Street Scenes - March 9
1. FROM SIDE TO SIDE: These sidemen take their titles literally, riding on the side of this truck seen driving on Red Hills Road in St Andrew. (Photos: Lionel Rookwood)
View ArticleWeb star born: Kony video gets millions of views
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — If Joseph Kony lived in relative anonymity before this week, he's an Internet star now.
View ArticlePriest on carnal abuse charge granted bail
FALMOUTH, Trelawny — An Anglican priest who has been charged by the Trelawny police with two counts of carnal abuse was yesterday morning granted bail when he appeared in the Falmouth Resident...
View ArticleSeveral people injured in US clinic shooting
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) — Gunfire at a psychiatric clinic at the University of Pittsburgh injured several people yesterday afternoon, and police were looking for a gunman.
View ArticleInterfaith leaders speaking out on NYPD tactics
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (AP) — Some high-ranking religious leaders joined with New Jersey Muslims yesterday in demanding reassurance from state authorities that no one is being spied on because of...
View ArticleConcerns over use of SLB's loan insurance funds
MEMBER of Parliament for North West St Elizabeth Raymond Pryce has raised concern over the borrowing of some $500 million from the loan insurance funds paid by students to the Students' Loan Bureau...
View ArticlePolice raid West Kingston again
THE police yesterday detained 58 people, most of them men, during an operation in sections of West Kingston, in what the constabulary said was part of an ongoing initiative to clamp down on criminals...
View ArticleWorld powers stress diplomacy in Iran stand-off
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Three days of protracted negotiations held under the specter of war highlighted the diplomatic difficulties ahead for nations intent on ensuring that Iran is not developing...
View ArticleColombia finds bodies of 4 miners following accident
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An accident at a small coal mine in Colombia has killed at least four miners and five others are still missing.
View ArticleCB Group takes lead in local food safety movement
THE CB Group says that its historic achievement of certification in three internationally recognised and accepted food safety standards has given it lead status in the safe food movement in the local...
View ArticleExpelled! - JLP kicking out three members
MONTEGO BAY, St James — The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday said it was expelling three of its members who breached the party’s constitution by putting themselves forward to contest the...
View ArticleDigicel Foundation donates computers to ASTEP centres
SIX Alternative Secondary Transition Education Programme (ASTEP) centres yesterday received well-needed computers through assistance from the Digicel Foundation.
View ArticleIsaac Kelly burnt by a double dose of bad luck
ISAAC Kelly was on Monday forced to watch his belongings go up in smoke, the second time in less than three months after a fire razed his one-bedroom board house in Browns Town, along Elletson Road in...
View ArticleFear leaves Yallahs murders shrouded in mystery
THE bustling Eastern St Thomas town of Yallahs has seen an inordinate number of murders in recent years, which have kept the people there on edge, fearing for their lives if they dare give information...
View ArticleNo perfect campaign financing law exists, warns ECJ
THE Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has forged ahead with a raft of recommendations for Parliament on political campaign finance legislation despite its own declaration that no such law exists...
View ArticleNobody should live like this!
TO the naked eyes, the structure sitting atop a hill overlooking the small farming community of Stepney in St Ann could easily pass as a derelict building, likely to crumble any minute. But for...
View ArticleYoungest local govt candidate confident of victory today
NOT only is 20-year-old Andre Stephens the youngest candidate contesting a seat on the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP's) ticket in today's local Government Elections, but this University of the West...
View ArticleObama to begin summit on nuclear threat today
SEOUL, South Korea — US President Barack Obama and dozens of other world leaders will begin a summit today on curbing the threat of nuclear terrorism, but North Korea's atomic plans will be in focus on...
View ArticleUNIA, Food for the Poor open half way house for young men
A temporary home for young men fresh out of state-run juvenile institutions has opened at 8 Federal Road in Grants Pen, St Andrew.
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