POLICE RECORDS show that 65 people have been murdered in the first 23 days of April, including an allegedly homosexual man shot dead in a church hall in Kingston on Saturday afternoon.

Between Thursday and Saturday, 17 people were slain in separate incidents in the Corporate Area of Kingston and St. Andrew, St. Catherine and St. James, the police said.

SEVENTEEN PEOPLE were injured yesterday afternoon on the Ewarton main road, St. Catherine, when the bus in which they were travelling overturned.

"Only one person looked very serious with head injuries. There was also a woman with a suspected fractured right shoulder," said Dr. Paing Soe, who treated the injured persons at the Linstead Hospital.

THREE MEN, including a Nigerian and a German, were charged by the Savanna-la-Mar police on Friday with illegal possession of ammunition and possession, of and dealing in, ganja, in Whitehouse, Westmoreland.

They are, Clive Collins, 25, of Lennox Bigwoods, Westmoreland; Godstime Obid, a 36-year-old Nigerian; and Klaus Horndlein, a 30-year-old German national.

MYRTLE WEE-TOM, Frederica Wee-Tom and Cassandra Campbell, three of the victims of Friday's fatal shooting in March Pen, had just renewed their baptismal vows at a church in Spanish Town, and were visiting relatives when they were gunned down for no apparent reason.

Slain a few minutes before in the same vicinity and reportedly by the same gunmen, were Edgar Halstead, 56, betting shop agent, and wife, Sylvia, who sources said had been branded as "informers".

British High Commissioner to Jamaica Antony Smith (left) and his deputy Jim Malcolm (right) presenting a cheque valued at $750,000 to Tal Stokes (centre) as part of the Prince Charles Trust Fund to help young Jamaicans start up their own businesses. The presentation took place on Thursday at the British High Commission. - Norman Grindley

FOLLOWING HIS recent visit to Jamaica, the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, through the British High Commission, has donated $750,000 (£11,600) to set up a trust fund to help young Jamaicans start their own businesses.

British High Commisioner to Jamaica, Antony Smith, and his deputy, Jim Malcolm, handed over the cheque Thursday morning to Tal Stokes, one of the Trustees who will be monitoring the fund, during a ceremony at the High Commisioner's office.