Fragile at 15 - Would you run away from home?
Each year, hundreds of teenage girls go missing in Jamaica, but later return home. The figures dance around age 15. The Sunday Gleaner engaged two groups of teenagers between the ages of 14 and 16 in conversation, and both boys and girls shared common views on the issues they face at home.
- The people's business - Parliament or patty shop?
- At risk!
- Why we run
- The price of indignity:$6m - Government pays for false imprisonment, malicious prosecution
- Popping painkillers - 99% of abusers misused pain relievers
- Officially clueless - Financial constraints keep health officials in the dark about the number of Jamaicans abusing prescription drugs
- Prescribed high - Addicted to doctor-recommended medication
- The people's business - The burden of leadership
Women's Media Watch members have 'singular' viewpoints
The South Avenue, St Andrew-based Women's Media Watch (WMW), which turned 21 last year, defines itself as "a civil society organisation committed to reducing gender-based violence. WMW promotes gender equity and gender-aware media and communications".
- Police receive death threats - Seek five for questioning
- Voluntarism celebrated on Mandela's birthday
- Clinton defends America's demands for anti-terror help
- 'I want a wife'
- 'No tag or chip can stop thieves'
- Tribute to Sydney Ramsay
- CARICOM : Beyond the patty squabble
JPS hurricane charge ends - $800m fund in place to cover future storm losses
A surcharge on electricity bills to pay for damage suffered by the light and power company from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 will come to an end this month, offering some measure of relief to the near 600,000 customers of monopoly power distributor, Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS).
- C&W plans more job cuts - Caribbean operation underperforming
- How to take on the Goliaths of New Kingston
- Breaking into Jamaica's $89b music market
- Making money from music
- Financial services and international law - What a US$8b lawsuit means for Antigua
Powerful display by Jamaica's Burke
Jamaica's Brandon Burke justified his number-one ranking yesterday when he captured the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior Singles Championships at the Eric Bell Centre yesterday.
- Hombre all the way in feature
- Honduras in Gold Cup semis
- IAAF countdown - Veterans can get among medals
- Roach bags six
- Jamaica well placed for outright win
- Aussies face huge run chase
- LIME helps Jamaica's visually impaired team
- Mind Your Business
- The board, its stance, and its responsibilities
EDITORIAL - Frank, ongoing dialogue on economy needed
The administration's coy statements notwithstanding, it is almost forgone that Jamaica is heading into a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The deed is nearly done. Our suggestion, therefore, is for the administration to end its disingenuous rhetoric and engage the Jamaican people in serious conversation about the economic crisis and the hard choices to be faced...
- PUBLIC AFFAIRS - Deafening silence on CCJ
- How the parties facilitate criminality
- Misreading severity of the recession
- An IMF pound of flesh?
LETTER OF THE DAY - WI cricket needs complete overhaul
The current West Indies cricket impasse is the result of a board with an old-fashioned style of management and ignorant egos destroying a group of modern, talented players instead of motivating them!
- Transform landfill waste to power, jobs
- Saluting good cops, civilian
- Poor state of Hellshire
- Support dollarisation call
Longing for Zion - The story of a dead son, a slow justice system and how it all inspires two entertainers
Twin of Twins, satirical dancehall performers, turned tragedy to art two years ago. The comedic duo of identical brothers, Paul and Patrick Gaynor, penned the lyrics to Only God Knows following the death of Zion Emmanuel Gaynor on February 10, 2007 in Greendale, Spanish Town.
- NDTC'S 47th season of dance opens July 24
- Oh Toni! - Braxton ready to charm Sumfest with her distinctive sound
- Carolyn Yapp is Miss Jamaica Universe 2009
- All hail the 'King' - Beenie anticipating 30th anniversary Sumfest celebration
- ATI to provide economic bump in Negril
- Wailers bands carry on tradition for survival
- STORY OF THE SONG - One line makes a 'Bangarang'
- Dance champs 'sweeping' culture into spotlight
Don't disrespect! - Mike takes on The Oxford Dictionary
ou perhaps didn't know about it, but there was a battle taking place over the past three months that saw a Jamaican going up against one of the largest and most respected literary institutions in the world. Guess who won.
- SUNDAY SAUCE - The valedictorian
- Book review - Goosebumps anyone?
- Museums changing people's lives
- Local poet selected for prestigious US writers' programme
- UWI notebook: Epilepsy: The falling sickness
- Careers - Signed, sealed and delivered
Page and Haisley
Attorneys-at-Law, Kevin Page and Garfield Haisley, fulfilled another of their dreams with the launch of their law firm, Page and Haisley at The Jamaica Pegasus recently.
- Trini Chix & 'King of Pop'
Grand Palladium celebrates
- When two hearts unite, wedding bells ring
- My downtime ... with Lance Parrish
- Best places to live in St James
- Doctor's advice - I have lesbian feelings
- Absinthe Luau
The problem with sex
Two possible Republican presidential candidates had those dreams dashed because of sex. At a time when the United States (US) Republican party is in a crisis of leadership, Governor Mark Sanford and Senator John Ensign could not keep their pants up long enough to make it to the next presidential race.
- Where Robotham went off track
- The IMF: What we want to know
- Neglected, yet fascinating attractions
- Tourism enthusiasm and resilience
- 'Not business as usual at Customs'
- An imagined West Indian nation
Dishonest mechanics a nightmare
Motor vehicle owners' stories about horrible experiences with mechanics are just like fishermen's tales about the really big one that got away - everybody has one to tell. Unlike the fishermen, though, it is the drivers who get hooked and played until they are frustrated and, quite often, broke.
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