Porn industry mulls leaving LA over condoms
LOS ANGELES, USA (AP) — Some of the most prominent purveyors of porn say they'll start packing up their sex toys and abandoning the nation's porn capital if authorities carry through with a nascent...
View ArticleCuba to mull over same-sex unions
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Cuba's first daughter says island lawmakers will consider legalising same-sex civil unions this year.
View ArticleSevered head found below Hollywood sign
Hollywood USA (AFP) A severed human head has been found on a hiking trail leading up to the Hollywood sign, the iconic symbol photographed by millions of tourists every year, police said early Wednesday.
View ArticleMan gets life for raping and killing of 7-year-old girl
CANTON, USA (AP) — A 20-year-old maintenance man faces life in prison for beating, raping and killing a 7-year-old north Georgia girl, who disappeared from a playground at her apartment complex and was...
View ArticleReport child abuse cases to us — OCR
THE Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) has made another appeal to members of the public to immediately report suspected cases of abuse to the Registry.
View ArticleSugar production resumes at Long Pond next month
CLARKS TOWN, Trelawny — Sugar production at the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Trelawny is expected to begin within the next three weeks after a one-year hiatus and a US$10-million upgrade at the facility.
View ArticleCoordinated sect attack kills 143 in north Nigeria
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — A coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria's largest city killed at least 143 people, a hospital official said yesterday, representing the extremist group's...
View ArticleDudley Thompson's rich legacy
THE late Jamaican Cabinet minister and outstanding legal mind, Ambassador Dudley Joseph Thompson has left an indelible mark on the fields of life that he touched.
View Article6.2 quake hits off coast of southern Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — A magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas yesterday, shaking the state from the capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez to Tapachula on the...
View ArticleChanging the constitution
SINCE the prime minister stated in her inaugural address that her Government would in this, Jamaica's Jubilee Year, initiate steps to convert Jamaica from a monarchical form of government to a...
View ArticleDerby cites Manchester boost from Vernamfield
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Director General of Jamaica's Civil Aviation Authority Lt Col Oscar Derby has said that the long-standing dream by Mandeville residents for an international airport in this...
View ArticleBuchanan touts St Andrew coffee revival
NEW Member of Parliament for West Rural St Andrew Paul Buchanan is asserting that the revival of the local coffee industry would breathe new life into several of the farming communities in the...
View ArticleBritain OKs television ads for abortion clinics
LONDON, England (AP) — Britain's broadcast advertising body has given the go-ahead for private abortion clinics to advertise their services on television, angering those who say that the move...
View ArticleTeen ends globe-circling voyage in St Maarten
PHILIPSBURG, St Maarten (AP) — A teenager from the Netherlands has ended a yearlong solo journey around the globe aboard a ketch named Guppy.
View ArticleDivers find woman’s body in ship in Italy
ROME, Italy (AP) -- Italian Coast Guard divers have found a woman's body in a corridor of a submerged section of the capsized Costa Concordia, raising to at least 12 the number of dead in the cruise...
View ArticleCabinet duties prove costly for some MPs
THE age-old belief that members of Parliament who also hold ministerial portfolios often put their future at risk by juggling both roles, came into sharp focus again during the December 29 general...
View ArticleBunting's all for a more efficient forensic lab
NATIONAL security minister Peter Bunting has said that he is actively exploring measures to make operations at the Government Forensic Science Laboratory in St Andrew more efficient.
View ArticleGoing republic: What it will take
PROTOCOL expert Merrick Needham's revelation of the scale of the changes necessary for Jamaica's intended move to a republican system of Government has fuelled vigorous debate among Observer readers.
View ArticleGood samaritan Rory Daley laid to rest
RORY Daley, the bus operator who was ruthlessly slaughtered by gunmen on Highway 2000 in December, was remembered last Sunday in an emotional thanksgiving service at the St Andrew Parish Church in Half...
View Article'Tuta Roy' Thompson remembered for his cheerfulness and love for sports
ROY Thompson was remembered by friends and loved ones as an avid sportsman with a jovial personality during the service of thanksgiving for his life at the Phillippo Baptist Church in Spanish Town, St...
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