Unsanitary Linstead market threatened with closure
Lluidas Vale: VENDORS AT THE Linstead market in St. Catherine, say they have nothing to worry about despite that for the second time in six months the Public Health Department of the Ministry of Health has threatened to close the market...

Fire leaves four homeless
SPANISH TOWN: FIRE OF UNKNOWN origin destroyed a two-apartment board house along the Spanish Town bypass yesterday, leaving five persons, including four children, homeless. Reports are about 8:30 a.m. residents of McKoy Lane...

Thieves target toy dogs
FOR THE LAST three months increased reports of 'dog-napping' - stealing dogs - have reached alarming levels says Dr. Paul Turner, senior veterinarian at the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA).

Community service for breaking glass
RENFORD 'RUM ROY' Perry, son of reggae artiste Lee 'Scratch' Perry was sentenced to one day community service for breaking a pane of glass at the Hilton hotel while stoning a security officer there.

Man sentenced for drug trafficking
WESTERN BUREAU: CEDRIC FRANKLIN, 37, WHO tried to leave Jamaica with two pounds of cocaine in his groin, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $225,000 when he appeared before the Montego Bay Resident Magis-trate's Court yesterday.

Entertainer remanded for assaulting DJ
A PERFORMER HAD three of his fingers partially severed after a fellow artiste allegedly chopped him with a machete during an altercation. Rohan Watson, 34, otherwise known as 'Rupee'...

Who owns the coke?
WINSTON DENTON LEARNT the hard way that he could not run from the law when he tried to pass off the blame for his cocaine on his friend. In the end he seemed to have learned that honesty was the best policy.

Footballers fined for weapons possession
WESTERN BUREAU: A FORMER NATIONAL footballer was among three men who pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon and were each fined $3,000 in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Thief sentenced to hard labour
A THIEF WHO violently robbed a woman of a cellular phone in Half-Way Tree, St. Andrew, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment at hard labour recently. George Peryer, a 49-year-old labourer of D'Aguilar Road, Kingston 11, pleaded guilty to robbery...