COPS QUIZ 6-y-o gIRL
A six-year-old child has been left traumatised and is now refusing to attend school after she was taken to the police station when a teacher's cellular phone was stolen in a recent incident. The child, who attends a primary school in rural St. Ann....
Mobile Command and Control Police Unit for Montego Bay
The island's first Mobile Command and Control Police Unit, complete with state-of-the-art surveillance equipment, was commissioned into service in Montego Bay on Sunday. The vehicle, which is the first of five for the island's resort areas....
Mountain View and Vineyard Town still under curfew
For six consecutive days, sections of Mountain View and Vineyard Town in Eastern Kingston remained under curfew. Yesterday, the curfew was expanded and extended until 6 in the afternoon, when it was expected to finally be lifted.
Man gets 18 months for fraud
Spanish Town: Craig DaCosta a 35-year-old unemployed of Benbow, in St Catherine was surprised when he was sentenced to 18 months hard labour on fraud-related charges in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Two remanded in Danish visitor's murder
Two men accused of killing Henrik Litske, a 49-year-old citizen of Denmark, who was found dead in his car last month, were remanded into custody when the case was mentioned yesterday. The case was mentioned at the Savannah-La-Mar Resident...
More mystery in bite killing
One more dark cloud of mystery surrounds the bizarre death of two-month-old Rhianna Anderson, who was allegedly bitten to death last month. Autopsy reports have revealed that little Rhianna died from a blow to the back of her head and not from the bites o
Deaths by private motor vehicle on the rise
The Road Safety Traffic Unit is reporting an increase in the number of road accident deaths to passengers of private motor vehicles. In a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) release, the unit said deaths....
Loan officer slapped with ammo charge
A 12-year employee of the National Commercial Bank is now in police custody after being found with illegal ammunition while being questioned for another matter. Tyrone Newby, 40, a loans officer is charged with two counts ....
$100 million for major drain-cleaning programme
Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, Robert Montague, has announced that the Government will be spending more than $100 million on a major drain-cleaning programme. Mr. Montague made this disclosure at the launch....