Prisoners protest at Central
POLICE YESTERDAY fired teargas to quell a disturbance by more than 100 prisoners at the Kingston Central police station lock-ups, East Queen Street. The prisoners were protesting the authorities' refusal to allow their families and friends to take food...

Colombian cons flee - Prison warder, cop being questioned
A POLICE constable and a prison warder were being questioned yesterday, as detectives from the Organised Crime Investigation Unit sought to establish who abetted two Colombians who were to be deported, to be released from the Tower Street Adult Correctio

Partner refunds to 151; 380 to wait - Angry members demand their money
WESTERN BUREAU: CONFUSION REIGNED yesterday at the Barnett Street police station, Montego Bay, as more than 100 people turned up to collect the refund of money they had put in the Friends in Partnership scheme, (FIP) which collapsed in the city a few...

Importers warned to pay up or else
THE Jamaica Bureau of Standards (JBS) has again warned of its intention to crack down on importers who owe more than $7 million in compliance fees. "We are going to combine litigation with a concerted effort of pestering by the doorsteps," executive...