KINGSTON, Jamaica — Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Clifford Blake has called for a mandatory minimum sentence for gun crimes in Jamaica. Speaking yesterday at a private/public sector partnership forum on crime in New Kingston, the senior cop commented: “Jamaica is awash with guns”. He said that...
Perry Christie became the first prime minister in the Bahamas to lose his Parliamentary seat, on a day that Bahamians delivered a crushing blow to his Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and ushered in the Free National Movement (FNM), giving them almost all the seats in...
[caption id="attachment_17931" align="alignleft" width="300"] The body of Ray Rawle at his home in Valencia.[/caption] THREE MEN were killed in north Trinidad overnight, taking the homicide toll to 183 for the year. At Valencia, a man who survived a bullet to the head more than a year ago,...
[caption id="attachment_17913" align="alignleft" width="300"] Captain George Wehner[/caption] George Wehner, an aspiring politician for the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP), has been accused of intimidation and threatening to kill several parliamentarians from the ruling Antigua Barbuda Labour Party, including Prime Minister Gaston Browne. The charges, which had not...
A desperate cry to relatives to be rescued from the sexual abuse of her father was made for several years before an adolescent girl was able to get the police involved and her abuser imprisoned. The 44-year-old father of six pleaded guilty to having sex with...