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File photo Detectives from the Police Narcotics Division seized approximately 669 pounds of compressed ganja in Spur Tree, Manchester on Saturday, May 1. Reports are that about 10:45 am, a narcotics team supported by members of the Manchester Police Division, was on operations in the Spur Tree area in the parish when they intercepted an International tipper truck with two men aboard. During a search of the vehicle, 13 knitted plastic bags all containing compressed ganja weighing approximately 669 pounds, were found. The drugs and the truck were seized and the driver and passenger were taken i...

CONSTRUCTION of the Montego Bay Perimeter Road Project is expected to begin by late 2022,...

Capsicum chinense—the Scotch Bonnet pepper. A sure fire way to distinguish between ‘locals’ and ‘foreigners’ at a Caribbean dinner table is to listen out for the request for ‘pepper sauce,’ a hot and tangy flavouring that is typically made of the indigenous Scotch Bonnet, otherwise known as Scotty Bon, Scotchy, Bonney Pepper or scientifically, Capsicum Chinense. The Scotch Bonnet is the main commercial variety of pepper in the region, having achieved this status through a process of repeated selection based on aroma, pungency, flavour, yield, and disease and pest tolerance. Ori...

A screen grab from a video of the scene where a man was shot dead by the police and another captured during an interception of an alleged shooting mission along Winston Jones Highway near Mandeville in Manchester on Sunday. An alleged gunman was killed and another taken into custody after the police reportedly thwarted an attempted shooting on Sunday. According to Senior Superintendent of Police Stephanie Lindsay, the two men were among others allegedly on their way to Greenvale in Mandeville, Manchester at about 2:30 pm to shoot persons at a location. Sources indicated that the assailants we...

In this screengrab, police personnel prepare to remove the body of a gunman killed in a shootout with them on the Winston Jones Highway on Sunday. The Manchester police on Sunday foiled a murder in the community of Greenvale, killing one of the gunmen involved in the plot. Another gunman was arrested, and a weapon reportedly seized. According to the police, about 2:30 p.m, they received information that men armed with guns were heading to Greenvale to commit a murder. The police say they immediately responded and intercepted the gunmen at a section of the Winston Jones Highway near the ent...