The Bureau of Special Investigations is now probing the circumstances under which a seven-year-old girl was shot and wounded during an alleged shootout between the police and gunmen in Whitfield Town, Kingston yesterday.
The police in Clarendon are yet to charge two men who were taken into custody for questioning in connection with the murder of an elderly couple in the parish just over a week ago.
The Office of the Contractor-General has responded to claims by Finance Minister Audley Shaw that it was consulted ahead of a decision to exempt four public entities from government procurement guidelines.
Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn has dismissed media reports that an eleven year-old boy was brought before the Home Circuit Court on a carnal abuse charge.
The police in Ocho Rios, St. Ann say they will be continuing a drive started this today to get bus and taxi operators in the resort town to use the transportation centre.
Divers in Port Antonio, Portland this morning recovered the body of 18 year old Javian Taylor, who drowned in the vicinity of Monkey Island, along the Folly Strip, yesterday.
Public Defender, Earl Witter said the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, has not presented a compelling case for the right of appeal to be conferred on her in cases where bail is granted by a court to an accused.
Three new faces are among the six chairpersons and national executive council members elected during the People’s National Party’s regional meetings yesterday.
The government is being encouraged to conduct a review of the distribution mechanisms that exist for small businesses to access concessionary loan funding.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr Ken Baugh is now in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he’s attending a special preparatory meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean and Latin American region.
Retired US Congresswoman Una Clark, said more Jamaicans living in the United States are being affected by the financial crisis now facing that country.
Lottery scammers who operated out of St James have reportedly moved their operations to other Caribbean islands because of increased pressures from the authorities here.
