Abortion fiction! - Bio-ethics professor rejects data on botched procedures
Dr John Patrick, a professor of science and bio-ethics from Ottawa, Canada, and a former consultant with the Tropical Metabolism and Research Unit in Kingston, says disturbing data about botched abortions in Jamaica is purely fictional. The abortion policy review advisory group...
Parents needed in literacy fight
If Jamaica is to improve its literacy rate, parental involvement has to be integral in the process, says Jennifer Silvera, regional literacy coordinator for the Ministry of Education's Region Six. Speaking during a Gleaner Editors' Forum held recently...
Hanover communities suffer from water woes
WESTERN BUREAU: Councillor of the Chester Castle division in Hanover, Wynter McIntosh, says he is concerned about "serious water problems" in sections of his division, despite the recent implementation of the National Water Commission's Shettlewood Water Supply Project...
Inside the Parish Councils
LUCEA, Hanover: The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) came under fire from Hanover parish councillors during its regular monthly meeting of the Hanover Parish Council on Thursday.The councillors expressed dissatisfaction after cleansing...
Modernisation of court system on track - Lightbourne
Minister of Justice Dorothy Lightbourne says major plans to modernise and transform the nation's court system have commenced. In addressing the assize service to mark the opening of the Michaelmas session of the Home Circuit Court at the East Queen...
Veteran journalist Monica Dias dies
The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) yesterday joined members of the media fraternity in paying tribute to veteran journalist Monica Dias, who died at the Andrews Memorial Hospital, in St Andrew, following a long battle with cancer."Dias, 56 years...
Four more days
The two contenders for the top job in the People's National Party (PNP), President Portia Simpson Miller and challenger Dr Peter Phillips, pulled out all the stops yesterday in what were expected to be the last major rallies ...
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