Constable arrested for accepting money
clarendon: A POLICE CONSTABLE from the May Pen Traffic Department was arrested on Monday after he was accused of taking money from a taxi driver who had committed a traffic offence.

Woman killed by lightning
CLARENDON: THE DEATH OF Mrs. Cenolin Williams, 43, a housewife of McNie district, Clarendon, and the injury of three teenage boys in the same incident, has left residents of the community saddened.

Fake cop faces prison
ROHAN CUNNINGHAM, THE man who successfully impersonated a policeman and cleared several criminal records of some persons at the records office, was fined $40,000 or six months at hard labour when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's...

Man pleads guilty to absconding bail
A MAN WHO skipped bail and went to the Bahamas for almost a year before being deported, was on Wednesday sentenced to 18 months hard labour after pleading guilty in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

Men plead guilty to drug trafficking
WESTERN BUREAU: TWO MEN, CHARLES Jest, 27, of Clarendon and Egberto Pantophlet, 29, of the Netherlands, who were trying to leave Jamaica for Curacao with ganja in their stomach and stashed in their crotch, pleaded guilty...

Travel agent on fraud rap suffers stroke
clarendon: A TRAVEL AGENT arrested for fraudulent conversion is under police guard at the May Pen Hospital after she reportedly suffered a stroke after learning of her customers' intention...

No 'Comfort' in back-to-school
WHILE SOME SCHOOLS are prepared for the new school year, other children will be returning to their schools in the rural and inner-city areas as they left them - dilapidated.