granted last month for the claimants to go to the Judicial Review Court to apply for orders to bar retired Court of Appeal judge Boyd Carey from continuing to sit on the commission of enquiry.
Supreme Court judge Ingrid Mangatal granted the claimants, who include former Finance Minister Dr Omar Davies, an injunction which stops the enquiry until the matter has been heard by the Judicial Review Court.
Lawyers in the matter will today finalise the date
for the hearing by the Judicial Review Court. They will also decide the length of the hearing and the time limit for submissions.
It is the claimants' contention that Justice Carey, the chairman of the enquiry, had a debt with the Financial Sector Adjustment Sector (FINSAC) and was a member of family business Bev Carey and Associates, which had a debt with FINSAC....
Author: Barbara Gayle
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer
Author: Corey Robinson
Source: Jamaica Observer
Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer
Caribbean Cement Company Limited (CCCL) alleges that the American-made product is being sold on the Jamaica market at dumped prices, that is, at a lower price than it cost to produce the cement.
The ADSC probe was originally to be finalised in three months on February 24, but up to that point, the agency was still awaiting the submission of documents on which to make its determination.
"The extension is due to the difficulty of obtaining satisfactory evidence in the investigation and other and procedural challenges that made it unusually difficult for the commission to decide within the 90 days," said Commissioner Velma Brown-Hamilton in a statement.
The ADSC now expects to complete its probe by April 9.
CCCL unperturbed
CCCL marketing manager Alice Hyde told Sunday Business that her company was not perturbed by the delay, saying the commission had a statutory right to extend the deadline.
"So we are waiting, patiently," Hyde said.
The official complaint was made last September, and although a defendant was not named in a release to the media at the time, the product's only known distributor is Tank-Weld....
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Allen Campbell, 48, of Cherry Gardens, St Andrew, denied the charge and told the jury that the woman concocted the story because he told her he was going to marry someone else.
The Crown alleged that on February 27, 2003, Campbell assaulted Charmaine Green, a 41-year-old cosmetologist with whom he had a relationship for 13 years.
Unable to walk
Evidence was given at the trial in the Home Circuit Court that Campbell took Green to Bridgeport, St Catherine, on the pretext that he wanted to talk to her about the relationship. He boxed and kicked her and when she became unconscious, he dragged her into his car. While Campbell was driving along the Causeway in St Catherine, he pushed Green out of the car.
Green said because of the injuries she suffered during the incident, she was unable to walk without the aid of medication or a walking stick....
Author: Barbara Gayle
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
The couple spent between four and six hours every day at Internet cafés in Suwon, a city just south of Seoul, and bottle-fed their baby only once a day, the Yonhap news agency and other South Korean media reported, citing police.
The couple found their baby dead on September 24 when they returned home after playing online games at a nearby Internet café all night, Yonhap reported.
The 41-year-old father and his 25-year-old wife, both jobless, went into hiding at a relative's home north of Seoul after a police autopsy found the baby died because of a long period of malnutrition, the report said. Police arrested the couple last Wednesday, it said.
"I'm sorry for my daughter and hope she doesn't get sick in heaven," the father was quoted as saying by Yonhap....
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
"When you look at the underlying purpose of the statute - for the prevention of abortion for the sole purpose of the sexual status of the child - that takes up two paragraphs of this bill," said Oklahoma County District Judge Daniel Owens. "When you look at the rest, there are multiple subjects contained in this bill that are not related to that underlying purpose."
The measure passed the Oklahoma Legislature and was signed into law by Gov Brad Henry last year.
Owens added that it was "pretty discouraging" that a law had to be considered to prevent sex-selective abortions.
"But the issue before the court has nothing to do with pro-choice or pro-life," Owens said.
Aside from barring gender-based termination of pregnancies, the law would have required doctors who perform abortions to provide information about female patients, including age, race, marital status, number of previous pregnancies and the reasons given for seeking an abortion.
The information gathered from 37 separate sections of questions would then be provided to the Oklahoma State Department of Health, which would be required to produce an annual report on abortions performed in Oklahoma....
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Supreme Court Judge Ingrid Mangatal ruled that Rule 1 of the JCA's handbook, which sets out the penalties for breaches by clubs or parishes, was discretionary and not mandatory, as the clubs claimed.
The St Catherine Cricket Club and Melbourne Cricket Club had sought declarations from the Supreme Court that the rule dealing with loss of points for breaches committed by clubs or parishes was mandatory.
The disagreement between the parties stemmed from the JCA's decision to fine the Manchester parish team instead of taking away points because it had an ineligible player in the Jamaica Super Cricket League competition last year.
The Manchester parish team was declared the winner of the Super Cricket League competition and the two cricket clubs challenged the JCA's decision not to deduct points from the Manchester parish team as well.
Rule 1, which deals with the registration of players, states that should any club or parish be found guilty of a breach of the rule, then it shall suffer loss of any points gained in the match in which the breach was committed, and/or may be fined....
Author: Barbara Gayle
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Corporal Leslie 'Steve' Moodie, 22, is to return to court on April 21 when his trial will begin.
Supreme Court Judge Martin Gayle turned down Moodie's bail application.
Moodie is charged with four counts of murder arising from an incident at the Double Diamond Gaming Lounge, Washington Boulevard, St Andrew, on October 20, 2008.
He is charged with the murders of Ejon Peart, 20, sound-system operator of Greendale Drive, Kingston 19; Davian 'Don P' Kerr, 19; and Lynchmore Forbes, 24, both of Pembroke Hall; and William Wilberforce, 28, of Duhaney Drive, Kingston 20.
Allegations are that about 4:15 a.m. the men were at the club where Moodie and a female were allegedly having a conversation. The men intervened and shortly after, shots were heard. It was later discovered that they had been shot. Peart, Kerr and Wilberforce died on the spot. Forbes later succumbed to his injuries.
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Hamilton appeared in the Home Circuit Court yesterday and was remanded until March 26 when a bail application will be made.
The Crown is alleging that the girl was sexually molested on October 4, 2008, at the barracks at the Elletson Road Police Station in Kingston.
A report was made to the police on October 10, 2008, and Hamilton was subsequently arrested and charged with carnal abuse and indecent assault.
The girl went missing from her gate in Harbour View, St Andrew, in late October 2008 and has not been seen since.
Hamilton was subsequently arrested and charged with the girl's murder.
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
A coroner's jury handed down the verdict last month that sergeant Calvin Lewis, who was attached to the Mobile Reserve, Harman Barracks, was criminally responsible for Henry's death and should be charged with manslaughter.
Lewis has since been charged with manslaughter and is to appear in the Home Circuit Court on May 23 when the case will be mentioned.
The lobby group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), which has taken a keen interest in the case, said in a statement yesterday that the JFJ was relieved that what had seemed like a never-ending Coroner's Court process was over.
The JFJ said the inquest was initiated in 2000 but had been plagued by problems....
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner