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HEAD OF the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID), Superintendent Fitz Bailey, has raised concerns about the absence of a regulatory framework to prevent unscrupulous persons from importing equipment used in the local multimillion-dollar debit-card scam.

Edmundo Jennez, general manager of Multi Link transaction operator JETS, says PIN protection is simple, and in at least one strategy, handy - in more ways than one. He suggests that when entering their PIN at an ATM, persons cover the keypad with their free hand.

THE PITCHED battle between two of the region's better politicians - Dr Horace Chang and Dr Chris Tufton - for the position of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) deputy leader for the west is on in earnest.

National honouree Doreen Frankson has ripped into the Jamaican Government, as well as the Opposition, for its "spineless and cowardly" response to controversial emergency-aid comments made by the flamboyant and outspoken Kamla Persad-Bissessar, prime minister of oil-rich Trinidad and Tobago (T&T).

Not many compound words have the same meaning when separated into two. Imagine 'awe full' and 'awe some', and given the behaviour of some of our men in public life, I would shudder at the word 'bountiful'. However, Alston Barrington Chevannes was in every sense a gentle man.

Hurricane Tomas flooded the earthquake-shattered remains of a Haitian town yesterday, forcing families who had already lost their homes in one disaster to flee another.

Alton 'Barry' Chevannes, the respected sociologist and anthropologist, died yesterday at the University Hospital of the West Indies. He had been admitted there in early September.

SOME CORPORATE Area residents are counting their blessings, having been spared a direct hit from Hurricane Tomas, which was a tropical storm when it passed the shores of Jamaica Thursday night.

The Government and the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) yesterday defended the level of preparedness that was been made by ministries, agencies, and individuals in anticipation of Tropical Storm Tomas.

Jamaican reggae singer Buju Banton's attorney expects him to be out of jail by next week, after a federal judge denied a prosecution appeal over the entertainer's bail. Buju has been sitting behind bars since...

After dithering and dawdling over the Caribbean Sea for almost one week, Tropical Storm Tomas struck Jamaica yesterday dumping several inches of rain in some areas, as it drifted slowly past the north-east coast and headed towards Haiti and Cuba....

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: THE POLICE in Portland yesterday appealed to the public to be on the lookout for a group of fishermen who reportedly went to Haiti on Sunday and are believed to be planning to transport people back to Jamaica....