Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Monday | July 20, 2009
'Richie Innocent' - from illiteracy to poetry
The 'ballad of an old Woman' was perhaps the turning point in the story of a young man's life, a young man who could not read up to grade four. He is Richard 'Richie Innocent' Robinson, the 'DJ Poet' from Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth... Read More...
Downtown bus park on track for September opening
With a significant portion of construction work complete, welding workers made final touches to a gate at the new Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus park in downtown Kingston last week. The high walls, made even higher by metal spikes, have already... Read More...
Churchwoman puts Burnt Savannah on map
The Reverend Jennifer Brown of Jamaica inscribed her name in the history books recently when she became the first black global president of Nazarene Missions International (NMI), Church of the Nazarene. Brown is also the first person elected... Read More...
Risk-analysis tool developed for children likely to be abducted
The Victim Support Unit (VSU), an arm of the Ministry of Justice, has developed a risk-assessment tool for children who are likely to be abducted and is in the process of testing the instrument.The Missing Child Risk Assessment instrument is primarily... Read More...
Fostering a better relationship
Parents and guardians sometimes have problems with their teenagers as youths struggle to find self-identity while dealing with issues like peer pressure. In desperation to solve the problems, unkind things are often said and done that may affect the parent-child relationship... Read More...
What is the Apgar Scale?
Q What is an Apgar Scale? My cousin's child, born a few days ago, got a score of five and we are concerned that she is not sharing anything. Should we be worried? Will she be retarded? We have not seen the baby yet... Read More...
Am I overfeeding my baby?
In the first two weeks of our son's life, I was told by a nurse that I was giving him too much milk."Your baby keeps wee-wee-ing and poop-poop-ing up the place. You mustn't feed him so much," she told me... Read More...
Manhunt launched for Bahamian gun smuggler - Two others held in police swoop
The police have launched a manhunt for a Bahamian national who escaped during a police-coastguard operation on the north coast on the weekend. Two other Bahamians were held during the operation and two guns - an M-14 and an Intratec 9mm sub-machine gun... Read More...
CPR may have broken bones, says pathologist
A consultant pathologist who testified at the trial of Stephen Bitter, who was last Friday freed of murdering his 91-year-old grandfather, said the non-reference to any heart complication in the post-mortem report was a serious omission.... Read More...
