Forty-eight-year-old Allister Christie was arrested after he was caught attempting to smuggle a quantity of cocaine through the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Tuesday.
Ahigh-level team from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), headed by Deputy Commissioner in charge of the crime and security portfolio, Fitz Bailey, met with senior executives from Beryllium Limited on Wednesday afternoon.
MORE than 160 children between the ages of 12 and 17 accused, implicated, or suspected of breaches of the law, avoided the formal justice system in the last fiscal year as they benefited from the child diversion programme.
OPPOSITION spokesman on transport Mikael Phillips has blasted the Andrew Holness-led Government over its handling of the transport portfolio, in particular its management of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC).
A US citizen was last week convicted in the St James Parish Court for concealment of criminal property and possession of criminal property after cash was found in women's wigs in his luggage at the airport in Montego Bay, St James.
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing an incident that resulted in a firearm being discharged at the Oracabessa, St Mary home of former National Security Minister Robert Montague.
Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck is urging beneficiaries of deceased persons whose matters are before the Administrator General’s Department (AGD) to agree to settle them quickly to prevent the devaluation of whatever assets may be in dispute.
Recording artiste Tanya Stephens has dismissed suggestions from a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) blogger that she has plans to enter representational politics and become a candidate for the Opposition People's National Party (PNP).