Child beaten over goat pen
A man accused of beating his 12-year-old stepson with a tree limb told the court that he did it because the boy stoned his goats and tore down their pen. Charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and child abuse...
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Clansman gang member gets life for murder
The dying declaration of 36-year-old Kevin Thomas, manager of Rivoli Football Club in Spanish Town, St Catherine, has placed the man who fatally shot him behind bars for the next 25 years.
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Seven years for bank racket
Andrew Henry, the man charged in connection with an identity-theft racket involving the loss of over $8 million from the island's commercial banks, was sentenced to seven years in jail Monday.
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Photographer on rape offence granted bail
A photographer accused of abducting and raping a child was granted bail when the case was mentioned in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.
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Three persons charged along with Ninja for murder
A fourth man, charged jointly with deejay Ninja Man; his son, Janile Ballentine; and Clayton Dennis for the March 16 murder of Richard Johnson, appeared in the Corporate Area Gun Court on Tuesday.
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Big fine for drug mule
If pity were what Alicia Johnson was expecting, none was forthcoming when she appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday to answer to drug-related charges.
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Two shot in Farm district
A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot and a man shot and injured by a gunman at Farm district, May Pen, Clarendon, Monday. Dead is Dwayne White, while injured is a 23-year-old man, both of Farm district.
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Murder in Olympic Gardens
An unidentified man believed to be in his 20s was shot dead by unknown assailant/s at Joshua Edwards Avenue, Olympic Gardens, Sunday night.
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JBDC opens new business information centre
The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) opened its ninth Jamaica Business Information Centre in Mandeville last Thursday, which will provide a range of technical support for small...
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Cops probe murder
Detectives from the Half-Way Tree Police Station have commenced a probe into the shooting death of a man at Red Hills Road, Kingston 10, on Monday. The dead man has been identified as Tarik Hewitt ...
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