Eight years in jail is what Wilmoth Ralph will serve for having sex with an underage girl. The maximum sentence for the crime of sex with a girl under 16, but over 14 years, according to the Sexual Offences Act, is 10 years in jail. Justice...
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says several Caribbean nationals, including Jamaicans, are among 40 persons arrested during a four-day enforcement operation in New York State that ended on June 21. Yesterday, ICE said the operation targeted at-large criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants, immigration...
The local Jamaican police say they know very little of the group. But just the mention of the name ‘Al-Qaeda’ in the parish of Westmoreland triggers nervous stares and looks of unease. There is so much fear that even those who claimed to have knowledge of, and...
The Jamaica Government will install 1,000 closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) in strategic locations across the island by the end of the year, under the JamaicaEye initiative by the Ministry of National Security. JamaicaEye is a public-private partnership designed to network CCTV cameras owned by the Ministry as...
[caption id="attachment_15226" align="alignright" width="300"] PRIME MINISTER ALLEN CHASTANET[/caption] CASTRIES, St Lucia — The Allen Chastanet-led United Workers Party (UWP) administration in Saint Lucia recently celebrated its second anniversary of assuming office but it wasn’t long before Prime Minister Chastanet doubled down on earlier insults and confirmed...