JPS hunts bigger rate hike
ALREADY FACED with an increase in electricity bills, the public will again be asked to pay more as a result of a $1.5 billion insurance claim served by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) on government.

JCF training blitz - 75 new senior officers in fast-track programmes
THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force (JCF) will start training 75 future senior officers on its three graduate recruitment and internal fast-tracking programmes by the end of this year, says Deputy Commissioner of Police Jevene Bent.

J'cans killed at home in London
LONDON, England: THREE JAMAICANS were tied up then shot dead inside their house in North London last Friday night.The police have identified the victims as 62-year-old Noel Patterson and sisters, 34-year-old Lorna Morrison and 27-year-old Connie Morrison.

Murders prompt call for Phillips to quit
TWENTY-NINE PERSONS have been murdered during the first nine days of this month, pushing the country's homicide rate to a staggering 1,028 killed since January. The murder total is 204 more than the number of persons slain ...

Chile offers scholarships to CARICOM law enforcers
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC: LAW ENFORCEMENT officials from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will soon have the opportunity for training under a scholarship programme being offered by Chile, according to the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat.

$60 million stolen in bizarre 'Ochi' heist
OCHO RIOS, St. Ann:UP TO $60 million was stolen from an armoured courier vehicle in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, yesterday morning. The daring robbery took place at about 9:20 a.m. while security personnel from Atlas Protection Limited were making their regular...

Successor chosen for PM's constituency
WESTERN BUREAU: FORTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DR. Norman Buchanan was yesterday selected to replace Prime Minister P.J. Patterson as the People's National Party's (PNP) candidate for Eastern Westmoreland in the next general election, constitutionally due by 2007.