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Gang conflicts raging
11:41 AMPOLICE Commissioner Owen Ellington yesterday reported that there are currently 42 gang conflicts raging across the island. Speaking at a special Post Cabinet press briefing called by Security Minister Peter Bunting yesterday, Ellington said the security forces were working hard to contain the violence. A total of 165 pe ...more
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This school needs help
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
FOR more than a decade Banister New Testament Basic School has been educating children ages three - six inside the church that bears its name. But Banister New Testament Church, which is located close to Old Harbour in St Catherine, is really small, ...more
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1:15 PM
Arrant nonsense — JLP lashes Bunting
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
THE Opposition Jamaica Labour Party has dubbed Security Minister Peter Bunting's accusation that the party failed to implement a crime policy drafted in 2007 as rubbish. Bunting made the claim at during a press briefing at Jamaica House yesterday and ...more
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5-year crime plan
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
A National Security Policy to tackle the country's ballooning crime rate with an intent to reduce murders from the current three per day to less than one over the next five years is to be made public next month, National Security Minister Peter Bunti ...more
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Ask the US EMBASSY: How to get athletes to the Penn Relays
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Q: I'm a coach planning to take a group of athletes to the US to compete in the Penn Relays from April 26 to 28 this year. How can I make the visa application process as easy as possible for my team? A: The US Embassy is committed to facilitating th ...more
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Drug Court success
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
FIVE recovering drug addicts started a new chapter in their lives two weeks ago when they graduated from a substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation programme run by the Corporate Area Drug Treatment Court. The four men and one woman were given a ...more
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Walker pleads not guilty
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
FORMER Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker yesterday pleaded not guilty to two counts of breaching the Contractor General Act when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court. The charges stem from allegations that Walker faile ...more
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Gov't pouring US$50-m from JDIP into JEEP
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
THE Government has earmarked US$50 million from the US$400-million Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) to fund the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP), which is to begin in next month. Yesterday, Transport and Works Ministe ...more
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Gov't chops $22-b from budget
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
SOME 30 departments and agencies of the State have seen cuts or reallocations from their recurrent and capital budgets after Government slashed the spending plan put forward by the previous Administration by $22.3 billion. The second Supplementary E ...more
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Storm over Patricia House
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
CONTROVERSY is rocking the Government-funded drug rehabilitiation centre Patricia House, with public calls being made for the resignation of its board of directors. Yesterday, more than 15 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) joined forces with the ...more
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POCA being strengthened
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
THE Government intends to go after the assets of criminal facilitators under a new national security policy now being crafted, minister of national security Peter Bunting said yesterday. According to Bunting, the first phase of the policy, which wil ...more
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Swim coach on murder rap remanded
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
THE swimming coach who is accused of stabbing to death a University of Technology student last month, during a dispute over a woman, was again remanded into custody when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court. Lornenzo Hall, w ...more
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Ignore science at our peril
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
ADJUNCT Professor at The Mico University College Arnaldo Ventura has sounded a stern warning that Jamaica must boost science education and practice, or fall woefully behind the rest of the world. "We must now understand that if we don't improve the ...more
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Suitcase infant couple fit to stand trial
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
THE Toronto couple whose infant son's decomposing body was found in a suitcase inside their Kingston home have been declared fit to stand trial. The decision was announced yesterday by Senior Corporate Area Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey after rec ...more
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Horsing around?
