Getting ready for the season
There's trouble brewing in the normally quiet community called Lionel Town in Clarendon. Miss Itilda, a stout old woman with a rough exterior and eyebrows that make her seem permanently surprised, has been waiting, for more than an hour, for Junior, the boy from a nearby community...
TIME FOR MALE LIBERATION!
This year will go down in history as the year when we Jamaican men began the fight for male liberation. The time has come for all men, everywhere, to come together and free ourselves from oppression of any shape or form. First of all, we have to admit that we have been oppressed...
Sperm count debate - No to surrogate daddies
It appears that many Jamaican men, even where they are infertile, are not yet ready to accept surrogate fatherhood as an option. Surrogate fatherhood is a relatively new concept, whereby an infertile man allows his spouse to be impregnated by another man's sperm...
Infertile men suffer in silence
We live in a culture where the measure of the man is in the number of children he is able to sire, and where the man who fathers a 'multitude' is held in high esteem by his peers. 'Worms', a young father of two, with a broad grin, openly declared recently, "I am a breeder!"
Home DNA-test kits hit the market
When it comes to a baby, how do you prove who the father is? Short of calling a television talk show, which seems to specialise in paternity tests, you now can do some of the DNA legwork yourself. And it's as easy as going to your nearest pharmacy.
Teachers knock Government ultimatum
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: Early childhood practitioners have expressed concern about recent changes to be enforced upon basic schools by government. According to convenor of the Early Childhood Practitioners Association, Ricardo Hall, the Government will have to give basic...
ACROSS THE NATION
Credit union workers strike - WESTMORELAND: Over 30 workers representing the head office and four branches of the Westmoreland Cooperative Credit Union walked off the job on New Year's Day, saying they were not paid any end-of-year bonus. The workers made the move at about mid-day ...
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