Dogs ravage blood samples
HUNDREDS OF test tubes containing blood samples that were supposed to have been destroyed, but left carelessly outside a section of the National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL), Slipe Pen Road, Kingston, have been found by dogs which have.

Notice accused of assaulting driver
SPANISH TOWN: THE 42-YEAR-OLD personal driver assigned to Spanish Town's Mayor Raymoth Notice has accused his boss of assault occasioning bodily harm and making threats against his life.

RGD cuts long lines
THE REGISTRAR General's Department (RGD) has been cutting lines, crowds and even security since they began delivering completed certificates door-to-door, last month, says CEO, Dr. Patricia Holness.

Adams slams Police High Command
SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT of Police Reneto Adams, the former head of the disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU), yesterday lashed out at members of the Police High Command, dubbing them as a "total failure" and that they are just as "dangerous.

Forbes warns cops in west
WESTERN BUREAU: FOLLOWING IN the wake of a recent incident in which a policeman was shot and killed outside a nightclub, in Montego Bay, St. James, Police Commissioner Francis Forbes has issued a stern warning to western Jamaica-based police...

US Embassy unlikely to reduce visa transfer fee
THE UNITED States Embassy in Kingston has said it is unlikely that it will temporarily reduce the cost of a visa transfer, to facilitate a new thrust by the Government for Jamaicans to have machine-readable passports by December 2006.