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Search under way for killer of 14-y-o girl in Granville, St James

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2018 | 12:00 AM

A probe is under way into the killing of 14-year-old Tianna Clarke, whose body was found in an abandoned house in Granville, St James.  Her body was found about 8:30 a.m. yesterday. It had wounds to the face.  The killing...

Spanish Town Hospital Neonatal Clinic, St Christopher School for the Deaf to benefit from $50m raised at Sigma run

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The Spanish Town Hospital Neonatal Unit and the St Christopher’s School for the Deaf are the beneficiaries of the $50 million raised at the 20th staging of the Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run. President and CEO of Sagicor Group Jamaica,...

Gonsalves steps down from ECCB’s Monetary Council

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines has stepped down from the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). This paves the way for his son  – the new Vincentian Minister of Finance Camillo...

All 65 aboard plane feared dead in crash in southern Iran

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2018 | 12:00 AM

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian commercial airplane brought back into service only months ago after being grounded for seven years crashed Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, and officials said they feared all 65 people on...

West Africa’s extremism spreading as thousands flee homes

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2018 | 12:00 AM

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — West Africa’s extremist threat has moved into a new part of the vast Sahel region, with a previously calm area of Burkina Faso facing the kinds of assaults that have forced thousands elsewhere to flee...

Hailey Baker dies - One-month-old with rare genetic disorder succumbs in hospital

Published:Sunday | February 18, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Hailey Baker, the one-month-old baby who was born with a rare genetic disorder which required $31 million for treatment,  has died. Hailey died at the University Hospital of the West Indies this morning where she had been admitted for...

Helene Coley Nicholson | Judicial independence and other fictions

Published:Friday | February 16, 2018 | 12:00 AMHelene Coley Nicholson

Public comments on the appointment of Justice Bryan Sykes to act as chief justice and the subsequent historic summit of judges in Kingston on Monday, February 12, have hung on statements made by the prime minister at the swearing-in ceremony. The...

Hailey’s horror! - Family needs $31m to save the life of baby born with rare genetic disorder

Published:Saturday | February 17, 2018 | 12:00 AM

January 16 was a day of celebration for Sanika Splatt as she gave birth to a daughter she named Hailey Baker, but her joy was short-lived as it was soon discovered that Hailey was born with a rare genetic disorder and had to be placed on a life support machine...

Workshop to teach study techniques on February 24

Published:Friday | February 16, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Educator Karla Hylton will be hosting Studying 101, a workshop designed to help students develop good study habits. The one-day, two-hour workshop, will be held on Saturday, February 24, 2018, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the AV Centre at St Andrew High...

Poems

Published:Friday | February 16, 2018 | 12:00 AMTheresa Peters

Give me a reason Why I should continue When all seems to be lost in the mind Feelings of despair and a waste of time Give me a reason I say My mind is a place Where I can achieve what I dream"Greatness is in the making"Is the phrase I...

Dear Doc | Best sex ever, how can I get him back?

Published:Monday | February 12, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Q Dear Doc, I am a 38-year-old, single mom with a teenage daughter. I am in love with this man I met at a party on the north coast. We had sex and it was the best I've ever had. I climaxed around four times...

Trevor E.S. Smith | Meetings Mete Out Punishment!

Published:Monday | February 12, 2018 | 12:00 AMTrevor E.S. Smith

Meetings have a stranglehold on us.When was the last time you called someone and they were not in a meeting?How much of your active work hours are spent in meetings - formal and informal?How many meetings have you left...

The ART of Sisterhood

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2018 | 12:00 AMJody-Anne Lawrence

There is no denying that there is something special when creative people get together. When your creative ally is your sister, it's magical. That is the case for Stefani and Roberta Dewar.Both sisters recognised their love for...

Finding Love and Intimacy in the Stars

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2018 | 12:00 AMLatara Boodie

The love and intimacy workshops hosted by psychologist and astrologer Alina Apostol are designed to teach persons to make the most out of relationships, and find enduring love and passion through the use of...

A great love story

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2018 | 12:00 AMJanet Silvera

WESTERN BUREAU:Last Saturday afternoon, Kate Searby and Grant Garton laid the first block of their love story, after 'pouring the cement' three years ago.Searby, the granddaughter of the late John Rollins, founder of Rose Hall...

Story of the Song | ‘She Boom’ has ‘Girlie Girlie’ connection

Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2018 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke

In his 1986 song She Boom, Mallory Williams sings about a woman called 'Poochie Lou', whose dancing sets the Rae Town Sunday night oldies session alight, so much so that "dem tun off de soun' fi she sekkle down/Coulden sekkle down she come fi mash...

Real estate enters 'quasi sellers market' - Inventory and sales on the rise

Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2018 | 12:00 AMAvia Collinder

Howard Johnson Jr, president of the Realtors' Association of Jamaica (RAJ) says that Jamaica is now experiencing a "quasi sellers market", with one indicator being the swift sale of units.Inventory is on the uptick, Johnson said, but so are sales."...

Family affair - Ann Marie Vaz set to join her husband Daryl as JLP representatives in Portland

Published:Thursday | February 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall & Gareth Davis Sr

Ann Marie Vaz, the wife of Portland Western Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz, is poised to make the plunge into representational politics as the next Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) representative in the neighbouring Portland Eastern constituency.Nine...

Religion & Culture | The true, healing power of divine grace

Published:Thursday | February 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMDr Glenville Ashby

"We were not good but God had pity on us. ... So my brothers, we had no good works, for all our works were evil. Yet, although men's actions were such, God, in his mercy did not abandon them ..."- St Augustine of HippoJohn braved subzero degrees...

Fighting crime a different way - UK-based criminologist urges Jamaicans to try non-traditional criminal justice model

Published:Thursday | February 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson

England-born criminologist Craig Pinkney is adamant that while Jamaica has its unique problems, the island's crime problem is not beyond solutions that have worked in some of the hardest communities in the United Kingdom and the United States.But...

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