'I love my baby' - Abandoned child's mother says she could not cope
The stories which emerged late last year about a promiscuous teenager who abandoned her physically handicapped baby to attend the annual stage show Sting do not ring true when one looks at the soft-spoken teenager of a Denham Town, west Kingston, address...
GoGSAT, go!
Approximately 4,000 at-risk inner-city primary-school students are to benefit from an educational venture designed to improve Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) passes and hopefully break the back of gang recruitment in violence-plagued communities....
Lawyers say abortion proposal 'revolting'
THE COALITION of Lawyers for the Defence of the Unborn says the bill to decriminalise abortion in Jamaica, if challenged, could prove unconstitutional.A recommendation in the proposed law prescribing sanctions against medical personnel who refuse to terminate a pregnancy ...
Miss Ida sticks to 122
Ida Louise Gordon, affectionately known as Miss Ida of Devon in Lime Tree Garden, St Ann, is officially 112 years old, according to the Registrar General's Department (RGD), the country's registrar of births, marriages and deaths...
FBI tracks down Stanford
WASHINGTON (AP): Texas financier Allen Stanford was tracked down yesterday in Virginia, where Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents served him with legal papers in a multibillion-dollar fraud case.FBI agents, acting at the request of the...
TAQA, the diamond of the UAE, comes to Jamaica
Recently, the Jamaica Public Service has been in the news as the cash-rich Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) took over 40 per cent of its business. Very little is known about the Middle-Eastern oil company, but here are some facts about the company which could...
New plan launched for early-childhood growth
The early-childhood sector is to undergo a drastic improvement in programmes and services over the next five years, as the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) on Wednesday launched a National Strategic Plan (NSP) for the development of the division...
Digicel gives Jamaica more talk time
Digicel, Jamaica's fastest growing mobile operator, continues to keep Jamaicans buzzing with its latest post-paid, add-on plan, 'Free nights and Weekends'. This best value add-on plan sees all post-paid customers being able to talk free all night during weekdays ...
School safety plans hit roadblocks
Schools have begun implementing safety and security measures as instructed by the Ministry of Education, but are reportedly running into challenges. The measures, contained in a document, will, by this year, form the basis of a Safe Schools Act....
Aabuthnott to boost CSEC results
Aabuthnott Gallimore High School in Alexandria, St Ann has vowed to employ several new strategies this year in the hope of improving on last year's passes in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations...
Drug abuse campaign targets primary-school students
Primary-school children in some 20 inner-city schools across Kingston and St Andrew are to be drafted into a new national programme aimed at discouraging drug use among very young students. The programme, which started on February 5, is geared towards...