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Delroy Greysits on a bench at the Bellevue Hospital staring into the unknown. He stares with an intensity of purpose as if he were carefully observing the workings of the world inside his head. Delroy suffers from schizophrenia, and today, the mentally ill 34-year-old, whose ragged and dishevelled clothes are hanging on his frail frame, is being abandoned by a frustrated relative.

More than a year after stakeholders met to put an end to the slackness that was taking place at the government-operated Half-Way Tree Transport Centre, it remains a hub of indecency and violence.

There is no escaping the symbolism of the acronym for the organisation the Reverend Napoleon Black of the Maverley Gospel Hall in St Andrew spearheads. The acronym is PATHH - Pastors According To His Heart - and is intended to keep persons of the cloth on the straight and narrow. Or, if they wander, lead them back to it.

For 20 years, Delroy McIntosh has been locked away in correctional facilities - most of that time at the maximum-security Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre. There, he has lived among some of Jamaica's most hardened criminals. But Delroy was never sentenced or tried prior to his two-decade-long imprisonment.

WESTERN BUREAU: TAGGING JAMAICANS as "ingenious advanced thinkers", Chilean Ambassador Alfredo García said Jamaica's gesture to host the 33 miners who were trapped, their spouses, and rescue workers…

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine:Health Minister Rudyard Spencer said on Thursday that he would be working with the National Works Agency and the parish council in an effort to avoid a recurrence of the flooding at the Spanish Town Hospital.

Port Antonio, Portland:Newly installed president of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) in Portland, Dr Victor Homer Charles Watt, has pledged to transform the institution into a facility of higher...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Portland: Portland is best known for its frequent rainfall, lush, green vegetation, rivers, beaches and outstanding achievers.

With chicken meat and wheat prices set to increase, The Gleaner took to the streets to get reactions from members of the public.

WESTERN BUREAU:The first three ships scheduled to dock at the historic Falmouth Port next month have been diverted to the resort towns of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, cruise-ship officials have confirmed to The Gleaner.The ships, Holland America's Ryndham...

The following is taken from the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica's Economic Policy Framework. Self-employed persons and small businesses with less than 50 employees account for an estimated 65 per cent of the employed labour force in Jamaica.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding and mayor of Kingston, Desmond McKenzie, were miles away from downtown Kingston yesterday, but they still bore the brunt of the bashing from vendors angry over the decision of the police...