Join the fight!
MRS. LOPEZ said her organisation and other civic groups including the Jamaica Exporters' Association and the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association, will close affiliated businesses on Wednesday to protest the country's frightening homicide...

Walshie's life celebrated
THE FUNERAL service for Inspector Lascelles Walsh held yesterday at the Church of the Open Bible on Washington Boulevard, was a regal affair.

'I want to be hangman'
SPALDINGS, Clarendon: MEMBER OF Parliament for North West Clarendon Richard Azan has expressed an interest in becoming the 'Hangman' as soon as Government decides to resume capital punishment.

$18m found in Zekes' house
THE POLICE and officers of the Financial Investigative Division early yesterday morning completed the count of millions of dollars in foreign and local currencies that were found at an uptown house owned by well-known Matthews Lane strongman Donald...

Child Care Act lacks bite
THE CHILD Care and Protection Act was designed for children who are at risk. But more than a year after the act has been passed, convenor of children's advocacy group, Hear the Children Cry, Betty-Ann Blaine, says the act lacks the requisite teeth and...

Social riddles ROOTED IN cultural identity - (Part II)
THERE IS an active stream of personality development in folk society with its own social and cultural manifestations. Although discipline is intended to bring order, the application is moreso impulsive and ad hoc than a systematic attempt...

The 'Babylon'-ganja battle
I'M NOT a Rasta any more than I'm into any religion, but I think they're right about many things such as the importance of ital food, free from chemical fertilizer and pesticides, and I think they're right about ganja.