AS A young girl, Angella Nichol travelled from the rural parish of Trelawny to Kingston, to pursue her tertiary studies at the then Mico Teachers’ College. She was vibrant and full of life, and had many expectations to be at the top of her career...
Charlene Dixon grew up with her grandmother, Linneth Price, in Trinityville, St Thomas. Price, a strong disciplinarian, imparted impenetrable values to her granddaughter that have remained with her throughout her life. As a child, Dixon, along with...
If you ask most people to rank their organs, their liver might be way down the list. Maybe just above spleen, but day and night it breaks down food, fights infection, and filters bad stuff from your blood. You can’t live without it. Luckily, you...
Understanding the benefits of a soft food diet, to establishing regular eating habits, nutrition can play an important part in your journey when you are faced with a colorectal cancer diagnosis. Eating a well-balanced diet before, during, and after...
THE MAKING An Impact All-Together (MAIA) Foundation, a non-profit organisation, is committed to shaping today’s young minds into tomorrow’s climate leaders. As an environmental charity, it is committed to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development...
YOUR BLOOD type is important when it comes to donating blood or receiving a transfusion, but did you also know it may make you more or less likely to have certain diseases? Generally, knowing your blood type is not necessary unless there is a...
LIVING IN an inner-city community can be difficult, but 22-year-old Asha Murray has been rising above the challenges and, despite her circumstances, has been helping others to succeed. A final-year student at The University of the West Indies (UWI...
Surgically removing the cancer is the most common treatment for many stages of colorectal cancer. Chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapy, radio frequency ablation, and cryosurgery are other treatments that may be used to treat colorectal cancer...
THOUGH YOU rarely hear about endometriosis in the news, it is actually the third leading cause of gynaecologic hospitalisation and among the leading causes of the estimated 600,000 hysterectomies performed each year in the United States. There is...
Patrice Gray has sought to use her resources in the best way to assist the people in her community. The 34-year-old from Thornton, in St Elizabeth, wants to see her community flourish and has been using her place of business to facilitate the...
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the inability to get or keep an erection firm enough to have sexual intercourse. It is sometimes referred to as impotence, although this term is now used less often. Occasional erectile dysfunction is not uncommon. Many...
ST ELIZABETH is known the world over as the ‘breadbasket’ of Jamaica, producing a large quantity of ground provisions, root crops, fruits, vegetables, tree crops, sugar, rum, coffee and ginger. In the early days, like most parishes, sugar cane...
Many people have at least one of three key risk factors for heart disease and stroke that includes high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking. Both heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death; however, small, gradual lifestyle...
IF YOU are sounding a little hoarse and have a sore throat, you may be bracing for a cold or a bout of the flu. But if you have had these symptoms for a while, they might be caused not by a virus but by a valve, your lower oesophageal sphincter....
KADIAN JAMES has taken on the worthy and fulfilling challenge of sharing her family meals with the homeless, mentally challenged, the disabled and the elderly in and around St Mary. It is a fulfilling experience for James, who hails from Annotto...
Your immune system does a remarkable job of defending you against disease causing microorganisms. But sometimes it fails, and a germ successfully invade your body. The idea of boosting your immunity is enticing, but the ability to do so has proved...
AT THE start of the coronavirus pandemic, about 2.5 million women lost their jobs or dropped out of the workforce, but that is just the start of the impact from the pandemic on women. Unfortunately, research has already started seeing evidence of...
A few months into the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Jamaica, Andra Morgan, a bus driver of Barrett Town, Montego Bay, St James, caught a mere glimpse of Stephanie-Ann Royal, a food service supervisor, and decided that this was the woman he...
FOR THE last 11 years, Fabian Barracks, writer, director and founder of Barracks Entertainment, has been empowering young people through the arts. He not only uses theatre for entertainment, but also gives young people an avenue to help them combat...
World Cancer Day will be celebrated on Friday. When cancer comes into your home, your home dynamics will definitely change, and as the person who assumes the role of a primary caregiver you will need to understand the potential changes and grapple...
THERE IS no doubt that having an available resource to which micro entrepreneurs can tap into creates a boon for businesses, their owners and their families to flourish. The Made in Manchester movement began in 2016, initially to provide a platform...
The Mandeville suburbs has been a favourite destination for retired residents returning home from overseas and a place for many persons to live and visit because of its very cool climate. However, crime has been the cause of the economic downturn...
Justine Henzell, co-founder and producer of the Calabash Literary Festival, said she is deeply saddened by the death of Ralph Thompson, whom she credits as one of the first to read at the inaugural staging of Calabash. The Jamaican poet,...
Jamaican film-maker J.P. Williams of The Studio Eight signalled that he was a force to be reckoned with in the local and international film industry with the release of his second film, Uhuru-A Christmas Story, shot on location in the East African...
Fifteen years ago, Tanesha Bryce-Rainford started her philanthropic journey, selflessly giving back to her community by showing love and kindness to those in need, and fulfilling God’s divine purpose for her life. This journey started after she...
