'Shotta' the image
The parishes of Kingston and St Andrew comprise many inner-city communities whose residents have many social and financial challenges. In these cramped urban spaces, you will find illiterate and dispossessed youth, teenaged...
Don't ignore the Charter of Rights
The demonstration by Parliamentarians, last week, that they would not surrender the country to criminals was bold and commendable. Amid the fears, anxiety and death that gripped downtown Kingston due to the stand-off...
Bethel Basic School wins TUS 2010 Quiz
Bethel Basic school located on Church Road, Bog Walk, St.Catherine, has been crowned True United Sisters' (TUS) 2010 Basic Schools' Quiz champions. Bethel Basic defeated Harker's Hall Basic school 16-6 in the finals...
Guide our teachers
Former Principal of the Charlie Smith High School and recent recipient of the Prime Minister's Medal of Appreciation for Service to Education, Pauletta Chevannes, is calling for more structured mentorship programmes within the teaching fraternity."...
Citizens urged to look in the mirror
THE AL Miller-led National Transformation Programme (NTP) has urged the nation to be "introspective, reflective, and contemplative" on the events which led to the security forces incursion of Tivoli Gardens in west Kingston.
Empty Church in Hannah Town
It was a damp and grey day, and the smell of wild flowers wafted inside the place of worship as west Kingston's Hannah Town churchgoers offered signs of peace. One bloody...
West Kingston incursion justified - resident
Having experienced some of the most violent incidents in west Kingston, Pauline Perez thought she had passed through the worst.Then came last week's bloody clash between gunmen and security forces in the area which...
Diaspora convention postponed
The Jamaican Biennial Diaspora Convention scheduled for June 14-17 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Hotel, Ocho Rios, St Ann, has been postponed until further notice.
Children's birthday parties
Birthdays are significant milestones in our lives, and if they go unnoticed by the people we love, then we might be offended. I don't think it really matters what you do on this special day, as long as it is acknowledged and celebrated in some way.
My parents are driving me crazy!
Q I am a 17-year-old university student and I reside in the Kingston area with my parents. I really need your help. I can't live with my parents anymore, they are overbearing and annoying...
Politically incorrect parenting
I was about nine years old when I first heard a gunshot which was caused by anger. It was in the run-up to the 1980 general election, which was accompanied by an undeclared civil war. I was at Lyssons All-Age School in St Thomas...
Crime strategies must include children
Any strategy to tackle crime and violence in society must take children into consideration, said social worker Dr Claudette Crawford-Brown while addressing the audience at a recent Child Month lecture. She says while the security forces might apprehend...