Derrick the duppy
Now I was warned long before I ever showed up there, that there was a duppy on the loose in Panton Town, St. Catherine. And one cantankerous duppy he is indeed! Derrick the duppy showed up about a week ago and has been going around picking fights with residents...
I will defeat my JLP opponent, says Maxine
Member of Parliament for south east St. Andrew, Maxine Henry-Wilson, has declared she will defeat Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker, Joan Gordon-Webley, by more than 1,000 votes in the upcoming general elections to be held by year-end.
Thieves plague Fairfield Theatre
WESTERN BUREAU: Petty thieves continue to plague the Fairfield Theatre in Montego Bay, St. James, raping the facility of valuable items and wracking up thousands of dollars in repair and replacement costs. Last week, the theatre was broken into for the third time...
Businessman pleads guilty to fraud charges
Spanish Town, St. Catherine: A man the police claim to be a "senior fraudist" was remanded in custody after pleading guilty to fraud-related charges in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. Paul Pinnock, a 48-year-old businessman of De La Vega City...
The best of Leandro
Urban Leandro had a funny way of seeing Jamaica. When he showed you his way of looking at it you had to think it was funny too. Today, we continue our tribute to the Gleaner cartoonist who would have turned 90 on Monday...
AIDS support group rebukes detention of sex workers by police
The Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) says it is deeply concerned about the apprehension and arrest of 19 sex workers, two of whom are male, in New Kingston on the weekend by the police. "This is, sadly, another activity by the police which once again shows...
JDF officers go to UK
Officers from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) met with their British military counterparts in the United Kingdom (U.K.) last week to discuss plans to have a JDF contingent come to the U.K. in July and August 2007 to assist the army in its public duties...
The fairest camel of them all
Religiously strict Saudi Arabia can't have traditional Western-style beauty contests, but there was a pageant in April in remote Guwei'iya, about 75 miles from Riyadh: a beauty contest for camels.
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