'Security was weak at Armadale' - Overseer cites problems that compromised safety
THE ACTING overseer in charge of security at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre, where seven wards of the state perished in a fire on May 22, has revealed that there were several security breaches at the facility and that searches were largely ineffective...

Canal bush whacked - Portmore residents have first clear view after seven years
A canal overgrown with vegetation which separates the communities of Passagefort and Westchester, has been given a facelift. Fifty National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) workers armed with machetes, weed whackers and power saws participated...

I need to help my 29-y-o brother learn
Q. I have a brother who is 29 years of age. When he was about 11 years old, he was diagnosed with a reading disability. The actual result of the assessment test was that he had the brain of a four-year-old.

What 'father' means to me
Forget the dictionary, whatever version you believe in. (Anyway, sometimes dictionaries are like supposedly holy books. Somebody, somewhere defined an objective reality from his/her decidedly subjective viewpoint, then other people used up a whole lot of time...

NCU arms cops with computer training
More than 50 police personnel from the region three police division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) - covering Clarendon, Manchester and St Elizabeth - recently received much-needed computer training to strengthen their crime-fighting skills.The...

BRIEFS - Deadly salon attack
One man was killed and a woman hospitalised in serious condition after a gun attack at a haircare establishment in Linstead, St Catherine, Sunday. Dead is Richard Bennett, 25, of Linstead.