RELATIVES and friends of 16-year-old Vanessa Kirkland, who was fatally shot by police on Spanish Town Road last night, are staging a demonstration in Kirkland’s community of Greenwich Town. Kirkland, a fifth form student of the Immaculate Conception High School, was reportedly on her way to a friend’s party last night when the shooting occurred.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant LIME will be making an “immeasurable investment” in ensuring that Jamaicans who are unable to travel to London this summer will still be able to enjoy the Olympics, as well as the celebration of Jamaica’s 50th year of Independence.
This is the fifth in a series recounting close encounters with death by Jamaicans.
THE minister with responsibility for information, Senator Sandrea Falconer, has denied claims that millions of dollars are being spent to purchase high-end vehicles for government ministers, insisting instead that many of her colleagues are driving their personal vehicles.
She was not the choice of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) so Deborah ‘Foxy Brown’ Golding, the woman who mothered the children of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke’s slain brother, Mark Anthony ‘Jah T’ Coke, has stepped…
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Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, once the most feared underworld enforcer in Jamaica, is to appear in a United States (US) court today faced with the prospect of spending more than 20 years in prison. Since pleading guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges…
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A PRIVATE-sector working group appearing before a special parliamentary committee on tax reform declared yesterday that the Government should eliminate all waivers and incentives to create greater equity in the tax system….
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Western Bureau: The recent police crackdown against alleged ‘lotto scammers’ in Montego Bay, St James has left several young men angry as, according to them, they are being embarrassingly stereotyped by law enforcement….
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THE United States is to send prosecutors to assist Jamaican authorities in a deepening of co-operation between both countries in their efforts against organised crime.
Senior members of the police force have been given a kick in the butt by Police Commissioner Owen Ellington for their failure to do more to reduce the number of fatal shootings by cops.
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