Tensions soared at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday, as a mother was forced to defend her dead daughter?s name after reports surfaced that the girl was involved in a taboo relationship with a 24-year-old man.

With over four months remaining in the year, the number of persons killed since January has rushed beyond 900, despite several modifications to a crime plan unveiled by Government nearly three years ago.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica's government on Tuesday announced a $5 million program to provide free Internet access in poor communities across the island.

Even though he is still warded at St Michael?s Hospital in Toronto, Canada, Fr Michael de Verteuil is said to be out of immediate danger.

A Trinidadian contractor was killed and four of his Trinidadian workmen injured in a freak accident in Miami, Florida, early Sunday morning.

A girl who would have would turned 12 tomorrow, was found dead in the arms of a 24-year-old man, suspected by police to be her lover, in Toco yesterday morning.

Shot in the back by a policeman during a party at the La Brea Pitch Lake, Don King's blood flowed for two hours while people wined and feted around him.

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua - Antigua and Barbuda's prime minister and American officials signed an agreement Monday extending the lease of the U.S. Air Force base in the Caribbean country until 2008.

Reigning Miss Universe, Jennifer Hawkins, has expressed her desire to return to these shores next year for the Carnival season.

Jamaica's immigration authorities will today start testing their new, multi-million dollar computerised passport and immigration tracking system, which officials say will enhance the country's border controls.