Hold your guns - Public defender tells police to cut deadly force
PUBLIC DEFENDER Earl Witter is beseeching the country's police to place greater emphasis on the manner in which they engage citizens.
- Jazz rocks in Trelawny
- Corrupt cop gets nine months' hard labour
- Teachers push for wage increase
- Threat to health - PAHO warns of new diseases
Honesty rewarded - Broke St Mary man returns bag with $3,000
Imagine being broke, leaving work for home and having to stop and wait for a free ride, because your pockets were empty. Then imagine, finding a bag on the street with more than $3,000 cash. What sweet relief!
BOJ bails out Government again
The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) had to pick up $13 billion worth of bonds to bail out the Government earlier this month. Deputy Financial Secretary Darlene Morrison confirmed the transaction Thursday night but denied suggestions that it represented an advance to the Government.
JFF needs roughly $1b to get to Brazil
It is being estimated that the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) will need close to a billion dollars to sustain the national football programme over the next four years while the country aims to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
- Calabar's Miller looks to Youth Olympics
- In Your Neighbourhood
- Flawless Federer in final
- Jamalco hunt eight straight
- Jugglers hunt 'keep up' glory
- Digicel committed to Reggae Boyz
- Jamaicans ready to line up pink ball
- Asafa and Brigitte start season at Queens meet
- Ahwhofah to top three-horse Cup battle
- Terrific Cariah, Campbell fire Windies to third
- Williams looks to preserve Roach
- All set for Cup 2014 blast-off - Daley ready to strike down Canadians
- World Cup campaign goes on, says Burrell
- All set for World Cup 2014 blast-off - Members of back-up cast get big chance to shine
EDITORIAL - Church-inspiring action in Jones Town
We laud the out-of-the-box initiative of the Baptist Church in starting a farming programme in the tough Jones Town neighbourhood of Kingston. The initiative involves leasing 20 abandoned housing lots and putting in short-term crops. It is a new idea which reflects visionary thinking...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Improve and expand public transportation system
The Editor, Sir: The recent disclosure that, as one of the pre-conditions for an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the Government intends to hike bus fares by a whopping 40 per cent effective April 1 of this year, should be of grave concern to every well-thinking Jamaican.
- NOTE-WORTHY - Planning for catastrophes
- An opportunity missed by the Church
- In defence of 'prophetic mutterings'
- Saving Air Jamaica
Awesome Babyface dazzles at Jazz Fest
In a memorable 90-minute set befitting his superstar status, 10-time Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds on Thursday night dazzled patrons at the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium as they embraced the Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival.
Doctor's advice - Should he get a 'sleeve'?
Doctor, I am a young guy at university and I feel that my sex life is not what it should be because I simply do not have enough 'bulk'. I am engaged to be married, but I feel that my fiancée is probably not satisfied with the girth of my penis.
Top 10 movies of 2009
Despite the ongoing world recession, motion pictures retained their popularity, not only in the United States, but Jamaica. Indeed, box-office receipts for movies released in the US last year soared to a record US$10.6 billion, surpassing the previous record of US$9.7 billion in 2007.
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