FARMERS HUNT 4-HAND BEAST - Vow to capture, kill phantom creature
Residents of the Clark's Town community, on the outskirts of Mandeville, Manchester, have joined forces to identify, capture or kill a phantom creature which has been destroying their banana plants at nights.
More for JUTC Premium and Express services
Commuters who use the Jamaica Urban Transit Company's (JUTC) Premium and Express services will be required to pay more as of next Wednesday, April 1. In a JIS release, corporate communications manager at JUTC, Reginald Allen...
Danville targets 'underinvoicers'
Commissioner of Customs, Danville Walker, has said that the department will be going after persons who engage in the underinvoicing of goods, robbing the country of revenue to provide essential services and fund development projects...
Farmer gets life for killing wife
Donovan Bailey, 33, a farmer of Cambridge district in St Elizabeth, who was found guilty of the murder of his wife, Dahlia Clarke-Bailey, was sentenced to life imprisonment and will not be eligible for parole until after 20 years.
Baby drowns in bucket - Year-old boy found dead at home
The Bethel Town police in Westmoreland are now investigating the circumstances under which a 15-month-old boy drowned at his home on Saturday. Dead is Rasheen Baker of Ginger Peas district in Bethel Town.
Health inspector dies from injuries
A 28-year-old health inspector of Carlston Close, Cumberland, St Catherine, died from injuries he sustained when his car crashed on the Nelson Mandela Highway yesterday.
NSWMA targets New Kingston businesses
Head of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Joan Gordon-Webley, says that businesses in New Kingston which flout the NSWMA Act will feel the full force of the law....
DCS to expand its Inmates Work Programme
The Department of Correctional Services(DCS) is moving to expand the types of services it offers, under its Inmates Work Programme, to include the skills of both men and women. At a function held Friday recognising the inmates...
Alleged gunman shot dead
A man who pointed a gun at a team of policemen at Whitney Turn district, Porus, Manchester last night was fatally wounded and the firearm taken from him. The dead man, who is unidentified, is in his late 20s...
Contractor killing was reprisal
Operations Officer for the St Catherine South Division, Deputy Superintendent Clive Blair, said the killing of a contractor in Central Village is an act of reprisal.
Two men murdered in Delacree Park
Two men were murdered during what police theorise to be separate but related incidents about two hours apart, in the Delacree Park housing scheme, in Kingston 11 on Thursday night.
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