Accused child killer remanded

CLARK'S TOWN, Trelawny — Marvia Patterson, the woman charged with murder for the beheading of four-year-old Natasha Brown last week, was remanded into custody when she appeared in the Clark's Town Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. Accused child Murderer Marvia Patterson being escorted by Police officers from the Clarks Town RM Court Patterson, 42, a labourer of Duanvale in the parish,...

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Three men shot dead in Seaview Gardens

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Three men are reported dead in a shooting incident at Seaview Gardens in Kingston at about 8:30 pm Friday. Information surrounding the shooting is unconfirmed at this time however early reports are that...

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'Spare the rod, spoil the child' - Falmouth mayor calls for resumption of corporal punishment in schools

WESTERN BUREAU: Mayor of Falmouth and Chairman of the Trelawny Parish Council, Garth Wilkinson, is calling for a resumption of corporal punishment in Jamaican schools. According to Wilkinson, the Ministry of Education made a grave error when it suspended corporal punishment in schools. "We have reached the stage where we have made the major mistake of saying no more flogging in schools. No...

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Kartel trial for November

Adijah Vybz Kartel Palmer THE TRIAL of dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel and the five other men charged jointly with him for the murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams is to start in the Home Circuit Court on November 18. Williams was allegedly beaten to death on August 16, 2011, over the disappearance of an illegal gun. Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, along with fellow entertainer...

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US$1 = J$100! - J$ plunges to lowest value ever

The Sliding Jamaican dollar - record $100.08 to 1USD THE Jamaican dollar plunged to its lowest value ever yesterday, trading at an average $100.08 to its US counterpart, a development that is in keeping with a recommendation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Last month, the IMF, in its Country Report on Jamaica, said that despite a recent depreciation in the value of the Jamaican...

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