Kartel, Deva Bratt at odds - Deejays claim rights to 'Portmore Empire'

( L - R ) Deva Bratt, Vybz Kartel - FileIncarcerated deejay Deva Bratt has verbally lashed out at fellow deejay Vybz Kartel, accusing the artiste of stealing his 'Portmore Empire'.In February of this year Deva Bratt, real name Sheldon Smith, was taken into custody in connection with an alleged case of carnal abuse, committed against a 14-year-old girl. He was picked up by police from...

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SPOUSE SHOOTS COP IN NECK - Man was playing with girlfriend's service firearm

A policewoman was admitted to hospital last Friday after she was accidentally shot by her boyfriend who was playing with her service firearm, police told THE STAR yesterday.The incident happened at the common-law couple's Toronto...

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Bail for cop charged with colleague's rape

published: Saturday | September 27, 2008A policeman who is accused of raping a policewoman at her home on August 18, appeared in the Home Circuit Court yesterday.He is 22-year-old Detective Constable Adrian Johnson.He has been granted...

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PM wants new designation for Caricom states Points to peculiar needs, exposure to natural disasters

Saturday, September 27, 2008PRIME Minister Bruce Golding yesterday called for Jamaica and other Caricom states to be recognised as "small vulnerable and highly Indebted middle-income countries", instead of their current international...

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More than $48 m spent on school furniture

Saturday, September 27, 2008Chief procurement officer in the Ministry of Education, Leon Fraser, has disclosed that more than $48 million has so far been spent on the issuance of contracts to manufacture school furniture, some of...

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