FAKE POLICE STEAL $3 MIL
Police are investigating an incident in which a businessman was robbed of $3 million by men in police uniforms who were travelling in an unmarked car with the blue lights on the top.
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Brits jailed for drugs
Two British nationals who pleaded guilty to trying to export a total of 1.36kg (3 lbs) of cocaine back to England, were sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at hard labour when they appeared in the Corporate Area ...
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Assault charge upgraded to attempted murder
A Resident Magistrate in St Catherine, has ordered that a case of assault occasioning bodily harm against a man be upgraded to that of attempting murder....
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3 COPS ON SEX CHARGES
Three policemen, including an inspector, were charged with sexual offences and were taken before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, after the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled that they...
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Guns bark in Thompson Pen again
The community of Thompson Pen, St Catherine, has been plunged into violence resulting in the death of at least three people and the wounding of three others over a five-day period....
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Sentencing for baby attacker
A 19-year-old man who fractured the arm of a one-month old baby when the stone he threw at its mother missed and hit him instead, is to be sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on January 22.
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Fraud lands woman in court
A 45-year-old woman accused of defrauding the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of about $1.48 million, was taken before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
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Cheaper chicken meat this Xmas
Consumers islandwide will benefit from a 19-20 per cent reduction in the price of chicken parts (leg and breast quarters) between December 18 and 24. The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, said the adjustment...
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Cop freed on appeal
Police constable Gary Reid, who was sentenced two years ago to 12 months' imprisonment for larceny of a motor car, has been freed by the Court of Appeal. The policeman was on bail pending the outcome of his appeal....
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Man killed during shoot-out with armed forces
One of a group of men was fatally shot during a shoot-out with the security forces at Shelter Rock, Dempshire, Spanish Town, St Catherine on Monday. Dead is Canniggah Walsh, 19, of Watford Road, Greendale, Spanish Town.
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