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IT WAS a chaotic scene as dozens of upset and grief-stricken families of victims of the west Kingston Labour Day raid went home empty-handed from the Spanish Town Hospital morgue yesterday.

LONDON (AP): Former Jamaica footballer Robbie Earle has been fired as a World Cup commentator for British TV station ITV after violating FIFA's ticket regulations at the tournament in South Africa.

An overwhelming number of Jamaicans are demanding that soldiers take the fight to criminals who are proving a handful for the police force.A Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll has found that almost nine in every 10...

THE GOVERNMENT has sensibly with-drawn the six controversial crime bills to allow for consultations with the Opposition and other stakeholders on how they ought to be reshaped before being brought back to...

Murders for the first two weeks of June are trending downwards when compared with the same period last year, but the police are not ready to credit the decline to their late-May push to dismantle gangs in Kingston.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida: At 1 p.m. yesterday, the usually busy Spirit Air counters at the Fort Lauderdale International Airport, Florida, were empty as pilots stayed off the job crippling the low-cost carrier.

Under pressure from the Media Association of Jamaica Limited (MAJ), government senator Dennis Meadows has decided against proceeding with a controversial resolution, notice of which was given in the Senate last Friday.

The Trelawny police have called for the completion of a multimillion-dollar station on Rodney Street in Falmouth, as the division buckles under pressure from the health department to improve working conditions for cops.

The chronic failure of the State to throw high-profile Mafia bosses and community dons in jail has drastically diminished the confidence of the citizenry in the Government and the security forces to protect them from gangsters.

The vuvuzela, the source of that never-ending, ear-splitting drone at World Cup stadiums in South Africa, has sparked rabid passion: Either you love it, or you hate the very ground of the person who invented it.

Burnt-out homes. Fleeing families. Spent shells littering the ground. Women weeping. Calls for justice. A community in crisis. That is the image that comes to mind when many Jamaicans think of Maxfield Park.

Jamaica should brace itself for a wave of deportees from the United States as the number of locals in Uncle Sam's jails has swelled. Clifford Chambers, security attaché at the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, told The Gleaner that more than 6,000 Jamaicans were now in US custody facing deportation proceedings.