The police argued that the fiery protest was unfortunate and needless as it was a clear case of the men being shot after they attempted to avoid arrest following calls from residents about a robbery.
FOUR JAMAICANS died violently less than 10 hours into the new year. Twenty-two-year-old Ricardo Goulbourne of Spring Village, Old Harbour, St Catherine, became the island's first murder victim for 2010.
THE REGISTRAR General's Department (RGD) is reporting a sharp increase in the number of babies being registered immediately after birth, and chief executive officer of the RGD, Dr Patricia Holness, is crediting the bedside-registration process for the increase.
HOPE SHONE brightly for a couple at 1:58 yesterday morning when Rihanna Stacey-Anna Wilson was born at the Spanish Town Hospital, filling a void that was created two years ago when they lost their seven-year-old daughter in a motor vehicle accident.
Florence Gordon-Howard is a deeply religious woman who believes that God plays a role in our daily lives. As such, the heroics of her youngest daughter, Jamaica Urban Transit Company bus driver, 32-year-old Annette Howard, in assisting injured persons at the crash site of the American Airlines (AA) Flight 331 on the Palisadoes Road on Tuesday, December 22, 2009, was God's doing.
THERE SHALL be "weeping and wailing in Jamaica" this year, according to prophetic utterances by a group of church leaders. Prophesies concerning politicians, business leaders, church leaders, investments, turf wars, healing and deliverance are also highlighted in the Prophetic Word for 2010 and Onward.
After more than eight years of giving to the firstborn child in some public hospitals, Wynlee Distributors is making plans to return to at least six of the institutions today to give away several thousand dollars worth of baby items."...
Several new tax measures take effect today as the Government dips deeper into the pockets of most Jamaicans in an effort to finance its bills. However, not all the measures will result in the Government taking more as at least two are designed to put...
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says just over 160,000 of its customers will be affected by the special general comsuption tax (GCT) rate of 10 per cent on the consumption of more than 200kWh of electricity per month...
TODAY MUCH of the world is celebrating the day that seems to be filled with endless possibilities, myths and new beginnings. Late yesterday afternoon, many Jamaicans began preparations to greet the New Year in a positive frame of mind and with much...
Firsts for D'Jaughn Brown are not unfamiliar, although he is only a year old. These include being the first baby born in the island last year at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Kingston, at 12:14 a.m., being the first child for his mother Sandrina Davis ...
A policeman who led a series of robberies against returning residents was given a 191-year prison sentence in the Gun Court yesterday. On Wednesday, 39-year-old Constable Horace Roberts was convicted on 19 of the 32 charges brought against him.
Jamaica and West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor is scheduled to appear in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate's Court on January 12 to answer assault charges stemming from an incident yesterday at a St Elizabeth bar....
