Western Mirror Jamaica: Aug 25, 2010

RAPE ON THE RISE.....Taximen target teens

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Since the start of the summer season, St. James has recorded an increase in sexual offenses, according to the police at Montego Freeport.

TRAFFIC COP NABBED......Caught accepting bribe

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
A popular police officer attached to the Traffic Department at the Montego F1eeport Station has found himself in a pot of hot water after he was allegedly caught accepting a bribe from a motor vehicle owner on the station’s compound on Monday afternoon.

Headless Victim Identified

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
The police in Granville and Mt. Salem have determined the identity of a man who was discovered burned to death and his head severed at a bushy section of the Retirement Dump in St. James last Friday morning.

St. James man missing

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Twenty-two-year-old Garreth Billings of Greenwood, St. James has been reported missing since Friday, August 20.

FALMOUTH POLICE SEIZE ILLEGAL HANDGUN......One arrested

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
By Shamir Brown
The Falmouth police were rewarded in their crime-fighting efforts Sunday, after they were able to remove an illegal gun from off the streets of the parish.

ELECTROCUTED WHILE PICKING ACKEES

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
A Trelawny man was electrocuted while allegedly picking ackees. As a result, the police in the parish along with personnel from the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) have launched an investigation into the recent death of the man who was a security guard. He was found dead on the branch of an ackee tree on Saturday.

TWO VISITORS DIE

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Two visitors, who were vacationing at the Palmyra Resort in Rose Hall, St. James, lost their lives tragically on the weekend. One of the victims, the police reported, died by drowning while the other passed away as a result of a heart attack.

17 year-old Anchovy High graduate gains 11 CSEC subjects

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
By Volney Barrett
He attained a Grade One in the CSEC examinations last year. That was not enough to prevent his critics from giving up on him. This year, he was adamant that he wanted some additional distinctions in the other 10 subjects he wrote in the examinations.

ACS DISPUTE SETTLED?

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
By Okoye Henry
Contract workers who were made redundant at ACS: A Xerox Company, formally called ACS E-Service, staged a protest at the facility last Friday morning, over the lack of clarity as it relates to their redundancy payment.

[OPINIONS]:::Better PNP prospective candidates needed in St. James

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
By Valentine Pearson
In recent months, the North West, East Central, West Central and South St. James PNP constituency executives in Region six has been stepping up their effort in selecting prospective candidates of a higher caliber for Local Government elections whenever time it is called next year.

[THE X-FACTOR]:::LIE TO ME

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
By Brian Brown
“The visionary lies to himself the liar only to others.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Tell me one thing about you, which is absolutely, irrefutably true. Yes you’re pigment and basic features are what they are. But what about you the person is an undeniable fact?

Smelly Freeport!.....resident urges use of TEF to fix problem

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
By Okoye Henry
A longstanding sewerage problem at the Freeport community in St. James is as of late, becoming even worse with the relevant authorities/officials continuing to turn a blind eye to the issue.

[BAHA'I FAITH]:::Open your spiritual eyes! Prepare your hearts!

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
An Old world order built on disunity, prejudice arid injustice bereft of the consummate injunction of all religions — to love thy neighbour — is finally crumbling.

Meadows calls for craft vending facility

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Jamaica Labour Party Constituency Caretaker/candidate for Trelawny Northern, Senator Dennis Meadows, is advocating for relocation site for the over 80 Bamboo Village craft vendors, mostly women, who have been displaced by the acquisition of lands in Coopers Pen by private interest where they have been producing and plying their crafts for over 30 years.

What of the Tourism Industry Refurbishing Programme, Minister?

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Opposition spokesman on Tourism Dr Wykeham McNeil is calling on the Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett to explain the sequence of events that led to the “bungling” that took place with the recent announcement, and then retraction of the Tourism Industry Refurbishing Programme.

Axe and Adze Youth Club Treats Hanover Infirmary Residents

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
By Chris Bodden
The Axe and Adze Youth Club treated the residents of the Hanover Infirmary to dinner on Sunday, August 22, 2010.

Trelawny Craft Vendors want relocation

No. 132 Wednesday, August 25, 2010
By Shamir Brown
The craft vendors that had occupied a section of Coopers Penn known as Bamboo Village, are calling on the relevant authorities to help them escape their plight in a hasty fashion. This point was made at a meeting in Coopers Penn recently.