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Not these men, who that seriously their job of giving these race horses early morning exercise at Caymanas Park in St Catherine. (Photo: Bryan Cummings) Horsing around? --> more
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Peek-a-boo
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
These five little girls, students at Banister New Testament Basic School in St Catherine, are in a playful mood during their snack break on Monday. The story of the challenges facing the small school is published on Page 7. (Photo: Karl McLarty) more
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3:24 PM
Man hauled before court for stolen car
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
A man implicated in the robbery of a motorcar last June was on Tuesday offered $150,000 bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court. The accused, Christopher Mayne of Kintyre in St Andrew, was offered bail by Senior ...more
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2:56 PM
300 pounds of ganja seized in Burnt Savannah
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
THE Lacovia Police, yesterday seized three hundred pounds of ganja, following an operation in Burnt Savannah, St Elizabeth. Police report that about 5:30 pm, lthey were conducting an operation in the area when they were in the process of searching a ...more
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2:49 PM
$3 million worth of detergent stolen
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
GUNMEN yesterday stole a container loaded with $3.8 million worth os soap powder from a garage on Spanish Town Road in Kingston yesterday. Detectives from the Hunts Bay Police Station are requesting the public’s assistance in locating the cont ...more
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2:24 PM
Magazine ammo and ballistic vest seized by St Ann cops
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
A Glock magazine containing fourteen 9mm cartridges and an army fatigue ballistic vest were seized by the Police yesterday on Swansea main road in St Ann. The Ocho Rios Police are that about 9:30 am, lawmen were conducting spot checks along the road ...more
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11:15 AM
11 children removed from home in abuse case
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
DAYTON, Texas (AP) — Texas authorities said yesterday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds. Along w ...more
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10:29 AM
French, US journalists killed in Syria
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
FRANCE identified two Western reporters killed in Syria today as veteran American war correspondent Marie Colvin of Britain's Sunday Times and freelance French photojournalist Remi Ochlik. France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said the pair ...more
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9:40 AM
Men arrested for uttering forged cheques
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
THE Westmoreland Police have arrested and charged two men for uttering forged cheques. They have been identified as 22-year-old Derron Meyler of Strathbogie, Westmoreland and 22-year-old Clifton Allen of Chantilly Gardens also in the parish. Poli ...more
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8:36 AM
Cops seek witness
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
THE police are appealing to members of the public to assist them in locating a witness in a case that is now before the court. She is Valerie Grant, whose last known address is Cavaliers district, St Andrew. She is to appear in the Supreme Court on ...more
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This Day in History - February 22
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Today's Highlights 2001: In a landmark human-rights decision, the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia find three Bosnian Serb soldiers guilty of raping, torturing and enslaving Muslim women during the 1991-95 ethnic conflict ...more
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Strauss-Kahn questioned in prostitution case
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
PARIS, France (AP) — Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was being held for questioning yesterday by French police investigating a suspected hotel prostitution ring. Strauss-Kahn, a one-time French presidential hope ...more
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Chavez faces new surgery in Cuba
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez announced yesterday that doctors in Cuba found a new lesion in the same place where he had a tumour removed last year and said he will require surgery. "It is a small lesion of about two centimet ...more
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15,000 die yearly crossing railway tracks in India
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
NEW DELHI, India (AP) — About 15,000 people die every year trying to cross the tracks of India's mammoth rail network, a "massacre" that a government committee said was being ignored by railway authorities. The safety panel said new bridges an ...more
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3:54 PM
Gov't spending slashed by $22.3 billion
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
THE People's National Party administration has slashed the spending plan put forward by the previous government by $22,395,189 billion. The second Supplementary Estimates tabled in Parliament this afternoon shows that the previous $546,797,211 billio ...more
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Walker challenges OCG in High Court
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
FORMER Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker is now challenging in the High Court the contractor general's recommendation that he be charged with allegedly obstructing a probe last year into a breach of the scrap metal ban. Yesterday, Walker and h ...more
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3:06 PM
No funds to implement JDIP projects says Davies
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
TRANSPORT and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies has said there are some 33 projects identified by former Minister under the previous administration Lester 'Mike' Henry under the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) which cannot be implemen ...more
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2:45 PM
New NWA CEO soon
