Children protest at Gordon House
SEVERAL STUDENTS were among a group which protested in the vicinity of Parliament yesterday as a mark of objection to the recent wave of violence against children. The demonstration took place as parliamentarians gathered...
Killed at church - 62-year-old woman attacked at Stella Maris
VILMA MAIS, a 62-year-old member of the Stella Maris Church in St. Andrew, died yesterday after she was viciously attacked on the church compound. Mrs. Mais, the wife of prominent attorney-at-law Peter Mais, was lifted from the churchyard yesterday...
Petroleum Act to be amended - Davies
THE GOVERNMENT will be amending the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica Act to allow for the administration of the PetroCaribe Fund. Dr. Omar Davies, Minister of Finance and Planning, made the announcement yesterday...
US bashes Jamaica's human rights record
JAMAICA HAS again picked up a failing grade from the United States State Department on matters of human rights. In its 2005 Country Report on Human Rights Practices, released yesterday, the U.S. Government admonished the Jamaican state...
Cops uncover leads in St Thomas slayings
AS SENIOR detectives attempt to wrap up their investigations into the bloody slaughter of six family members who were murdered in St. Thomas on February 26, a man who allegedly washed blood from a car used to transport the body...
Crown presents main witness in Zekes trial
THE JURY heard evidence yesterday from the main prosecution witness on whom the Crown is relying to establish its case against well-known Matthews Lane resident 48-year-old Donald 'Zekes' Phipps. Phipps is charged jointly...
Firearms top Crime Stop report
POSSESSION OF illegal firearm accounted for 32 per cent of the 42 arrests made through Crime Stop in 2005. Drugs and murder, which account for the lion's share of Jamaica's crime problem, received a hearty blow with 24 per cent of the arrests...
Dead pigeons found on ship raise bird flu concerns
UP TO yesterday, laboratory tests were being conducted to determine the cause of the deaths of 14 pigeons found on a ship which docked at ATM terminals on Monday. The Port Authority of Jamaica reported that the ship's last port of call...
'We appreciate you!'
WHEN THREE of your country's most well known citizens are about to leave the public limelight, you should let them know they're appreciated. Fittingly, one of the island's premier financial institutions, the Bank of Nova Scotia...
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