Ganja find at Port Bustamante
THE NARCOTICS police made another ganja bust at Port Bustamante in Kingston yesterday when divers found a canister with compressed ganja attached to the hull of a cargo ship. Head of the Narcotics Division, Senior Superintendent Carl Williams...

Upgraded high schools ahead in IT passes
EIGHTEEN OF the upgraded high schools last year gained 100 per cent pass rates in the CXC Information Technology (IT) exams, compared to 15 of the traditional high schools...

Egg industry poised for growth
"THERE IS tremendous potential for the advancement of the egg industry in Jamaica because of the wide range of expertise among egg farmers here. At present, they are the producers, processors and marketers of their own eggs, but the time has come for a...

Sandals resort hails nurses
GENERAL MANAGER of Sandals Ocho Rios Michael Darby has lauded the contribution of nurses to the parish of St. Ann and hailed them as true Jamaican patriots. Mr. Darby's comments came as 20 nurses attached to the St. Ann's Bay Hospital...

Soldier locked up for leaving Camp with gun
THE JAMAICA Defence Force (JDF) has detained one of its soldiers as it probes the circumstances under which an off-duty private left Up Park Camp on Saturday with a Self-Loading Rifle (SLR) and went to Spanish Town, St. Catherine, to intervene in a...

Two acquitted of labourer's murder in 2000
TWO MEN have been freed of the murder of Oneil Donaldson, a labourer of 8 Unity Lane, Kingston 11, who was shot and killed at his house on October 15, 2000. Rudolph Lightbourne, 22, and Albert Richards, 23, potters of Olympic Gardens...

Amnesty sends observer
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has sent an observer to the Coroner's Inquest seeking to determine the circumstances in which seven young men were killed by the police in Braeton, St. Catherine in March 2001. In a release yesterday, Amnesty said that Ivor Frank...