The United States State Department is insisting that the freeze on guns and ammunition supplied to Jamaica should not be construed as an 'embargo' on arms to Jamaica, and insisted that it was a response to Jamaica's own concerns...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

When the Olympic Games is launched in Athens Greece this summer, following the Jamaican team may be a local sound system...

News Source: Jamaica Star

Jamaica yesterday urged its Caribbean Community (Caricom) partners to hold ranks on the Haiti issue as Prime Minister P J Patterson signalled that he has no intention of engaging in a diplomatic spat with Barbados over Jamaica's decision to host deposed Haitian leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

A hunger strike and lock-in by inmates at the General Penitentiary in downtown Kingston collapsed yesterday after 11 ring leaders were relocated and the facility searched for contraband, according to the head of the correction services, Major Richard Reese...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

Since the 1990S, dancehall remixes have been a more or less permanent fixture in our sessions...

News Source: Jamaica Star

Security Minister Peter Phillips says the Government is planning to introduce a new automatic fingerprinting identification system, which should boost its crime-fighting strategies...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

A police corporal is now under investigation allegedly for assaulting a female Spring Break tourist at the Jungle Nightclub in Negril, Westmoreland on Tuesday morning...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

The three men who were arrested and charged for murder and conspiracy to murder in connection with the shooting death of a man described as a major Bahamian drug lord, were on Tuesday remanded in custody when they appeared in the Savanna-la-Mar Resident Magistrate's Court...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

St James Parish Council Secretary Manager Christopher Powell quit yesterday, hours after his home was riddled with bullets in a late-night attack. He told the Public Services Commission that he would work in any other parish, but not St James...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

Prime Minister of Jamaica and Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) P.J. Patterson yesterday defended his decision to receive ousted Haitian President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide for a two-month stay in Jamaica despite international opposition to the visit...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner