Yardee! Gleaner News Blog

TRIPLE world record holder Usain Bolt led home countrymen Asafa Powell and Yohan Blake to win the 100-metre sprint in 9.84 seconds in Paris today.Bolt, who was a little shaky at the start, drove past Powell for an easy win, while Blake held on for third.The race was run at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis and saw Bolt collection US$250,000 in appearance fees.The world’s fastest man did not appear too troubled by an achilles tendon injury which kept him out of competition for several weeks.

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POLICE have made another seizure of appliances at the Market Place Plaza this afternoon.Less than 12 hours after seizing television sets and other appliances worth millions of dollars along Molynes Road, cops acting on information say they have apprehended several persons and three truck loads of appliances.Further details of operations will be provided by Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington and Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker, who are now in a press conference.The police suspect the appliances were smuggled off the ports.Related Stories:Police crack illegal appliance racket

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PORT ANTONIO, Portland — Two foreign nationals, Roland Kirk Ezell and Andrew Nicholas Martin who were charged for illegal entry, were today fined and ordered deported.The two — Ezell from Columbia and Martin from the British Virgin Islands — were held by the Jamaica Defence Force and Marine police in waters off Port Antonio last Saturday south-east of the Folly Lighthouse, in a stolen yacht.When they appeared in court today Resident Magistrate Tara Morrison fined them $7,000 each and ordered that they be sent back to their homelands. Both were heled aboard the yacht ‘Ruby’ which was tracked to Jamaican waters and the two men taken into custody.The Portland police are still carrying out investigations into how the yacht ended up into Jamaican territorial waters.

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One of the three accused charged with conspiracy to murder Inspector Lorraine Elleston was freed yesterday on a no-case submission after the crown closed its case….

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Residents of Fort William in Westmoreland, and indeed the greater Savanna-la-Mar area in Westmoreland, have been consumed with a tale that is so shocking, not many can wrap their minds around it.

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The Trelawny police are seeking the assistance of the public in apprehending the five men alleged to be involved in fatally shooting and chopping of an ex-solider and a farmer in Trelawny yesterday.

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A woman caught trying to smuggle cellular phones into the Supreme Court Remand Centre was sentenced to nine months imprisonment yesterday, despite her claims that she was threatened to do so.

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Many Jamaicans may be ignorant of the practices that are deemed to be child labour since many of these activities have become norm and ‘common sight’ in our daily lives. On the other hand, others may be well aware…

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A policeman from the Motorised Patrol Division and his 33-year-old common-law wife received knife injuries during a fight with each other at Lebanon Housing Scheme, Islington, St Mary, on Wednesday night.

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Twenty-nine-year-old Kenneth Parchmentis now homeless, after he was beaten and chased from his community because rumours were being circulated that he is gay.

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