Montego Bay News

Stephen Fray, 21, tried to hijack a Canadian CanJet Boeing 737-800 charter jet from Montego Bay, a tourist spot in Jamaica in April this year. The aeroplane was to proceed to Halifax. He fired in the air with a .38...

Fray will, however, serve only 20 years at hard labour as the sentences of 20 years for three counts of shooting with intent and robbery with aggravation, 18 years for the illegal possession of a firearm, one year for assault...

It is said that the victim, who is yet to be identified, was walking near a Shell Service Station when his attacker walked up to him and used a knife to slash his throat before running off...He was rushed to...

There is, however, a distinct deficiency of horn players coming to public attention, though not of the people playing them. Mickey Hanson, who plays a range of wind instruments and is probably best known as a trumpeter, reminds The Sunday...

Mr Terry was found beaten and strangled in the bedroom of his Montego Bay home on 9 September. Jamaican police said they would interview the man and an identification parade would be held later this week. Mr Terry, a father-of-two,...

Up to press time yesterday, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security was attempting to have normality restored at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Minister of Labour Pearnel Charles told The Sunday Gleaner . The minister's comments came...

Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer The number of Jamaicans to lose their jobs since the worldwide recession started is now estimated at 40,000. The update was presented by Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Friday after months during which the Ministry of Labour...

After a seven-year absence from the tourism capital, the Caribbean's number one United Kingdom carrier, British Airways (BA), has returned to Montego Bay, St James, renewing investor confidence while offering huge access to the One World Alliance market. The airline...

Rudolph Brown/Photographer Derick Latibeaudiere was not known to venture too often from his high-rise office on the waterfront, and was not known to mingle much in public...But Latibeaudiere often found himself in the headlines; sometimes to defend his policies, sometimes...