Get your umbrellas, lots of rain coming
THE METEOROLOGICAL Service has issued a severe weather alert for north-eastern and eastern parishes until 5:00 a.m. today, and is also encouraging fishers and other marine operators to exercise caution. The parishes expected to be affected include...

All set for Maroon election
BLACK RIVER: SCORES OF security personnel turned out to man the Nomination Day proceedings in Maroon Town, St. Elizabeth on Wednesday, where three candidates were nominated to contest the polls to elect a new colonel.

Multimillion dollar lawsuit against children's hospital
THERE IS to be an out of court settlement in the multimillion dollar negligence lawsuit involving nine-year-old Tonika Williams who is blind because of the alleged failure of medical personnel at the Bustamante Hospital for Children and...

Woman on abuse charges denied bail
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE AN impassioned plea from her attorney, the 20-year-old woman who was implicated in the brutal beating of a five-year-old boy was on Wednesday denied bail when she re-appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court.

Student vandal awaiting sentence
ONE OF three Grade 11 students who caused over $200,000 worth of damage to the Holy Trinity High School in Kingston, pleaded guilty yesterday and is to return to court on June 23 for sentencing. The three male students were each offered bail in the...

Butcher freed of six-year prison sentence
THE COURT of Appeal has found that the evidence of identification in the case of 25-year-old Maurice Rhule, butcher of 58 Job Lane, Spanish Town, St. Catherine, was too weak to substantiate his conviction and six-year prison sentence for wounding with...

Aristide prepares for departure to S Africa
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP): OUSTED HAITIAN President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is making final preparations to leave Jamaica and take up asylum in South Africa, an official said yesterday.