Stories by Erica Virtue

The image of a primary school child using the bottom half of a bleach bottle as a drinking cup at Woodlands Primary School nearly three decades ago sent a young Shelly-Ann Richmond home that evening to ask her parents why.Although Neville and Thelma...

Joan Gordon-Webley, the former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) firebrand whose application for membership in the People's National Party (PNP) has stirred up a hornet's nest, is neither surprised nor fazed by the controversy.The veteran politician says...

Members of the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) parliamentary group last Friday sought to downplay the thunderstorm which reportedly unfolded inside the meeting at the party's Belmont Road headquarters, during a six-hour-long caucus of 20 of the party's...

Despite the daily danger on the job and the recent killing of one of their gender, women are not shying away from the dangerous task of policing the nation's violent streets.In fact, hundreds of women are beating down the doors of the Jamaica...

With more and more students turning up at schools with cellular phones, administrators are mulling a unified position around the use of these devices amid concern for the safety of students and the possible negative issues related to the use of...

Former Prime minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, is questioning the value of church groups and members of civil society in the social-partnership talks taking place locally.The government, private sector and trade unions were the three parties at the...

With work reportedly taking place behind the scenes, head of the education and training subcommittee of the logistics hub task force, Dr Fritz Pinnock, has sought to allay fears that the Goat Islands project is dead.Pinnock, head of Caribbean...

Greater Works International Fellowship, the non-denominational 'prophetic ministry', which has been operating in the Red Hills Mall, St Andrew, since 2007, has been ordered to move out by this weekend.The Supreme Court has ruled that the church was...

Nearly two decades after Andrew Geohagen first dreamt of a multipurpose sports complex for his community of Franklin Town in east Kingston, the dream is set to become a reality.On July 5, when work is completed, the Poverty Reduction Programme of...

Advocates Jamaica - an organisation committed to deepening youth participation in the Jamaican socio-political landscape - has rekindled the debate on paternity leave for Jamaican fathers.In a contribution to mark today, which is being celebrated as...

Three years after persons squatting on premises on Beeston Street - near the Parliament building - were served notice to leave, many are still there, and they have been joined by a new set of squatters with claims that they have the Government's...