Alleged thief chopped
Western Bureau: A MAN WHO reportedly attempted to rob craft vendors at Blood Beach in Negril, Westmoreland, on Tuesday evening, was badly chopped and an illegal firearm taken from him.

Mother of fraud accused faints in court
Spanish Town: THE MOTHER OF an 18-year-old who was convicted of fraudulent conversion fainted in the Spanish Town RM Court on Tuesday after she was told that her daughter said the money she defrauded was used for paying her (the mother's) bills.

PAJ President Desmond Richards speaks on The state of journalism
WITH THIS WEEK being Press Freedom Week, President of the Press Association of Jamaica, Desmond Richards, has been chosen as our 'Newsmaker of the Week'.

UP IN SMOKE
A FIRE OF unknown origin, devoured a house at Cambridge Avenue, Franklyn Town, Kingston yesterday afternoon, leaving seven adults and eight children, including two infants, with only the clothes on their backs...

Using your maiden name after a divorce
A READER WRITES to say that she has been divorced for seven years and wishes to go back to using her maiden name but she was told that she has to get a Deed Poll Just by way of background...