Inside a ghost town
THERE IS a cycle of activities that pervades 'troubled communities' whenever violence rears its ugly head. Guns blaze, violence flares and the inevitable happens: residents flee. The community is then plunged into a state of turmoil,...
Retirement - a community on the brink
WESTERN BUREAU: THE 1800-ACRE Retirement property in St. James lies three miles west of Montego Bay's city centre. The property has had a distinct history as a successful sugar plantation, however, ...
Flankers fights back!
FEW COMMUNITIES in rural Jamaica have experienced the level of crime as Flankers in St. James. Located in the heart of Montego Bay, it has been the scene of several bloody incidents in the past three years.
Gynaecologist charged with rape
THE DOCTOR who is alleged to have raped a patient at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital last month was charged yesterday by the Denham Town Police with two counts of rape and two counts of indecent assault. He is Matt Myrie, 31, of a Kingston address, who...
Airlift crisis deepens
SOME 20 AIRLIFT handlers at the Norman Manley Internat-ional Airport were issued with dismissal letters 'effective immediately'. The workers were fresh off a three-day strike protesting the dismissal of five of their colleagues just days earlier for...
'Narrow-minded and parochial'
NATIONALISM IS the natural ideology of Jamaica, as it is of most nations. In Jamaica, our nationalism comes in two main varieties: the black nationalism of the People's National Party and the Nationalism-lite of the Jamaica Labour Party....
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