A man who was found hiding in a kitchen cupboard in an attempt to avoid capture by the police after he broke into a house to steal grocery items valued at $40,000 was sentenced to nine months in prison on Tuesday.

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WESTERN BUREAU: Judith Torres, the Cuban national who tried to use a fake green card to enter the United States through Jamaica, will have to wait until February for her sentence to be delivered.

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A civilian worker at the Portmore Police Station in St Catherine is facing criminal charges after he was held at the station trying to carry contraband into the jail on Monday....

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An attorney-at-law who is accused of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest among other things, denied the allegations and had her bail extended in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday until..

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The public is being advised that Jamaica Air Shuttle will operate extra flights this weekend between Kingston and Montego Bay to accommodate the very heavy demand from persons attending the 2012 Jamaica Jazz and Blues...

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Two women who got into a fight at a wholesale recently over a nail polish remover were both fined $10,000 in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

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An elderly man who was offered bail in his own surety in 2010 and failed to return to court was brought before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday...

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An Asian man and a Jamaican woman accused of assault and unlawful wounding were both remanded when they pleaded guilty in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

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After intensive investigations by detectives in Clarendon, two men have been charged for the January 4 double murder on York Circle Road, York Town, in the parish....

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Minister of National Security Peter Bunting has indicated that there is the possibility that the nation's Forensic Science Labo-ratory may be transformed into an executive...

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