Where is Natasha Love?
NATASHA LOVE'S FATHER is worried beyond consolation. Family members say he can hardly speak. His 16-year-old daughter, whom he has raised since she was three months old, has been missing since Friday. Love, otherwise called 'Poochie'...

Rev pleads guilty to indecent assault
REVEREND ORANE ELLIS, the pastor who is charged with eight counts of indecent assault, and two counts of carnal abuse, stemming from allegations that he molested a 14-year-old girl will be sentenced on April 28, after he pleaded guilty to one count...

National Water Commission (NWC) to fix faulty sewage systems
RAW SEWAGE FLOWING on the streets is not uncommon in some communities in the Corporate Area but the National Water Commission (NWC) says it intends to correct the systems with the problems soon. Charles Buchanan, director of public relations at the NWC...

Taximan jailed for larceny
SPANISH TOWN: A TAXI OPERATOR from Portmore, St. Catherine, was sentenced to 12 months at hard labour when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court on April 10 on charges of storehouse breaking and larceny.

Bun festival swells
THOUGH THE BUN and Cheese Festival grew out of the National Children's Gospel Song Festival, it seems to be coming into its own. The festival seemed to have received an adequate helping of yeast as it had its largest turnout...

Mother gets suspended sentence for assault
spanish town: A THIRTY FIVE-YEAR-old mother of Old Harbour, St. Catherine, was given a suspended sentence after she pleaded to assault occasioning grievous bodily harm after she burnt her 12-year-old son's hand in a pot of hot water.

Cops charge dead woman's hubby
SPANISH TOWN: THE SPANISH TOWN Police have charged the husband of 37-year-old Velma Duhaney, whose headless corpse was found in bushes along the Sligoville main road, St. Catherine on March 19, at about 2:00 p.m.

More carnal abuse cases reported in 2005
THE PRACTICE OF men dating under age girls is not new in Jamaica and statistics from the police indicate that over 1,000 men have been prosecuted for the offence between 2003 and 2005. The practice which is legally known as carnal abuse....