Don't touch! - Christian legal group wants sanctions against fondling
The advocacy group, Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, is calling for legal sanctions against fondling, and what it characterises as inappropriate touching, acts which are short of incest, as defined, which might be committed by one family member...
Anti-crime focus in the west
With some 52 persons murdered in the first 10 days of the new year, the Portia Simpson Miller-led government will be concentrating more of its resources in the parishes of St. James and Westmoreland, where 35 per cent of the victims....
'Immigrants to Canada and US need vaccination'
NEW YORK (Reuters Health): Many new immigrants and refugees to the United States and Canada are susceptible to measles, mumps and rubella. In particular, immigrant women show lower rates of immunity to rubella than immigrant men.
Fire truck in fatal collision
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: One man was killed yesterday and several persons admitted to hospital, including seven firefighters, following a five-vehicle collision in the Braeton-Hellshire area of Portmore, St. Catherine.
Cousin an' cousin - Call for Parliament to outlaw close relatives marrying
Should there be a law barring first cousins from marrying each other? That taboo question was raised during yesterday's meeting of a Joint Select Committee of Parliament, and generated strong arguments for and against criminal sanctions.
USAID boosts malaria fight
The Ministry of Health yesterday got a boost in its fight against malaria, after it was presented with $6 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The money is the first of two payments...
Cops seek 15-y-o mother's lover
The St. Catherine police are searching for the man who fathered the child of a 15-year-old who gave birth at the Spanish Town Hospital on New Year's Day. The girl's case became public when she was showered with gifts...
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