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A new Chief Executive Officer for the National Works Agency (NWA) is expected to be in place in short order. Transport and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies in a statement to Parliament today said the response from qualified persons for the post, which ...more
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1:30 PM
Old Harbour residents want cops in their town
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
THE people of Old Harbour are calling on the police high command to increase the number of police persons in the town as they have been doing in other hotspots. Several persons told the Observer that they suspect that criminals are moving from areas ...more
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10:34 AM
More cops out in Spanish Town
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
MEMBERS of the security forces have increased their presence in Spanish Town and its environs following recent threats levelled at law enforcement officials in that area. Reports are that gang members have issued threats for the second time in as ma ...more
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9:27 AM
Gov’t to take back the streets — Bunting
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
SECURITY Minister Peter Bunting today warned that the Government would not relent and would be taking back the streets from criminals. He said as part of the state's anti gang strategy, no political cover will be afforded to gang members. "We hav ...more
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9:13 AM
165 murders recorded so far this year
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
SECURITY Minister Peter Bunting this morning announced that 165 murders have been recorded since the start of the year. The figure represents an increase of 13 during the corresponding period last year. Bunting said most of the murders were gang rel ...more
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8:43 AM
Puerto Rico honours Obama, LBJ visits with statues
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rican officials marked Presidents Day by unveiling bronze statues of US President Barack Obama and former President Lyndon B Johnson, pointedly noting that people who live on the island can't vote in the US g ...more
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Unions bat for LIME in telecoms dispute
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
TWO trade unions representing the majority of workers at telecommunications company LIME have added their voices to calls for the Government to revisit its telecommunications policy, which they say places LIME at a severe disadvantage, in the area of ...more
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Ja gets 'F' for Math
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
JAMAICA will not meet its target of 85 per cent of students achieving mastery in the Grade Four Numeracy Test (GFNT) if the education system continues on its present path, according to Dr Tamika Benjamin, director of the Centre for Excellence in Math ...more
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VIDEO: Private sector deaf to Mico sponsorship plea
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
CORPORATE Jamaica appears to have shunned sponsorship of a groundbreaking Science and Mathematics teacher education conference to be hosted by The Mico University College on March 19 and 20. Adjunct Professor at the university, Arnaldo Ventura, lame ...more
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Phillips to table Supplementary Estimates today
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
FINANCE and Public Service Minister Dr Peter Phillips will table the second Supplementary Estimates for this financial year when Parliament meets at 2:00 pm today. Gordon House yesterday advised that the tabling of the Estimates, which had been prom ...more
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85% of Students avoid science subjects
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
EIGHTY-FIVE per cent of Jamaican high school students are spurning critical science subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination level causing alarm bells to go off among educators. This means that only 15 per cent of ...more
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Men accused of house sale racket remanded
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Two men accused of swindling $7.5 million from a woman for a house which was not on sale were yesterday remanded into custody when they appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court. Christopher Small, an unemployed resident of Portmore ...more
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Caricom in crisis
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The Caribbean Community (Caricom) is in "crisis" and faces the possibility of being dismantled over the next few years if vital changes are not made to its administrative structure, according to a mandated assessment of t ...more
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German on child porn rap remanded again
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
THE German businessman accused of being the mastermind behind an alleged pornography ring and fertility centre in Jamaica was further remanded into custody when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. Sven Littkowski ...more
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30 arrested, 12 vehicles seized as cops hit lotto scam
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
THIRTY persons — seven of them women — were arrested and 12 motor vehicles, as well as cash and household items, seized during police operations in Montego Bay over the weekend. Police said the 30 individuals were taken into custody in ...more
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Correction
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The photo on page 1 of yesterday's edition incorrectly named the school attended by drowned friends Demel Osbourne and Shane Burke as St Andrew High School. It should have read St Andrew College. We regret the error. Correction --> more
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Living by bread
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
This man sits beside a fuel pump at a service station in Portia Simpson Miller Square (formerly Three Miles) in St Andrew yesterday as he nourishes himself with a piece of bread. (Photo: Jermaine Barnaby) Living by bread --> more
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Snack time
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
These beautiful students of Banister New Testament Basic School, which is located close to Old Harbour in St Catherine, are obviously enjoying their snack break yesterday. (Photo: Karl McLarty) Snack time --> more
