We are all connected
Hi neighbour! If you have been reading this column from day one, with a memory a little better than mine, you would recall that in my third instalment I said when we speak of 'neighbours', we speak of everyone everywhere, not just the person who lives...
New project to rescue Spanish Town youths
MINISTER OF Youth, Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, has expressed opti-mism that the establishment of a new youth information centre in Spanish Town, St Catherine, will stem the incidence of delin-quency among young people and get them back to work....
PICA Corner - Abandoned, with no proof of identity, but seeking lifeline
Q. I have been visiting Jamaica as a missionary for the past five years. There's a young lady in the St Ann's Bay Infirmary who has been a blessing to me in my travels. She was born in Kingston with deformities but her birth mother abandoned her as a baby...
Bugger denied - Faces five years in the slammer
THE COURT of Appeal, in throwing out the appeal of a 39-year-old male teacher who sexually molested a 13-year-old schoolboy, last week described his behaviour as most disgusting. The appellant, Mark Beckford, of Black River, St Elizabeth, is to serve his five-year ...
St James residents against abortion
WESTERN BUREAU: St James residents who turned out at a forum last Wednesday took a near-unanimous stance against the legalisation of abortion in Jamaica. The forum, hosted at the Montego Bay Civic Centre, was organised by a joint select committee ...
Book ship looking to connect beyond the page - Cultural exchange a key mandate for Logos
WESTERN BUREAU: A boost of cultural exchange between Jamaica and the rest of the world is expected to occur through the docking of the Logos Hope book ship in Montego Bay and Kingston as it seeks to sell more than books...
Portland crash fund shrinking
A TRUST fund set up by the Office of the Prime Minister, to assist children in the Rio Grande Valley of Portland who lost breadwinners in a truck accident in 2008, is rapidly dwindling. The fund, set up in January 2009...
Man convicted of sex charge
A 43-year-old man who was charged with sexually molesting an underage girl was found guilty in the St Catherine Circuit Court last week on two counts of indecent assault. The jury of five women and two men retired for one hour and 10 minutes and returned...