A community in crisis
WESTERN BUREAU: THE COMMUNITY of Great Bay, Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, is in crisis as scores of families, their homes and farms submerged in water, are grappling with an increasing sense of hopelessness.
Emergency cases only at UHWI
WATER WOES have forced the University Hospital of the West Indies to accept only emergency cases in its Accident and Emergency Unit. According to a release from the institution, the decision to cut back on the service to the public was taken because...
Rivers of blood: women and children at risk - Part I
ALMOST EVERY day, two weeks ago, there was a photograph on the front page of The Gleaner of a woman, her face shattered in by the agony of the pain of the death of children. Not normal death, but by the brutal murder, and sometimes rape by...
Golding's 1-3-6 approach
UNDER A Bruce Golding-led Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government, criminals will be arrested within a month, tried within three months, and the case disposed of six months later.
Lights still out!
SEVERAL COMMUNITIES are still without electricity as a result of a disruption in the power supply due to damage caused by the heavy rains. The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS)...
Tornadoes and other natural phenomena ...
MANY OF us associate disasters caused by tornadoes, water spouts and whirlwinds with other countries. So a news item on CVM-TV on Wednesday night that a tornado had destroyed the home of a woman in Hartlands, St. Catherine. was a surprise to many...
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