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A MAN who reportedly heads the New World Order gang, which operates out of Southside and Rae Town in the Corporate Area, was killed yesterday in an alleged shoot-out with members of the security forces.

On the day a seminar was taking place at the Police Officers' Club in St Andrew to sensitise members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and Island Special Constabulary Force, in the neighbouring parish of St Catherine, a man described as a habitual offender was given a custodial sentence for stealing oranges.

THE NO-NONSENSE head of the Police Traffic Division, Senior Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, is warning taxi operators that there will be strict enforcement of parking rules when the new transport system is introduced in downtown Kingston on January 15.

INFORMATION PROVIDED by the Government late yesterday about its negotiations with the Sandals hotel chain for the sale of the Sandals Whitehouse Hotel has triggered a major investigation by the office of the Contractor General (OCG).

FALMOUTH, Trelawny: THE WATER and Housing Ministry, on Wednesday, warned that it will be forcibly removing squatters from Government lands in a section of Trelawny known as Dump. The illegal settlement is adjacent to the multi-billion dollar Falmouth Port project....

The Government has already spent almost $100 million to compensate residents of Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town, in west Kingston, whose property and belongings were damaged during the incursion by the security forces last May....

Two days after The Gleaner published the story of Arnold Russell, a homeless Jamaican who sought refuge at the Poor Relief shelter on Hanover Street in Kingston, relatives living...

The Office of the Public Defender has set the end of March as the deadline to complete its probe into claims for compensation by residents of west Kingston.With more than 2,500 residents already compensated by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security...

THE POLICE have released the final crime figures for 2010, which show that 1,430 people were murdered last year, significantly fewer than the record 1,682 recorded in 2009.The figures also show a 7.3 per cent decrease in major crime, which dropped from...

A senior executive of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) has admitted that the company has shelved plans to operate out of the Water Lane transportation centre in downtown Kingston, due in part to fears of falling into deeper financial losses....

WESTERN BUREAU: An executive driver employed to a well-known Jamaican hotel chain was arrested yesterday in connection with a shooting incident at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, that left two persons wounded....

The commission of enquiry into issues relating to the United States government's extradition request for former west Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke has been set to continue on January 17at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown...