Category: News

The news items published under this category are as follows.

News: Kraal six named - Serving of arrest warrants next Wednesday

Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 05:17 PM
Jamaica

Ganville Gause, acting assistant commissioner of police, will next Wednesday, execute warrants of arrest on six former members of the disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU), who have each been ruled charged with murder in connection with the controversial shootings at Kraal, Clarendon, on May 7 last year...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

News: Mundy expresses sympathy for Middleton death, mother calls words meaningless

Friday, April 16, 2004 - 12:16 PM
Bermuda

HAMILTON, Bermuda (CP) - The man convicted as an accessory after the fact in the 1996 killing of Ontario teen Rebecca Middleton was reported Thursday as saying he thinks about the crime all the time in prison...

News Source: CBC News

News: Tesheira dies during surgery

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 03:09 PM
Trinidad and Tobago

Former national footballer and insurance executive Russell Tesheira is dead...

News Source: Trinidad Express

News: Bank notes contain security features

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 01:19 PM
Antigua and Barbuda

ST. JOHN'S ? Antigua and Barbuda will begin using a new Eastern Caribbean $10 (US$3.75) bank notes today with security features designed to thwart counterfeiters...

News Source: Sun-Sentinel

News: Hope fades of catching killer

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 01:14 PM
St. Lucia

The sister of a Wadebridge environmental campaigner brutally murdered in the Caribbean six months ago has given up all hope that the killer will be found. Jane Tipson, 53, was shot dead in her car on the paradise island of St Lucia last September. Three men from the island were arrested immediately after the murder but later released...

News Source: Cornish Guardian

News: Jamaica: Investigations of police killings a farce

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 05:24 PM
Jamaica

New information concerning the recent collapse of the trial of the police officer accused of killing 13-year-old Janice Allen highlights the way in which police officers who kill are protected by the system, Amnesty International said today...

News Source: Amnesty International

News: U.S., France Blocking Haiti Probe

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 01:17 PM
Haiti

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 13 (IPS) - The United States and France have intimidated Caribbean countries into delaying an official request for a probe into the murky circumstances under which Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted from power in February, according to diplomatic sources here...

News Source: Inter Press News Service Agency

News: It will be the mother of all trials, says Adams

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 01:04 PM
Jamaica

Reneto Adams, the colourful tough cop who headed the controversial Crime Management Unit (CMU), has promised Jamaica the "mother of all trials" if he is charged with murder over last May's police killings at Crawle...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

News: Bloody Feb helped push up murder figures

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 01:16 PM
Jamaica

An almost 90 per cent increase in the number of murders committed between this and last February and the 35.2 per cent increase in the numbers for January have helped push the island's murder toll towards the 300 mark...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

News: Arnett Gardens murder sparks fear of reprisals

Saturday, April 10, 2004 - 03:05 PM
Jamaica

Anthony Folkes, 48, a seeming under-boss in the community, was shot dead in Arnette Gardens yesterday, triggering warnings from angry residents that the incident could lead to an outbreak of violence...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

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