Billions in arms - Police say lottery scam funding weapons purchase in St James

published: Friday | October 3, 2008 Nagra Plunkett, Assignment Coordinator Assistant Commissioner of Police Denver Frater, officer in charge of the Area One Police Division. - Photo by Noel Thompson WESTERN BUREAU:DESPITE POLICE efforts to break the back of the lottery scam in St James, the scheme remains vibrant and is reportedly pumping billions of dollars into the criminal underworld."If you look...

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Lottery scammers go regional

Lottery scammers who operated out of St James have reportedly moved their operations to other Caribbean islands because of increased pressures from the authorities here. Police intelligence has revealed that several suspected lottery...

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Jamaicans eating less of what they grow

PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer Friday, October 03, 2008 (L-R) Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture representative in Jamaica, Cynthia Currie; permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Donovan Stanberry; and Dr Dunstan Campbell, Food and Agriculture Organisation representative in Jamaica, field questions at Tuesday's launch of World Food Day at the ministry's Hope Road,...

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Back a yard! - Jamaican Olympians return for week of celebration

Howard Walker, Observer staff reporter Friday, October 03, 2008 Jamaica's Olympians strike a pose in the VIP Lounge at the Norman Manley International Airport yesterday after arriving for the 10-day Olympic Homecoming Celebrations. From left are Dwight Thomas, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Maurice Smith, Kerron Stewart and Richard Phillips. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) TWO-TIME Olympic 200 metres champion,...

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