Selling sex - Concerns raised over children's access to pornography in Jamaica
Sociologists and children's rights advocates are calling for more aggressive legislation and stricter penalties to control the sale of pornographic and other sexually pervasive material to underage children in the wake of an increase in the number of incidents involving students...
'Schooler' and the sex tapes
Last Friday afternoon, a team consisting of a photographer, a lookout and myself - appropriately dressed in the uniform of a popular Kingston high school - travelled to the busy Half-Way Tree area where illegal pornographic tapes are known to be available ...
CHILD MONTH TIPS
It can be hard for young people to make sense of what they hear on the radio, see on television and the movies, or read in the papers, magazines and on the Internet.They are bombarded daily with messages from many different places - all trying to get their attention....
Bartlett has five-year plan to boost tourism
THE TOURISM ministry is working on an initiative to increase tourist arrivals to five million people in the next four years. This is forecasted to pull in earnings of $5 billion. Making his contribution to the 2008/2009 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives...
Who misled the House? - Ethics committee to decide between Bunting and Shaw
PARLIAMENT'S ETHICS committee will on Tuesday consider whether Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw or Central Manchester Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Bunting misled the House. The neighbouring MPs, who sit on either side of the political divide...
Dabdoub files appeal against McCalla ruling
People's National Party candidate Abe Dabdoub is going full speed ahead in his bid to be declared member of parliament for West Portland through the courts. Yesterday, Dabdoub filed an appeal against Chief Justice Zaila McCalla's April 11 ruling that a by-election...
Drugs trade the culprit - MacMillan
WESTERN BUREAU: Newly appointed Minister of National Security, Colonel Trevor MacMillan, has blamed the lucrative drug trade as the primary cause of the escalating crime rate across the Caribbean. MacMillan said the situation was a stark reality, reminding law enforcement...
Cops complain about commissioner
WESTERN BUREAU: The growing number of murder accused out on bail and deplorable working conditions of some police personnel were concerns raised by senior officers at an emergency meeting with Prime Minister Bruce Golding and National Security Minister Colonel Trevor...
Thursdaytalk - HOTTEST TOPICS ON THE COCKTAIL CIRCUIT
Dragged kicking, screaming - 1. Some of his colleagues are not too pleased with his recent utterances. They are saying it seems that since he was dragged kicking and screaming trying to justify his own matter and lost, now he is behaving like the convert and trying...
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