Gun dealers are analysing the implications for their businesses after it emerged yesterday that the United States had ordered a freeze on the licences of all dealers to import guns and ammunition into Jamaica...
News Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Topic: Jamaica
The new items published under this topic are as follows.News: US freezes gun, ammo imports
Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 11:51 AM
News: He is here: Aristides resting at St Ann great house
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 12:23 PM
Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his wife, Mildred, have taken up residence at the secluded and heavily guarded Lydford Park Great House, where they are expected to stay over the next two months...
News Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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News: Privy Council hearing Trinidad press freedom case
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 12:14 PM
Lawyers representing two Trinidadian media companies will today continue arguing before the Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom Privy Council, an appeal by two journalists who maintain that a court gag order on a trial in that country in 1996 was a breach of press freedom...
News Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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News: Haiti Withdraws Ambassador From Jamaica
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 02:02 AM
Haiti's interim prime minister withdrew his ambassador to Jamaica on Monday and suspended relations in protest over ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's arrival in the fellow Caribbean country for temporary asylum...
News Source: Guardian Unlimited
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Reggae: Gun to God - Papa San's worst and best moments
Monday, March 15, 2004 - 10:53 AM
There are very few persons who get the opportunity to live what seems like two lives in one lifetime...
News Source: Jamaica Star
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News: The socarisation of dancehall
Monday, March 15, 2004 - 10:49 AM
We should not miss out on the significance of the phenomenon of renowned soca band Byron Lee and the Dragonaires playing at Passa Passa, as happened on Wednesday night...
News Source: Jamaica Star
News: Bubbler pleads guilty
Monday, March 15, 2004 - 10:44 AM
Well-known Montego Bay dancehall personality Georgia Gray, more popularly known as 'Bubbler', was on Wednesday fined $25,000 or three months after pleading guilty to possession of crack cocaine when she appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court...
News Source: Jamaica Star
News: Jamaican #2 on FBI Most Wanted list - BAD A YARD, BAD ABROAD
Monday, March 15, 2004 - 10:39 AM
Jamaican criminals have made a name for themselves locally, and are just as prominent on the international scene. Currently, overseas law enforcement authorities are seeking 18 Jamaicans for a multitude of crimes ranging from murder to abduction...
News Source: Jamaica Star
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Reggae: Third World, Culture headline Moonsplash in Anguilla
Monday, March 15, 2004 - 10:34 AM
Reggae ambassadors, the Third World Band and roots rock reggae dynamo, Culture will this year headline Anguilla's long-running music festival, Moonsplash. The weekend festival, which runs from April 1 to 4, will also feature Jamaican Benjy Myaz and blues grass honky-tonk hijinks exponents, Sheriff Uncle Bob and the Goodtimers from New York...
News Source: Jamaica Observer
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News: Aristide leaves for Jamaica
Monday, March 15, 2004 - 10:29 AM
Haiti's deposed president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, left the Central African Republic for Jamaica last night, after what appeared to be hours of stand-off and indecision by the country's leader, General Francois Bozize, over whether Aristide and his wife, Mildred, would be allowed to leave...
News Source: Jamaica Observer
