Rain again - Tropical Storm Noel to drench Jamaica, emergency officials on alert
Heavy rains associated with Tropical Storm Noel are expected to pound Jamaica today, just two weeks after a baptism which ravaged the island's road network, triggered landslides and devastated many rural farms. Noel, the 14th tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season...
Cop shot eight times in the back
A police constable who was attached to the St. Andrew South Division was killed by a gunman yesterday. More than a dozen Jamaican law enforcement personnel have been murdered since January. Fidel Beckford was shot dead by an assailant shortly after 2:00 p.m. in Toll Gate, western Clarendon.
'We have teeth and we're going to bite!' - Mayor warns of offensive against illegal signs
Kingston Mayor Desmond McKenzie yesterday threatened business operators who flouted the city council's advertising procedures of more crackdowns, warning he was intent on punishing offenders. McKenzie, who yesterday led an exercise to remove illegal billboards on Hagley Park Road...
Courts to get control of budgets in '08 - PM
WESTERN BUREAU: PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding says Government will be giving the courts autonomy over their budgets at the start of the next fiscal year on April 1, 2008. "We compromise the independence of the court if they have to keep hanging on to the hope of getting a warrant ...
People's National Party (PNP) mum until bulb report out
General Secretary of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP), Donald Buchanan, yesterday reserved comment on the controversial Cuban light-bulb programme, saying the party was shying away from judgement until a commissioned report was examined....
'Thumbs up, Jamaica'
WALDERSTON, Manchester: Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists from across the Caribbean heard the head of their worldwide organisation Pastor Jan Paulsen gives Jamaica 'thumbs up' as a nation whose form of governance is worthy of partnership with the denomination....
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