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Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:51:57 -0500
Trinidad and Tobago removes COVID-19 testing entry requirement
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jun 29, CMC - Travellers to Trinidad and Tobago will not require a negative COVID-19 test to enter the twin-island republic from Friday. Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh announced at Wednesday's COVID-19...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:45:57 -0500
US official: Migrants who died cleared inland checkpoint
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- The tractor-trailer at the centre of a disastrous human-smuggling attempt that left 53 people dead had passed through an inland U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint with migrants inside the sweltering rig ...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:19:55 -0500
17-y-old gunned down in Westmoreland
The Westmoreland Police are probing the death of 17-year-old Jayre Francis, who was gunned down in the parish earlier today.

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:03:59 -0500
Double murder in Clarendon
The Clarendon Police are investigating the shooting deaths of two men in separate incidents in the parish yesterday. In the first incident, a forty-one-year-old fisherman identified as Demeon Elliott, otherwise called 'Fro Fro...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:09:56 -0500
Teenager helping breast cancer survivors in their recovery
Eighteen-year-old Derick Bernard is fully focused on becoming a breast prosthesis surgeon. After researching the subject, he learned of the trauma breast cancer survivors experience and has raised over $100,000 of much needed support for them. The....

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:34:53 -0500
'Whisker' killed in Clarendon, two others injured
One man is dead and two others hospitalised after gunmen invaded a shop in Sandy Bay, Clarendon last night. Dead is 26-year-old Dwayne Miller also known as 'Whisker.'

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:48 -0500
‘This could happen to anybody’ - Guardians of child found wandering on road said they were not careless
The uncle and grandmother of a one-year-old boy who was picked up by a passing police vehicle along the Old Harbour main road in St Catherine on Monday have defended their care of the infant. An amateur video of the incident shows the infant...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:46 -0500
Bus park worker accused of million-dollar robbery
An employee of the Transport Authority is accused of fleecing $1.1 million from the state-run agency. The accused, Carlene Brown, is charged with 41 counts of larceny as a servant. She made her first appearance in the Kingston and St Parish Court....

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:47 -0500
Man on murder charge also accused of scamming
A Hanover car parts manager who is facing murder charges in Jamaica and is wanted in the US for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft will have an extradition hearing on August 12. This was revealed by Senior Deputy Director of Public...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:41 -0500
Woman stones ex and his new girlfriend
A Corporate Area woman allegedly assaulted her children's father and his new girlfriend as well as threw stones at their car causing damages of $355,000. This was shared by prosecutors yesterday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court after.....

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:38 -0500
Man beats spouse for not washing baby’s clothes
A Corporate Area father was ordered to attend counselling after he admitted to beating his child's mother for not washing their 11-month-old's clothes. Orlando Mitchell pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in......

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:57 -0500
Two killed in Clarendon
Two men were shot and killed in Clarendon in separate incidents yesterday morning. In the first incident, it is reported that about 12:10 a.m. Demeon Elliott, 41, otherwise called 'Fro Fro', a fisherman of Darrett Street in Milk River in the...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:56 -0500
Farmer charged in shopkeeper’s murder
Twenty-year-old Westmoreland farmer Justine Barnes has been charged in the shooting death of a woman at her home in the parish. Barnes, who is from Pike district in the parish, was charged on Tuesday for the murder of shopkeeper Madgelyn Clarke......

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:55 -0500
Cops seize three firearms during operations
An early morning operation yesterday in St Catherine, which is still under a state of public emergency, resulted in the seizure of two illegal guns, a quantity of ammunition and other items in Portmore Terrace, Portmore. Reports from the Portmore....

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:53 -0500
Julian Davis-Buckle fighting fires and blazing trails
A burning desire to serve her countrymen was the influence for Julian Davis-Buckle to have a career as a civil servant, specifically as a member of the Jamaica Defence Force. "I was a tomboy, love to play gun war, police and thief, and climb...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:49 -0500
Woman fined for out-of-season lobster
A St James woman found herself $10,000 poorer on Wednesday after admitting to the St James Parish Court that she was selling 33 pounds of spine-tailed lobster outside of the prescribed fishing season. Candace McIntosh pleaded guilty with...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:44 -0500
Loan seeker held with fake job letter
A Corporate Area woman allegedly paid $70,000 for a fake job letter in order to obtain a car loan from one of the island's commercial banks. Tanylee Willis and her co-accused Rashane Palmer are charged with conspiracy to defraud, forgery,...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:30:07 -0500
St Catherine SOE ends on Friday
Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang announced in Parliament yesterday that the Government will not seek to extend the state of public emergency imposed in St Catherine on June 17. The measure, intended to curtail high levels of crime...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:13:24 -0500
DNA of 17 year old accused found inside victim, expert testifies
DNA analysis has revealed that material found in the anus of a nine-year-old schoolgirl who was raped and killed in 2018, is linked to the now 17-year-old accused. The revelation was made during proceedings in the Westmoreland Circuit Court today......

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:59:22 -0500
Trelawny family charged with illegal firearm, and ammunition
Members of the police arrested and charged a mother and two sons in relation to the seizure of an illegal firearm and fifteen rounds of ammunition during an operation in Duncans, Trelawny yesterday. Charged are 23-year-old Tarik Gayle,...



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