Lara walks
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Reuters): West Indies captain Brian Lara announced his retirement from international cricket yesterday ending a record-breaking career as a batsman.Lara said his last match for West Indies would be tomorrow's World Cup match against England at the Kensington Oval....
Saved by the A-G! - No banning of 'sweet nothings'
Attorney-General A.J. Nicholson was moved yesterday to declare that his Joint Select Committee had no intention of outlawing 'lovemaking' in Jamaica; perhaps leaving thousands of amorous men breathing a huge sigh of relief! The practice of whispering "sweet nothings"...
Portmore hospital to break ground July
Construction of a $2.7 billion (US$40 million) private hospital in Portmore, home to more than 300,000 Jamaicans, is projected to begin in July this year. CayJam Developments Limited, a property development company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, will conclude...
Jamaican slays mother, others before turning gun on self
NEW YORK, (CMC): A suicidal Jamaican man on Wednesday, killed his Jamaican mother, her Jamaican wheelchair-bound boyfriend and a home health aide before fatally shooting himself in a bloody rampage in a family home in the Cambri section of Queens, the police said....
Brothers charged with killing cop remanded
The two brothers charged with the murder of a policeman were remanded when they appeared in the May Pen Resident Magistrate's Court, yesterday, despite their lawyer's claim that he was "supremely confident" they would be freed. Attorney-at-law Ernest Smith made this pronouncements...
MP worried about non-custodial sentencing for some sex offenders
Sharon Hay-Webster, Member of Parliament for South Central St.Catherine, yesterday expressed grave concern about the discretion given to judges to order non-custodial sentences for some sex offenders. Hay-Webster, speaking at yesterday's meeting of the Joint Select Committee of Parliament...
Computers stolen from Supreme Court
Policemen from the Kingston Central Division are now investigating the theft of three new computers from the Supreme Court building, downtown Kingston.The computers were discovered missing yesterday from the strongroom on the ground floor of the building ...
Double murder on University Road
The St. Andrew Central Homicide unit is now probing a double murder on University Road, just a few metres outside the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, yesterday morning. The dead men were discovered by passers-by about 6:30 yesterday morning...
Woolmer coroner's inquest postponed
The Coroner's inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, due to begin on Monday, has been postponed amid security concerns due in part to a clash with the Cricket World Cup 2007 semi-final being held at Sabina Park on Tuesday....
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