DPP backs video link - Llewellyn supports move to encourage witnesses to come forward
PROPOSED PLANS by the Government to use technology, through video link, to encourage witnesses to come forward, has received the full backing of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn. The DPP argued yesterday that the fear of giving evidence ...
PEOPLE POWER - District puts aside politics to build a post office
In 2003, more than a year after the Government had condemned their dilapidated post office to closure without offering to build a new one, the residents of Pear Tree Grove, a small community hidden in the remote hills of St Catherine, led by the immense will of one man...
Cop cries injustice - Rank reverted after being freed of abduction charge
Police Corporal Clayton Lawrence, who was freed after he was charged in connection with the abduction of two men from a plaza on Washington Boulevard, St Andrew, has been reverted from being a detective. He is claiming the reversion in March, to uniform, was a form of punishment....
Theatre stalwart found dead
NORMAN RAE, an influential member of Jamaica's art scene for more than five decades, died at his Stony Hill, St Andrew, home yesterday. Alistair Rae, his nephew, said his uncle's body was discovered by house staff at 7 a.m. No cause of death was given.
More concern over extended detentions
There is more concern today that the police have started to detain persons without charge for more than the 48 hours prescribed by law. Prime Minister Bruce Golding put the issue on the table on Tuesday and later promised that it would be the subject of...
Holding your breathalyser - New devices still not being used
Six months after the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) traffic division welcomed the arrival of more than 20 new breathalyser machines, brought into the island to help curb road fatalities, the equipment is still not in the hands of trained law enforcers and out on the roadways...
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