In case you missed it, here are OBSERVER ONLINE’s top 10 stories for today:

1. Man attempts to smuggle ganja in cheese tins

Police have reported that a St Catherine man has been charged with breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act after he attempted to smuggle 61 pounds of ganja in cheese tins through the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Saturday.

2. ‘Check your facts,’ JUTC tells Mikael Phillips

The Jamaican Urban Transit Company (JUTC), in a statement issued today, urged Opposition People’s National Party spokesman on transport Mikael Phillips to “check the source of his information and to refrain from making public pronouncements on matters which may result in additional and unnecessary stress on staff and members of the public”.

3. JamaicaEye not infringing on privacy rights, says security ministry officials

The Ministry of National Security is assuring citizens that its national closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance programme — Jamaica Eye — is not infringing on their right to privacy.

4. Ray Ray Market razed by fire… again

The downtown Kingston market commonly known as Ray Ray Market has been razed by fire again.

5. Firearms, ammunition found buried in St James

Two firearms, along with several assorted rounds of ammunition were found buried by lawmen in an unfinished house in Norwood, St James this morning.

6. $1 billion loss because of climate change — Shaw

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw is informing that adverse weather conditions have led to $1 billion in losses in the agricultural sector over the past two years.

7. Riverton Dump smoke halts operations at Kingston Freeport

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Karl Samuda says operations at the Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited have been disrupted as a result of smoke from the Riverton Landfill in St Andrew.

8. Drones to monitor activity at disposal sites — NSWMA

The National Solid Waste Management Authority says it will be thoroughly investigating recent fires that occurred at the Riverton garbage disposal site and 10 other fires at disposal sites across the island over the past two months.

9. Bolt to train with Australia’s Central Coast Mariners football club

Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt will join Australia’s Central Coast Mariners for what the football club described as an “indefinite training period”.

10. Higher fines for illegal dumping coming soon — McKenzie

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, says the new Anti-Litter Act to be tabled in Parliament by year’s end will impose stronger penalties, including higher fines for illegal dumping.