DWINDLING COASTLINES - Hazards of the Jamaican coastline - Beach erosion: A response to rising sea level?
IN THE South Pacific, Papua New Guinea's Carteret islands are being drowned by rising sea levels. Over the past 20 years the inhabitants of these islands have watched their homes being washed away by waves and their fruit trees die...
Seasonal abrasion along the coast
SEASONAL EROSION results mainly from bad weather conditions along the coast, such as winter northers and summer tropical depressions and hurricanes. These raise storm waves that erode the beach and either deposit the eroded sand offshore...
Some beaches slowly retreating inland
IN ADDITION to the seasonal erosion caused by storms, the slow rise in sea level described in our previous article means that the oceans are gradually encroaching on the land, and the beaches are retreating landwards as a result.
One year after three children were slaughtered in Kilancholly, St Mary...Community slowly heals
IT WAS the event that rocked the entire nation and sent reverberations across the world. Three children, all siblings, hacked to death as they slept in their beds in the little-known district of Kilancholly in the hills of southern St. Mary.
Public Defender files two civil suits against Attorney-General
THE OFFICE of the Public Defender has begun civil proceedings against the Attorney-General as co-defendant following the disappearance of two men who were last seen in the custody of the police.
Central Clarendon MP Henry concerned about rising HIV/AIDS cases
MEMBER OF Parliament for Central Clarendon, Mike Henry is expressing concerns about the increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases in that parish. Speaking at Wednesday's sitting of Parliament's Human Resources and Social Development Committee...
Bruce dismisses Prime Minister's remarks
OPPOSITION LEADER Bruce Golding says he has no memory of ever announcing that he was abandoning the bipartisan talks between the Government and his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). "I don't know what the Prime Minister is talking about. What did I announce?
Man gets seven years for buggering boys
A MAN, who pleaded guilty to the buggery of several young boys ranging from ages eight to 17 years, was yesterday sentenced to seven years imprisonment. He is 30-year-old Berth Williams, a shopkeeper of Mammee River, St. Andrew.
Another student stabbed
WHILE THE police, parents, school administrators, members of the Clark's Town and Falmouth communities were preparing for a meeting to discuss the stabbing death of a Cedric Titus High School student yesterday morning, another stabbing incident occurred..
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