New US passport regime will hurt Caribbean tourism - study
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC: WORLD TRAVEL and Tourism Council (WTTC) study claims that US$2.6 billion of visitor export earnings and more than 188,000 travel and tourism jobs will be destroyed by new United States passport regulations.

Think again, Mr Chuck! - A-G frowns on suggestion to give citizens easier access to guns
JUSTICE MINISTER A.J. Nicholson said yesterday that he found comments made in Parliament on Wednesday by Opposition Spokesman on Justice, Delroy Chuck, very disturbing.

Wilson gets second term as Police Federation chairman
WESTERN BUREAU: CORPORAL RAYMOND Wilson was yesterday elected chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation for a second term. His re-election was announced at the end the organisation's 62nd three-day conference...

KSAC gets tough on vendors
GOODS WERE confiscated and stalls chained and padlocked during an undercover raid, as a livid Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie and the management of the Pearnel Charles Arcade clamped down on illegal vending yesterday.

Well done, Stacey-Ann - Placed 15th out of 273 at Scripps Howard Spelling Bee
JAMAICA'S 2005 Spelling Bee champion Stacey-Ann Pearson finished 15th at the 78th Scripps Howard Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. yesterday. Stacey-Ann, who was speller 94 of the 273 competitors registered, made it all the way to Round Nine...

'Pay up, or else' - Local Gov't owes big water bill
THE MINISTRY of Local Government was yesterday forced to seek a compromise with the National Water Commission (NWC) in a bid to avert a widescale disconnection of standpipes across the island.

Mystery surrounds death of JDF soldier
UNCERTAINTY SURROUNDS the death of a 24-year-old Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), private, Twain Barnes, who was shot and killed in the vicinity of 99 Lane along Mountain View Avenue in east Kingston yesterday morning.

Normality to resume soon in phone row
FULL SERVICE to incoming international calls could be returned today, after the largest of the four blocked major international telecommunications carriers yesterday agreed to sign up to the new three-year telecommunications levy...