Supermom - Polly Bowes-Howell fosters more than 50 kids
Woburn Abbey. The name at the entrance to the property harks back to an old English manor with draughty walls and ineffective fireplaces. But the name belies the love and warmth inside. There lives Dr Polly Bowes-Howell, a woman who has done the same, at sometime or another ....
Foster care up in Jamaica
More Jamaicans are becoming foster parents, according to data from the Child Development Agency (CDA). Statistics reveal that as at April 2008, there were 805 foster parents across the island, up from the 785 who were in the system up to April 2007...
The ultimate sacrifice - Slain cops hailed on sorrowful Father's Day
Constables Cornel Grant and Delano Lawrence, who were brutally slain in Trench Town last month, were yesterday hailed as heroes during a joint thanksgiving service. Yesterday was a sad Father's Day for the three children of Grant and Lawrence, who turned out at the Hagley Park...
$50m fire guts Montego Bay Arcade
WESTERN BUREAU: A MASSIVE early-morning fire gutted 25 shops at the popular Old Shoes Market Arcade in downtown Montego Bay yesterday causing more than $50 million in damage and leaving several vendors displaced. "Some 15 of the 200 shops in the arcade were totally destroyed...
Foreign locals talk crime at the biennial Jamaican Diaspora Conference
Though crime has been atop its agenda since its first staging in 2004, there has not been much consensus on the issue at the Biennial Jamaican Diaspora Conference. Violence will again be the main focus of the two-day event, which starts today, and some participants...
Teachers get failing grade
WESTERN BUREAU: Denham McIntyre, principal of Cornwall College, has called for licensing of teachers and a review of the process by which education officers are appointed.In a wide-ranging speech, the educator did not mince words, decrying teachers who fail...
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