LOTTERY WINNERS LOSE $120 MILLION
Gamblers who particpate in the local lottery games have lost out on $120 million which they won in prize money, but failed to collect. The money, mostly Lotto and Cash Pot winnings, was not claimed and was 'sitting idly' in the coffers...
TVJ launches Schools' Challenge's 38th season
The 38th season of Television Jamaica's Schools' Challenge Quiz was launched at its studios at Lyndhurst Road, St. Andrew, yesterday. The season, which will see 71 schools squaring off against each other in several rounds of competition...
Fishermen remanded
Black River: Four fishermen charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition appeared in the Black River Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday and were remanded until January 17.
Salt Marsh residents not pleased with new drain
Trelawny: While many have seen the building of many drains in the general Salt Marsh area of Trelawny as a good thing, the move is not going down too well with residents. The residents say the main drain at the junction of the Salt Marsh main road...
Brit to spend three months behind bars for ganja
WESTERN BUREAU: A Briton who tried to leave the country with ganja disguised in scented candles and coffee, will spend the first three months of the new year behind Jamaican prison bars.
Man pleads guilty to assaulting common-law wife
A man charged with assaulting and raping his common-law wife pleaded guilty to the assault, but told the court recently that the sex was consensual. Lance Campbell, a 31-year-old unemployed resident of Bull Bay, St. Andrew...
Six killed per day
More than six persons are being killed per day since the start of this year. Police statistics since the start of 2007 have revealed that there have been 26 murders in just four days. The reported murders yesterday came from the troubled parish...
Man wanted for murder captured
Black River: A man who was wanted for murder by the Santa Cruz police, and who has been on the run since April 11, 2005, was captured by police in the Corporate Area and handed over to their St. Elizabeth counterparts.
Three Haitians deported
WESTERN BUREAU: Just four days after two illegal immigrants from Haiti were given deportation orders in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court, another Haitian met the same fate. Engineer, Juis Rafael, 30, was ordered deported after pleading guilty..
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