A five-year-old boywas shot dead while he and his seven-year-old cousin were playing with a gun at their home in Hatfield, Manchester, yesterday. The Manchester police have declined to release the name of the boy...

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A nine-year-old student died in hospital after he suffered head injuries when a goalpost fell on his head at the Sts Peter and Paul Preparatory School yesterday. Information received by THE WEEKEND STAR is that the boy was on the playing field...

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The father accused of attacking his son's teacher at a homework centre in Kingston recently has denied the allegations and claims that the teacher told a one-sided story.

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Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles, has said that all savings due to workers engaged in the United States and Canadian overseas employment programmes are in safe custody and will be paid over when the..

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Forty-year-old attorney-at-law Richard Harris was granted bail on Wednesday in the sum of $50,000 when he presented himself in the Portland Resident Magistrate's Court to answer to the charge brought against him.

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The police in the peaceful community of Bensonton, St Ann, had to step in last week after a man was reportedly beaten by several people after claims were made that he tried to obeah another resident....

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In its effort to rid its ranks of corruption, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has barred 137 members from re-enlisting. Deputy head of the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB)...

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Five men accused of stealing 85 bridge plates from the National Works Agency (NWA) Tarrant Store on Molynes Road, St Andrew were on Thursday remanded and will return to court for trial on April...

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A St Catherine woman who stole a quantity of beauty products from the Woolworth Department Store was remanded for Psychiatric evaluation in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday....

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Up to late last night police personnel from the St Catherine North division were looking for men who shot one of their colleagues. The policeman was shot and injured by gunmen along St Johns Road in Spanish Town last night.

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A man who in his bid to escape from the police broke and entered a motor car, kicking out the glass to one of the windows, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for malicious destruction of property....

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The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) is concerned that an illegal concrete batching plant encroaching on the site for the new Harbour View Sewage Treatment Facility may delay or compromise ...

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Bail in the sum of $300,000 was offered by the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday to a man accused of killing another man who allegedly tried to have sex with him.

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Months after the Downtown Municipal Transport Centre was opened, it has remained underused, causing many to ask if this multimillion-dollar centre was a waste of taxpayers' money, since it is only being used by St Thomas operators...

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A Barbadian man who has pleaded guilty to having 2.7 kilogrammes (6lb) of ganja in his possesion was sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

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A mechanic who has been charged with larceny of motor vehicle was remanded in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday. He is Duhaney Codrington from a Trelawny address. He is to return to court on March 24...

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A man who has been accused of forging a cheque valued at $250,000, had his bail extended in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate Court yesterday.

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KINGSTON: Cabinet has approved amendments to the Metal and Jewellery (Control of Second-Hand) Act to increase penalties and application fees for licences under the act.

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