Samantha Hastings, a 15-year-old student of the Grange Hill High School in Westmore-land died in an accident along the Three Miles River main road in the parish last evening. At least 16 other students were injured in the accident...

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WESTERN BUREAU: Forty-five-year-old Clifford Guy, who was charged with wounding with intent after he allegedly chopped a co-worker over money, was denied bail when he appeared before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court....

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Doctors and a professor from the University of the West Indies have identified the creature taken recently from the eye of a St Andrew woman as a sheep nasal bot fly (scientific name, Oestrus ovis).

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When a child is not doing well in school, often the punishment is withholding things from them until their grades improve. However, if the allegations are true, that was not the case for a 10-year-old boy...

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WESTERN BUREAU: A no order was made in the case against a man who allegedly broke into a woman's room at a hotel. The order was made because the complainant left the island without giving any indication of her return...

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Popular dance figure Wayne 'Colo Colo' Stewart yesterday appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court facing ganja charges. Allegations against the accused dancer are that earlier this week....

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The Child Development Agency (CDA) has taken the 10-month-old child that was thrown over a gate by its mother in its custody, while the mother has been remanded for psychiatric evaluation...

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A 57-year-old man was shot and killed by unknown assailant(s) at his home at Raymond district, Hayes, Clarendon, on Wednesday.

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A bus driver who was being sought following the death of a seven-year-old boy last week turned himself over to the police yesterday. Winston Taylor from Portmore, St Catherine, walked into the Central Village...

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A policeman who reappeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court on a charge of corruption on Tuesday was remanded by the court. He is Constable Anthony Davey of the Waterford Police Station in St Catherine....

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The St Elizabeth police on Wednesday arrested four persons suspected to be part of a lottery scam operating in the parish. The four, including a woman, were reportedly held during a raid on a premises in Cabbage Valley.

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Investigators from the Major Investigation Task Force will continue their interrogation of a suspect believed to be involved in the murder of Constable Georgette Collymore on August 20.

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The Office of Disaster Pre-paredness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has launched a poster competition, aimed at promoting safe building practices to reduce the impact of hazards and natural disasters.

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Police Constable Gavin Wisdom of the May Pen Police Station in Clarendon, who is charged with larceny of a firearm and ammunition, was granted $50,000 bail in the May Pen Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday...

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Nineteen senior citizens have graduated from a computer introduction course, which was offered by the Manchester parish library.

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Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Dr Sheila Campbell-Forrester, is appealing for more Jamaican mothers to breastfeed their babies, noting that the breast is the best and safest choice for nutrition, especially.

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