Appeals stall in RM courts - Lack of equipment, staff blamed for long delays
Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's (RM) Courts have been disposing of at least 10,000 criminal cases annually, but an inadequate processing machinery has put a brake on the pace of appeal cases...

...Cases of justice delayed

Several appeal cases are still outstanding because the notes of evidence are not yet ready to be presented to the hearing. The case of prominent attorney Sonia Jones, who was convicted 15 months ago of fraudulent conversion of US$83,749, did not reach.

Cops shoot two dead in Barbican
Policemen on patrol in Barbican, St. Andrew, yesterday shot and killed two men. A woman was also shot, but it was not confirmed up to press time who had caused her injuries.

Vendor stabbed to death
A vendor was killed at the Faiths Pen jerk stop in St. Ann yesterday morning. The vendor, 42 year-old Glenroy Weise, of Ewarton, St. Catherine, was stabbed by another vendor. The accused man is Michael Wilson of Faiths Pen, St. Ann.