Party-hearty fans swarm Sabina Park
When you leave your home to go see a match at Sabina Park, you look forward to two things: a good game of cricket and an all-day party. The thousands of cricket fans who showed up at the venue yesterday to see the opening match of the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup....
Living in squalor - Eighty-six-year-old struggles to survive
Well, this is the everyday reality of 86-year-old Ivan Williams of Martinique district, Bybrook, Portland.He recently told a Gleaner news team about his situation.The octogenarian was standing at his gate in obvious distress, wearing a dirty cap...
Jamaicans to be honoured in southern Florida
Eighteen Jamaican nationals in south Florida are to be honoured for community service and development of that diaspora, at the first annual Community Service Awards ceremony of the Jamaican Consulate General in Miami. Governor-General Professor Kenneth...
Court frees three accused of beating prisoner to death
Three prisoners who were accused of beating to death a prisoner of unsound mind in the lock-up at the Half-Way Tree Police Station six years ago have been freed. A Home Circuit Court jury retired Monday and found Wayne Stewart, also called 'Peas Head'...
Waterfront fireworks cancelled
The much-anticipated fireworks on the waterfront to welcome visitors to the island during the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) has been cancelled because of insufficient funds, according to Francis Kennedy, chairman of the Fireworks Organising Committee....
Witness no-shows stall Welsh trial
The murder trial of Milton 'Tony' Welsh, 58, of Brandon Hill, St. Andrew, had to be put off yesterday because some of the witnesses were absent. He has been remanded to return to the Home Circuit Court on July 2 when his trial will begin.
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