...Views against decriminalisation
The following are excerpts of the report of the National Commission on Ganja chaired by Professor Barry Chevannes. THE COMMISSION heard from a very small but important minority, who expressed considered views that the law should not be changed. There...

'We were under fire'

A SENIOR policeman involved in the July 7 operation in West Kingston yesterday testified that he shot, and possibly killed, a civilian who was within 75 yards of him, with a Barrett M-82 50-calibre semi-automatic rifle. Sergeant Warren Turner of the...

Civil servants to wear black in protest
CIVIL SERVANTS are likely to be wearing black to work until next Tuesday as one of their strategies to get their pay dispute with Government settled.

Whitehall Avenue shootings point to stolen gun
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS into last Friday night's murder of three persons and the injuring of eight others during a shooting at a wake on Whitehall Avenue, St. Andrew, has pointed to a conflict over a stolen gun. Sources close to the investigation say.

Gun recovered at Golden Age Home
A .25 SEMI-AUTOMATIC pistol, three .25 cartridges, a 5.56 cartridge, an empty 9 mm magazine, and apparatus for smoking ganja, were the articles police recovered from the Golden Age Home in Denham Town during the cordon and search carried out there...