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For the past ten days, hundreds of candidates for Pennsylvania’s state House and Senate have been scrambling to collect the signatures they need for the nomination petitions that will get them on the ballot for this year’s midterm elections. Typically, they get three weeks.
Article by Social Share Pounder’s Gap, Westbury Road, St Michael, is a no-go area for accused Midian Sheldon Scantlebury. Acting Magistrate Marsha Lougheed ordered him to move from the district and to not venture back there as part of his bail imposed by the District “A” Traffic Court. Scantlebury, a 41-year-old labourer, of Pounder’s Gap, had denied he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Leon Thompson on December 4 last year; that he damaged Thompson’s car last December 20, and that he used the threatening words: “I gine kill you. You will be going back to Jamaica in a board...
Intoxicated man causes scene in St Lawrence Gap Article by December 30, 2020 Chinua Jelani Sowande Callender was so intoxicated last Sunday that he couldn’t control his behaviour, even when police spoke to him. The 22-year-old from Union, St Philip, was so “out” of it that he caused a disturbance in St Lawrence Gap, which landed him before the law court. But by the time he arrived before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes yesterday, he had more than sobered to hear how he behaved around 4:15 a.m. on December 27. Lawmen were on duty and observed the self-employed man “carr...
Article by Jamal Skeete was sentenced to nine months suspended for 18 months and advised to enrol in the outpatient clinic at the Psychiatric Hospital. (FILE ) Social Share A THIEF who said he had his cocaine use under wraps, got the chance to spend Christmas away from prison after he received a suspended sentence yesterday. But Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes warned him he had that time to clean up his act and enrol in the outpatient clinic at the Psychiatric Hospital. Jamal Amal Skeete, 32, of no fixed place of abode, pleaded guilty to entering Ursuline Convent School, between December 5...