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WESTERN BUREAU: Ronald Jackson, director general in the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), is once again urging Jamaicans not to panic whenever they feel small earthquakes (tremors).Jackson was responding to questions...

Major traffic changes have been implemented in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, as the police try to curb congestion and crime in the town amid the anticipated holiday shopping crush.Strict vending rules will also be imposed in the southwestern Jamaica town...

WESTERN BUREAU:Likening the proposal by the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) to increase the levy on incoming airline passengers as 'Nicodemus in the night', president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA)...

CARLTON BROWN pushes his handcart along the main street in Bog Walk, St Catherine, as if pressing back stubbornly against a difficult life - slowly, with measured steps, head bowed over his steering wheel but slightly...

TAXI OPERATOR Conroy Heaven is adamant that the Half-Way Tree Transport Centre is largely responsible for a rise in crime in the heavily commercialised area.Speaking emphatically, Heaven says "make me tell you this.

The Mona GeoInformatics Institute's (MGI) mapping of major crimes committed in Jamaica last year has shown that at least 100 communities across the island were not affected by a major crime.

Clarendon's capital returned to the summit of the pile of communities that recorded major crimes in 2009.

LITTLE MORE than two weeks before Christmas 2010, downtown Kingston is busy but orderly. The police have a strong foot patrol presence - The Sunday Gleaner sees at least four batches of officers on the beat during a quick sweep from North Parade, along Church Street, onto Harbour Street then back up to West Street - and there are also motorised patrols.

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine:The old capital is expected to get a facelift for the Yuletide season, as the St Catherine Parish Council and the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) embark on a massive clean-up drive tomorrow.

The St Andrew Central Police Division has launched an investigation into the seizure of more than 300 rounds of ammunition and a Bryco pistol yesterday.The find was made at Cedar Valley Road in Standpipe, St Andrew.Head of...

Councillor of the Westchester division in Portmore, St Catherine, Shane Dalling, says he will be spearheading a massive clean-up exercise in sections of the division following the gruesome discovery by...

December 1, 2005, was the beginning of a nightmare for the Newby family. Lenford and Sandra Newby found out their youngest child, two-year-old Tajay, had cancer.