TIVOLI Gardens residents, led by attorney Hannah Harris-Barrington, are seeking an international enquiry into May’s security incursion into the West Kingston community.
THE Police High Command says that the threat level against members of the constabulary remains high, amid intelligence reports that displaced criminals from West Kingston are regrouping in Denham Town.”This regrouping is being done primarily in Denham Town and comes against the background of continued and effective police operations being carried out in Western Kingston especially in the Coronation Market area. Several threats have since been made on the lives of police personnel,” said a statement from the Police High Command.Police personnel are warned to take the threat assessment seriously and to raise their level of awareness, both on and off duty. “Deployments must not fall below defensive levels and personnel should be prepared to act swiftly and decisively in defence of themselves and colleagues,” said the High Command.The statement also reiterated the full support of the High Command to Constabulary members should they be forced to take any lawful action to defend both themselves and citizens.”At the same time the High Command is reminding criminal elements and those who sympathise with them that the police remain undeterred in the fight to defeat organised crime.”
THREE men — a Morant Bay businessman and a father and son — are expected to be charged later today for breaching the Firearms Act.
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Opposition Spokesman on National Security Peter Bunting has said that a reported bid by National Security Minister Dwight Nelson to silence former police commissioner Hardley Lewin using the Official Secrets Act, flies in the face of proposed whistle-blower legislation which the Government now has before Parliament.
A teen girl who police said gave birth to a male baby in her room and hid the child in a plastic bag under her bed, was yesterday granted $100,000 bail with a surety in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court.
KINGSTON Mayor Desmond McKenzie met today with Kingston and St Andrew Corporation officials to discuss reports that a number of bones were found by workers in the May Pen Cemetery.
POLICE Commissioner Owen Ellington has ordered the immediate interdiction of the policeman who was involved in an altercation with a CVM cameraman on Saturday, July 3 in St Ann, pending the outcome of an investigation into the matter.
NEW YORK, USA — Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the former Tivoli Gardens strongman whom Jamaica extradited last month to face drug and gun charges here, has started to receive court papers setting out the allegations against him.
MANDEVILLE, Manchester – General Secretary of the People’s National Party (PNP) Peter Bunting has said that the “still unexplained” payment of $US49,000 to US law firm, Manatt, Phelps and Phillips to facilitate a controversial lobbying effort by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is further evidence of the need for “full disclosure” on financial contributions to political parties.
PRINCIPAL of the Herbert Morrison High School in St James, Paul Adams as been elected to be the next leader of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) for 2010-2011.
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