5-LEGGED INSECT IN MACKEREL MEAL
Sandreisha Milky* says she found more than just mackerel in the meal she was preparing for her children recently. In addition to the fish, she found a tiny organism with about five small legs, which is now being examined by the company...
Crocodile attack - Fisherman bitten by reptile
WESTERN BUREAU: Howard Vassell's recent experience makes him mad at crocodiles. He cannot understand why they are protected animals. The fisherman from Black River, St Elizabeth, was attacked and bitten by a crocodile on Monday... ...
Large cocaine bust at Kingston Wharves
About $4.4 billion (US$52 million) worth of cocaine was discovered on a ship at the Kingston Wharves on Tuesday. Five foreign nationals were taken into custody in connection with the seizure.
Three killed in separate incidents
WESTERN BUREAU: Three men have been murdered in separate incidents in St James since the start of the week. Dead are Wayne Alexander Melbourne, 34, of Lilliput, St James, and Hatfield in Westmoreland...
Rapist gets 25 years
A man who held a teenager at knifepoint and abducted and raped her was sentenced to a total of 25 years at hard labour in the St Catherine Circuit Court yesterday.
Burger King employees arrested for fraud
Two female employees of Burger King were arrested and charged with nine counts of obtaining credit by fraud, after they reportedly used a customer's credit card to obtain food and clothing amounting to $40,000 in value.
Four suicides in less than five days
In less than five days there have been four cases of suicide in the parish of St Elizabeth. On Tuesday morning the body of John Peart, 41, unemployed of Breadnut Walk, near Ipswich in the parish, was found hanging from a tree...
Wanted man killed
ONE OF JAMAICA's most wanted, Bobby Myers, also called 'Friend Friend', met his end during an intense gun battle with the police yesterday morning at Tewari Crescent, Rose Town, Kingston 12.
Man gets three months at hard labour for ganja charge
Cassius Atkinson, a man accused of attempting to smuggle ganja out of the island was sentenced to three months in jail at hard labour when he appeared in the corporate Area resident Magistrate's Court ...
Teen forced to perform oral sex on teacher?
A 27-year-old teacher, who was charged with carnal abuse after it was alleged that he had sex with his 14-year-old neighbour and forced her to perform oral sex on him, was granted $50,000 bail in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
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