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4:02 PM
Gas prices rise again
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
FOR the eight consecutive week, motorists will have to dig deeper into their pockets when they go to fill up at the gas pumps. The prices of 87 and 90 gasoline have both increased by 89 cents per litre, and will be sold for $101.68 and $103.33 respe ...more
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2:47 PM
‘HUNK A GOLD’ named as person of interest
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
RICHARD Hylton, otherwise called ‘Hunk a Gold’, ‘Uncle’ or ‘Richie’, of a Grants Pen Drive, Kingston 8 address, has been identified as a person of interest and is wanted by detectives from the St Andrew Central Pol ...more
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2:05 PM
Don't exclude untouchables — NIAL urges Bunting
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
WHILE expressing support for security Minister Peter Bunting's announcement that the Government plans to target white collar kingpins, the National Integrity Action Limited (NIAL) urged the minister to also target high ranking politicians also. Duri ...more
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1:19 PM
Gun seized in Morant Bay
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
THE Police seized a firearm in Bamboo River in Morant Bay, St Thomas yesterday. No arrest was made in connection with the seizure. The Morant Bay Police report that between 10:00 am and 11:00 am, they were conducting operations in the area when an u ...more
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1:08 PM
Elderly man dies in Manchester fire
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
AN elderly mam died in a fire at Cobbler District, Manchester yesterday. He has been identified as 72-year-old Alvin Fairman. He was burnt to death after fire destroyed a nine apartment building he was in yesterday. The Christ ...more
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1:04 PM
Broken main causes water woes in the Corporate Area
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
NATIONAL Water Commission (NWC) customers along Spanish Town Road and all roads leading off, Marcus Garvey Drive and all roads leading off, sections of Washington Boulevard and roads leading off, Duhaney Park and sections of downtown, Kingston, are b ...more
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1:00 PM
Woman dies in Race Course crash
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
TWENTY-year-old Miska Bennett of Race Course district in Clarendon died as a result of injuries she received in a motor vehicle accident along the Bustamante Highway yesterday. Police report that about 8:55 pm, Bennett was hit by a Nissan motor car ...more
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12:53 PM
Haitian former drug lord could get sentence cut
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
MIAMI (AP) — A once-powerful Haitian drug lord could get his prison sentence sharply reduced because of his assistance to prosecutors in other cases. A hearing was set for Tuesday in Miami federal court for 48-year-old Beaudoin "Jacques" Ketan ...more
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12:49 PM
Brothers remanded on gun charge
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
MANDEVILLE, Manchester- Two men from the South Manchester area were remanded in custody last Wednesday when they appeared in the Mandeville Resident Magistrate’s court to answer to charges of having a homemade firearm in their possession. They ...more
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12:05 PM
Suitcase baby couple found fit to plead
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
PSYCHIATRIC evaluations conducted on a Canadian couple whose infant son's decomposing body was found in a suitcase inside the Kingston home, have found that they are fit to plead. The revelation was made when the couple Stephanie and Alphanso Warren ...more
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11:44 AM
Gov't moves to strangle crime.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
MINISTER of National Security Peter Bunting this morning presented new security strategies aimed at long term crime reduction. These strategies he said are improvements on previous plans and with proper execution, should garner expected results. Bun ...more
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11:36 AM
Danville pleads not guilty
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
FORMER Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker, today pleaded not guilty to breaches of the Contractor General's Act when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court. Walker is facing charges of obstructing a probe and failure to p ...more
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11:26 AM
Gov't wants to bring crime down to first world levels by 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
NATIONAL Security Minister Peter Bunting, this morning announced that with the new crime strategies to be implemented, the government hopes to reduce crimes to 'first world levels' by 2017. Speaking this morning at a special Post Cabinet Press Brief ...more
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8:56 AM
Political supporters clash during demonstration
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
NORWOOD, St James— Violence reared its ugly head during a demonstration over a dust nuisance affecting members of this community of St James yesterday morning after a stone-throwing bout between a JLP supporter and his PNP counterpart. The sho ...more
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6:16 AM
PICA assures normalcy at airport
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
THE management of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) is assuring the public that efforts are being made to ensure normalcy at the Sangster International Airport despite the fact that the immigration officers in Montego Bay are re ...more
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This Day in History - February 21
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Today is the 52nd day of 2012. There are 314 days left in the year. Today's Highlights 1965: Former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X is shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address a rally in New York City. Othe ...more
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Stray dog's barking foils prison break
