sandrea | My Gripe An Thing

Jamaican Bar, Law School keeping them honest – [Update]

18th April 2010 sandrea 0

VASCIANNIE [right]… the Law School is anxious to promote and reinforce the virtues of honest, competent and sensitive service. JAMAICAN Bar Association Vice President Ian Wilkinson says the association plans to do further education of […] […]

Lawyers on trial (Majority of 38 attorneys disbarred for misappropriating funds)

18th April 2010 sandrea 0

BARNETT [right]… as a group we are concerned. On the other hand, can any institution be tainted because of the deficiencies of some? CLOSE to 40 attorneys have been barred from practising law in Jamaica […] […]

Cops uncover licence plate racket.

18th April 2010 sandrea 0

THE traffic police have uncovered a licence plate-manufacturing racket in which original plates issued by the Tax Office are duplicated and sold for as much as $5,000 per pair to corrupt motorists, primarily minibus and […] […]

Corruption ‘Cuba’s biggest threat’

18th April 2010 sandrea 0

HAVANA – Corruption at the highest levels of government – not the meddling of a small band of dissidents – is the greatest threat to Cuba’s communist system, a leading academic said in a highly […] […]

A leap of faith – God called, she walked

18th April 2010 sandrea 0

SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO, Patricia Holder walked away from a well paying job to take up pastoral ministry in the United Holy Church of America for a meagre stipend. She had taken a leap of faith, […] […]

Suspect identified in Friday skid row homicide

18th April 2010 sandrea 0

Police have identified skid row resident Charles Colbert, 50, as the suspect in the early Friday morning slaying of a man who lived in the same downtown Los Angeles hotel. The victim, Conrad Phillip, 41, […] […]

Vatican defends pope over delay in defrocking California priest

18th April 2010 sandrea 0

Church attorney says then-Bishop John Cummins of Oakland bore primary responsibility for protecting children from Stephen Kiesle, a priest who admitted to molesting two boys. The Vatican insisted Saturday that Pope Benedict XVI had done […] […]

In Arizona, drawing lines over border law

18th April 2010 sandrea 0

Antonio Cardiel cuts sidewalk pavers in the heart of Winslow, where the city is revitalizing a five-block stretch of old Route 66. Cardiel was born in Mexico and works legally in the U.S. Some of […] […]

European airlines test the ash cloud

18th April 2010 sandrea 0

A KLM plane stuck in Germany starts a trek back to Amsterdam, and Germany and France are also expected to send test flights. Airlines facing losses of millions of dollars a day are eager to […] […]

Judge bars Venice dispensary from selling medical marijuana

18th April 2010 sandrea 0

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday that bars the popular Venice dispensary Organica from selling or distributing marijuana at its store on Washington Boulevard. The ruling is the second […] […]