A man who allegedly took a flight crew hostage last week at Montego Bay’s airport and demanded to be flown off the island has been charged with robbery and shooting with intent.

The unarmed security guards who allowed a gunman to seize a Canadian jet near Montego Bay were following procedures, the airport’s operating company Wednesday.

A gunman forced his way though airport security onto a Canadian jet near Montego Bay, holding six crew members hostage for eight hours before police and soldiers stormed the aircraft on Monday and captured him.

A Canadian airline official says a shot may have been fired outside the jet where six crew members are being held hostage near the Jamaican resort city of Montego Bay.

A gunman hijacked a Canadian charter plane on the tarmac near the resort city of Montego Bay and was holding the flight crew hostage, the airline said Monday. Nobody had been injured, officials said.

An airport spokeswoman says a plane has been hijacked while on the tarmac near Jamaica’s resort city of Montego Bay.

Jamaican regulators say they are forbidding all explicit references to sex and violence over the airwaves.

Jamaican rapper Bounty Killer is in trouble with police _ again.

Two Tennessee congressmen say they are seeking $25 million from a federal economic stimulus bill to help pay for cleaning up a large coal ash spill in Kingston.

A gunman shot a a 55-year-old woman in her one-room wooden shack and then set it ablaze, leaving her three young grandchildren to perish alongside her in the fire, Jamaican police said Tuesday.