Leaders of two major business lobbies have expressed optimism about the sharp decline in murders and other serious crimes in 2023 and hope maintenance of that trajectory will boost the economy.
Monday, 30 January 2023 15:52
Driver of garbage truck that killed Clan Carthy schoolboy sentenced to one year and seven months
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The driver of the garbage truck that overturned, killing Clan Carthy Primary School student Benjamin Bair four years ago, was sentenced to one year and seven months for manslaughter.
Alten Brooks was arrested and charged in 2019 after the seven-year-old boy was crushed to death on October 28 on the school grounds.
Reports are that about 4:30 pm, Benjamin was at school when the garbage truck that had been picking up trash hit a taxi and then overturned on the boy.
It was reported that at the time of the incident, the truck was left unmanned and that it slid down a slope.
The driver initially fled the scene.
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Monday, 30 January 2023 11:28
Gone with the wind - Bolt's money merely passed through SSL
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JAMAICAN track and field icon Usain Bolt pumped US$6.5 million into the investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) between 2012 and 2017 but almost as soon as the money was deposited it was moved out without his knowledge.
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Monday, 30 January 2023 11:07
Clarke labelled derelict by Opposition over handling of FSC report
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More questions have arisen about the quality of oversight state regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), gave to the now-fraud-hit Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) as a 2019 assessment revealed that a string of violations flagged more than two years earlier continued to dog the institution.
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Monday, 30 January 2023 10:53
Chang says govt will not relent on traffic ticket amnesty deadline
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Despite howls of protest about the government’s refusal to extend the current traffic ticket amnesty deadline for motorists to pay long-outstanding fines, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is insisting that the January 31 deadline is in place to help sustain law and order.
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Monday, 30 January 2023 10:47
Police need more time in JDF Credit Union fraud probe
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The seven former employees of the Jamaica Defence Force Cooperative Credit Union Limited charged with defrauding the institution had their matter sent to plea and case management when they appeared in court Friday.
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Monday, 30 January 2023 10:31
Chaos at traffic court as ticket payment deadline looms
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There is a major traffic pile-up around sections of South Camp as hundreds of motorists are now gathered on the road trying to reach to Traffic Court to pay up outstanding tickets before the new Road Traffic Act and Regulations takes effect on Wednesday, February 1.
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Monday, 30 January 2023 10:23
Shaw vows to end drivers' licence buying schemes
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While disclosing that children are illegally driving vehicles locally, Transport and Mining Minister, Audley Shaw, is vowing to put an end to the long-time illegal practice of persons purchasing their driver's licences.
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National Security Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Horace Chang, says the seizure of a large shipment of firearms at Seaboard Warehouse in Freeport, Montego Bay, St James on Friday afternoon was a signal that local law enforcement continues to reap success at dismantling the illegal gun trade.
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Thursday, 26 January 2023 18:11
Julian Robinson calls for greater urgency in SSL investigation
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The Opposition People’s National Party is calling for greater urgency and a more deliberate approach on the part of the Government, with respect to the investigation surrounding the allegations of fraud at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL).
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Antigua's Director of Public Prosecutions Anthony Armstrong, who is facing fraud-related charges in relation to three properties, was today re-offered $500,000 bail when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court.
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Thursday, 26 January 2023 15:38
Disruptive inmates transferred from Ocho Rios lock-up
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One inmate was treated and released from hospital while at least four others were bundled into a police truck and carted away from the Ocho Rios lock-up Wednesday evening after what a police inspector described as a "major disturbance" at the facility.
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Thursday, 26 January 2023 15:17
Blaine calls for CPFSA head Gage-Grey to step aside
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Founder of lobby group Hear The Children’s Cry, Betty Ann Blaine, has said that the embattled head of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), Rosalee Gage-Grey should have stepped aside to facilitate a probe into her management of the organisation.
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Thursday, 26 January 2023 14:51
Two St Catherine men arrested over rape and abduction of mentally ill woman
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Two St Catherine men who reportedly abducted and raped a woman suffering from mental illness have been slapped with several charges.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2023 17:12
Don’t focus on the sprat…time to reel in the big red snappers!
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Usain Bolt must feel like Lewis’ Carroll’s enigmatic character Alice, in the much-celebrated tome, Alice in Wonderland, as the SSL saga becomes ‘curiouser and curiouser’.
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