6 Things You Need To Know Today – March 11, 2014
‘Morrison Must Go’ – UTech President Under Fire For Breaches. Serious concerns have been raised about president of the University of Technology (UTech) Professor Errol Morrison’s management of the...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – April 25, 2014
Punished By Portia – Holness Outlines Policy Plans While Decrying Pain Inflicted By Gov’t. Signalling that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is about to go into campaign mode, Opposition Leader Andrew...
View Article10 Tips To Protect Your Child From Sexual Abuse
Today’s Gleaner lead story Pervert Teachers – Data Shows Sexual Predators Prevalent In Schools features Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon-Harrison expressing grave concern over the fact that some...
View ArticleWho Advocates For Jamaica’s Children?
Jamaicans always say “children are the future,” but some of the most recent headlines concerning the nation’s youth have been quite unsettling. While many of our children are undoubtedly flourishing –...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 30, 2014
Boys Abused In Silence. A senior official of Women Incorporated in western Jamaica has decried the cloak of silence that results in many cases of sexual and physical abuse against boys going unreported...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – June 17, 2014
Indecent Exposure – Oral, Anal Sex Acceptance Sneaked Into JFJ Course In Children’s Homes. There are signs emerging that the sexual education course introduced into six private children’s homes by...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – June 19, 2014
Parents, Teachers, Students Prepare For GSAT Results. As some 39,438 students yesterday prepared to line up this morning to hear which secondary schools they will be attending come September, parents...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – June 26, 2014
Child-Care Breach: CDA Report Blasts Gomes In Sex-Ed Saga. The six privately run children’s homes that gave approval for Jamai-cans for Justice (JFJ) to introduce an unauthorised sex- education...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 21, 2014
JFJ Crumbles – Osborne Latest To Resign Amid Sex-Ed Controversy. The leadership of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) continued to collapse, yesterday as the human- rights lobby’s Executive Director Kay...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 22, 2014
Former CCJ Employee Says Ja Should Be Cautious With Court. Dr Leighton Jackson, the dismissed acting registrar of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), is warning Jamaica against rushing into joining...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – March 18, 2015
Audley Shaw Wants Government To Find Work Overseas For Jamaicans. The Jamaican Government is being urged to consider developing a regime to facilitate the export of labour… Read more at...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – April 15, 2015
Top Of The Class – CMI And Edna Manley College Getting Best Employment Offers Before Graduation. The top two tertiary institutions in Jamaica, which offer graduates the best prospects for employment,...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 5, 2015
Child Allegedly Locked In House And Forced To Have Sex With Men; Burned When She Refused. After being missing for four weeks, a girl attending a prominent Corporate Area high school tells a chilling...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 6, 2015
Toxic City – Report Says Communities Very High Risk After Exposure To Riverton Fire Fumes. Very high risk! Several communities within a five-kilometre (3.1 miles) radius of theRiverton dump were given...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 11, 2015
Grandparents Cannot Cope – Frustrated Guardians Of ‘Barrel Children’ Want To Hand Over Responsibility To CDA. The Child Development Agency (CDA) has been flooded in recent times with calls from...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 12, 2015
More Than 500 Acres Of Agricultural Lands Torched…Losses Could Run Into Half A Billion Dollars. The bush fires that for nearly two weeks have been sweeping across hilly sections of Mavis Bank in east...
View ArticleThinking About Adoption? 5 Things You Need To Know
Adoption is the process by which a child’s biological parental rights are transferred to another adult or a couple who will assume all the responsibilities of raising the child. These persons may be...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 14, 2015
Firefighters’ Resources Depleted, Will Have To Watch Fires Burn. Resources employed to combat the Mavis Bank inferno are running at an all-time low, as the raging flames show no sign of retreating…...
View ArticleChild Month – How To Become A Foster Parent
There are close to 6,000 children in State care, and for many of them, foster care is just the lifeline they need in order to have a better future. In contrast to residential care, in which a child is...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – September 22, 2015
Tivoli Bombshell: Cops Killed Unarmed Men Bound In Detention Area – Soldier. The tribunal probing the conduct of the May 2010 security operations in Tivoli Gardens yesterday heard bombshell testimony...
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