Bloody battle - Three dead, two injured after shoot-out in west Kingston
As the country's official murder toll climbed to 1,105, a series of incidents in west Kingston yesterday added four others to the list of those killed since the start of the year. In the most controversial of the three incidents, the shooting death of three men...
Jamaica breaks 1,000 murder mark
Jamaica has broken the thousand mark again with 1,105 murders being committed since the start of the year, according to the latest crime statistics released by the Jamaica Constabulary Force.In figures for the month of September, in which the country went through a general election...
RM urges court to complete Danhai case
Senior Resident Magistrate Glen Brown sent a strong message yesterday that every effort must be made to have the fraud case involving $451 million against east Kingston businessman Danhai Williams, his company, and five others brought to completion....
50 - Beginning life at Fifty
GROWING UP was not the best of times for 50-year-old dressmaker Eulalee Jarrett. In fact, it was rough. In a bid to escape the rustic poverty of the Westmoreland countryside, her single mother migrated to the city with her three children to find work. But the shimmering gleam of the Kingston...
National Transport Coorperative Society (NTCS) drivers fearful - Milwood says workers plagued by extortionists
Ezroy Milwood, president and chief executive officer of the National Transport Coorperative Society (NTCS), is lamenting that bus operators are continuing to suffer at the hands of extortionists. According to Milwood, NTCS drivers are forced to pay thousands of dollar...
'No quick-fix for crime and violence'
WITH THE homicide rate of the Caribbean three times that of the world, the first day of a Regional Conference on Crime and Security at the University of the West Indies, Mona, yesterday focused on some of the main issues that contribute to violence and deviant behaviour...
Government of Jamaica pathologist defends findings
DR. ERE Seshaiah, the Government pathologist whose revelation that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered, again defended his controversial analysis on the 10th day of the coroner's inquest at the Jamaica Conference Centre.
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