Road deaths dip - Christmas crackdown by police cuts fatalities in Jamaica
HEAD OF the Police Traffic Division, Senior Superintendent Elan Powell, said there has been a significant reduction in fatal road accidents this Yuletide season, unlike last December when 23 persons were killed within a week.
Hundreds mourn Atlanta fire victims
ATLANTA, Georgia: HUNDREDS PACKED the New Hope Seventh-day Adventist Church in Atlanta yesterday to pay tribute to the lives of Tracey-Ann Plummer, her stepdaughter, Dilia and son Dijon.
2006 year for youth in Clarendon - MP Henry
CENTRAL CLARENDON Member of Parliament, Mike Henry, has vowed to improve sections of his constituency in 2006 with a slate of ambitious projects. According to Mr. Henry, who has represented residents in the area for 26 years...
Phangs, Roberts stay behind bars
POLICE KEPT three of south St. Andrew's most influential figures in custody for a second night yesterday, as they continue to investigate their alleged roles in gang violence in the Jones Town section of that area.
Murders surge to 1,638
WITH LESS than 72 hours remaining in 2005, police statistics indicate that 1,638 Jamaicans have been murdered since January, a figure which represents an increase of 167 when compared with the corresponding period last year.
ROAD TO THE ROPE - Roots of suicide
WESTERN BUREAU: SUICIDE REMAINS a serious problem in the Jamaican psyche, even though last year's 42 cases of suicide were a noticeable reduction on the 64 cases of the previous year. This traumatic act of taking one's own life...
Teenager found hanging
WESTERN BUREAU: SANJAY HARRISON was not around to celebrate his 18th birthday two Tuesdays ago. The recent graduate of Cornwall College, in Montego Bay, who dreamt of one day becoming an architect, decided to take his own life.
Recent cases of suicide in Jamaica
March 30, 2005. Man kills lover, commits suicide. A turbulent affair between a 32-year-old man and his teenage lover came to a bloody end when he killed her, and then took his own life at a tenement yard in Tower Street, Olympic Gardens, St. Andrew.
AIDS rumour sparks failed death attempt
WESTERN BUREAU: ONE SATURDAY afternoon in March 2002, John Smith, a 38-year-old St. James mason who thought he had contracted HIV/AIDS, decided his life was no longer worth living. To end it all, he guzzled down a fast-acting weed killer.
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