Kingston pier tragedy - One killed, two shot and injured at boat party - Denham Town residents irate over 'High Roller's' death
IT WAS billed as a late-night party at Kingston Harbour, but the boat never left the dock, as a barrage of bullets brought the session to its premature end. When the gunfire ended, one man lay dead, just a few metres from the boat, two were nursing gunshot wounds...
- Cop has lucky escape
- New Governor General of Jamaica to be sworn in today
- More on GG's plate than you might think
- What Adventists really believe
- Obama's speech lauded, opposition's chided
- Crime slows NWC operations
- Thursdaytalk - Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
One wrong turn
Ouch! I had pinched myself to see if I was dreaming. Unfortunately, I wasn't. I was however, standing in front of a rickety little wooden house at the bottom of a steep hill somewhere in Portland, where a man was standing on the verandah, waving a skull around. Yes, a skull...
- 70-y-o says fleeced of $25m
- Living in limbo - Caribbean Terrace storm victims still unsettled - Vagrants have invaded the place and they are living there without permission.
- Foster care under review
- Post-mortem on slain cop's girlfriend Friday - DPP to get file next week
- Ministry drafting plan to curb school violence
- Help for blind
Tufton takes aim at dishonest middlemen
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Agriculture Dr Christopher Tufton is going after middlemen in the agriculture trade who pay farmers very little. To achieve success in the move, Tufton explained to an audience during the Hague Agricultural Show in Trelawny...
West Indies look to rally
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP): England captain Andrew Strauss is confident his team can bounce back from a morale-sapping draw in Antigua a week ago and produce a series-levelling victory over the West Indies in the fourth Test which begins at the Kensington Oval today...
- Dyson expects good Test
- ICC blames WICB
- Sunshine Girls eager to avoid whitewash
- Fuller charged
- 'Bruce' cuts loose in feature
- Jamaica look to build momentum - Leewards optimistic despite axing Morton
- Gibson offers $50 student tickets
- Hot Seba keep rolling - Granville to lodge protest against Wadadah
- Campbell sets record
- Khan falls short
- Lowly Santana stun Gayle
EDITORIAL - Celebrating Dr Allen and Jamaica's democracy
Perhaps the greatest achievement by Jamaica in its nearly half-century of Independence is that it has maintained its democracy. The country's institutions may have been stressed and bent, but in periods of danger, the country has always rallied to ensure that they have not broken...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Poor conduct at funeral home
The Editor, Sir: I am emotionally distraught as I write this letter. The news broke, while I was working on the road with a fellow co-worker on Monday, about a young girl's murder in my parish, Westmoreland. We were within walking distance of the funeral home in Savanna-la-Mar ...
- Debating interest rate policy
- Wishing Dr Allen well as GG
- Improperly dressed students
- Remembering Colonel Barnes
- Cooper's 'raw-chaw' defence
- She lick her head?
Jamaican film festival set for summer
If scriptwriter and film director Paul O. Beale has his way, in late July, the Green Gables Theatre on Cargill Avenue, near Half-Way Tree in St Andrew will host a 'unique' festival. Beale says that for the inaugural Jamaican Film and Video Festival "I want to encourage people...
The Big Three
Last week, we gave you the top three winners in the first Culinary Challenge contest. This week we will share their recipes with you and throughout Lent we will give you all of the other eight participants in the exciting contest....
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