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Several schools in Trelawny remain closed following heavy rains yesterday.

Two vessels from the Carnival Cruise lines were prevented from docking in Jamaica yesterday and this morning because of poor weather conditions.

The National Works Agency, NWA says it will be closing the Graham Close roadway in St Andrew as of today.

Three witnesses testified yesterday at the trial of 32-year-old security guard Jeffrey Perry who is charged with the murder of three children at Killancholly, St Mary in January 2005.

Parliamentarians are to say definitively whether they want to retain the death penalty for capital offences when they make a conscience vote on the issue this afternoon.

Meanwhile, at least one church leader is hoping the members of parliament will vote to retain the death penalty.

Several roads in some sections of Western Jamaica are now flooded as a result of the heavy rainfall since last night.

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) said it would be implementing several temporary measures to cushion the impact of the sliding Jamaican currency.

Opposition Spokesman on Tourism, Dr Wykeham McNeill says the resignation of the board of directors of the Jamaica Tourist Board will have a detrimental effect on the winter tourist season, which is less than a month away.

Nicholas ‘Nicky Pinkney’ White is to be tested and questioned in connection with the murder and rape of two girls in Townhead, Westmoreland in 2005.

The absence of attorney-at-law Antoinette Haughton-Cardenas yesterday stalled the murder trial of 39-year-old labourer Michael McLean.

The police have identified the man shot dead at yesterday’s Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) conference at the national arena as 35 year old David Lyndsay.