Real Madrid forging ties with Jamaica
Real Madrid, one of the world's richest and most successful football clubs, has expressed interest in forging ties with Jamaica, through the Spanish club's Social Integration Sports Academies programme.

Inland Revenue Department extends opening hours
The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) will be extending its opening hours, at 11 collectorates between March 14 and 15, to facilitate the anticipated increase in the number of persons filing their income tax returns for 2006....

NLA to improve web-based service
The National Land Agency (NLA) will be adding a number of features to its web-based service, as the agency continues to use technology to enhance the level of service that it provides to customers.

Community don cut down
Spanish Town: The Police in St. Catherine South said they have cut down one of the major players in the guns-for-drugs trade who engaged them in a shoot-out in Lloyds Pen on Saturday. An illegal weapon was recovered in the operation.

Missing grandpa found in morgue
Almost two weeks after 73-year-old Aston Hyatt was reported missing, his body was identified at a morgue by relatives. Hyatt, who was a resident at a home for the elderly, went to the Kingston Public Hospital for an appointment...

Teen guilty of ATM theft
WESTERN BUREAU: A teenager who withdrew money from her neighbour's bank account without authorisation, pleaded guilty to the charge of simple larceny in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court last Wednesday.

Doc cleared of sexual advance, on physical assault
A medical doctor who was charged with indecent assault was freed when he appeared in the Spanish Town RM Court on March 9 after it was ruled that the evidence against him was insufficient. The court was told that Dr. Paul Robinson allegedly fondled....

Gunman doused by intended victim
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay police say they have detained a man who was doused with a corrosive substance by a woman whose Rosemount home he allegedly broke on the weekend. The 19-year-old man, who is from Rose Heights, St. James...