PMI tours war-torn community
THE PEACE MANAGEMENT Initiative (PMI), members of the police force and political representatives yesterday toured the warring Jacques Road community off Mountain View Avenue. The PMI was in the area following three days of violence...

Murder rate on the increase in St Elizabeth
BLACK RIVER: THE CRIMINAL Investigation Branch (CIB) at the Black River Police Station is reporting that 31 murders have occurred in St. Elizabeth between January and yesterday.

Hike in taxi fares a burden to Govt workers
GOVERNMENT WORKERS in rural Jamaica are finding it difficult to pay the increase in taxi fares which were recently announced by the Ministry of Transport. In August, Transport Minister Robert Pickersgill announced an increase in bus fares.

Mother still waits for son to come home
MARJORIE LEWIS refuses to give up hope that her son will return home one day although he has been missing for five years. Lewis' son Richard Smith, left home on August 25, 2000.

We are not hustling the dead - suitcase undertaker
AT LEAST ONE 'suitcase undertaker' has denied that he and his colleagues are hustling the dead. The operator was responding to a story published in THE STAR about suitcase undertakers who wait at morgues to solicit business from families of dead...

Teen girl shot, another assaulted in Trench Town
A 13-YEAR-OLD Charlie Smith High School student who got trapped in a crossfire between rival gunmen in Trench Town, Kingston, yesterday, is now nursing a gunshot wound. While this was happening, another teenage girl was sexually assaulted...

Jamaican fined for forged passport
HAMILTON, BERMUDA, CMC: A JAMAICAN WHO pleaded guilty to trying to use a forged American passport and birth certificate to leave Bermuda has been fined US$1,200 there.

Accused thief remanded in custody
IN ADDITION TO receiving a fine thrashing from a mob after he was allegedly caught breaking into a shop, Andrew Stewart was also remanded in custody when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Man freed of rape charge
A COOKING GAS dealer from Greenwich Town, Kingston 12, who was accused of raping a 16-year-old girl, has been freed. The jury retired for 15 minutes last week before freeing Lenroy Douglas, 35, of the rape charge.

Convicted teacher, charged with bigamy
SPANISH TOWN: CONVICTED SCHOOL teacher Rohan Johnson will return to the Spanish Town Resident Magi-strate's Court on October 14 to answer to bigamy charges.

Travel consultant on fraud charge
When Andrew Sharpe returns to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's court on October 6, he will have to prove he did not obtain money by false pretence. Sharpe, a travel consultant, pleaded not guilty to obtaining money by false pretence...

Man jailed for drug trafficking
A MAN WHO tried to export 0.9 kgs (2 lb) of cocaine to the United States will spend four years in prison for his trouble. The accused man, Andre Kenroy Osbourne from St. Catherine, pleaded guilty to possession of, dealing in and taking steps to export...

JCF helps with back-to-school expenses
FIFTEEN STUDENTS FROM troubled communities across the island have benefited from $150,000 in scholarships from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), to assist with their back-to-school expenses.

Have you seen Mavis Schroeder?
MAVIS SCHROEDER, 75, has been missing for over a week and her family doesn't know where to start looking. According to her grandniece, Kezzian Simms, she left her house in Standpipe, Liguanea, St. Andrew, after she received a phone call.