'Let there be peace' - Bid to end violence in Kingston 'battlegrounds'
WAR-TORN COMMUNITIES of 'Tel Aviv', 'Spoilers', 'Southside' and Rae Town in central Kingston have begun to embrace a new movement towards peace under the banner 'Gone Too Soon. Stop the Violence.'

'Janice was someone's child'
IT WOULD be an easy thing to be bitter if you were Millicent Forbes, the mother of 13-year-old Janice Allen who was killed by a policeman's bullet on April 13, 2000 in Trench Town, Kingston.

Teenager on drug charge gets suspended sentence - Because the convict is a hermaphrodite
WESTERN BUREAU: A MONTEGO Bay court yesterday convicted a British teenager of drug smuggling but faced the dilemma of deciding whether she should go to a male or female prison facility.

FBI 'Most Wanted' shot dead
WESTERN BUREAU: HOPETON BROWN, also known as 'Sando-khan', the Jamaican featured on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Ten Most Wanted list, was fatally shot by the police in Lilliput, St. James on Sunday.

Kraal ruling in April
THE OFFICE of the Director of Public Prosecutions will rule "within the next five weeks" on the controversial Kraal shootings during which the Reneto Adams-led Crime Management Unit shot and killed four persons, including two women, last year.