Water woes to affect sections of St Catherine and the Corporate Area 5:13 PM
Gas prices continue downward trend 4:59 PM
Gay student allowed to wear tolerance T-shirt to school 2:41 PM
No ruling on Keith Clarke killing — DPP 2:25 PM
Guyana police probe New York taxi driver's death 1:27 PM
Witness tells of murder, guns and drugs at Dudus hearing 1:19 PM
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ANANDA ALERT! teen missing from Ward Close
7:31 AMAN Ananda Alert has been launched for 17-year-old Natalia Rogers of Lower Ward Close, White Hall, Kingston 11 who has been reported missing since Monday, May 21. She is of dark complexion, slim build and about 163 centimetres (five feet fur inches) tall. Reports from the Constant Spring Police are that about 4:30 pm, N ...more
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5:13 PM
Water woes to affect sections of St Catherine and the Corporate Area
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
NATIONAL Water Commission (NWC) customers in several sections of St Catherine and the Corporate Area are presently without their regular water supply. This is as a result of power outages affecting the Tulloch Springs and Bybrook Wells one to four i ...more
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4:59 PM
Gas prices continue downward trend
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
FOR the third straight week fuel prices have dropped. The prices of 87 and 90 gasoline have been decreased by $1.70 and will now be sold for $100.87 and $102.52 per litre respectively. Automotive diesel oil will now be sold for $102.56 after being ...more
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3:00 PM
Suspected goat thief collared in Adelphi
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
THE Adelphi Police in St James, along with the Operation and Support Unit (OSU) from Trelawny, arrested and charged a man for stealing goats, under the Praedial Larceny Act, early this morning. The police report that about 3:55 am, the Police receiv ...more
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2:41 PM
Gay student allowed to wear tolerance T-shirt to school
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
CINCINNATI (AP) - A gay student who sued his Ohio high school for prohibiting him from wearing a T-shirt designed to urge tolerance of gays will be allowed to wear the shirt to school whenever he chooses. A judgment agreed to by Maverick Couch and t ...more
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2:25 PM
No ruling on Keith Clarke killing — DPP
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
THE Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) says no ruling can be made on the May 2010 fatal shooting of accountant Keith Clarke as crucial information has still not been handed. Clarke was cut down in a hail of bullets fired by members ...more
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1:52 PM
Sections of St Mary to experience water woes
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
THE National Water Commission (NWC) is advising customers served by the Agualta Vale Pumping Station in St Mary, that the system will be out on Thursday and Friday. This is to facilitate repairs to be carried out on a broken 12-inch pumping main on ...more
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1:27 PM
Guyana police probe New York taxi driver's death
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Police in Guyana say they have asked the FBI for help in investigating the death of a New York taxi driver who was found scalped and beaten to death. Assistant Commissioner Seelall Persaud says officials want to know ...more
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1:19 PM
Witness tells of murder, guns and drugs at Dudus hearing
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
NEW YORK, USA — A prosecution witness in the case of former Tivoli Gardens strong man Christopher Coke, has given details and damaging evidence of murder, gun running and drug trafficking allegedly carried out at the direction of and by Coke hi ...more
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12:01 PM
Cops trying to identify man killed during shoot out last year
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
DETECTIVES from the St Catherine North Police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the body of a man which was found at Perseverance Drive, Lauriston, Spanish Town, St Catherine on Thursday, December 8 last year. The man is belie ...more
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11:23 AM
Dudus ex-adviser building case against him
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A former longtime senior adviser to Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the Jamaican drug lord who pleaded guilty last year to federal conspiracy charges in Manhattan, has been cooperating with the authorities to help build the criminal case against his former ...more
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11:12 AM
Woman beaten with belt, board for withholding sex
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
AN unemployed man was yesterday slapped with a one-month prison sentence for severely beating his lover because she refused to perform oral sex on him. Sheldon Carr’s pleas and apologies as well as the pleas of his 46-year-old lover were not e ...more
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11:03 AM
Dad punched 8-y-o over plums, court hears
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A dad who claimed he slapped his eight-year-old son in the face because he climbed a plum tree in his school uniform was yesterday ordered to pay $15,000 or serve six months in prison. Winston Smith was fined by Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey after ...more
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10:53 AM
Asafa believes he can take gold in London
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
JAMAICAN former world record holder Asafa Powell, is confident he can win gold in this year's London Olympics if he gets his act together. "I know for sure, if I go out there and do what I'm supposed to do, it will be very hard for anyone to catch me ...more
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10:54 AM
ANANDA ALERT! Alfia Ferron is missing
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
AN Ananda Alert has been activated for 16-year-old Alfia Ferron of Wellington Street, Kingston 16 who has been reported missing since Sunday May 13. She is of dark complexion, stout build and five feet 10 inches tall. The Elletson Road police repor ...more
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10:50 AM
JFJ blasts gov't for neglect of children in state care
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
HUMAN Rights group Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) this morning blasted the government for dragging it's feet in implementing recommendations following a Commission of Enquiry into the deaths of seven girls in a fire at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional ...more
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10:11 AM
Woman whose foetus died in suicide attempt released
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, USA (AP) — A Chinese immigrant who tried to kill herself by eating rat poison was free on bond today after more than a year in an Indianapolis jail on charges that she killed her 33-week-old foetus. Bei Bei Shuai lugged a plastic ...more
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9:55 AM
3 dead, 2 missing after crowded weekend on Everest
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Three climbers died and two others were missing while descending from the summit of Mount Everest — a toll that raised concerns about overcrowding in the "death zone" at the top of the world's tallest peak. The dea ...more
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7:16 AM
Pig census underway
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
THE data collection field staff of the Agricultural Marketing Information Division of the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, in collaboration with Trevor Hamilton & Associates (THA) Limited, is in the process of conducting field data collec ...more
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7:14 AM
$20 million spent to purchase motor vehicles for MOH programmes
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
THE Ministry of Health has purchased motor vehicles in a bid to enhance two of its programme areas. Four minibuses were acquired for the mental health programme, while another four were purchased for the vector control programme at a total cost of $ ...more
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6:18 AM
Councillor committed to fixing Duhaney Park, Patrick City roads
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
NEWLY elected councillor for the Chancery Hall Division of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation, Duane Smith, says road rehabilitation in the division is his top priority. The newly created Chancery Hall Division is drawn from the realignment of t ...more
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6:08 AM
Search still on for missing Jamaicans
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is continuing its efforts to ascertain the whereabouts of the approximately 10 Jamaicans previously reported missing in The Bahamas, and who allegedly travelled to Florida from that location by boat o ...more
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5:55 AM
ANANDA ALERT! Sanike Smith missing
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
AN Ananda Alert has been activated for 15-year-old Sanike Santana Smith of Salem, Runaway Bay, St Ann. who has been reported missing since Thursday, May 17. She is of brown complexion, slim build and about 163 centimetres (5 feet 4 inches) tall. Re ...more
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5:48 AM
72 packs of ganja thrown from truck with one headlight
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
DETECTIVES from the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) are now probing an incident relating to the seizure of 72 packages of compressed ganja along Municipal Boulevard in Portmore, St Catherine yesterday morning. Reports from the Port ...more
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