The Jamaican taxpayers are once again left to foot the bill of yet another government expenditure, this time $58 million is needed to cover the expenses of the West Kingston Compensation Committee. The Government has indicated in the 2017-18 Estimates of Expenditure that it will spend $20 million on the ...
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A man who for 15 years eluded United States federal officials was captured in Jamaica. Keemeit Melaun Hand was captured during a joint US-Jamaica investigation after intelligence suggested that he might have fled to Jamaica. According to reports, investigators analysed suspicious records of a relative of Hand, which led their ...
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The police last evening relaeased Alkaline from custody. The dancehall deejay was freed from following a judge’s order earlier today that the police either charge the entertainer or release him by 6:00 pm. He was not charged. Alkaline’s attorney, Peter Champagnie, earlier today filed a habeas corpus for his release. ...
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Twenty-three-year-old Mario Morrison of Bamboo District, Hanover, and 31-year-old Gregory Roberts, taxi driver of Maroon Town, St James, have been charged with the shocking murder of Shineka Gray, 15, a former grade 10 student of Green Pond High in Hanover. According to the police, two men, were charged on Thursday, ...
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Detectives from the Criminal Investigations Branch Headquarters are seeking dancehall entertainer Earlan Bartley otherwise called, ‘Alkaline’ for questioning in relation to the murder of Rohan Morris. Bartley is being asked to report to the Area 4 Headquarters, Harman Barracks in Vineyard Town, Kingston 2 by 5 p.m., on Wednesday, February ...
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The police have confirmed that the body of a woman found stuffed in a barrel in Ramble, St Thomas is that of the female Burger King employee who was reported missing last week. She’s 23-year-old Nile Brown of a Denham Town, Kingston address. The police believe she was strangled elsewhere, ...
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The St Thomas police are investigating the killing of a woman in the community of Ramble. The woman’s body was found by passers by in a gully about noon today. It was stuffed in a barrel. It is believed she may have been killed elsewhere and the body dumped there. ...
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Classes have been suspended at the Green Pond High School in St James as overwhelmed teachers and students mourn the murder of a 15-year-old Shineka Gray.. Gray’s decomposing body was found on Riverside Drive in Granville, St James on Wednesday evening three days after she went missing . There were ...
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With the recent shortfall in critical care nurses, the government of Jamaica is seeking to partner with the United Kingdom to create a nurse exchange programme. Dr Tufton says he pitched the proposal to policymakers, technocrats of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, training institutions, and lobbyists in the UK health ...
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Residents in Hanover believe that the decomposing body of a woman that was found in Prospect yesterday is that of 30-year-old Tasha Gordon. Gordon Has been missing since January 9, after they killed her employer, Marvin McIntosh, at his business place in Prospect. However; Deputy Superintendent of Police from the ...
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