FUNERAL DIRECTOR HELD FOR BIGAMY
A funeral director accused of marrying a second woman while still married to another and using pictures of he and his new wife to allegedly torment her is now in police custody and is soon to be charged with bigamy...
Three parishes murder-free for January
Three parishes recorded no murders in January, police crime statistics are reporting. According to statistics released by the police, there were no murders in St Mary, Manchester and St Elizabeth. Manchester and St Mary...
A tissue of truths
There was much laughter in court yesterday when 25-year-old Sheldon Pusey responded to suggestions put to him that he was not speaking the truth in relation to how 64-year-old Ambassador Peter King was fatally stabbed and chopped...
Jamaican woman on coke charge in Trinidad
A Jamaican housewife on a cocaine-trafficking charge will appear before the court in the Trinidadian town of Arima today. Glenda Harriet, 42, was denied bail when she faced a justice of the peace on Friday...
Abusive dad remains in jail
The father of a boy, whom he is accused of setting on fire, was remanded when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. The father, from St Andrew, pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning grievous...
30,000 CHICKS STOLEN
More than 30,000 baby chickens, valued at $1.5 million, were stolen from a truck in Old Harbour, St Catherine, yesterday morning. Up to press time last night, the Old Harbour police were still interrogating the driver.
Man nabbed eight years after absconding bail
santa cruz: A 70-year-old man accused of absconding bail eight years ago has been nabbed and is to return to the Balaclava Resident Magistrate's Court next month. Dalton Baker farmer of Carisbrook district in the parish...
Botanist's murder trial begins tomorrow
The conspiracy to murder case of 86-year-old consultant botanist George Proctor, which was set for trial yesterday, has been put off until tomorrow (Wednesday) because one of the Crown witnesses was unavailable.
Heroes and Samaritans
Two employees of the Jamaica Postal Agency's Central Sorting Office are being hailed as good Samaritans after they braved the muck and grime of the Norman Road gully to save the life of a seemingly homeless man who was lying there injured.
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