Archive for November, 2008

THE APPEAL against a Court of Appeal ruling in the Janice Allen case is to start on December 1 in the United Kingdom Privy Council.The Privy Council is being asked to determine whether the Jamaican court was correct when it refused leave to go …

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THE POLICE High Command has launched a probe into allegations that a group of police personnel severely abused a St Andrew woman on Sunday evening, breaking her arm in the process. Karlene Spencer, an artist, broke down on radio yesterday as she recounted minutes…

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HUMAN RIGHTS activist Dr Carolyn Gomes has emerged as one of seven persons, from a list of 189 nominees, to cop the 2008 United Nations (UN) award in the field of human rights.President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel d’Escoto Brock-mann, announced the winners yesterday.

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MUMBAI, India (AP):Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India’s financial capital yesterday, killing at least 87 people and taking Westerners hostage…

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WASHINGTON (AP):UNITED STATES President George W. Bush was yesterday heading to Camp David, his presidential hideaway north of Washington, for Thanksgiving, thankful for his almost-expired “privilege of serving as the president”….

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The last person to have faced the gallows in Jamaica was in 1988. In 1993, in the case of Pratt and Morgan v The Attorney General of Jamaica, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) held that a delay in excess of five years or more would constitute…

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WESTERN BUREAU: In a bid to dispose of goods that have been stored over time, the collector of customs in Montego Bay has invited interested parties to a public auction at the Queen’s Warehouse at the Sangster International Airport in St James…

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Parliamentarians who yesterday overwhelmingly chose to retain the death penalty have come in for intense criticism for appearing to treat the vote with too much levity.Dr Carolyn Gomes, executive director of human-rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice, said …

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