Mustard Seed - Tragedy Three children died in Tropical Storm Gustav - Urgent help needed
A heart-wrenching cry for assistance to rebuild its children's homes has come from the Mustard Seed Communities after the passage of Tropical Storm Gustav left 24 "severely disabled" children grappling with desperate, unsafe living conditions...
Single mom gets help with back-to-school plans
Aldith Green, a single mother who was struggling to finance her three children's back-to-school preparations, has had some of the burden lifted from her shoulders through assistance from two Jamaicans living in the diaspora. The 33-year-old mother...
Derrick Mahfood gets song-filled goodbye
The soothing sounds of a live orchestra welcomed and comforted friends, family and well-wishers who packed both floors of the University of the West Indies Chapel in Mona, St Andrew, yesterday morning to pay their last respects to Derrick Linden Mahfood...
What is the one thing every Jamaican can do to improve literacy?
Charles Douglas, Jamaica productivity centre - We need to separate from short-term realities and long-term realities. We need to separate from short-term realities and long-term realities. I think sometimes we survive in the short term...
Gag order placed on PNP members
The People's National Party has placed a gag order on its members, banning them from any further discussions with the media about the presidential contest. The order was issued yesterday by the party's secretariat, hours after it announced that the executive committee...
Chuck defends tardy MPs
DELROY CHUCK, speaker of the House of Representatives, has rushed to the defence of tardy parliamentarians who registered high levels of absenteeism from October 2007 to March 2008, covering a total of 48 parliamentary sittings. At the beginning of yesterday's sitting...
K D Knight is a 'dead-on' shooter
The 2008 Game Bird Shooting season is on and already has a great number of persons just itching to get out to the bird bush. For former Minister of National Security, K.D. Knight, the love affair with the hunt began early. "It is a family sport, something my grandfather...
Tufton aids Trelawny farmers
Some 6,000 farmers in Trelawny are to benefit from several Ministry of Agriculture initiatives and projects, valued at over $18 million, including the refurbishing of the Wait-a-bit Multi-Purpose Building. During a tour of Trelawny last Wednesday,...
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