The Organised Crime Branch of the Constabulary Force is reporting significant improvement in its murder clear up rate in Kingston and St. Andrew in the first four months of the year since the implementation of the Major Investigation Task Force.
Scores of protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court in Downtown Kingston to await the outcome of the hearing of several lawsuits involving failed investment entity, Cash Plus.
The Constant Spring police are investigating the circumstances, which led to the stabbing death of a man on Constant Spring Road in Kingston 8 last night.
The St. Ann Parish Council said it is still awaiting a response from the Office of the Prime Minister to its request for $130 million in grant funds to repair roads and drains damaged during the April 17 flood rain.
The Agriculture Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton announced that there would be no foreign produce on display at the 56th staging of the Denbigh Agricultural Show in Clarendon, this year.
The unions representing workers at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company, JUTC will be meeting with the management of the bus company to continue discussions on a proposed redundancy exercise.
Mayor of Port Antonio, Floyd Patterson, said it would cost the Portland Parish Council approximately $10.5 million to carry out major drain cleaning work in the parish.
Dr. Carolyn Gomes from the pressure group Jamaicans for Justice announced a second batch of 100 police trainees are to participate in a human rights training programme.
