'Few J'cans smuggle coke to UK'
HER MAJESTY'S Customs and Excise Department in the United Kingdom has disclosed that only seven per cent of cocaine confiscated in that country last year came from Jamaica, the London office of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) reports.
Seville squatters to get eviction notices
SOME 100 eviction notices will be served this week on squatters occupying the Seville Great House property and Heritage Park, St. Ann, according to the Ministry of Water and Housing. Dr. Coy Grandison, Squatter Consultant in the Ministry of Water and...
Too many killings, judge says
A HIGH Court Judge, in sentencing a 21-year-old man to life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to murder, lamented that there were too many killings occurring in the country. Mrs. Justice Zaila McCalla made the comments when she passed sentence on...
Complaints Authority to oversee drug probe
THE POLICE Public Complaints Authority (PPCA) says it will be overseeing "every stage of the investigation" of alleged drug-running by several members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. Mr. Justice Carlton Patterson, executive chairman of the PPCA, a...
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