Miss Lou's True colours
Louise Bennett-Coverley was a colourful woman in life and her thanksgiving service was just as colourful. The ceremony was blessed by showers of rains and sounds of lightning and thunder, but nothing, it seem, could stop the show...
Showery, funny 'fair-well'
The sweltering heat and subsequent showers did not prevent those who came to pay their final respects to the Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley from doing just that. Although many chose expressive and unconventional methods of showing their solidarity...
Vendors struck it big
Enterprising Jamaicans did not miss out on the opportunity to capitalise on the promising market that was at Miss Lou's funeral. Vendors peddling wares ranging from ice cream to Jamaican flags, were out in their numbers...
Bird house
Leebert Todd was shocked when he found a hummingbird's nest in a bamboo plant in his living room. He was even more shocked when he found eggs in the nest and later saw the bird teaching its chicks how to fly in his kitchen and living room.
Anthony Cruz's van recovered
The police have recovered the stolen 1998 Rav 4 motor vehicle of singer Anthony Cruz. The vehicle which was stolen from his home in the Red Hills area last Thursday was reportedly recovered by the police.
Bubbler boils - Charged with assault and larceny
western bureau: Popular dancehall personality Georgia 'Bubbler' Grey did not appear too pleased when she was brought before the Montego Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. She was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and larceny...
Bull Bay's most wanted killed
The Bull Bay police killed the most wanted criminal in their division in a dramatic shoot-out on Tuesday. Robert 'Bobby' Main, the leader of one of the area's most notorious gangs was shot and killed by police.
Life got a $1/4million harder
western bureau: A deportee who was held at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James, for attempting to leave the island utilising a forged document was fined $250,000 when he appeared in court. Andrew Williams, 25, of a Mandeville...
Mourners decry 'elitist, protective action'
What the police and officials may defend as protective action came across as elitist and prejudicial behaviour to many of the mourners who turned out for the funeral service of the Honourable Louise Bennett-Coverley.
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