Smugglers hunted - Police search for ganja plane crash survivors
Police have launched a manhunt for survivors - believed to be players in the trafficking of drugs - who fled the scene of a plane crash in Clarendon early yesterday morning. The cops theorise that a plane transporting drugs tried to land at an airstrip near the Rocky Point...
Kingston College (KC) student beaten unconscious
A Kingston College (KC) student is now home nursing wounds after he was allegedly attacked and beaten unconscious with a steel pipe on the school compound by one of his schoolmates. The 10th-grade student's father told The Gleaner on Friday that his son...
PJ's new spin on cricket - Says game can stimulate boom in service industries
Former Prime Minister P.J.Patterson is recommending that the region look to cricket as a base for expanding the services industry. He says the Caribbean must make profound changes to its productivity in order to be more competitive, and expanding the services sector...
Cops to quiz Kern again
Embattled former Junior Minister for Energy, Kern Spencer, is to undergo another round of questioning by the police today, the third time in five days. Spencer, 33, the member of parliament for North East St Elizabeth, is being investigated in connection with alleged irregularities...
Infant killed in building collapse
A family was left grieving on the weekend after their 23-month-old son was crushed to death by a section of a dilapidated building that collapsed on him. The child has been identified as Anthon Wyndham.Reports from the police are that at about 2:15...
Off-duty cop foils robbery attempt - One dead, one in hospital, another on the run
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine: One of three men who attempted to rob an off-duty policeman was shot and killed while another has been hospitalised and a third is on the run. The Gleaner learnt that about 9 p.m. on Saturday, the policeman was walking with a woman along Dawkins Drive...
Manning rallies for regional police force
Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Prime Minister Patrick Manning last Friday night called for greater regional cooperation to successfully combat the burgeoning problem of crime across the Caribbean. The prime minister was delivering the keynote address at the University of the West Indies ...
Jamaica's crime woes similar to Northern Ireland's
Drawing parallels between the Northern Ireland crime experience and Jamaica's, Assistant Commissioner of Police Justin Felice believes the current drive by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to expel corrupt cops from the force and improve public trust can be achieved....
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