Jamaica moves to stamp out child pornography
Jamaica has come closer to establishing legislation to confront commercial sexual exploitation of children soon, following the tabling of the Child Pornography (Prevention) Bill in Parliament, by Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Senator Dorothy...

Jamaica's casino-gaming commission to be established
A casino-gaming commission is to be established, under the Casino Gaming Bill which has been tabled in the House of Representatives by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw. The bill states that the commission will have regulatory...

IMMIGRATION CORNER - Filing for my fiancée
Your articles in Jamaica Gleaner is where I got your information. My name is C.J.; my fiancée is from Ethiopia, and lives and works in Doha, Qatar. I am a US citizen over 32 years, retired from the US Air Force, working in Iraq as a contractor...

UN to help communities cope with climate change
United Nations Development Programme-Global Environment Facility (UNDP-GEF) has established an initiative to get community members in different regions to cope with climate change. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the community-based adaptation (CBA)...

Nuts about nuts
I often eat nuts and recommend them as healthy additions to our daily diet. Interestingly, not all nuts are really nuts. Contrary to popular belief, peanuts are not true nuts, but legumes, and soy nuts are not nuts, but beans.

Citizens' group aids inner-city youths
Twenty-year-old Orlando Hamilton is proud of the opportunity of being given a second chance at success, as are the other 65 inner-city youths who graduated from a Citizen Security for Justice Programme (CSJP) welding course....

Despite broken body, man determined to start business
Not even the crutch under his arms, the pins in his side, or the fact that he had to hobble down the steps to get to the Grand Caribbean Suite at the Knutsford Court Hotel could stop Christopher Mitchell from getting to the business information fair...