US Embassy warns of visa scams
THE UNITED States Embassy in Kingston is warning Jamaicans to be on the lookout for persons who may scam them of thousands of dollars under the guise of helping them obtain a valid U.S. visa. In a release Thursday, the embassy warned the public to be...

Taxi man gets life sentence - Aided cop in robbery
A TAXI driver who assisted a policeman in a robbery which resulted in a customer being shot and killed in a shop at James Hill, Clarendon was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for non-capital murder.

Settlement reached in inspector election case
AN OUT-OF-COURT agreement was reached yesterday by the parties in the dispute over the election of officers last year to the Inspectors Branch Board of the Jamaica Police Federation.

Tourism possibilities for Spanish Town
Minister of Industry and Tourism Aloun Assamba, has urged the St. Catherine Parish Council to put together a package to sell tours to schools, hotels and all the persons who are interested in historical and heritage tourism.

Mind and Spirit- A crisis of religious literacy
According to a 1997 poll, only one out of three US citizens is able to name the most basic of Christian texts, the four Gospels, and 12 per cent think Noah's wife was Joan of Arc. Stephen Prothero