Samuels in hot water - Batsman on tape talking to bookie
JAMAICA AND West Indies middle-order batsman, Marlon Samuels, could be forced out of the West Indies World Cup squad after allegations came yesterday that he provided information to an Indian bookmaker.
Regina Bish is spelling champ
Campion College's Regina Bish is the 2007 Gleaner Children's Own All-Island Spelling Bee Champion. Regina survived a nail-biting contest yesterday at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston when she outlasted Manchester's Lawre Johnson...
OAS to assist with Jamaican campaign financing law
SECRETARY GENERAL of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, yesterday pledged that body's support to fast-tracking legislation for campaign financing in Jamaica.
Jamaicans need to care about crime - Wolfe
Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe yesterday blamed the nation's high murder rate partly on what he described as the uncaring attitude of some Jamaicans, who believed that they could not be affected by crime.
Cops hunt new stash of guns
Narcotics detectives in collaboration with their colleagues in Clarendon are probing the whereabouts of a stash of illegal guns which they believed arrived in the island Monday, on a fishing boat from the Republic of Haiti.
March 16 for Andem trial
The murder trial of 43-year-old reputed gang leader Joel Andem and his two co-accused has been set for March 16 in the Home Circuit Court. Andem was not taken to court on Monday because no Jamaica Defence Force escort...
Lighting up in courthouse!
IT IS not unusual to smell ganja smoke at some music shows, or even to see persons smoking spliffs at political rallies. But now, concern is being expressed that some prisoners who are taken to the Supreme Court building...
Thelma Manley found dead at home
Thelma Manley, the second wife of the late Prime Minister Michael Manley, is dead. She was found dead at her home yesterday afternoon on Waterloo Road, St. Andrew. She leaves behind a son, Joseph Manley, and daughter-in- law, singer, song writer, Della...
MAJ lends voice to 'Stabroek' plight
The Media Association of Jamaica (MAJ) yesterday joined the chorus of regional condemnation of the action of the Guyana government in withdrawing advertising from the Stabroek newspaper, and called on the administration ...
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