| October 28, 2006 | - Former heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick, the last man to defeat Muhammad Ali, died of a “massive chop wound” in Norwich, Jamaica.
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Observer
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| December 10, 2002 | -
Jamaica decided to bring back hanging.
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| October 29, 2002 | -
Police arrested a Gulf War veteran and his teenage Jamaican sidekick in the Washington sniper case, ending a media frenzy that included a request by CNN to interview actors from the CBS series “Crime Scene Investigation.” Lengthy footage was broadcast of a tree stump being dug up and hauled away.
Experts and profilers who had spent untold hours on television speculating about the killer were forced to admit that their prophecies had been worthless.
“My predictions were not that close,” one expert said.
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| February 19, 2002 | -
The Jamaican government was considering the legalization of marijuana for private use.
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| July 17, 2001 | - A police officer was stoned to death in Jamaica.
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| April 3, 2001 | - Ivan Boroughs, a Jamaican man who spent twenty-nine years in prison for breaking a window, was finally released; Jamaican officials said that Boroughs, who had been deemed mentally unfit to stand trial but was nevertheless kept in prison, had not been forgotten: “We were monitoring his progress yearly, but we had to wait on communication from the court and that did not come until Tuesday.” A man in New Jersey was on trial, facing ten years in prison, for allegedly stealing 58 cents from a parked car.
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