The prodigal son returns
THIRTY YEARS ago, Earl Pratt left behind a trail of blood and tears in Central Village. But he returned to the St. Catherine community in the mould of the prodigal son yesterday morning as Central Village welcomed back the man who had killed one of their own.
The blood that binds
Tashawn, 25, has 12 siblings - five brothers and seven sisters; same father, but different mothers. Of the six brothers, three are living with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). One was diagnosed only within the last month. Yet, their father doesn't have the condition...
Fisheries debate - Hope for fishing industry
The Government last Friday outlined a range of measures aimed at resuscitating the local fishing industry, on which approximately 40,000 fishermen and 300,000 others rely directly or indirectly for a living. Senator A.J. Nicholson, Leader of Government Business in the Senate...
EDITORIAL - A reminder that terror is truly global
We have previously warned against Jamaica perceiving itself as being removed from, and therefore become aloof to, the dangers and consequences for ourselves of international terrorism. For, as much as it may seem so, and we may want to believe it to be...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Jamaica needs to be fully independent
The Editor, Sir: Having read an article in your daily paper of May 4 on page A7, penned by the Rev. Devon Dick, titled 'Britain still rules Jamaica', I feel compelled to add my little something. The Rev. Devon Dick is a man of great eminence and he speaks from his own mind...
'Who killed Bob Marley' - poet asks
In a fusion of film on a large screen set up on stage behind him and real life in which he was in constant motion, song and speech, rhyme and reasoning, Roger Guenveur Smith opened the 2007 Calabash International Literary Festival with the intriguing 'Who Killed Bob Marley'.
Counselling on wheels
The regional STI/HIV/AIDS co-ordinator, Audrey Brown, in 2003, carried out a study among 500 taxi drivers in five parishes to find out the level of knowledge, perception of risk and the behaviour of taxi drivers in relation to HIV, and whether it placed them at risk...
CARICOM urgedto probe air travel
KINGSTOWN (CMC): The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) secretariat will be asked to consider engaging the services of an independent consultant to examine the high cost of air travel in the region, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves....
