Woman drowns in heavy rains
ONE WOMAN died during heavy rains which lashed sections of the island yesterday. The woman was a passenger in a car which was swept away at about 2:00 p.m. in the Cassia Park Gully in St. Andrew.
Garlic a cure for cancer?
LABORATORY STUDIES by Northern Caribbean University (NCU) scientists indicate that the common household condiment, garlic, has some anti-cancer properties which in the future could be used as a cure for cancer. The scientists, whose research has been...
Stressed by sex abuse - More women, kids suffer mental disorders
MENTAL HEALTH practitioners are battling with an increase in the number of women and children who are turning up with many post-traumatic stress disorders as a result of sexual abuse. Dr. Orlean Brown, child psychologist and family therapist...
A rapist's tale
"ME CHARGE fi rape but I don't like no rapist," 42-year-oldKeifer Kelly said. He is an inmate at one of the island's maximum-security prisons where he is serving 10 years on two convictions of five years each, running concurrently. Keifer has more...
Shortage of cutters affecting sugar
THE ALREADY troubled sugar industry is in for another sound beating, as sugar estates islandwide are reeling from a chronic shortage of cane cutters. The shortage has resulted in the intermittent closure of factories and at least three of them...
A heartbroken mother remembers
New York: "HE DIED in the desert, in a canal. In the desert in Iraq...he died in the desert, in a canal." She mumbled the words over and over in disbelief, unable to put the desert and a canal in the same context. And then the tears welled...
Jamaica is in a mess
THE PULSE of last week's news veered between the war in Iraq and the domestic economy the increase in light bills which Jamaica Public Service Company customers will have to pay and later, the Budget.
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