Wanted: 131 children! Slow adoption process frustrates potential parents
MORE THAN 130 Jamaicans are waiting patiently in line to adopt children who are yet to be identified.

Protecting our children, safeguarding out future: Protect your son
JAMAICAN PARENTS are usually very careful about who they leave their young daughters with but they will leave their sons with almost anybody, especially a woman.

Women on the prowl: Grown women sexually abusing teenage boys much more frequently than reported
FEMALE SEXUAL predators are on the prowl in Jamaica, targeting young boys, but most of these abusive acts are occurring below the radar.

Performance-based pay for teachers gets a nod
The vexed issue of teacher performance-based pay has encountered mixed comments from teachers, as well as persons outside the profession.

They want mom - Small survivors, biggest problem in quake's aftermath
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): In a quake-smashed city where hundreds of thousands go to sleep hungry and hurting in sordid street camps, eight-year-old Benoit Wodson has at least a bunk bed, food and friends to play with on a lawn beneath the mango trees.

More money, less care - Is long-distance love from foreign-based parents enough?
SOCIOLOGIST Dr Claudette Crawford-Brown has identified a new phenomenon of 'Western Union' children who have replaced the concept of 'barrel'...

REUNITED! Stranded Haitian teen safely with grandma
A 15-year-old Haitian girl of Jamaican parents is now with family members in Portland after being stranded for approximately three weeks on the earthquake ravaged streets of Port-au-Prince.