The fear that their partners will be charged with having sexual intercourse with a minor is causing many pregnant young girls to refuse to name the fathers of their children.And even in the cases where the father of the child is also a minor,...
At a time when most students her age are getting ready to sit the Grade Six Achievement Test, 12-year-old Alicia*, is preparing to give birth to a baby that is allegedly fathered by her 52-year-old relative. The child is now seven months pregnant and...
Administrator of the Committee for the Upliftment of the Mentally Ill (CUMI), Nurse Joy Crooks, is expressing concern about the tendency to label perpetrators of vicious crimes as being mentally ill, without them being properly diagnosed."Not...
Parents could be in trouble if their children are harmed during early-morning commute. Parents who allow their children to hit the roads in the wee hours of the morning with no protection or support could find themselves in trouble with the law if the...
The failure of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) to regularly collect garbage at a corporate area school has left the school's principal beyond frustrated after the institution was given a failing grade for cleanliness by health...
Fixing the nutritional deficiencies affecting the learning of basic school students in the communities around the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is high on the agenda of the Mona Social Services (MSS) unit which wants to wean...
It is her love for children that drove Inez Burnett to foster eight of them over the years, and it is this same love that is pushing her to seek justice for her youngest foster child, who was hit by a bus close...
With more than 380 work-related accidents, and a number of on-the-job deaths reported in the last fiscal year, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Colette Roberts Risden, is warning that Jamaicans will continue to be...
Just as some parents were getting used to text language, such as 'LOL' (laugh out loud) or 'DWL' (dead with laugh), the children have managed to widen the generation gap by adopting a whole new...
Scores of Christians locally have joined the international campaign mounted by domestic violence activists, religious leaders and conservative politicians for the boycotting of the erotic film Fifty Shades of Grey.Despite being banned in several...
To the onlooker, Ronald and Evon Blair's relationship seemed unlikely to last. It was not the head-over-heels whirlwind romance, and her family was so much against them getting married that their wedding was postponed three times.
A property owner's decision to block access to a drain in his yard, which was built by the Government to divert storm water from Omara Road in the Corporate Area, has sparked anger in the community, but the man is adamant that he had no choice.
With a pound of salt fish being sold on average for $500, many Jamaicans have been forced to adjust the national dish by substituting the salted cod with other ingredients such as salt mackerel, red herring, chicken back, or sausage.
