'JACKET'doesn't fit - Paternity test requests up, fathers suspicious
Men in Jamaica, in a matter of days, are learning through sophisticated DNA tests that the children they have been faithfully 'fathering' for years are actually not theirs.
Security forces for three-month stay in Rockfort
Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas disclosed yesterday that the security forces will be concentrating their resources over the next three months in the hotbed of Rock-fort, east Kingston.
PMI to target gang leaders - Calls for gun amnesty
As the bloodbath washing the nation continues, the Bishop Herro Blair-led Peace Management Initiative (PMI) declared that it would be putting its resources into targeting gang leaders.
'I am sorry about slavery'
Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, did not mince his words as he apologised for the Anglican Church's participation in the slave trade.
'Clean up the mess at Solid Waste': PM orders Montague to probe contract-awarding methods
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has ordered Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, Robert Montague, to investigate the manner in which contracts are awarded at the National Solid Waste Management Authority...
Male jeopardy Women seen as more reliable workers
NOT TOO long ago, males were the dominant gender in many jobs in the society, including at gas stations, where they worked as attendants.
UWI to introduce strategies to attract males - principal
Professor Gordon Shirley, the newly installed principal of the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, shares, among other things, his plans to attract more males into the university...
Harding wants quick return to UN human rights protocol
Senator Oswald Harding, newly returned to the Upper House of the Jamaican Parliament, wants the country to swiftly resume its adherence to an important United Nations human rights regime.
Situating those deemed 'stateless children'
IT IS believed that some children born to Jamaicans living in The Cayman Islands are growing up without the benefit of rights usually extended to other individuals across the globe.This is because in recent years, the small, but economically flourishing...
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