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — A stray dog is getting credit for thwarting a prison break in Paraguay. Officials say three dangerous inmates dug a tunnel about 26 feet (eight metres) from their cell to the street, and were about to break free just ...more
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Swede survives two months in frozen car
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A Swedish man was pulled barely alive from his snow-covered car, having survived on nothing but snow for two months in sub-zero temperatures, the Daily Mail has reported. According to the report, Peter Skyllberg, 44, had eaten nothing but handfuls o ...more
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Eritrea against 'interfering' in Somalia
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Eritrea, often accused of supporting Islamist rebels in Somalia, yesterday criticised foreign interference in the war-torn country, ahead of an upcoming peace conference in Britain. "External actors, even those most frie ...more
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Santorum opens lead over Romney
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) — White House hopeful Rick Santorum has opened an eight-point lead over presumptive frontrunner Mitt Romney among likely Republican voters nationwide, a new poll showed Sunday. Thirty-six per cent of those surveyed said t ...more
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EU scoffs at Iran's threat to cut oil supplies
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — The European Union yesterday shrugged off Tehran's threat to cut oil to "hostile" EU nations, saying the bloc was capable of coping with any halt in Iranian supplies. "In terms of immediate security of stocks, the E ...more
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Spain sending military planes to US to retrieve treasure
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
MADRID, Spain (AP) — Spain said yesterday it will soon send hulking military transport planes to Florida to retrieve 17 tons of treasure that US undersea explorers found but ultimately lost in American courts, a find experts have speculated cou ...more
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This thing is madness, Ellington says
Monday, February 20, 2012
Police commissioner Owen Ellington has said that personnel under his command must never tell members of the public that they cannot take action against persons who are said to be mentally challenged. "On no account must a member of the public be tol ...more
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1:15 PM
Police looking for Novelette Wills
Monday, February 20, 2012
COPS from the May Pen Police Station are seeking a witness in a case that is to be mentioned on Friday, February 24 in the Lionel Town Resident Magistrate’s Court. She is Novelette Wills, whose last known address is Rocky Point in Clarendon. ...more
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Use agriculture to mobilise JEEP — Val Wint
Monday, February 20, 2012
MANDEVILLE, Manchester-People’s National Party (PNP) North East Manchester caretaker Valenton (Val) Wint believes that going the route of co-operatives is an effective way of boosting agriculture and helping to activate the much-touted Jamaica ...more
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Emotional farewell for St Andrew College boys
Monday, February 20, 2012
DEMEL Osbourne and Shane Burke — the two St Andrew College students who drowned during a school field trip in Portland earlier this month — were laid to rest following a heartrending funeral service at the First Baptist Church in St Andre ...more
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Sprinting’s Cancer Link?
Monday, February 20, 2012
A local urologist has suggested a possible link between sprinting prowess and prostate cancer, arguing that both have multiple causative factors that exist in the descendants of Africans who survived the inhumane conditions of the transatlantic slave ...more
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Nurses to sit on health boards
Monday, February 20, 2012
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Minister of Health Dr Fenton Ferguson announced that the Portia Simpson Miller-led political administration has taken a decision to include a nurse on the board of each of the four regional health authorities. "I want t ...more
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1:24 PM
Communities want more police patrols
Monday, February 20, 2012
RESIDENTS of Esquiville Villa and Rhoden Pen, communities close to Old Harbour in St Catherine, are calling for police to increase their presence in the communities. “For years the community has been plagued with robberies and praedial larceny ...more
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9:15 AM
Municipal courts to be introduced islandwide
Monday, February 20, 2012
THE long awaited municipal court system to deal with parochial matters will be introduced across the island soon. According to Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Noel Arscott, the move to establish municipal courts, although bei ...more
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Accused girlfriend puncher gets bail extension
Monday, February 20, 2012
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — A Manchester man who is alleged to have punched out two of his girlfriend’s teeth, last week had his bail extended until April 18 when he will return to the Manchester Resident Magistrate’s Court to answer t ...more
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Prisoner dies in custody, woman shot dead in St Elizabeth
Monday, February 20, 2012
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — The St Elizabeth police were kept busy last Saturday following the death of a man who was in custody awaiting an identification parade, and also a 20-year-old woman who was shot at her home in Brompton. Police said t ...more
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A joyful end! - Family’s search for relative turns up trumps
Monday, February 20, 2012
One family's agonising 14-year search for their aunt and sister, Jamaican Elizabeth Johnson Stogsdill came to a joyful end last Friday. This emerged after the Dade County Guardianship Program in Miami, Florida issued a desperate appeal through the J ...more
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Men who conned woman of $7.5-m kept in jail
Monday, February 20, 2012
Two men who reportedly conspired to deceive a woman out of $7.5 million for a house which they did not own, were remanded Friday when they appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court. The alleged mastermind, Christopher Small, an unem ...more
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PHOTOS: THEY’RE OFF!
