August Town cleans image
THE RESIDENTS OF August Town, St. Andrew, are trying to develop their community in an effort to rid the stigma attached to the area. With this in mind, the August Town Sports and Community Development Foundation ...

Guyanese woman on ganja charge
A GUYANESE WOMAN will spend two years in prison for attempting to leave the island with approximately five kilogrammes (11 lbs) of ganja. The accused, Neisha Macey, 27, pleaded guilty to possession, dealing and taking steps to export ganja...

Buju appeals for fans to stay away during his trial
BUJU BANTON IS appealing to his supporters to stay away from the court whenever he is appearing for his current trial. A release from Penthouse Music Distributors, the company to which Banton is signed, was sent to THE STAR yesterday...

May Pen vendors protest
clarendon: VENDORS IN THE May Pen market have expressed anger at what they describe as negligence by the Clarendon Parish Council to clear gargbage which has piled up at the facility, resulting in an overbearing stench...

Man pleads not guilty to larceny
western bureau: WAYNE ENNIS, 31, from Greenpond, St. James, who allegedly tried to steal money from a senior citizen, pleaded not guilty to a charge of larceny when he appeared before Resident Magistrate Winsome Henry in the Montego Bay RM Court...

Fraud accused sentenced to 18 months
spanish town : NOEL BAXTER OF Spanish Town, St. Catherine, who was charged with 20 counts of fraudulent conversion of monies totalling over $500,000 was sentenced to 18 months hard labour in the Spanish Town RM Court on Tuesday.

Students destroy MoBay school buses
western bureau : THE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Montego Bay Metro school bus company that serves at least seven routes in western Jamaica, has been hit hard by a serious problem of wanton vandalism of its buses by the very same students they transport.

Deportee pleads guilty to forgery
A DEPORTEE WHO attempted to travel to Antigua using a fraudulent Jamaican passport, was given a suspended sentence when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

Man accused of fraud gets bail
spanish town: A MAN WHO was caught at a church meditating after being accused of swindling a woman of £10,000, was granted bail in the sum of $300,000 for fraudulent conversion.

Woman on forgery rap granted bail
spanish town: A 40-YEAR-OLD woman accused of forging another woman's signature and collecting more than $28,000 at the Spanish Town Post Office, was granted bail in the Spanish Town RM Court on Tuesday.

Gov't blamed in man's drowning
st. thomas: ST. THOMAS HAS experienced another unfortunate fatality and the blame is being placed on the Government. On Wednesday, 55-year-old Lascelles Rhone, a businessman from the parish...