Imagine a jail cell measuring 5' x 7' holding 15 children age 12 to 17!Such are the overcrowded conditions at the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay, which has the largest population of juveniles in custody in Jamaica.
Everald Warmington, the former member of parliament for South West St Catherine, has a long history of hot-tempered outbursts and vulgar public comments, many of them broadsides against the media. A sample from published news reports is listed below.
A review of 238 cases of paediatric thigh bone fractures in children, 12 years and under, treated at the nation's only paediatric hospital - the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) - over an eight-year period, is pointing to a significant pattern of toddler abuse.
ANNOTTO BAY, St Mary:The annual St Mary Agri-Expo Show to be held at the Gray's Inn Sports Club on Easter Monday, April 25, will be worth going miles to see, according to Jeff McKitty, chairman of the show committee.
MINISTER OF Industry, Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, told a roomful of potential United Kingdom investors, black business entrepreneurs and diaspora members in London recently that Jamaica...
CHARLES TOWN, Portland:THIRTY-ONE persons received awards for outstanding contribution and invaluable service to community development during the 66th anniversary celebration of the Charles Town Gospel Chapel, Portland, recently.
The security guard takes time to express his thanks to Leo Lambert (centre), Jamalco's corporate services and government affairs manager, as Dr Henritta Stewart, principal of Vere Technical High School, looks on shortly after the official opening of the...
POINT HILL, St Catherine:"NOWADAYS, WI fraid fi gunman, but at that time we used to fraid fi duppy," Ivy Parker-Bryan recollects how she used to sleep with her doors and windows open without fear of being attacked, or anything stolen.
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding yesterday charged that the extradition treaty between Jamaica and the United States is tilted heavily in favour of the superpower, and has effectively compromised the island's sovereignty.
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding told the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry yesterday that he was livid when Harold Brady told him that United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips preferred to represent the Government of Jamaica over the Jamaica Labour Party.
OUTGOING CHILDREN'S Advocate, Mary Clarke, has renewed calls for an audit of all play areas and community parks for children.Responding to the incident on Thursday at Sts Peter and Paul Preparatory School in St Andrew, Clarke pointed out that the Office...
CHRISTOPHER 'DUDUS' Coke was yesterday described by Prime Minister Bruce Golding as a man who wielded considerable influence in Tivoli Gardens, a stronghold of Golding's West Kingston constituency.
ADULTS HUGGED and kissed the grade 4-1 classmates of Jeremiah Yson in between tears yesterday, while each child created a memorial of him and placed it on his desk.
THREE MEN implicated in last month's $60-million heist were yesterday charged with robbery, illegal possession of firearm, and conspiracy.The police have identified the men as Andrae Malcolm, who is employed to a...
THE JAMAICAN Bar Association has issued a reminder to the police that they cannot legally barge into the offices of lawyers and seize documents or other records.Responding to reports that a group of cops visited the offices of the solicitor general on...
WESTERN BUREAU:THE ST James Police have committed to disrupt and dismantle three major gangs in the parish by the end of March as part of its ten-pronged plan to tame the crime monster over the next 12 months.Senior Superintendent of Police in charge of...
PASSLEY GARDENS, Portland: THERE ARE mixed reactions from parents whose children will not be allowed to sit the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) next week.The Ministry of Education took...
An oversized abdomen can lead to prostate cancer, a new study shows. On the other hand, increased consumption of the Jamaican avocado can significantly reduce the risk....
The testimony of Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne suffered another setback yesterday when Oliver Smith, the attorney representing Solicitor General Douglas Leys, indicated that his client was prepared to subject...
Consumers are at their wits' end on how to make ends meet, while still being able to feed their families, given the increase in flour and flour-based products by as much as 18 per cent this weekend, coupled...
The usual sight of cheerful children playing on the grounds of Sts Peter and Paul Preparatory School in St Andrew was yesterday replaced by sorrow and shock as a freak accident claimed the life of a member of the institution's community....
