Residents, police trade words, blows, blame ... but business unaffected in Montego Bay
WESTERN BUREAU: MONDAY TURNED out to be a day of roadblocks and skirmishes between the security forces and citizens as the law enforcers and scores of angry residents traded words, blame and blows.

'We are not criminals' - Cabbies protest police shootings
Cabbies protest police shootings ANGRY STREET confrontations, chaos and stony indifference marked the strike action in the Kingston Metropolitan area yesterday as taxi drivers made good on their threat to withdraw their services to protest...

MoBay Mayor scolded
WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY'S Mayor Councillor, Noel Donaldson, was strongly reprimanded and asked to leave the scene of the demonstration at Flankers in St. James yesterday by a senior police officer, following a heated argument between the two.

JCF to cover funeral costs of Flankers victims
POLICE COMMISSIONER Francis Forbes disclosed yesterday that the Jamaica Constab-ulary Force (JCF) will underwrite the funeral expense of 63-year-old taxi driver David Bacchas and newspaper vendor, 66-year-old Cecil Brown...

Three Canterbury suspects charged
FOLLOWING THE extended gun battle between members of the security forces and gunmen in Canterbury, St. James, two weeks ago, three suspects who were among 25 men detained, have been formerly charged.

Three killed in accident
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: A HEAD-ON collision involving a car and a truck has claimed three lives, all of whom were passengers in the car.