Site for displaced craft vendors identified

No. 133 Friday, August 27, 2010
By Shamir Brown
The craft vendors, who for many years called Bamboo Village their place of trade, have been offered a site at a new area on Market Street by the Trelawny Parish Council, Cohn Gager, Mayor of Falmouth, explained at a meeting Wednesday.

MoBay could host Miss Universe next year

No. 133 Friday, August 27, 2010
By Volney Barrett
The resort city of Montego Bay could host the prestigious Miss Universe Pageant next year, if the promoters decide to take it to Jamaica.

Rusea's benefits from Grand Palladium outreach

No. 133 Friday, August 27, 2010
By Chris Bodden
In keeping with its image as a good corporate citizen and friend to the Lucea community, the Grand Palladium Hotel once again has come to the assistance of Rusea’s High School.

'Him beat mi because him love mi'....A woman's story of physical abuse

No. 133 Friday, August 27, 2010
By Serena Grant
Editor’s Note — Physical abuse against women has been a topical issue in Jamaica for numerous years and while some women are brave enough to eject themselves from their poisonous relationships, there are those who, regardless of how severe the beatings, ‘stand by their man’. In the article below a young woman speaks of her experiences.

[ENTERTAINMENT]:::'FOR BETTER OR WORSE'

No. 133 Friday, August 27, 2010
Lesbian or maama man?
Winner of six Actor Boy Awards, A Box Office Success in Kingston and overseas, Basil Dawkins provocative comedy moves into Montego Bay this Sunday August 29, starting 6:30 p.m. for one performance only, at the Half Moon Conference Centre.

[ENTERTAINMENT]:::Chu-Chu says ‘pure madness’ this Sunday

No. 133 Friday, August 27, 2010
Comedian Chu-Chu declares that he is going to unleash “pure madness” at the Pier One Complex (Howard Cooke Boulevard, Montego Bay) this Sunday (August 29, 2010) when he headlines a strong cast of stand-up ‘laugh-makers’. The event is dubbed ‘Montego Bay Comedy Explosion’. Showtime is 7 p.m.

G2K CALLS ON PNP TO CLEAR THE AIR ON TRAFIGURA

No. 133 Friday, August 27, 2010
Generation 2000 (G2K), the young professional affiliate of the Jamaica Labour Party calls on the Peoples National Party to immediately address serious and long outstanding questions held by the country, concerning the cloudy arrangements of the Trafigura affair.

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.