Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Monday | January 5, 2009
Mill Bank men mourning
Men are not supposed to cry. Well, tell that to some of the weeping men of Mill Bank, Portland, and they will gush for the better. Mill Bank is already a watery place, and now the men are adding their tributaries of tears to the many streams, rivers and waterfalls in the area...
Prophecies for 2009
Today, we continue publication of the Word of the Lord, given through Apostle Steve Lyston, Prophetess Bishop Doris Hutchinson, Prophetess Sophia Kerr-Dawes and Prophetess Triciana Simpson. The first 35 prophecies were presented on January 1.36 It is...
Jamaica's crime burden - Bleeding health-care system
THE OVERWHELMING burden of crime and violence continues to bleed Jamaica's health-care system.Last year, some 842 patients were admitted for treatment to the Kingston Public Hospital's (KPH) Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit with gunshot wounds....
Jamaicans cut back on electricity usage - statistics
Statistics provided by the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) suggest that many Jamaicans have been cutting back on electricity usage as the global economic crisis worsens.In a press release, the light and power company stated that overall...
The four pillars wellness
Your health should be your greatest wealth. But are you truly healthy? Real health is not a negative condition, not just an absence of any diagnosed illness. No, it is something positive. The World Health Organization (WHO) made this very clear over half-a-century ago...
Am I pregnant or what?
Positive Parenting starts 2009 with another new series - Being Pregnant. It will not be like the same old diary-type event. Instead, we have an exciting package lined up for you with Emma Dalton-Brown, as her body and mind changes, as she shops for baby clothes and prepares...
My son says, 'Mom, I'm ready to have sex,' and I ...
This is a new series in the Positive Parenting context, intended to find out how parents handle certain sensitive, even explosive issues. The open and honest relationship Beverly Dennishas with her son, Kevin, was put to the test recently when the 12-year-old gadget freak ...
The reality of sex for teenagers - Are you ready for it at 14?
Indeed, times have changed since I was a teenager, in the early '90s, but the sexual immaturity of kids within the same age group has remained the same. For some reason, they don't see it that way. Has the breakdown of the family unit contributed...
Interacting with a disabled child
Q My youngest sister just relocated from Canada and wants my children to play with her special-needs child. Her daughter is 12 years old, but acts like a four-year-old. My children are 10 and eight.
'Daggerin' unsafe for children?
On Friday, The Weekend Star reported that children as young as age eight were gyrating provocatively to popular songs, some which were laced with sexually explicit words.In that story, it was also noted that at the party, held within a Kingston community...
