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Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:59:25 -0500
e-Learning Jamaica donates 183 computers to department of correctional services
e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited has donated 63 laptop and 120 tablet computers to the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) South Camp Road Juvenile Correctional Centre in Kingston, in support of the rehabilitation of young detainees. Four......

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:55:12 -0500
Bus conductor charged for 5-y-o’s death
After three years, 31-year-old Theodore Beavers, was charged for the shooting death of 5-year-old Denique Salmon, who was shot as she slept in her bed in New Haven, Kingston 20. Beavers, otherwise called 'Theo', a bus conductor of...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:46:29 -0500
Alleged Portmore killer returns to court in January
Robert Fowler, the St Catherine mechanic who is accused of killing 20-year-old accounting clerk Khanice Jackson, is expected to return to court on January 23, 2023. The matter of Fowler's health was called up in the home circuit court...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:35:04 -0500
St Mary man freed of car theft charges
Twenty-five-year-old Lashawn Davidson was freed of charges last week, after he was arrested and accused of being in possession of a stolen car. The trial judge in upholding a no-case submission by attorney-at-law John Jacobs agreed that the...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:27:27 -0500
Kingston man freed after 3 years in custody
Devon Layne, a Kingston labourer who was been in custody for the past three and a half year was recently free of gun charges. Layne, who was accused of shooting at a group of cops, was found not guilty after the judge noted several inconsistencies.....

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:16:48 -0500
Alleged downtown robbers arrested
Two Kingston men who are implicated in several cases of armed robberies have been arrested, the police confirmed. Combined, Javaun Clarke, 22, and Javani Green, 19, are believed to be involved in the robbery of cash and items amounting to almost $1....

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:49:18 -0500
Illegal guns, ammunition seized in Kingston Eastern
The police have confirmed that two illegal firms were seized during operations in the Kingston Eastern Division on Tuesday.

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:34:14 -0500
Business man charged following altercation in St Ann
A 54-year-old business operator in St Ann was arrested and charged after he allegedly stabbed a man with a knife, and bit off a piece of his ear during an altercation in Lime Hall in the parish. He has been identified as Robert Webb, a small...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:20:09 -0500
Portmore man charged for illegal ammunition found under bed
Portmore resident Oneil Brown, 25, has been charged with the illegal possession of ammunition, after several rounds were found under a bed at his home in Waterford, St Catherine. According to the police, about 4:00 a.m. on September 30,...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:04:05 -0500
St James man fined $1000 for indecent language
It was all laughter in the St James Parish Court on Wednesday, October 5 when the clerk of the court was compelled to state the exact bad words a St James man had used when he was arrested by the police. Ernest Taylor, of a St James address, was......

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 11:32:39 -0500
Police Commissioner discussing security issues with TCI counterpart
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct. 5, CMC - Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson says talks are underway with his counterpart in the Turks & Caicos Islands, on the matter of Jamaican-related gang activities in the British Overseas...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 11:16:03 -0500
Cuba to fulfill health agreement with Mexico
HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. 5, CMC- The government of Cuna is fulfilling a health agreement with Mexico by sending 84 Cuban doctors to the Central American nation to offer their services. The announcement was made during a press...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 11:10:59 -0500
Amazon suspends at least 50 workers after fire protest
NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon has suspended at least 50 warehouse employees who refused to work their shifts following a trash compactor fire at one of its New York facilities, according to union organisers. The company suspended the workers, with...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:04:24 -0500
Bloody mess - Prosecution presents forensic evidence in Donna-Lee murder case
A photograph of murder accused Constable Noel Maitland's babymother is reportedly what led to an argument between himself and his presumed dead girlfriend Donna-Lee Donaldson the last time she visited his apartment. This was revealed yesterday......

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:04:10 -0500
Mother determined to beat breast cancer
Even as she battles stage 2 breast cancer, Marva-Lee Fowler is encouraging other women who are battling the dreadful disease not to lose hope. Reflecting on the two years since she was diagnosed, Fowler, a vendor said the disease has changed...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:04:16 -0500
JA records 99 multiple murders
Noting the 99 reported incidents of mass shootings so far this year, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson, said the safety of Jamaicans is under serious threat by criminals. "Unlike the police who are constrained with the use of...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:04:23 -0500
Seaview Gardens residents cry out for ZOSO
Worried that the recent shootings in their community are a prelude to a deadly gang war, residents of Seaview Gardens in St Andrew are now calling on the Government to declare the area a zone of special operations (ZOSO). Fourteen people have...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:04:22 -0500
Peaceful Port Royal records killing
Residents of Port Royal in Kingston have steadily worked to rebuild the reputation of the once great city by maintaining a near non-existent crime rate. But Monday night that peace was broken when 41-year-old Narado Isaacs was killed during a...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:04:20 -0500
Con man must repay nearly $5 million to reggae legend
Veteran reggae singer Marcia Griffiths is set to receive compensation of nearly $5 million after a convicted felon conned her into paying over monies for the construction of a museum in her honour. Ray Morgan pleaded guilty to two counts of...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:04:14 -0500
Lalor urges support for breast cancer warriors
Insurance executive Paul Lalor has urged Jamaican men to "dig deep in their pockets" and support women in the fight against breast cancer. Lalor, president of the Insurance Company of the West Indies (ICWI), said it is important that men step up.....



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