Police report that 22 persons were killed in separate incidents islandwide last week, the gun being the weapon of choice in 12 incidents.
News Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Topic: Jamaica
The new items published under this topic are as follows.News: Twenty-two slain last week - Gang feud curtails classes at Riverton school
Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 01:32 PM
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Reggae: Celebrating Women in reggae
Monday, May 17, 2004 - 02:06 PM
A decade ago women in the local music industry were battling exploitation - facing demands for sex and so on in order to get their records produced or played.
News Source: Jamaica Observer
News: U.S. salvage company to explore Jamaica's watery past
Monday, May 17, 2004 - 01:58 PM
PORT ROYAL, Jamaica -- Jamaicans have long suspected the waters off their southern coast are teeming with shipwrecks and sunken treasure from the days when the island was a haven for pirates. But they have always been happy to leave the mystery to the sea.
News Source: Napa News
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News: Jamaica wrestles with police violence
Friday, May 14, 2004 - 01:42 PM
Human rights groups - and a UN special rapporteur - have accused some Jamaican police officers of carrying out extra-judicial executions. Six members of a controversial police team face a trial over the alleged murder of four civilians.
News Source: BBC News Online
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Reggae: Chuck Fender has a mission to rebuild Jamaica
Friday, May 14, 2004 - 01:27 PM
"I swear that I will never switch, I swear, I'll keep on give you songs like this, I swear that I will never 'itch, to defend black people one of my greatest wish." I Swear - Chuck Fender
News Source: Jamaica Observer
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Cricket: Walsh among Jamaica's top five
Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 11:46 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) - Courtney Walsh, one of Test cricket's all-time leading fastbowler, is among the list of Jamaica's top five players ever in the Scotiabank West Indies Jubilee votes.
News Source: Jamaica Observer
News: Portmore man abducted - Ransom reduced for Gordon Town woman
Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 01:30 PM
A Portmore businessman yesterday became the third person kidnapped in less than a week.
News Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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News: Kidnappers demand $6-million ransom
Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 01:09 PM
BRUCE English spent yesterday close to his telephones waiting to be contacted again by the kidnappers. Monday night they had demanded $6 million for the release of his wife, Christine, 55.
News Source: Jamaica Observer
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News: 14 police officers, 2 inmates injured in Jamaican prison riot
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 06:27 PM
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) - More than 30 inmates rioted against guards at a Montego Bay jail in a standoff that lasted about eight hours, police said Monday.
News Source: CJAD 800 News
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Reggae: Two Studio One deejays for France
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 12:49 PM
Two Studio One deejays, Winston "King Stitt" Sparks, and Jim Brown, aka Gymnastic, will head for France today Wednesday, May 12, to represent the famed record company founded and operated by the legendary Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd who died suddenly on Tuesday of last week.
News Source: Jamaica Observer
