Former SSP Tony Hewitt succumbs to injuries

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Retired Senior Superintendent of Police and former head of the Flying Squad Anthony ‘Tony’ Hewitt passed away this evening while receiving treatment. SSP Hewitt was hospitalised after being shot four times by unknown assailants along Donmair Avenue off Red Hills road in St. Andrew earlier this evening. Police Commissioner Owen Ellington condemned the attack and urged investigators to work tirelessly to bring the perpetrators to justice

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Story Updated: Sep 15, 2012 at 10:56 PM ECT
JAMAICAN national cyclist Horace Mc Farlane was among three people who appeared in court last Friday charged with possession of marijuana and cocaine. Mc Farlane, appeared before Magistrate Indra Ramoo-Haynes in the Couva Magistrates’ Court. Mc Farlane was jointly charged with Devon Scotland, 26, of California, and Afeisha Khan, 18, of Freeport, for possession of 1.060 grammes of cocaine and 300 grammes of marijuana.They were charged by Corporal Smith of the Freeport CID. Mc Farlane participated in the Southern Games at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre last year. The three were arrested during a joint police exercise conducted in Freeport and Chaguanas by the Chaguanas and Freeport CIDs, K-9 division, and Central Task Force, led by Superintendent Johnny Abraham and Inspector Wayne Lawrence. The three were denied bail, for a trace of their criminal records to be done by the police.Magistrate Ramoo-Haynes remanded them in police custody to re-appear in court on October 10.
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– There has been a ban on gay in Uganda. This led to a British theatre producer being arrested yesterday in Uganda for staging a play about a gay man in Kampala.
In Uganda, homosexuality is a crime. The proposed legislation currently before parliament would see the death penalty introduced for certain homosexual acts. Public discussion of homosexuality (including by rights groups) would be punished by up to seven years in jail.
Ibin Ssenkumbi, a spokesman for the Kampala police, told AFP, “Producer David Cecil will stay in jail till Monday when his hearing is expected to come up. There are two charges preferred against him, one of disobeying lawful orders contrary to the penal code and another of staging the play which was still under review,”
The play that led to the harsh ruling is dubbed as, The River and The Mountain. It was staged at several venues around Kampala last month despite a ban by Uganda’s media council, the government media authority, on the play pending review of the script.

This play looks at the plight of a man who comes out as homosexual and the motivations of Uganda’s raucous anti-gay lobby. The play was written by British playwright Beau Hopkins but directed and performed by Ugandans.