Waltham Park Residents Protest Police Shooting
Angry residents yesterday blocked sections of Waltham Park Road and Maxfield Avenue in Kingston, to protest the police shooting of ‘Machine Man’ (real name – Dave Sterling), who was reportedly a community enforcer / area don. The official police report states that Machine Man was shot by officers when he pulled a gun on members [...]
JCF Alert – Fraudulent Cheques
Advert-alert in the printed media today: The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) wishes to advise the public that unscrupulous individuals have been presenting fraudulent cheques said to be drawn on the Force’s Recurrent Account. Cheques sequencing, signature and banking information are inaccurate. Small merchants such as Hardware Stores and Supermarkets are being targeted.
3rd Quarter 2008 Jamaica Crime Statistics
Information released by the police yesterday, showed that at the end of the first nine months of 2008, 1241 persons were murdered, reflecting a 12% jump compared to the same period last year when 1105 were murdered. The gun was used to carry out 82% of the murders. For the month of September alone, 11 [...]
Female Municipal Police Officer Killed
37 year old Ann Marie Christie, a Municipal police officer assigned to the St. James Parish Council, was shot and killed at her home on Dapper Lane in the tough Glendevon community last night. Christie’s two teenage sons managed to escape from the house unscathed. According to police liaison officer for St. James, Constable Richam [...]
Murder Trial against 3 Policemen Continues
Crown witness, Daphney Miller, testified in the murder trial of three policemen yesterday, that moments before her son was murdered, one of the implicated policemen threatened “to kill one a uno today” on the day in question. Miller told the court that the three policemen – Constable Rohan Blackwood and District Constables Milton Ellison and [...]