Monday, February 20, 2012
Triple World and Olympic sprint star Usain Bolt gives the over 16,000 participants the go-ahead to begin the annual PanCaribbean Sigma Corporate Run along Knutsford Boulevard in New Kingston yesterday. In Photo no. 2, members of the British Airways ...more
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A Sister's Loss
Monday, February 20, 2012
Shanika Burke, sister of Shane Burke, collapses for a second time and is taken from the First Baptist Church, during yesterday's funeral service for her brother and his friend, Demel Osbourne, both of St Andrew High School, who drowned at a beach in ...more
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Former Grenada PM Brizan dies
Monday, February 20, 2012
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) — George Brizan, a former prime minister who was a founder of Grenada's ruling party, has died in his Caribbean homeland. He was 69. Prime Minister Tillman Thomas said Brizan died Saturday at a hospital in the capital ...more
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Honk for Jesus
Monday, February 20, 2012
This man grabs the attention of passing motorists along the Spanish Town bypass in St Catherine last Thursday by asking them to do as the sign says. Several complied. (Photo: Garfield Robinson) more
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5:17 PM
Water woes for sections of St Mary and St Andrew
Monday, February 20, 2012
NATIONAL Water Commission (NWC) customers in sections of St Mary who are served by the Agualta Vale water supply system are being advised that the disruption they are currently experiencing in their service is due to extensive mechanical problems at ...more
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3:28 PM
Water woes in St Thomas and Clarendon
Monday, February 20, 2012
NATIONAL Water Commission (NWC) customers in sections of St Thomas who are served by the Prospect Deep Well are being advised that the disruption they are currently experiencing in their water supply is due to mechanical problems at the facility. The ...more
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2:56 PM
INDECOM opens satellite centre in St Thomas
Monday, February 20, 2012
THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has opened a satellite centre in Morant Bay, St Thomas. The centre will make it easier for residents of St Thomas to make formal complaints, instead instead of visiting the nearest INDECOM offic ...more
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2:41 PM
Man held in robbery of Judge in Nevis
Monday, February 20, 2012
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) — A police spokesman in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis says a "person of interest" is in custody in the robbery of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Sgt. Alonzo Carty said Monday that Vedel K. B ...more
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1:44 PM
Woman heads to trial for stealing pumpkin
Monday, February 20, 2012
KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, N.M., reports that Lauren Medina will go before a jury and Moriarity Magistrate Judge Steve Jones on Tuesday. She is accused of taking the pumpkin in October 2011 from McCall's Pumpkin Patch in Moriarty. Her sister, Annette A ...more
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1:17 PM
Agriculture ministry moves to stem yam crisis
Monday, February 20, 2012
CONCERNED over the rejection of 11 shipments of yam by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Ministry of Agriculture is moving to minimise further damage to the exports of the produce. In a release today the ministry revea ...more
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12:48 PM
Body found with gunshot wounds in Kingston 13
Monday, February 20, 2012
THE body of an unidentified man was found in Kingston yesterday. Police report that residents reported hearing explosions and summoned them to the border of the Union Gardens and Greenwich Town communities. There, the cops found the body with severa ...more
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11:30 AM
Sheriff says he's gay after misconduct claims
Monday, February 20, 2012
FLORENCE, USA (AP) — A nationally known sheriff resigned from presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's Arizona committee and acknowledged he was gay amid allegations of misconduct made by a man with whom he previously had a relationship. But Pinal C ...more
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11:18 AM
Bannister Basic School needs lifeline
Monday, February 20, 2012
TEACHERS at the Bannister New Testament Basic School, located close to Old Harbour, St Catherine are this morning making a desperate plea for help. Teachers claim that the school which has been in operation for approximately 16 years is about to clo ...more
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10:59 AM
Whitney Houston's dress, earrings up for auction
Monday, February 20, 2012
LOS ANGELES, USA (AP) — There had to be an auction, but so soon? A black velvet dress that belonged to Whitney Houston and a pair of earrings she wore in "The Bodyguard" will be sold to the highest bidder next month. Celebrity auctioneer Darr ...more
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10:37 AM
May Pen bridge to be closed Wednesday
Monday, February 20, 2012
THE May Pen Rail Bridge, located along Main Street in Clarendon, will be temporarily closed between 6:00 am and 7:00 pm on Wednesday. This is to facilitate repairs to structural defects on the bridge. Motorists travelling from the direction of Min ...more
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9:27 AM
NEPA monitoring marine parks
Monday, February 20, 2012
THE National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has been carrying out several monitoring exercises at the Montego Bay, Negril and Ocho Rios marine parks under the Climate Change Adaptation for Disaster and Risk Reduction Project. These parks com ...more
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9:02 AM
Boost for agricultural competitiveness programme
Monday, February 20, 2012
