Mango fest a success
WESTERN BUREAU: MORE THAN 5,000 persons crowded the Delveland Sports Complex on Sunday for the third staging of the Westmoreland Mango Festival.

Treasure hunters find lost cannons
UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGISTS from the Admiralty Corporation discovered cannons and a ballast pile from two historic shipwrecks during their preliminary archaeological surveys in the Pedro Banks area in May.

Man sentenced for smuggling cocaine to fund sex change
WESTERN BUREAU: AN IRISH-born man, who last month told the Montego Bay Resident Magistrates Court that he was trying to smuggle 2.1kg (4lb 10 oz) of cocaine from the island to pay for a sex change operation...

Canterbury accused seek compensation
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO OF the six men who were acquitted of charges arising from last year's violent stand-off in Canterbury, St. James...

Commuters stranded in Cambridge
WESTERN BUREAU: HUNDREDS Of commuters in Cambridge, St. James, were left stranded on Monday when bus and taxi operators withdrew their services in protest against the poor road conditions in the area.

Clean-up campaign for inner city
TEN COMMUNITIES, many of them inner-city neighbourhoods, are to benefit from a campaign which intends to beautify these areas and provide 'green spaces' by improving or developing recreational parks.

300,000 J'can immigrants in Cuba, scholars claim
TWO OVERSEAS professors have reported that migration of Jamaicans to Cuba has exceeded 300,000 persons, and their descendants have created many active communities which survive in modern Cuba.