'Homosexual has right to life'
Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Caroline Hay, addressing the jury yesterday at the trial of the man accused of murdering Ambassador Peter King, said a homosexual had a right to life...
One killed in crash
WESTERN BUREAU: Excessive speed might have cause a five-vehicle collision which claimed the life of a port security officer and left several persons injured along the Montpelier main road in St James yesterday.
Southside residents block road
Residents of Southside, Kingston, blocked a section of South Camp Road yesterday, protesting against the police detention of their alleged area leader. The placard-waving residents, mostly women, even moved their protest...
Wanted man in custody
A man the West Kingston Police said was on their most-wanted list is now in their custody. The suspect, who goes by the alias 'Pinhead', was picked up by members of the Island Special Constabulary Force...
Can't sue for free love
A woman is threatening to take legal action against her former boyfriend who left her for one of her relatives. explained that she and her former boyfriend had a wonderful relationship which lasted for five years and she took very good care...
Piano kills 5-y-o - Child dies in freak accident at school
Western Bureau: agedy struck at a basic school in the Tucker/Irwin area of St James yesterday afternoon when a little girl died after an old piano, which was left abandoned in the schoolyard, fell on her, causing serious head injuries.
Drug smuggler receives hard labour sentence
A man found guilty of trying to export marijuana from the island was sentenced to six months imprisonment at hard labour in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Trial postponed
The trial of the man who was allegedly rescued by Minister without Portfolio James Robertson had to be put off yesterday because Supreme Judge Bryan Sykes who was scheduled to try the case is ill.
Man faces housebreaking charge
Santa Cruz, A St Elizabeth man facing firearm and housebreaking charges, after being accused of breaking into the home of popular radio disc jockey G.T. Taylor, was remanded for psychiatric evaluation in the Santa Cruz RM Court yesterday.
Fraudulent cheques alert
The Hunts Bay police are urging the public to be on the lookout for fraudulent cheques written on the account of Issa Transport Group held by the Bank of Nova Scotia.
Man gets six months for fraudulent documents
A few months after her release from prison, Miriam Thompson is now heading back. Thompson was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to obtaining a passport by fraudulent means, uttering a forged document...
Teacher, common-law husband found dead
A 19-year-old pregnant teacher and her common-law husband were found dead at their home in Brown's Town, St Ann, yesterday. Dead are Primrose Simpson, a teacher with the Jamaica Foundation...
Accused stalker gets $10,000 bail
WESTERN BUREAU: After spending the last five months in prison, accused of breaking into a woman's house to steal photographs and money, Radcliff Grant of Bogue, St James, was released on bail when he appeared in court on Wednesday.
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