AGRICULTURE and Fisheries Minister Roger Clarke says the Government has received a US$15.1 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to assist in financing the Agricultural Competitiveness Programme (ACP). Addressing the Christian ...more
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9:00 AM
ESPN fires employee for headline on Jeremy Lin
Monday, February 20, 2012
BRISTOL, Connecticut (AP) — The cable television sports network ESPN fired an employee responsible for an offensive headline about Knicks basketball sensation Jeremy Lin. The headline Friday on ESPN's mobile website was used for a story about ...more
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44 killed in Mexico prison riot; guards detained
Monday, February 20, 2012
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — An inmate riot that may have been staged to cover a breakout killed 44 prisoners yesterday, and the jail's director and all guards on duty at the time have been detained, a security official said. Nuevo Leon state publ ...more
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Man gets bail in old woman’s death
Monday, February 20, 2012
A man accused of causing the death of an old woman in a car accident was last Wednesday offered $250,000 bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court. The accused, Alvin Mitchell, 52, of Russell Road, Kingston, was o ...more
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This Day in History - February 20
Monday, February 20, 2012
Today is the 51st day of 2012. There are 315 days left in the year. Today's Highlight 1999 - Atal Bihari Vajpayee becomes the first Indian prime minister to go to Pakistan in 10 years when he rides the first commercial bus service between the two c ...more
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Santorun hits out at Obama
Monday, February 20, 2012
WASHINGTON, (AFP) — Republican White House contender Rick Santorum on Sunday scaled back an apparent attack on Barack Obama's faith, saying it was the US president's "world view", that he takes issue with. Santorum, a staunch Catholic who take ...more
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Report: Website helped UK terrorists communicate
Monday, February 20, 2012
LONDON (AP) — A British newspaper says that a website has spent months publishing letters written by Muslim extremists jailed for serious terror offences. The Sunday Times said that the now-defunct site muslimprisoners.com arried dozens of let ...more
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20 dead in Mexico prison riot
Monday, February 20, 2012
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — A prison riot in northern Mexico left about 20 people dead early Sunday, according to a security official. Nuevo Leon state public security spokesman Jorge Domene Zambrano told Milenio television that the riot broke ou ...more
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Iraqi academy blast kills 20
Monday, February 20, 2012
BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his car Sunday as a group of police recruits left their academy in Baghdad, killing 20 in the latest strike on security officials that angry residents blamed on political feuding that is roiling Iraq. ...more
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US sheriff says he's gay after misconduct claims
Monday, February 20, 2012
FLORENCE, Arizona (AP) — A nationally known sheriff resigned from presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's Arizona campaign committee and acknowledged that he was gay amid allegations of misconduct made by a man with whom he previously had a relation ...more
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Sarkozy defends policies, lashes opponent
Monday, February 20, 2012
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — President Nicolas Sarkozy defended his unpopular policies as insulating France from the worst consequences of Europe's debt crisis, declaring in a nationalistic speech to thousands of supporters Sunday that "the truth d ...more
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Inner-city J'can youth now captain in world-famous LAPD
Sunday, February 19, 2012
IN his early teens, Peter Whittingham had an unmistakable choice — succumb to the mind-bending pressures of the sprawling slums of Canterbury, St James, or rise above its desperate poverty, senseless violence and wanton waste of often promising ...more
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Whitney Houston’s voice soars at hometown funeral
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The best voices of a generation all paid tribute to Whitney Houston. But in the end, the most powerful voice at her funeral service yesterday was her own. The first notes of I Will Always Love You, at the end of a 3 1/2-hour remembrance of the pop s ...more
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DRIVING FRAUD - Motorists buying fake documents
Sunday, February 19, 2012
FAKE driver's licences, fraudulent insurance cover notes and the presence of corrupt public officials are making a mockery of mechanisms implemented by the Government to ensure that Jamaican road users are safe and that injured parties can claim for ...more
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Death Postponed: 'I thought I would have been shot'
Sunday, February 19, 2012
This is the first in a series recounting close encounters with death by Jamaicans, some of them in prominent positions of society. Wavell Wayne Hinds has two dates firmly etched in his mind — dates that could have yielded different results had ...more
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Profiling the indefatigable Ian Boyne
Sunday, February 19, 2012
A quarter century is a long time by any measure, more so when it's used in the context of a weekly TV show. And, in Jamaica's media landscape where the production graveyard is littered with defunct programmes, TVJ's Profile has withstood the time-te ...more
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Gov't gets US$1.35-m in confiscated cash
Sunday, February 19, 2012
