JAMAICA: Cash for gold penalty too light says cop

Jamaica Observer - Saturday, September 18th, 2010 at 6:26 PM
Share
Tweet
Share
Pin
Gold seized from a Haitian national at the Norman Manley International Airport in February. (Observer file photo)

JAMAICA – CITING an archaic law Superintendent Derrick ‘Cowboy’ Knight, is urging the nation’s lawmakers to put more teeth in the legislation relating to the illegal trade in gold.

Knight is the head of the St Andrew Central Police Division and illegal cash for gold traders are known to gather at the front of the Half Way Tree Transport Centre openly harassing members of the public to sell their gold for up to $20,000 an ounce.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY

Copyright 2012 Dominica News Online, DURAVISION INC. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or distributed.

Disclaimer: The comments posted do not necessarily reflect the views of DominicaNewsOnline.com and its parent company or any individual staff member. All comments are posted subject to approval by DominicaNewsOnline.com. We never censor based on political or ideological points of view, but we do try to maintain a sensible balance between free speech and responsible moderating.

We will delete comments that:

  • contain any material which violates or infringes the rights of any person, are defamatory or harassing or are purely ad hominem attacks
  • a reasonable person would consider abusive or profane
  • contain material which violates or encourages others to violate any applicable law
  • promote prejudice or prejudicial hatred of any kind
  • refer to people arrested or charged with a crime as though they had been found guilty
  • contain links to "chain letters", pornographic or obscene movies or graphic images
  • are off-topic and/or excessively long

See our full comment/user policy/agreement.

4 Comments

  1. Anonymous
    September 20, 2010

    The cash for gold or gold for cash which ever way it goes should be abolished. This is the cause for most of the robberies and killings all over the world.

  2. $$$ for Gold
    September 20, 2010

    Such activities should require licenses (trade licensing).

    Oh but I forgot we are in Dominica, anything goes……

  3. Well Done
    September 20, 2010

    Jamaicans are minding their business! Dominica did nothing when the Spanish were going house to house giving clothes and money for GOLD!

  4. jen
    September 19, 2010

    see that’s the reason they killing people for their jewelery in nyc stop the illegal gold trade that will alleviate some of the senseless killings

Post a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

:) :-D :wink: :( 8-O :lol: :-| :cry: 8) :-? :-P :-x :?: :oops: :twisted: :mrgreen: more »

 characters available