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Three Jamaican creatives have been given a boost with the injection of ...

Three Jamaican creatives have been given a boost with the injection of ...

Three Jamaican creatives have been given a boost with the injection of ...

Loop News Three Jamaican men who pleaded guilty last year after being charged with smuggling more than 670 pounds of ganja into the Cayman Islands, have lost their appeal against their sentences. Linton Pillarchie, who was convicted for the second time of smuggling ganja into Cayman, was sentenced to just over six years. The other men, Geranimo Vaughans and Jerry Cranston, who were both convicted on the islands for the first time, were each sent to prison for 51 months. But the three men appealed their sentences, arguing that the sentencing judge did not "credit" them for their guilty pleas,...