Creative Production and Training Centre Limited (CPTC) launches television documentary of former Governor-General of Jamaica
THE CREATIVE Production and Training Centre Limited (CPTC) has announced the completion of a new documentary in honour of former Governor-General, Sir Howard Cooke. CPTC Chief Executive Officer Mrs. Angela Patterson said...
Professor Lalor to conduct ackee study
PROFESSOR GERALD Lalor, director of the International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Sciences (ICENS), has been requested to conduct a study to identify the factors which have led to the intolerable levels of the toxin, hypoglycin, in ackee...
Logos II closed until next Monday
THE LOGOS II book ship has been closed to the public until Monday, February 20, to facilitate a long-standing arrangement between the Rockfort Cement Company and another vessel which will use the berth during that period.
Civil suit against Panton on hold
THE COURT of Appeal has stopped the hearing of the $2 billion lawsuit against Kingston businessman Donald Panton. A stay of proceedings in the Supreme Court was granted until the court hears an appeal next week Wednesday.
Lessons learned from Jamaica to Pewaukee - Former orphans become standout college students
PEWAUKEE - LEROY Grant never knew his parents, spending most of his life in Jamaican orphanages. Davean Millwood's mother died when he was seven. He spent the next several years shuffling from one abusive guardian to the next.
Privy Council sets aside murder convict's sentence
THE UNITED Kingdom Privy Council has set aside the murder conviction and sentence of a Jamaican man because of a breach of the Judges Rules. The case of 24-year-old Shabbadine Peart has been remitted to the Court of Appeal...
Higgler freed of firearm, burglary, larceny charges
BARRINGTON LENNON, a 38-year-old higgler, who was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for illegal possession of firearm, burglary and larceny, has been freed by the Court of Appeal.
Court rules man be released from prison
THE COURT of Appeal ruled last week that 32-year-old Everton Williams, a tailor and construction worker of Little London, Westmoreland, must be released from prison. Attorney-at-law Shaun Reynolds argued that the five-year-prison sentence...
Businessman charged for attempted bribery
A 43-YEAR-OLD businessman was charged yesterday with attempting to bribe two policemen who gave him a ticket for a traffic violation. The man charged is Nie Chengzong of an Upper Waterloo Road address.
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