Alone in America - J'can children abandoned abroad
A staggering number of Jamaican children - some born in prisons, some held with illegal papers, some transporting drugs, some who were sent to America "for a better life" and some who simply slipped into the system because of cultural insensitivity...
...Stories abound
Stories of Jamaican parents abandoning their children overseas are being repeated with great embellishment since widespread media coverage has been centred on the recent arrest of alleged sniper, Jamaican Lee Boyd Malvo in Washington, United States...
JUTC accident bill mounting
The accident bill of the cash-strapped Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) remains high as a result of hefty sums paid out in compensation to victims of crashes involving the company's buses. Since its start-up in September 1998, the company has paid..
297 killed in accidents so far
Twenty-seven-year-old Cleveland Townsend of Gordon Terrace in Kingston is facing manslaughter charges today, following the death of a man and the injuring of a woman in a motor vehicle accident on Long Lane in St. Andrew, Friday night. The dead man,...
Education receives boost from World Bank
Efforts to further maintain changes to Jamaica's education system received a much-needed boost last week with the signing of three loans between the Government of Jamaica and the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States,.
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