Downtown Kingston was tense yesterday after a man was chopped and stabbed to death, and his body dragged about 80 yards before being left on a pavement in front of the Redemption Market on West Street.

A shipment of ganja destined for Barbados was Monday intercepted at the Norman Manley International Airport's Fumigation and Quarantine Centre by the Jamaica Customs Department's Contraband Enforcement Team (CET).

The Jamaican government last night told 281 Haitians, who had applied for refugee status here, that they do not qualify.

Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology Phillip Paulwell yesterday described the price gouging that has been reported during kerosene sales as "nothing short of disgraceful" and warned that if unchecked, this could lead to government intervention.

A study released yesterday appeared to blunt Jamaica's claim that most of the people deported from the United States were socialised in crime in America.

This is the second part of an interview with Spragga Benz. The first part was published on Sunday. In this section, Spragga gives advice, talks about the future of dancehall music as he sees it, and his future.

Red Square's frontman Spragga Benz is many things. On one side, Spragga is a hit machine who constantly writes memorable gems for the ear. On the other side he donates gifts to the needy, and on the other side he uses fierce words to push lyrical war to its limits.

Vybz Kartel is more confident of his Source award nomination than he was of his MOBO nomination, which was withdrawn recently.

IT has become all too familiar. Two people are dead; gunned down, neighbours say, by the security forces who were in their community to protect them.

It's over. World top-class 100-metre men's sprinting came to an end yesterday at the World Athletics Final in Monaco's Stade Louis II Stadium with Jamaica's Asafa Powell proclaiming: "I am the best."