Airport revamp won't be ready for Cup ... but regulators project smooth runnings
Though expansion work at the Norman Manley International Airport will not be completed in time for the ICC Cricket World Cup next month, Earl Richards, president of the Airports Authority of Jamaica, is assuring that several key areas will be completed...
DIRTY MONEY - Cops eye financiers in Haiti/Jamaica gun, drug trade
Several business interests who are believed to be responsible for the financing of the massive guns-for-drugs smuggling ring between Caribbean neighbours Jamaica and Haiti are being targeted by Operation Kingfish.
Fake PMs on Hi5
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and her predecessors, P.J. Patterson and Edward Seaga, are not natural members of the Hi5 social group, but pranksters are apparently impersonating them on the site.
Court shuts down illicit commercial activities
Two St. Andrew property owners who refused to comply with orders from the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) to desist from carrying out commercial activities in a residential area were yesterday barred by the Supreme Court.
Storms, tornado kill 19 in central Florida
Severe thunderstorms and at least one tornado killed 19 people yesterday when they ripped through Florida in the dead of night, tearing homes to shreds, toppling heavy trucks and leaving a trail of rubble.
Police doing a reasonable job, says Les Green
DESPITE police data showing only 52 per cent of the 143 murders recorded in Jamaica last month yet to be cleared up, Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green believes the lawmen are doing a "reasonable" job.
Plumber gets 10 years at hard labour for raping 13-year-old
Justice Bryan Sykes has sentenced a 44-year-old man to 10 years' imprisonment at hard labour for raping a 13-year-old girl.
Cops freed of murder charge
The two policewomen and two policemen, who were charged jointly with the murder of 17-year-old Christopher McKenzie arising from an incident at the Crofts Hill Police Station in Clarendon, were freed yesterday.
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