Extortion hits Hellshire
A renegade executive committee of the Half Moon Bay Fishermen's Co-operative Society is attempting to extort thousands of dollars from overseas film crews and the Jamaica Tourist Board, for use of the Hellshire Beach.

87-y-o Jamaican gets US citizenship

She couldn't go to the swearing-in ceremonies that were scheduled. So representatives of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) came to her instead.

Cell service disrupted again
Another collapse in the Cable and Wireless Jamaica (C&WJ) cellular network yesterday, for the second consecutive weekend, hobbled communication of thousands of customers of the international telecom giant.

Staff cuts at foreign missions
More than two dozen staffers in Jamaica's missions abroad will be returning to the island in June, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade makes their positions redundant.