The Jamaican government plans to partially decriminalise possession of small amounts of cannabis in what supporters are praising as a long overdue rethinking of drug laws.

A South African pathologist became the third doctor to publicly criticise the post mortem examination of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer in Jamaica.

Police in Jamaica have interviewed the father of 19-year-old London suicide bomb suspect Germaine Lindsay, the British High Commission said today.

HURRICANE Ivan’s deadly winds and monstrous waves lashed Jamaica last night as more than half a million people were advised to evacuate.

Hurricane Ivan left Grenada a wasteland of flattened houses, twisted metal and splintered wood as it bore down on Jamaica with deadly winds and monstrous waves, prompting the Jamaican government to order half a million people to flee their homes.