Crazy gunfight
It was like a heart-stopping scene from an action movie when rival gunmen travelling in motor cars traded bullets in Clarendon yesterday. Reports from the police are that they intercepted the two vehicles along the Hayes main road after receiving reports ...
Opposition MP backs DNA technology to curb farm theft
AN OPPOSITION member of parliament on Tuesday advised his colleagues not to laugh at the idea of using DNA technology as part of an effort to fight farm theft.Noel Arscott, the parliamentary representative for South West Clarendon, was following up on a tame jab...
Divestment by month end?
Jamaica should know by year end whether the Government has been successful in divesting its sugar burden. "Based on the discussions with the entities we are talking to, we expect to have feedback, one way or the other, positive or negative, by the end of the year," Agriculture Minister ...
Samuels vows to return in 'stronger frame of mind'
KINGSTON (CMC): Marlon Samuels is eyeing a return to West Indies colours once he finishes a two-year ban for links to an Indian bookie.Samuels was found guilty of sharing team information with Mukesh Kochar prior to a one-day international against India...
EDITORIAL - Is Jamaica going rogue?
It may now have come from a new source with a potentially louder voice, but the warning that the Jamaican state is in danger of being captured by special interests with malintent is not new. Several years ago, Edward Seaga, the then leader of the Jamaica Labour Party...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Only resident Jamaicans can decide country's future
The Editor, Sir: I am advising those Jamaicans in the diaspora who are endangering their health worrying about the crime levels, corruption and injustice in Jamaica: There is not much you can do to influence the tide of events at home from outside the country's borders....
Off Tha Wall was a blast
WESTERN BUREAU: As the half moon shone from the partially cloudy sky over the scenic Pier One complex in Montego Bay, last Saturday night, musical ecstasy ruled supreme as the bi-annual 'Off Tha Wall' retro party unfolded in a blaze of absolute glory....
Say cheesecake, please!
Stacie-Ann Campbell's love for baking began as a young girl and now it has flowered into a career of a home-based cheesecake business called Pebbles Pastries. As a child, Campbell loved to help her mother in the kitchen....