Lifestyle Archive

MILE GULLY businessman Vincent Clarke's life is a living testament that through hard work and proper planning, you can achieve your goals in life. Clarke operates the Petcom gas station in Mile Gully, which is the popular stop for motorists in that section of Manchester.

The following is feedback to last week's Roving with Lalah.Robert, I left Jamaica long ago and thoroughly enjoy your stories on Tuesdays.

I am a guy of 21, and my fiancée has pointed out to me that I appear to have three testicles. Doc, is this possible?

My daughter has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has dropped out of school. She is very bright and was doing well at school. Her school performance deteriorated over one term and she became withdrawn and started to talk foolishness.

ST THOMAS is a scenic parish of magnificent mountains, dramatic coastlines and verdant belts of sugar cane, meandering rivers, sparkling waterfalls, and historical ruins. It is also home to the world-famous Bath Fountains and Botanical Gardens. But within this abundance of natural and manmade beauty hardship lingers, daily gripping and suffocating many young people.

His humble demeanour and mature outlook on life are two of the defining features that impress people who have encountered 18-year-old Aubrey Stewart, who has a driving passion to provide service to his community.

Well, this is nice. A cloudless blue sky. A calm, inviting sea. What serenity. What blissful tranquility. Whoosh! A huge red truck suddenly shot by at alarming speed right in front of me.....

Q. Doc, I have heard that there is some kind of rhythm method of avoiding pregnancies. My boyfriend and I would like to use this.

Well, Uncle Trevor is certainly a chatty fellow. Never mind the moniker, it was my first time meeting him. I had been walking around in Middleton, a community high in the hills of rural St Andrew (near Newcastle), when the short, dreadlocked man stepped out...

From the beginning of time, man has been trying to find the 'Fountain of Youth'. Throughout centuries, this search has gone in different directions, but has always been futile. As we grow old, our beauty and vitality decrease. It's the sacrifice we pay for experience.

Doc, what are the chances of getting pregnant from just one act of sex? I am female, age 21, and this week I met a very handsome guy at a party. Although I did not mean to, I went to bed with him. We just had sex once, and then he got up and left. I know I should have taken the morning-after pill, but I did not. Is it likely that I am pregnant?

I have a son who is 15 years old and he is not doing well in school. He is disrespectful to his father and me. He does not follow instructions and fights his brothers and sister. My household consists of his father, his siblings, and me. He is smoking and keeping his room untidy. He doesn't see anything wrong with his behaviour and refuses to go to a counsellor.