Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Tuesday | October 6, 2009
Law student in legal bind
Mrs Walker-Huntington, I came to the United States (US) about six years ago on a visitor's visa. I was staying with a boyfriend who had drugs in the house. I was charged for it since I was the only one home. He fled to Jamaica... Read More...
Do I qualify for the UK?
Dear Mr Bassie, I am a professional with a degree and I would like to migrate to the United Kingdom (UK). Could you please advise whether I would qualify for a visa to enter the United Kingdom and whether I could apply for permanent status?... Read More...
Dear Counsellor - I want to be alone!
Q Four years ago, I got married to my soulmate. We have a three-year-old boy and a one-year-old girl. But increasingly I want time to be alone - away from my husband and children. Is that unreasonable? My husband thinks I am unreasonable to want time away from him... Read More...
Moving from debt to wealth
FOR PEOPLE trying to survive the economic crisis that is still choking Jamaica, meeting financial obligations like making loan payments consistently can be extremely difficult. Rising inflation has, no doubt, been eating into that monthly budget... Read More...
Bartlett elected to UN tourism group
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica's tourism minister, Edmund Bartlett, has been elected to the executive council of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), the leading international organisation in the field of tourism... Read More...
Beating the yeast
Mildew, mould and mushrooms are plant forms called fungi. Yeasts are microscopic fungi and the commonest is a germ called candida albicans (formerly as monilia). It can be found living on the skin, in the digestive tract and the vagina of healthy individuals... Read More...
'Reggae tourism' hurts Jamaican identity, prof says
Reggae has evolved from a gritty, rhythmic invocation against social and political injustice to a pleasant, sappy background music accompanying commercials, according to Carolyn Cooper, a professor at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. Read More...
Borrowing can be beneficial - study
Being a JN Small Business Loan (JNBSL) beneficiary can significantly improve your standard of living, a study by the Tropical Medicine Research Institute at the University of the West Indies, Mona, has concluded. The research team, led by Professor... Read More...
