Bleak Christmas for 300 workers
Western Bureau: The upcoming holidays are looking bleak for more than 300 employees of the Kingston-based Rich Construction Company who are yet to be paid by the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club in Montego Bay...
Bugger gets 16 years
Black River: Leslie Pusey, 35, of Russels district in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, was sentenced to seven and nine years each on two counts of buggery. They are to run concurrently. It was established during the trial...
Suspected bus robber charged
The Kingston Eastern police have charged a man suspected of robbing at least 20 Jamaican Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses. Delgado Heslop, 30, was charged on November 14 with three counts of robbery with aggravation...
Chef cooks up 30 months prison sentence
Black River: Elvis Samuels, 22, a chef of Vineyard district, St Elizabeth, pleaded guilty to illegal possession of firearm and was sentenced to 24 months, he was sentenced to another 24 months for pleading guilty...
Painter freed of murder charge
A painter, who was charged with the murder of 22-year-old university student Harry Harris Jr, was freed yesterday after a jury retired for 40 minutes and found him not guilty of the charge.
$420,000 cellphone fraud?
Bail for Renee Grey was extended into the new year when the fraud case against her was given a January 22 mention date in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday...
Christmas behind bars for cab driver
Santa Cruz: A St Elizabeth man who has several charges against will spend Christmas behind bars after he was again denied bail in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.
Teen on fraud charge has case adjourned
WESTERN BUREAU: A teenager who allegedly conspired to defraud her employers of over $300,000 within just five months of being employed, had her case adjourned sine die after the prosecution was unable to complete...
Sickly drug dealer gets suspended sentence
A man who claimed he tried to export drugs to get money to do surgery was fined and given a suspended sentence when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
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