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A senior attorney has called for standardised sentencing for ammunition offences. In fact, said attorney Arthur Holder, maybe the time has come for guidelines on the matters. Holder made the call as he delivered submissions on sentence in the matter against Akeem Jamar Belle in the No 4 Supreme Court yesterday. Belle, of Bottom Close, Wildey, St Michael, had pleaded guilty to having two rounds of .44-calibre ammunition in his …
Article by Social Share Public service vehicle conductor Jamar Akeem Nathaniel Powlett, who is accused of having sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl on three occasions and putting her in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after one occasion, was remanded when he appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court on Saturday. The 27-year-old, of Bottom Close, Wildey, St Michael, was not required to plead to having unlawful sexual intercourse with the girl on August 16, again on November 2 and then on November 16, all this year. Prosecutor Sergeant Vernon Waithe, who objected to the a...