After months of speculation and hype, the supposed creator of a controversial Jamaican adult website has charged for his operation of the outlet. Law enforcement officials arrested 27-year-old Ronald Oates on Monday and subsequently slapped him with several charges under the cyber-crimes act and the larceny act on Friday. Oates was nabbed by police at [...]
Deejay Deva Bratt, was offered bail when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court last week. He is charged with indecent assault and assault occasioning bodily harm following an incident on June 1. Allegations are that Deva Bratt tried to solicit a threesome from two women and when they refused he allegedly punched [...]
By now, if you have not seen the video of Trinidad’s most controversial television host, Ian Alleyne being carried away by local police, then you have really missed out. Don’t worry we have the video below for you to view. I watched live online last night and was in total shock at the melee that [...]
A Calypsonian in Tortola who was arrested and charged for drug possession, allegedly told police that she invested “$1400 in cannabis, of which she was going to “smoke” some and sell some.” Local calypso singer Joycelyn Searles aka Sista Joyce, who is charged with unlawful possession of cannabis and intent to supply, was granted $60,000 [...]
No one is above the law, not even a national hero! Trinidad and Tobago superstar footballer Stern John and attorney Denisha Mayers appeared in Port of Spain Magistrates Court on Monday charged with breaching the curfew. The two appeared along with Terysa and Terri-ann Humphrey and were all charged with breaching the 11pm national curfew on Saturday, after [...]
Jamaica’s top cartoonist Clovis is having fun with Vybz Kartel’s arrest. It is no secret that Clovis is not a fan of the dancehall artiste and has made him the “butt” of many of his comedic cartoons. Check out the hilariously fruity cartoon strip from today’s Jamaica Observer. Check out the past cartoons of Clovis [...]
Dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel who was arrested on Friday morning at a hotel in Kingston for illegal possession of marijuana, remains in police custody at this time, and will reportedly be interviewed by police investigators early this week. Following Vybz Kartel’s arrest, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), Assistant Commissioner Ealan Powell, has disclosed [...]
Check out yet another remix of Trinidad and Tobago’s Ian Alleyne’s highly popular show, Crime Watch, this time featuring Ex-Soldier Eddie Phillips before he is surrounded and arrested by police. Slackaz allyuh have too much time on yuh hands! “Strength and Powers!”
Crime Watch presenter Ian Alleyne was stopped and searched by police officers yesterday afternoon following a high-speed chase which began at Claxton Bay and ended near the Grand Bazaar intersection when his black SUV was finally intercepted. Alleyne, another man and a former member of the Defence Force, said to be wanted in connection with [...]
City Councilman Jumaane Williams was arrested after getting into a confrontation with police, authorities say. A top city pol blasted cops for handcuffing a Brooklyn councilman Monday at the West Indian Day Parade after a scuffle that also left a City Hall staffer sprawled on the sidewalk. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly ordered an investigation after Flatbush [...]
Fast-rising dancehall deejay Andre ‘Popcaan’ Sutherland, has pled guilty! Popcaan was found with ganja in his possession about a year ago. He was arrested for the offence on May 9, 2010. After eluding the police for almost one year the deejay was finally arrested again on July 22. Popcaan pleaded guilty and was fined when [...]
DANCEHALL deejay Mavado was yesterday arrested and charged by the St James police for assault occasioning bodily harm and malicious destruction of property. Mavado, whose real name is David Brooks, turned himself in to police early yesterday subsequent to being named as a person of interest when a man complained that he and his teenage [...]
On Friday, July 22nd, a Richmond Hill, Queens NY-based Guyanese businessman, Edul “Ed” Ahmad, was arrested by U.S. federal authorities but released on bail. Federal agents reportedly nabbed Ahmad off Delta flights 383 at JFK International that was heading to Guyana. He faces mortgage fraud charges but was released on bail of US$2.5M according to [...]
NEW YORK – Five nursing schools here have been accused of ripping off hundreds of Caribbean students of six million US dollars and granting them bogus certification, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said here late yesterday. Some Caribbean students studied for two years and paid up to 20,000 US dollars to receive training they thought [...]
The murder case involving popular deejay Ninja Man, whose real name is Desmond Ballentine, has been put off until November 28. Ninja Man has been in custody since 2009. The deejay is charged jointly with his son Janiel, Seymour Samuels and Dennis Clayton for the murder of Richard Johnson. Samuels is on bail while the [...]
A 21-year-old major league baseball prospect was busted trying to smuggle more than six pounds of cocaine into JFK Airport. US Customs and Border Protection officers arrested Christian Martinez after they found the drugs stuffed inside the soles of four pairs of sneakers after he flew in from Dominican Republic on June 29. Officials valued [...]
This is the official video of last Monday morning after Bounty Killer‘s birthday party at Quad in Jamaica. The allegations of Mavado and his entourage getting into a scuffle may not be wholly true but the fact that the police shot Mavado’s friend Conroy ‘Connie’ Edwards, who has since died, is evident! Meanwhile Mavado, real [...]
I broke the story about David ‘Mavado’ Brooks being arrested over the weekend. Well the official story is that Mavado and nine members of his Gully Squad crew was arrested and detained by the St. Ann’s police after a the bloody brawl on Saturday at the Jamaica Jamaica club. Mavado was formally charged with malicious [...]
Yesterday, Trinidad and Tobago’s comedienne extraordinaire and radio personality Rachel Price was found guilty of “using obscene language to one of her daughter’s teachers last November on the compound of the Bishop Anstey High School, in Port of Spain.” Senior Magistrate Lucina Cardenas-Ragoonanan in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court made the decision after listening [...]