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THE MEDIA fraternity was yesterday plunged into mourning after journalist Patricia Roxborough-Wright lost her battle with cancer.The 41-year-old is a past employee of The Gleaner and The Jamaica Observer."The fraternity has lost one of its brightest...

A video on a popular United States website showing a Jamaican man beating a woman has drawn sharp condemnation from two local experts on women's rights.The video, which up to 6:30 yesterday evening had had more...

Jamaica is one of 33 participating countries across the Caribbean region participating in a tsunami alert simulation tomorrow, using a 7.6 earthquake off the coast of the United States Virgin Islands as the premise...

Blame was everywhere. So, too, were anger and grief as residents of Langston Terrace and the neighbouring McGregor Gully in Vineyard Town, St Andrew, processed news about the tragic deaths of two-year-old twin sisters in a fire in the community...

Head of the Grace and Staff Community Development Foundation, Frances Madden, has appealed for more private-sector support for inner-city communities.Madden, who was delivering the 2011 GraceKennedy Foundation Lecture at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel...

Cultural icon and co-founder of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), Sheila Barnett, passed away on Saturday, leaving a legacy of dance to continue moving the Jamaican spirit.The mother of three, who is survived...

Following reports that members of the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) swooped down on an alleged human-trafficking ring last Friday, rescuing seven alleged victims, reports have surfaced pointing to downtown...

Head of the social work department at the Bustamante Hospital for Children, Andrene Gordon Peck, is pushing for the prosecution of abusive parents as one means of dealing with Jamaica's child-abuse problem....

With roughly 180,000 people registered with the National Health Fund (NHF) living with high blood pressure, a lifestyle change to a low-salt diet is strongly being encouraged by the organisation.According to Hugh Lawson, NHF chief executive officer...

INADEQUATE STAFFING at the Bustamante Hospital for Children is severely hampering patient care, Dr Dayanand Sawh, head of the Orthopaedics Unit at the hospital, told The Sunday Gleaner.The doctor pointed out that the Arthur Wint Drive paediatric hospital opened in 1963 with 250 beds, but 48 years later, the number of beds has not increased.

A STUDY directed by a United States-based academic institute has found that 81 per cent of Jamaicans believe their politicians and other public officials are corrupt. By contrast, however, the study, directed by the Latin America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) ... found that only 7.8 per cent of Jamaicans have reported direct experience of corruption victimisation or petty corruption.