MR PRESIDENT ROCKSTAR
washington (ap) Barack Obama became the 44th US president yesterday, shattering American racial barriers as the first black leader of the nation he promised to free from the grip of its profound economic troubles and steer...

Mavado fined $3,000 for swearing
spanish town: Entertainer David 'Mavado' Brooks was fined $3,000 or 10 days for using indecent language, when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court, yesterday.

Witnessses testify at Sheldon Pusey murder trial
Two witnesses have so far testified at the murder trial of 25-year-old Sheldon Pusey in the Home Circuit Court. Pusey, charged with the death of ambassador Peter King, claimed that he stabbed the 64-year-old...

Hunt on for man, woman in pushcart man's murder
The Denham Town Police have launched a manhunt for a man and the mother of a little girl for questioning in connection with the murder of a handcart pusher on Sunday.

Man freed of sexual assualt charges
spanish town: The presentation of a post-mortem report freed a labourer of sexual assault charges in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. Omar Reid of Old Harbour, St Catherine, left the court a free man...

Cops resort to sporadic raids in St James
western bureau: In an effort to curtail the spiralling crime rate in St James, police in the division yesterday conducted a series of sporadic raids and spot checks across the parish.