Published:Saturday | March 21, 2015 | 8:20 AMRyon Jones
The high crime rate coupled with the seemingly never-ending number of motor-vehicle accidents are paralysing the Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre. Dozens of persons who have survived motor-vehicle accidents, stabbings, gunshots, and children...
Published:Saturday | March 21, 2015 | 9:50 AMRyon Jones
Sports-medicine specialist Dr Paul Wright is concerned about how subservient local student athletes are to their coaches, who sometimes tell them to take pills and supplements without informing them about what they are ingesting.Addressing a Gleaner...
Published:Friday | March 6, 2015 | 11:12 AMRyon Jones
The National Water Commission (NWC) is downplaying the health risks associated with a major sewage-treatment plant in the middle of a residential community in the Corporate Area. Residents of Greenwich Town, in Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's...
Published:Saturday | March 7, 2015 | 12:49 PMRyon Jones
Despite several reports of children being sexually assaulted and even killed during the early-morning commute to schools, the practice is continuing with children, some as young as seven, being seen making their way on the roadways from as early as...
Published:Friday | February 27, 2015 | 12:10 PMRyon Jones
An upward trend in personal-injury claims from motor vehicle accidents over the past seven years has the Insurance Association of Jamaica convinced that scamming is on the upswing. "Certainly, there was a significant increase in terms of the number...
Published:Wednesday | February 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Local law-enforcement netted a big catch on Monday when they made the largest cocaine seizure to date this year, after 114 kilograms (251.327 pounds) of cocaine were prevented from departing Jamaica's shores.The drug haul, which has an estimated...
Published:Monday | February 23, 2015 | 4:54 PMRyon Jones
Bertha Powell, who on Wednesday joined the exclusive centenarian club, was described as the mother of her historic Maidstone community located in Manchester.So it was no surprise that a family affair last Saturday at the Nazareth All-Age School to...
Published:Friday | February 20, 2015 | 1:14 PMRyon Jones
More than seven years after she was infected with HIV by a needle while working as a nurse at a hospital in central Jamaica, Lydia James* is yet to receive one red cent in compensation from the State even though the Government has accepted liability...
Published:Saturday | February 21, 2015 | 12:05 PMRyon Jones
Medical technology students at the University of Technology (UTech) and Northern Caribbean University (NCU) are asking for equal treatment after the health ministry's recent decision to pay stipend to 32 of the 41 public health students on...
Published:Thursday | February 12, 2015 | 11:12 AMRyon Jones
If, God forbid, you were to meet in an accident and the other party offers to bear the full cost of repair without reference to the police or an insurer, you could be dealing with a motorist with fake insurance documents.
Published:Friday | January 30, 2015 | 1:20 PMRyon Jones
The level of sexual abuse being experienced by the nation's children has reached crisis proportions with preliminary data for the period January to March 2014 revealing that the Office of the Children's Registry received 918 such reports, a four per cent increase over the corresponding period last year.
Published:Saturday | February 7, 2015 | 10:21 AMRyon Jones
The Jamaica Money Remitters Association (JMRA) is reporting a reduction in the level of lottery-scamming activities at outlets operated by its members, but is demanding that more be done to ensure the downward trend continues.
Published:Saturday | February 7, 2015 | 11:14 AMRyon Jones
Chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), the Reverend Garnett Roper, has rejected the latest call from illegal route taxi operators for their services to be regularised.
