Deportees high on cops ' list - 17,000 sent home in 12 years
MORE THAN 17,000 persons have been deported to Jamaica in the past 12 years, including a record 2,529 sent back last year. The police theorise that many are involved in the spate of violent crimes being committed across the island...
All set for Queen's visit
A SPECIAL commemorative stamp has been designed to mark the Jubilee Year of Queen Elizabeth II and her visit to Jamaica, Information Minister Colin Campbell said yesterday. The Minister, who was speaking with reporters at yesterday's post-Cabinet...
Ganja report for Parliament
THE REPORT of the Professor Barry Chevannes-led National Commission on Ganja, which was submitted to Prime Minister P.J. Patterson last August, is to be tabled in Parliament today. A joint select committee of Parliament is to be appointed to examine...
Ex-security agent freed of ganja charge
MICHAEL CHIN, 28, former international security agent, employed to American Airlines, was freed in the Court of Appeal yesterday of his convictions -- a two-year prison sentence and a $512,000 fine for possession of 500 pounds of ganja found on an...
Eight to face Gun Court in March
EIGHT PERSONS, charged in connection with the record ammunition find of 41,000 rounds and several guns in St. Catherine and St. Andrew in November last year, are to return to the Gun Court on March 15 when a trial date will be fixed.
Search for Claudia Kirschhoch continues
THE PARENTS of missing American travel writer, Claudia Kirschhoch, are back in the island, vowing to never stop searching until the mystery surrounding their daughter's disappearance is solved.
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