Gordon House moved to tears - Foreigner laments role in daughter's abortion
TEARS FLOWED freely in Gordon House yesterday during a gripping presentation by a foreigner, now living in Jamaica, who recounted a tale of how she forced her daughter to carry out an abortion. She has been haunted by the grave decision...
Amnesty: Death penalty not best for Jamaica
Human-rights lobby, Amnesty International, has joined voices globally advising the Jamaican Government to remove the death penalty from its books. For the second time in 30 years, Parliament is considering whether the penalty should be retained in the Constitution...
Jamaican heads int'l criminal tribunal
Patrick Lipton Robinson, a Jamaican judge serving at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, assumed duties as president of that tribunal on Monday.Judge Robinson was first elected to the tribunal in 1998 and has been re-elected...
Green clarifies media utterances on alert system
The Broadcasting Commission yesterday said it was deeply concerned by a statement issued earlier this week by the Media Association of Jamaica (MAJ) which, it believes, has created a controversy out of "a matter involving a genuine effort to respond to...
Woman Inc on exhibition
On Saturday and Sunday (November 22 and 23) WOMAN INC, in association with The Jamaica Pegasus, will hold its 19th Trade Fair and Exhibition at The Pegasus.Maria Rankine, counsellor at the Crisis Centre, said Woman Inc is an organisation that aims...
Securing the homeland - The functions and role of the JDF
The views expressed by Anthony Samuels (Letter of the Day November 4, 2008): 'Merge security units in crime strategy', certainly sow the seeds for healthy debate on the overall security challenges facing Jamaica today. More specifically, the views about the relevance...
World AIDS Day still alive after 20 years
For Eric Sawyer, the late 1980s was a "war-time situation". "People with AIDS were fighting for their lives and for their friends," says Sawyer, an AIDS activist and co-founder of ACT UP New York. By 1988, seven years after the first case of AIDS...
It's all in the blood
Donating blood is easy and is an exercise in altruism, say regular contributors.Carol Williams, blood donor organiser at the National Blood Transfusion Service in Kingston, told The Gleaner that the organisation offers individuals a free haemoglobin test...
Disposing of dead animals
Getting rid of a dead animal on your road may seem burdensome, but the effects of ignoring it might be even worse. Bradshaw Isaacs, environmental health specialist, said the stench from a decaying animal causes a general nuisance, but carrion has wider health...
Accused helped to move children's bodies, court told
Five witnesses have so far testified at the trial of 32-year-old security guard Jeffrey Perry, who is charged with the murder of three children at Killancholly, St Mary in January 2005. The trial began on Monday in the Home Circuit Court and the first witness...
March trial for men on murder rap
The two men charged with the murder of 48-year-old gas station operator Sylvia Edwards are to return to the Home Circuit Court on March 16 next year when their trial will begin. The trial date was set Wednesday when the men appeared in the Home Circuit...