Cricket chaos - Confusion over permit for opening-day performers
Chaos reigned at Emmet Park, St. George's College last evening, as more than 1,000 performers for Sunday's opening ceremony of the ICC Cricket World Cup turned out to collect their accreditation passes for the event. Members of the police force and security guards...
LOC urges motorists to make adjustments
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the ICC's CricketWorld Cup has urged motorists in the Corporate Area to adjust their schedules ahead of regular times, especially those travelling within the main routes to Sabina Park, to avoid congestion...
Reports that Trafigura money still outstanding
A fresh row over the controversial Trafigura Beheer donation to the People's National Party (PNP) has emerged following radio reports yesterday that the Dutch-based company had not received the money which the party's general secretary had reported was returned...
Lecturers' Cockpit Country appeal gets Silver Pen award
WHEN AGRICULTURE and Lands Minister, Roger Clarke, announced last November that Government would grant licences to Alcoa and Clarendon Alumina Production to start mining for bauxite in the Cockpit Country, it caused an uproar, especially among environmentalists.
Move to protect sexual history of rape complainants
Lawyers representing the accused in rape and other sexual offence cases may soon be restricted in their ability to question the sexual history of the complainant.In the draft bill amending the Offences Against the Person Act...
'Stop abuse against women'
Rheima Hall, wife of Governor-General Professor Kenneth Hall, yesterday put forward a call for the end of abuse against women. She said this was more prevalent than traffic accidents and malaria. Mrs. Hall, in her address during a ceremony to celebrate yesterday's 98th anniversary...
No leads into Norwood shootings
WESTERN BUREAU: There are still no leads into yesterday's shooting at Hendon, Norwood, in St. James, where two men were injured, one fatally, by gunmen. The killing is the second such incident in two days for that community.
Crawfords to pay fine or serve time
Former boss of the Century Financial entities Donovan Crawford and his former wife Claudine, have each been ordered to pay $1.5 million or face 30 days imprisonment for contempt of court. Justice Roy Anderson made the order in the Supreme Court yesterday...
Cricket will not disrupt churches
Churches in close proximity to Sabina Park in Kingston are not expected to experience serious dislocation during the staging of matches for Cricket World Cup 2007.The local organisers of the event and the leadership of a number of churches in the area have worked...
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