Expect more rain - Met Office
THE ISLAND will continue to experience outbreaks of showers and thunderstorms as a result of a tropical depression that has developed 600 kilometres west southwest of Negril point.

Trinidad court rules in favour of convicted killer - Cites cruel and unusual punishment
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC: LESS THAN 48 hours after the Trinidad and Tobago government announced plans to resume executions in a bid to deal with the rising crime problem, a Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a convicted killer...

ODPEM receives technology boost
THE OFFICE of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management(ODPEM) yesterday officially received 14 new desk top computers and four lap tops from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Panday out of jail
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC: FORMER TRINIDAD and Tobago Prime Minister Basdeo Panday was released from prison yesterday afternoon, more than a week after he refused to accept the bail set by a magistrate's court on his corruption-related charges.

Fifteen to receive papal honours
WESTERN BUREAU: FIFTEEN PARISHIONERS from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montgeo Bay, St. James, will on Sunday, June 12, receive the papal honours granted earlier this year by the late Pope John Paul II.

Hoteliers bellow fears of flooding
WESTERN BUREAU: AS A surface trough continues to buffet the island, hotel interests along the Rose Hall tourism corridor have reiterated fears of possible flooding in that area.

Suspects still not charged after murder of businesswoman
WESTERN BUREAU: THE POLICE in Westmoreland have still not charged the suspects who are being questioned in connection with the murder of former hotelier, 52-year-old Sandra McLeod.

Sav-la-Mar transport centre dicey
BUS OPERATORS in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, have expressed dissatisfaction with the new transportation centre that opened on Monday in the parish capital