Murder is leading cause of death in males
Dr. Elizabeth Ward, director of disease prevention and control in the Health Ministry: WHAT WE have seen over the last 30 years is a tremendous increase in the number of cases of violence...It has had tremendous impact on the health services...
Jamalco expansion gets the green light
ALCOA'S BOARD of directors on Wednesday approved further expansion plans for the Jamalco alumina refinery in Clarendon. An investment of US$1.2 billion will see the refinery's capacity double from 1.3 to 2.8 million tons per year.
Our children are wired for violence
DR. MAUREEN SAMMS-VAUGHAN, chairperson, Early Childhood Commission/development consultant and behavioural paediatrician: VIOLENCE AND aggression in adulthood ... starts with a child who is difficult, then progresses to a child with conduct problems...
Violence taxes hospitals - Prof
PROF. ARCHIE MCDONALD, Head, Department of Surgery, University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI): OVER A six-year period, there were just over 25,500 admissions to the surgical services at the UHWI....
Audience proposes solutions to violence - Put more money to help violence-torn communities
RALPH CHEN, Entrepreneur, financial planner and civic and consumer affairsadvocate:...Crime is a symptom of the real problem which is a lack of economic opportunity and social decay ...
'Politicians are responsible'
RICHARD ALBERT, EPISCOPAL VICAR FOR ST. CATHERINE: WE SEE people being affected emotionally, physically, but the political directorate, they feel, is either not interested or is basically incapable (of helping them).
Man charged with double killing appears before court
PETER DOUGAL, the man charged with the murder of former president of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA), Lloyd G. Brown, and his fiancée, Sandra Campbell, appeared before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
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