Mrs Woolmer praises Jamaican cops' efforts
Wife of former Pakistani Cricket Coach, Gill Woolmer, has expressed satisfaction at how the Jamaican police are handling the investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of her husband, Bob Woolmer...

Tyre workers get bail for fraud
western bureau: Three former employees of Tyre Warehouse, who are accused of defrauding the company of $2.8 million were granted bail in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday. The three, branch manager Dwayne Patterson...

Car crash at school
st. elizabeth: Three students of the Santa Cruz Primary and Junior High School in St. Elizabeth were hospitalised following a motor vehicle accident on the school compound this morning. The students, two boys and a girl, were hit by a motor car...

Dr Arnoldo Ventura back from Lesotho
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Science and Technology, Dr. Arnoldo Ventura, has returned from Lesotho, where he is providing technical assistance to that country with the implementation of its...

Cops probe double murder
Two men, including a conductor employed to the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), were shot dead in St. Catherine on Sunday night. The St. Catherine South Division is currently investigating the death of a man who was killed on Collins Avenue....

Thieves plague Vineyard Town
Residents from the normally quiet community of Vineyard Town, east Kingston, are now living in fear after several recent robbery incidents. In the last two weeks, residents claim, that for some reason or another, they have been at the mercy....

32 killed in Virginia Tech shooting
blacksburg, virginia (ap)A gunman massacred at least 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, cutting down his victims in two attacks two hours and a half-mile (0.8 kilometres) apart before the university...

Farmer gets 60 days for cocaine
western bureau: A Trelawny farmer who tried to smuggle cocaine to assist with his mother's cancer treatment, will have to spend 60 days in prison. Thirty-year-old Kevin Chambers of Wire Fence in the parish was given the sentence after he pleaded guilty...