Lifestyle Archive

Dear Counsellor: I have a weight problem and I have tried various diets, with no good result.

Ah, hello? Are we still here? Whew! The world didn't end after all. I tell you it was getting a bit uncomfortable there for a second. That small band of Christians from California who were hell-bent on convincing the world that certain doom...

Dear Counsellor,I am in the throes of a messy divorce.

The last two years have been busy for Guadeloupian reggae singer Cali P. He has worked the European festival circuit and contributed to the soundtrack of a high-profile documentary....

WITH VISION the people must flourish, has been the hallmark for success for Cinderella Anderson and Dehand Bentley Kelly, head honchos of Mango Valley Visionaries, an agro-processing plant in St Mary.

Dear Counsellor, my teenager is not doing well in school and I am concerned. He was a bright child, but is now failing in school.

It's early on a weekday morning, and Chippie the plumber from Old Harbour, St Catherine, is preparing his lunch for the long day ahead. He's standing at the side of the road at a place called Innswood...

Dear Counsellor: I am a single parent of two teenagers. They are very difficult to take care of.

It was just after five o'clock in the afternoon when, on my way to the Kingston waterfront, I met Raymond, a pot-bellied juice vendor. We were just outside a small shoemaker shop on East Street."Juice here, juice right here,"...

Q Doc, I am a guy of 20 who has done something crazy, and I would like you to give me some good advice.

When Maas Sherwood, who lives just outside Wigton in Manchester, gets up in the mornings, he puts his pants on, prepares a cup of mint tea and heads outside. It's usually still dark then, with morning dew still fresh on the grass outside his back door...

Tests taken by technicians from the Diabetes Association of Jamaica at a health fair sponsored by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education Fund (CHASE) for residents of Morant Bay, St Thomas, recently have revealed that a number of persons were ignoring the seriousness of their diabetic status and had to be referred to their health-care provider for follow-up treatment.