Main road in St. Mary still impassable
AT LEAST one major road in St. Mary remains impassable following heavy rains on the weekend. According to disaster coordinator for St. Mary, Myrnel Grant, a section of the main road between Port Maria and Annotto Bay collapsed in White Hall on Friday...

The European Union (EU) agrees on new banana tariff
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has agreed to alter for the fourth time this year, its plans to introduce a single import tariff for bananas even as it braces itself for more criticisms from Caribbean and Latin American banana...

KRAAL TRIAL: DAY 20 - Gov't ballistics expert describes bullet holes
GOVERNMENT BALLISTICS expert Daniel Wray testified yesterday that when he visited the crime scene at Kraal, Clarendon, he saw 12 bullet holes in the front door. He said he formed the opinion that 10 shots were fired from outside...

Commissioner's comments irk beaten cop's relative
WESTERN BUREAU: THE SISTER of the police corporal who was injured by a colleague in Montego Bay last says she is disappointed at comments made by Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas and has demanded that he desist from downplaying the attack on her brother.

Mixed views on poll
POLITICAL ANALYSTS are of the view that the governing People's National Party's (PNP) one per cent lead in the latest national poll signals the "beginning of the end of the party". However, they also claim it is an indictment...

Apply now for Fulbright scholarship
THE UNITED States Embassy is now accepting applications for the 2007/2008 Fulbright Graduate Student programme. The prestigious scholarship is available to Jamaican graduates with first-class honours, upper second-class honours, or lower second-class...

Gang feud sparks Little Kew Road murders
FOUR WEEKS ago the small community of Little Kew Road in the East Central St. Andrew constituency was stunned by a double murder; the killings continued on Sunday night when six more people were shot, three fatally.