Jamaica Gleaner News

Published: Monday Sunday | January 28, 2007

Predators lurking online
INTERNET CHAT ROOMS were foreign to Marshauntil she started college. Then, she would spend several hours per week talking to strangers in cyberspace.

High price for driver's licences
Janetis an accountant, and since leaving school five years ago she had set herself certain targets. Learning to drive was at the top of her list. Finally, after six weeks of $300-an-hour driving lessons, she was ready.

Golding wants St James cops better equipped
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Bruce Golding wants the St. James Police Division to be better equipped to effectively fight crime, a monster that has gone beyond the police's control.

'Mi one bredda dead'
WESTERN BUREAU: Still in shock and disbelief, the younger sister of one of the five men murdered in Flower Hill, St. James, Wednesday, pleaded with her dead brother to answer her persistent calls.

Probe into cop shooting
Was Jerome Pinnock killed execution style by the police, or was he killed during a shoot-out with the lawmen?

Law coming to cripple lottery scam?
Western Bureau: In an attempt to head off the threat to the local information technology (IT) industry by cyber crimes such as the Montego Bay 'lottery scam', Government is now seeking to solicit the support of sector players to enact new...

The secret that kills: Focus on prostate cancer
Michael Manley died from it. Nelson Mandela, Ben Carson, Sydney Poitier, Quincy Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Colin Powell and Harry Belafonte were stricken with, but survived, prostate cancer.

Cricket visa stumps World Cup bookings
Ocho Rios, St. Ann: With just over six weeks to the start of the ICC Cricket World Cup, there is still no sign of the much-anticipated increased bookings for hotels and villas on the north coast.