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REHAB RUSH! - Violence and motor vehicle accidents put pressure on Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre

Published:Saturday | March 21, 2015 | 8:20 AMRyon Jones

The high crime rate coupled with the seemingly never-ending number of motor-vehicle accidents are paralysing the Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre. Dozens of persons who have survived motor-vehicle accidents, stabbings, gunshots, and children...

Pill popping! - Student athletes warned not to blindly take what their coaches give

Published:Saturday | March 21, 2015 | 9:50 AMRyon Jones

Sports-medicine specialist Dr Paul Wright is concerned about how subservient local student athletes are to their coaches, who sometimes tell them to take pills and supplements without informing them about what they are ingesting.Addressing a Gleaner...

'Smelly City'

Published:Friday | March 6, 2015 | 11:12 AMRyon Jones

The National Water Commission (NWC) is downplaying the health risks associated with a major sewage-treatment plant in the middle of a residential community in the Corporate Area. Residents of Greenwich Town, in Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's...

Danger in the dark - Predawn commute by students putting them at risk

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2015 | 12:49 PMRyon Jones

Despite several reports of children being sexually assaulted and even killed during the early-morning commute to schools, the practice is continuing with children, some as young as seven, being seen making their way on the roadways from as early as...

Who's paying for insurance scams? - Some insurance companies increase prices to cover loss to false claims

Published:Friday | February 27, 2015 | 12:10 PMRyon Jones

An upward trend in personal-injury claims from motor vehicle accidents over the past seven years has the Insurance Association of Jamaica convinced that scamming is on the upswing. "Certainly, there was a significant increase in terms of the number...

Huge Cocaine Seizure at Kingston Container Terminal

Published:Wednesday | February 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Local law-enforcement netted a big catch on Monday when they made the largest cocaine seizure to date this year, after 114 kilograms (251.327 pounds) of cocaine were prevented from departing Jamaica's shores.The drug haul, which has an estimated...

Ms Bertha - 100 years of nurturing a family and a community

Published:Monday | February 23, 2015 | 4:54 PMRyon Jones

Bertha Powell, who on Wednesday joined the exclusive centenarian club, was described as the mother of her historic Maidstone community located in Manchester.So it was no surprise that a family affair last Saturday at the Nazareth All-Age School to...

HIV HORROR! - Nurse infected after being stabbed by patient pleads with Government to pay up

Published:Friday | February 20, 2015 | 1:14 PMRyon Jones

More than seven years after she was infected with HIV by a needle while working as a nurse at a hospital in central Jamaica, Lydia James* is yet to receive one red cent in compensation from the State even though the Government has accepted liability...

Unfair - Medical technology students at UTech and NCU cry foul after government cuts training stipend

Published:Saturday | February 21, 2015 | 12:05 PMRyon Jones

Medical technology students at the University of Technology (UTech) and Northern Caribbean University (NCU) are asking for equal treatment after the health ministry's recent decision to pay stipend to 32 of the 41 public health students on...

Real or fake! Bogus auto-insurance documents flood the market as scam widens

Published:Thursday | February 12, 2015 | 11:12 AMRyon Jones

If, God forbid, you were to meet in an accident and the other party offers to bear the full cost of repair without reference to the police or an insurer, you could be dealing with a motorist with fake insurance documents.

Sexual abuse a harsh reality for hundreds of Jamaican children

Published:Friday | January 30, 2015 | 1:20 PMRyon Jones

The level of sexual abuse being experienced by the nation's children has reached crisis proportions with preliminary data for the period January to March 2014 revealing that the Office of the Children's Registry received 918 such reports, a four per cent increase over the corresponding period last year.

Scammers retreat - Remittance agencies, police say lottery scamming is trending down

Published:Saturday | February 7, 2015 | 10:21 AMRyon Jones

The Jamaica Money Remitters Association (JMRA) is reporting a reduction in the level of lottery-scamming activities at outlets operated by its members, but is demanding that more be done to ensure the downward trend continues.

No room for robots! - JUTC rejects fresh call to regularise illegal taxi operators

Published:Saturday | February 7, 2015 | 11:14 AMRyon Jones

Chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), the Reverend Garnett Roper, has rejected the latest call from illegal route taxi operators for their services to be regularised.

Ministry of Health and University of Technology give green light to interns

Published:Monday | February 2, 2015 | 7:54 PMRyon Jones

UTech health students’ degrees in limbo

Published:Sunday | February 1, 2015 | 3:46 PMRyon Jones

The death of a dream …. Marlon King

Published:Saturday | January 31, 2015 | 9:56 AMRyon Jones

Punishing pensioners - NWU cancels health benefits for retired members who have moved to UCASE

Published:Friday | January 23, 2015 | 8:00 AMRyon Jones

Illegal taxi operators overrun gas stations under impotent police watch in Half-Way Tree

Published:Friday | January 23, 2015 | 1:56 PMRyon Jones

Marriage war! - Estranged couple each claim they were the victim in failed relationship

Published:Wednesday | January 21, 2015 | 11:27 AMRyon Jones

JMA rebuffs claim of victimisation

Published:Wednesday | January 21, 2015 | 2:29 PMRyon Jones

PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Manufactures' Association (JMA), Brian Pengelley, has rubbished claims by Granville Taylor that his company, Tay

Local manufacturer accuses the JMA of victimization

Published:Friday | January 16, 2015 | 4:59 PMRyon Jones

IN THE wake of his company's recent exclusion from the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA), Granville Taylor, managing director of T

Swiping thieves!

Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2014 | 12:37 PMRyon Jones

Swiping thieves!

Early hiccups for 'Tablets in Schools'

Published:Friday | December 12, 2014 | 7:48 AMRyon Jones

It might be a working Christmas for members of e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited and the Ministry of Education as they seek to ease the

FRAUD ALERT!

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2014 | 1:18 PMRyon Jones


Cardholders being cheated out of $millions at gas pumps

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Pumping to the last drop

Published:Friday | December 5, 2014 | 11:46 AMRyon Jones

Random gas stations pass volume test after complaints from motorists

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