NWC reports widespread theft of water meters

Monday, December 15, 2014 | 5:48 PM    

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The National Water Commission (NWC) says that several of its customers in the Corporate Area and St Catherine have reported the theft of water meters from their properties.

According to the NWC the company loses an average of 20 water meters per month due to theft.

Vice-president Customer Service Delivery, Michael Dunn, in a release Monday, said that since the start of December, 25 meters have been stolen leaving the homes of customers flooded and the NWC bearing the replacement costs.

“The theft of the water meters represents the latest in a series of ruthless acts carried out by individuals who have, in recent times, stolen pumping equipment, accessories and other primary operations equipment from the company,” Dunn said.

“The organisation spends millions each year to maintain and upgrade its systems so that water may be distributed to customers across Jamaica every day.

“We shoot ourselves in the foot with these short-sighted acts of vandalism. They threaten to make our lives and standard of living worse, not better,” he added.

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Radio station owner said among 711 arrested for electricity theft

Saturday, October 18, 2014 | 6:57 PM    

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is reporting that 711 persons have been arrested between January 1 and October 15 for the illegal abstraction of electricity.

JPS has been carrying out multiple operations across the island, with the support of the security forces, in addition to conducting meter audits and account investigations.

The parishes with the highest number of arrests for electricity theft are St James with 128 arrests, followed by St Elizabeth with 118 arrests and St Catherine with 112 arrests.

According to a company release on Saturday, a community radio station owner/operator in St James was arrested during the week when a meter bypass was found powering the small media entity. The radio station had been disconnected since February of this year for an outstanding balance, but was discovered this week to be receiving supply, via an illegal connection, the release said.

The release said that in Kingston, a cold storage operation was recently discovered to be stealing electricity to the tune of $500,000 per month.

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‏Computer technician in billion-dollar tax theft returns to court today

Monday, September 29, 2014 | 8:02 AM    

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Christopher Moore, the former Tax Administration Jamaica employee, who reportedly caused the Government to lose in excess of $1 billion in tax revenues, will again appear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court today.

Allegations are that, between October and December 2013, Moore gained access to the main taxing system for the Government from his home then manipulated the taxpayers’ revenue, causing the State to lose in excess of $1 billion.

Moore, 37, was employed at the East Street branch of the Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) as a computer technician when he reportedly committed the act.

Moore was arrested at his Portmore, St Catherine home during a pre-dawn operation by the Revenue Protection Division (RPD) and the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Task Force (MOCA) on June 20.

Several documents and computers with the names of individuals and companies were reportedly seized and Moore was subsequently charged with seven counts of unauthorised access to computer programme.

He was hit with three additional counts of unauthorised access to computer data and unauthorised interception of computer/ service following an appearance in court earlier this month.

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Car sales administrator arrested for theft

A woman was arrested and charged by members of the Fraud Squad after she reportedly stole several motor vehicles from a popular car dealership, where she was employed.

Charged is 55-year-old Hauva Davis, car sales administrator of Cedar Grove, Portmore, St Catherine.

Reports are that between 2005 and 2014, Davis, who had responsibility for logging all motor vehicles taken into the company’s warehouse, sold a number of vehicles and failed to either account for the sales of the motor vehicles in the company’s records, or for the proceeds of the sales. Allegations are that she advertised some of these vehicles privately, thereafter negotiated the sale of the cars, which she sold to various individuals, including persons who operate car dealerships.

audit exercise

The matter was brought to light during an audit exercise by the company and when certain documents were requested of Miss Davis, she instead abandoned her job and left the country. The matter was subsequently reported to the police in July, 2014.

On Saturday, September 13, the suspect was intercepted at the Sangster International Airport on an inbound flight and taken into custody.

The accused was later charged with six counts of the offence of larceny of motor vehicles, valued at $6,000,000, and was offered bail in the sum of $300,000. She is to reappear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on September 24.

She is also being investigated for the disappearance of 80 other motor vehicles valued over $80 million.

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Nine charged for electricity theft in Portland

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Saturday, August 31, 2013 | 9:07 AM

PORTLAND, Jamaica — Nine people, whose names are being withheld were Friday charged for illegally extracting electricity and offered bail in the sum of $30,000 each. They are booked to appear in the Port Antonio Resident Magistrate’s court on September 24.And less than two hours after those arrests, the police visited an informal settlement near the old Port Antonio Marina, where they removed illegal wiring from five houses. No arrests were made as no one was at home during that operation.These recent arrests follow on the heels of a similar operation on Tuesday (August 27) when six people were taken into custody from the Berrydale area of the Rio Grande Valley, and earlier in the month when residents were arrested for stealing electricity via underwater pipes, also in the old Marina area. Meanwhile, the police discovered a huge ganja plant along a footpath in Berrydale during that operation, but no one was charged.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver

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