GraceKennedy Payment Services receives approval for mobile money service

GraceKennedy Payment Services has received approval from the Bank of Jamaica to proceed with the pilot introduction of a mobile money service.    
Delivery of the service will commence next year through the GraceKennedy Money Services network.     
Participants in the service will, among other things, be able to make electronic payments, bill payments, as well as mobile top-up. This will be done using mobile phones, thereby minimising the cost of doing business.

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GraceKennedy Payment Services receives approval for mobile money service

GraceKennedy Payment Services receives approval for mobile money service

GraceKennedy Payment Services has received approval from the Bank of Jamaica to proceed with the pilot introduction of a mobile money service.    
Delivery of the service will commence next year through the GraceKennedy Money Services network.     
Participants in the service will, among other things, be able to make electronic payments, bill payments, as well as mobile top-up. This will be done using mobile phones, thereby minimising the cost of doing business.

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GraceKennedy Payment Services receives approval for mobile money service

Fraudster receives suspended sentence

Rasbert Turner, Star Writer

A man who attempted to defraud National Commercial Bank of over $50,000 was given 18 months suspended sentence when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

He is Muerice Bodden, 28-year-old unemployed of a Kingston address.

Bodden was given a non-custodial sentence after his attorney Lancelot Clarke Jr told the court that while his client had done something criminal he was not beyond redemption. He argued that his client deserved a second chance and a non-custodial sentence would be in order.

Resident Magistrate Vaughn Smith then ordered that Bodden be given a suspended sentence.

The court heard that on the day in question the accused went to NCB Portmore, St Catherine, he tendered a cheque valued at $54,000 to be changed, he gave a fake driver’s licence bearing the name Andrew Powell.

Having checked the document and found that they were fictitious, the police were called and Bodden taken into custody.

He was subsequently charged with possession of forged document and uttering forged document.

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Fraudster receives suspended sentence

Clerk receives suspended sentence

A suspended sentence was handed down in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court recently, to an accounting clerk, who reportedly pilfered money from her employers.

Kamesha Douglas, 30, has been charged with larceny as a servant.

The court heard that between April 23 and May 30, this year, Douglas stole the sum of $19,082, 17 from her employers, a medical establishment.

In court, Douglas expressed sorrow at her actions and offered to make full restitution, which she was allowed.

However, Senior Resident Magistrate (RM) Judith Pusey was of the opinion that Douglas should be sent to prison.

The RM then gave her a sentence of nine months suspended for three years.

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Clerk receives suspended sentence

FIFA receives complaint of racism against Nigeria coach Keshi

Sport

Thursday, August 29, 2013

ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — FIFA has received a complaint of racism against Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi after he described a rival as “a white dude” who didn’t know about Africa and who should go back to his native Belgium.FIFA declined to comment further yesterday and only said it had received the complaint against Keshi, who led Nigeria to this year’s African Cup of Nations title in South Africa.Malawi coach Tom Saintfiet said the Football Association of Malawi reported Keshi for comments apparently made on an African TV show, where Keshi said Saintfiet was “crazy” and “mad” for suggesting the southern Nigerian city of Calabar was unsafe for a World Cup qualifier between the countries next month.Keshi went on to say the Belgian “is not an African person, he is a white dude. He should go back to Belgium”.Saintfiet said that if FIFA is serious about tackling racism in football, it has to “take it seriously in both directions”.FIFA toughened its punishments for racism at its recent annual conference in Mauritius in May after incidents in England and Italy where black players were targeted, but a white coach accusing a black coach of racism is rare.“If a European said something of this nature about an African, you would have a huge problem. I am against racism in all directions,” Saintfiet told the BBC.The Nigeria Football Federation did not immediately respond to requests for comment.CONCACAF president and FIFA vice-president, Caymanian Jeffrey Webb, heads FIFA’s Anti-Racism and Discrimination Task Force.

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FIFA receives complaint of racism against Nigeria coach Keshi