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Western Bureau:Constant negative reports from the media have irritated Danville Walker, director of customs, who believes it is not helping Jamaicans feel positive about themselves and the country in which they live.

I came to Jamaica eight years ago from Nigeria with my family.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):History was created in Trinidad and Tobago when Kamla Persad-Bissessar was elected its first female prime minister after Monday's general election.

Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the No. 1 target which sparked an unprecedented assault by the Jamaican army on Tivoli Gardens and other crime havens, is still missing, even as dozens of fatalities were reported from gunfights across Kingston in three days of intense urban warfare.

From the outset, even before it got its name, Tivoli Gardens always seemed destined for conflict.

The flourishing drugs-for-guns trade between Jamaica and Haiti appears to have taken a lull in the aftermath of Haiti's catastrophic 7.0-magnitude earthquake on January 12.

The armed forces yesterday strongly repelled the relentless firepower of gunmen, allegedly from Fletcher's Land, who launched an assault on the Central Police Station in Jamaica's capital, Kingston.A Gleaner news team was pinned down for more than 40...

Embattled Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke has not instructed his legal team to strike a deal with the United States, Don Foote, one of the lawyers representing Coke, said yesterday.

A family from Mark Lane in Fletcher's Land, west Kingston, has called for a thorough investigation into the fatal shooting of one of its breadwinners.

WESTERN BUREAU: The Granville All-Age School and Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, got some well-needed Labour Day facelifts thanks to volunteers' efforts on Monday.

The intersection of Spanish Town Road and Collie Smith Drive provided the perfect pavilion for scores of persons who wanted to watch the developments in west Kingston from a safe distance yesterday.

The police yesterday released their profile of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, who is wanted in the United States to answer to drug and gun charges.