A mother's grief - Woman mourns sexual assault and murder of 11-year-old son
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland: Overwhelmed with grief, Ketura Bennett yesterday recalled the good times she shared with her son, Christopher Suckra, whose body was found hours earlier in cane fields at Blue Castles, near Georges Plain, in Westmoreland...
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- Hanover ahead in land tax compliance
- Four children fatherless after Green Pond killings
Digicel gets wireless subscriber TV licence
Digicel and two other companies are getting ready to soak up a portion of the subscriber television market, after receiving an islandwide wireless subscriber television licence from the Broadcasting Commission this week. The licence, which was announced...
- Court frees former cop
- Electrician gets life sentence for double murder
- Funeral for Byron Balfour today
Changing of the guard at Broilers - Williams, Levy to step down in February
Raby Danvers 'Danny' Williams is expected to give up his chairmanship of the Jamaica Broilers Group early next year, but the five-decade-old poultry company is making plans to link his name to the business through a lifelong directorship....
- Incomplete! - Falmouth port deal not fully financed
- Carlton Savannah REIT seeks new identity
- Stock market investors trade $99m
Jamaica lose opener
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):A NEAR run-a-ball half-century from Tamar Lambert carried holders Jamaica close, but Barbados kept their composure and completed a 21-run victory in the WICB Cup one-day competition yesterday. The Jamaica captain hit 76 from 82...
EDITORIAL - Time to end the victimisation of women
Maybe we ought not to be surprised that a parliamentary committee is still dithering over the proposals for a new abortion law.For what, fundamentally, is at play here, is the fear by politicians of the tyranny of the religious fundamentalists...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Death penalty politics and the conscience vote
The Editor, Sir: With the rising levels of crime, there are new calls for the death penalty. Last year, then Attorney General, A. J. Nicholson, was accused and criticised by then Shadow Minister on National Security Derrick Smith as being a coward...
Pulse's model search down to dazzling dozen
As the world celebrated the election of the first black United States president last week, the contestants in Pulse's reality TV series, Caribbean Model Search (CMS) got caught up in their own electoral fever. In a drama filled episode, Raquel Smith...
Out and about
Last week was special for graduates of the University of the West Indies, Mona. When the caps and gowns came off, principal Gordon Shirley hosted guests at cocktails at the Mona Visitors' Lodge on Saturday evening.
US vice-presidents get together
WASHINGTON (AP): The high-profile White House meeting this week between outgoing and incoming United States (US) presidents is being followed Thursday night by a much lower-key get-together hosted by Vice-President Dick Cheney for his successor...