OVER a million US dollars in cash which was seized by the police in 2007 under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) is to be turned over to the Jamaican Government. The money, US$1.35 million — which is equivalent to J$117 million — represen ...more
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Stone Crusher Gang members nabbed in Hanover
Sunday, February 19, 2012
FOUR persons, including a woman, who are believed to be members of the St James based Stone Crusher Gang, remain in police custody after they were dramatically nabbed on Friday by the Hanover police. The police also said they recovered a firearm bel ...more
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J’can Peter Whittingham making an impact in North Hollywood
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Captain Peter Whittingham earned kudos from his head of division in the North Hollywood Area, Justin Eisenberg in the March 2011 North Hollywood Captain’s Corner feature of their newsletter: “As we move into spring, I am confident that w ...more
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Corporal Dave Robb hailed as a hardworking cop with a winning smile
Sunday, February 19, 2012
RELATIVES, friends and members of the constabulary came out in their numbers at the Grace Baptist Church in May Pen, Clarendon Last Saturday to bid farewell to Corporal Dave Donovan Robb of the May Pen Traffic Department. Robb died suddenly on Janua ...more
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Local smartphone innovation set to catch unscrupulous motorists
Sunday, February 19, 2012
NEW computer software developed right here in Jamaica by the state-owned Fiscal Services Limited is helping catch motorists who are driving around with fraudulent documents, outstanding traffic tickets or even arrest warrants. According to the head ...more
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$9m for new constituencies
Sunday, February 19, 2012
AN appeal earlier this month by Everald Warmington, former chair of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Committee of Parliament, that money to be made available to the members of Parliament (MPs) for the three new constituencies added last year, ...more
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Jcan-born record exec reflects on her first meeting with Whitney Houston
Sunday, February 19, 2012
ON a cool weekday afternoon in 1985, a young lady, just 21 years old, stood on a stage in a small club called Bottom Line in New York. The event was a private showcase — a gathering of staff from RCA records. The young woman stood at the corne ...more
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Small fire at Holiday Inn Sunspree Hotel
Sunday, February 19, 2012
ROSE HALL, St James — Operations at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Hotel and Spa in Montego Bay were reportedly unaffected by a fire which razed the maintenance building in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Holiday Inn Group Director of Marketing N ...more
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Young girls still in adult prisons
Sunday, February 19, 2012
JAMAICAN children are still being held in adult prisons and lock-ups almost four years since the horrific fire at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in St Ann showed gaps in the care and safety of juveniles in the correctional system. Three n ...more
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LIME, Digicel at odds over OUR's proposed $5 termination rate
Sunday, February 19, 2012
BITTER telecoms rivals LIME and Digicel have given sharply contrasting responses to an Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) proposal for a $5.00 termination rate on cross-network calls. LIME says it supports the proposed rate, but hopes that it will ...more
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Marjorie Elizabeth McLaughlin hailed as a determined, focussed individual
Sunday, February 19, 2012
ON Saturday, January 21, scores of mourners turned out to celebrate the life of Marjorie Elizabeth McLaughlin at a thanksgiving service held at the Stellar Maris Church in St Andrew. McLaughlin passed away on January 2 after a battle with illness. ...more
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Faithful, hard-working O'Brian Johnson laid to rest
Sunday, February 19, 2012
THE tears flowed freely as the family and friends of O'Brian Johnson congregated at the Clifton New Testament Church, Mannings Hill Road, Kingston 8, on Wednesday to bid him their final farewell. The church was just as full as O'Brian's life was, ac ...more
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12:25 PM
Suspected suicide in St Ann
Sunday, February 19, 2012
THE body of 23-year-old Taganie Smith, of Trysee district in Brown’s Town, St. Ann, was found hanging from a tree yesterday afternoon in the community. It is suspected that the youth committed suicide. Reports from the Brown’s Town Polic ...more
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12:11 PM
Gun, ammo seized in car park
Sunday, February 19, 2012
THE Brown’s Town Police this morning seized an illegal firearm and ammunition at a car park on Main Street, Brown’s Town, St. Ann. Information received is that about 2:30 am, a police team on operation conducted a search of a grey Nissan ...more
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11:29 AM
Official: about 20 dead in Mexico prison riot
Sunday, February 19, 2012
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — A prison riot in northern Mexico left about 20 people dead early today, according to a security official. Nuevo Leon state public security spokesman Jorge Domene Zambrano told Milenio television that the riot broke out ...more
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11:18 AM
Bail extended for man accused of punching girlfriend
Sunday, February 19, 2012
MANDEVILLE, Manchester – A Manchester man who is alleged to have punched out two of his girlfriend’s teeth had his bail extended until April 18 when he appeared in the Mandeville Resident Magistrate’s court Friday. Allegations are ...more
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