Crime still too high - Poll finds 63 % worried over rate
Despite a reduction in the murder rate so far this year when compared with the similar period in 2005, Jamaicans are of the view that crime and violence remain the number one problem confronting the country at this time...
'Stop using our name!'
WESTERN BUREAU: A benefactor of The Home of Charlotte's Children, in Montego Bay, is asking persons to stop using the name of the home to solicit donations without its permission. The home houses 15 orphaned children between the ages of seven to 16...
Recovered car stolen from police station
Fours hours after the police had recovered a stolen Mitsubishi Evolution motor car, the vehicle went missing again, this time from the premises of the Porus Police Station in Manchester, where it was locked up and parked.
Truck demolishes board dwelling in Clarendon
St Catherine: Eunice Robinson, 55, of Pen Harbour, Clarendon, is still in a daze that she escaped death after a truck driven by Trevor Dunkley careened off the road and destroyed her board house on Saturday night.
Fire destroys three houses in Portland
port antonio, Portland: Firefighters were powerless to extinguish a blaze that destroyed three houses in the Spring Bank area of Portland last Friday. The firemen say their efforts to put out the fire was hindered by a water lock-off...
Man freed of murder charge
A man who told the police that he acted in self-defence after men came to rob and kill him was freed last Friday of a murder charge. Mark Lee, 34, farmer, of River View Avenue, Gordon Town, St. Andrew, was freed after Mr. Justice...
JFK Martin changes lives - 'Life has taken on new meaning for John Martin since he became a Christian.'
SIX YEARS ago, when John Fitzgerald Kennedy Martin disembarked from an airplane at the Norman Manley International Airport in St. Andrew, he bore the classic symptoms of the deportee.
Nurse charged for assaulting officers
Spanish Town: A nurse who allegedly attacked two members of the Island Special Consta-bulary Force (ISCF) in Spanish Town on Saturday, after the car in which she was a passenger was stopped by the police, find herself facing several charges.
Monteith denies students being locked out
State Minister for Education and Youth, Noel Monteith has dismissed Opposition claims that students were being barred from high schools because they cannot afford the fees.
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